NEW: Introducing quarterly podcast summaries - Peter shares his biggest takeaways on muscle protein synthesis, VO2 max, toe strength, gut health, and more

**Peter Attia** (0:10)
Hey, everyone, welcome to a sneak peek, Ask Me Anything or AMA episode of the Drive podcast. I'm your host, Peter Attia. At the end of this short episode, I'll explain how you can access the AMA episodes in full, along with a ton of other membership benefits we've created. Or you can learn more now by going to peterattiamd.com forward slash subscribe. So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode.
Welcome to a special AMA episode of The Drive. We know that at times our interviews can be quite technical, and one of the most common requests we hear is that listeners would love to hear summaries of episodes we've done. As such, we are testing out a new style of AMA for this episode.
Before I get to it, I want to explain to you how I interact with my podcast.
As you all know, I'm sure, we have an amazing team of analysts who help me prepare for each and every episode of The Drive. I'm typically going in to an interview with anywhere from 10 to 20 pages of single-spaced notes that have me very familiar with the topic of discussion and lay the groundwork for where we're going to go. During the interviews, of course, you might not be able to see this because hopefully the camera is on the guest and not me. I am typically feverishly taking notes because I'm learning as the podcast is going. At the end of every podcast, I typically take the most important things that I have learned and I transcribe them on to five by eight inch cards. Any podcast might have somewhere from one to three or four of these cards filled out. And you can imagine someone doing this back in the way that you would make a crib sheet in college. Very small writing, but nothing that's on there is wasted. And sometimes there's diagrams, tables, et cetera. Well, it kind of occurred to us that people might want to see what my takeaways are from a podcast. And so in this episode, what we're going to do is look back at the last quarter's podcasts, and I'm going to share my notes from the podcast. In other words, I'm going to share what I learned personally and what I think were the most important insights. In addition to that, I'm going to comment where applicable, if any of these learnings have led to a behavior change in me and or with my patients.
In this particular summary AMA, we cover the following podcasts, Luc van Loon, Courtney Conley, Olav Aleksander Bu, Alex Aravanis, Colleen Cutcliffe, and Mark Rosekind.
Through these episodes, we speak about topics such as protein, building muscle, VO2 max, the importance of toe strength and lower leg strength, liquid biopsies and cancer, the gut microbiome and probiotics, and how to mitigate the risks of automotive deaths. I want to be clear, I don't think that this podcast is even remotely a substitute for having listened to those podcasts. In fact, if you were only listening to this, having not listened to that, the information that I spit out will be kind of jarring and might lack some context. So my real hope is that this is viewed as an adjunct to being able to listen to the podcast. Furthermore, it might serve as a reason to go back and listen to a podcast, especially if you haven't listened to it and what I talk about peaks your interest. As this is a new episode style for us, if you like it and if you find value in this conversation, please let us know because I think we'd continue it. Obviously, if people don't find this interesting, there's no need for us to do it and we could go back to regular AMAs. But our intuition is that if this is indeed valuable, a once quarterly summary might be of value to you as well. If you're a subscriber and you want to watch the full video of this podcast, you can find it on the show notes page. If you're not a subscriber, you can watch the sneak peek of the video on our YouTube page. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy this special episode summary AMA of The Drive.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:25)
Peter, welcome to a special AMA. How are you doing?

**Peter Attia** (4:28)
Very well. Thank you.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:30)
Before we get started, there's a question I've been forgetting to ask you. But now that the McLaren Senna Lego is officially available, how many have you put together?

**Peter Attia** (4:42)
I'm actually really embarrassed to answer that question. I have not put any together, but I have bought four.