AMA #60: preventing cognitive decline, nutrition myths, lowering blood glucose, apoB, and blood pressure, and more

**Peter Attia** (0:10)
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Welcome to Ask Me Anything episode number 60 I'm once again joined by my co-host, Nick Stenson. In today's AMA, we're gonna do something a little different. While often our AMAs dive deep into one or two subjects, today will be more of a rapid style question where we cover many topics and many questions. We've done this in the past and it's been quite popular, so we'll do it again here.
In today's AMA, we cover topics ranging from the prevention of cognitive decline and the relationship between cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, how you can lower your blood glucose, insulin and ApoB, three biomarkers we talk an awful lot about, a variety of questions around nutrition, including its relationship to weight loss and longevity and how a person can identify the best diet for themselves, along with tackling a number of what we think are the most common myths around nutrition. We talk about blood pressure, step requirements per day, standing versus sitting desks and more.
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**Nick Stenson** (2:00)
Peter, welcome to an AMA. How are you doing?

**Peter Attia** (2:02)
Good. Thanks for having me.

**Nick Stenson** (2:03)
Are you feeling old today?

**Peter Attia** (2:05)
I feel my usual old age. Yes. No.
Should I feel a little older?

**Nick Stenson** (2:10)
Do you want to let people know what we were just talking about on terms of how your age is starting to catch up to you?

**Peter Attia** (2:15)
Oh, no, no. That's been going on for a while. Yes. My vision is painful. And yes, before we were live here, I was lamenting the increase in font size I need to be able to read my notes if I'm not willing to put on readers, which I guess glare off lights.

**Nick Stenson** (2:33)
Love it. Love it. Well, for today's AMA, we're going to do something a little different. So traditionally, our AMAs can be kind of deep dives into one or two subjects, and we kind of go into them in detail. But for this AMA, we're going to do a little more of a rapid fire Q&A style.
We've done this a few times in the past, and the reception has always been really good. And so through this, we're able to cover a variety of topics, variety of questions, and the answers will kind of be a little more how you would speak to a patient about it, as opposed to let's dive into 10 studies and kind of go about it that way.
And so through this, we'll talk about things like preventing cognitive decline, a bunch of nutrition questions, relationship between cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease. We have questions on weight loss and longevity, fasting, blood pressure, step requirements, a really big, wide range of content that I think anyone will find value and hopefully enjoy it. So with all that said, before we get into it, anything you want to add outside of how excited you are to talk about nutrition again.

**Peter Attia** (3:38)
You know, what this feels like is since the book came out a year ago, I've been doing more public speaking, and by public, it's really private speaking, meaning someone will company might say, hey, can you come and speak to our team or whatever.
And because I just actually don't like standing up and giving lectures, some people do a great job of it. I think I do a fine job of it, but I don't enjoy it as much. I enjoy discussions more. The way we've structured those talks has been a Q&A. I just got back from one that I did yesterday.
To me, a well-moderated Q&A is generally more interesting for the audience. I actually think that's exactly what we're going to do here. This is exactly the type of stuff I have been doing more and probably will continue to do more of in lieu of my more traditional thing that I used to do, which was stand up and just give a lecture for an hour and then take a few questions after. I think these Q&As followed by audience Q&As are more my jam. So this is starting to feel more and more familiar and enjoyable.