Longevity 101: a foundational guide to Peter's frameworks for longevity, and understanding CVD, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and more (re-broadcast)

**Peter Attia** (0:11)
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Welcome to a special episode of The Drive. For today's episode, we're going to do something a little bit different. This is an episode that kind of reads more like an AMA where I'll be answering a set of questions, but it's going to be available to everyone, not just to our subscribers. Typically, of course, our episodes are really kind of deep dive conversations. That's what we're really known for. But we also get a lot of questions from maybe people who haven't been listening for long, asking something akin to, hey, where do I begin? So today's conversation is really intended to serve as a starting point. It's also a great thing that you can have if you have a friend who you're trying to introduce to these topics and you want to get them up to speed. This is a great longevity 101, as it were. We lay the foundation for how I think about this, the structure that I apply to longevity. I explain the various concepts of lifespan, healthspan, the four horsemen of death, marginal decade. We talk a little bit about the tactics. We talk about these five things of exercise, nutrition, sleep, drugs, and supplements, emotional health. And since this is obviously based on the scope, a rather superficial treatment of these concepts, the show notes are going to be quite detailed and will actually point you in the deeper direction of anything that is covered. So again, if you're feeling overwhelmed about some of our content, we really hope that this is an episode that's going to help give some of the foundational information that allows you to then appreciate some of the deeper dives that we are more commonly doing. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy this special episode of The Drive.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:39)
Peter, welcome to a special episode. How are you doing?

**Peter Attia** (2:41)
Great.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:42)
Awesome. Well, for today's episode, we're going to do something a little different. One thing we know and we can hear from people is if you look at podcasts, sometimes podcasts aren't the best way to learn about information. And part of that is because each week we cover a different topic in different detail, and it may be cancer one week, exercise the next week, Alzheimer's, whatever it may be. And we go into different levels of detail. And so we also know we have newer people who are listening, and sometimes they can be a little overwhelmed by all the different things. And so what we wanted to do was record an episode, which is basically Longevity 101 And so we're just going to go through core lifespan, health span, each of the tactics, and just touch on the core frameworks to give people kind of a foundation of how they can think about their own longevity, and also how they can think about when they listen to the podcast, how these different pieces fit together. And so if you've listened since episode one, you might not need to listen to this one, but it might be one you share with someone to be like, hey, this is what this guy talks about. So we're going to hit all the five tactics, some real basic questions, but it should be pretty simple, pretty high level. So with that said, anything you want to add before we get into it.

**Peter Attia** (4:00)
I mean, simple and high level aren't typically words I associate with very well. So I'm a little gun shy about how we do this, but let's give it a shot.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:10)
So you're saying the first question that I should ask is, what did you eat today for lunch and why should everyone eat that for lunch every day as well?

**Peter Attia** (4:19)
Absolutely. That would be a great question.