Peter on nutrition, disease prevention, sleep, and more — looking back on the last 100 episodes

**Peter Attia** (0:11)
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Now, without further delay, here's today's episode.
Welcome to a special episode of The Drive as we celebrate our recent 200th episode. To celebrate this milestone, we want to do something a little bit different, which is something we did after our first 100 episodes. And that was a special episode called Strong Convictions, Loosely Held. The idea of this is to basically go back and look over topics that were covered in the last 100 episodes, which is about two years, and talk about things where I've changed my mind or taken a stronger viewpoint. So in this interview, I'm once again joined by Nick Stenson. Due to the timing of this episode, it's going to be audio only. We are trying to get this out on a very quick turnaround. So this is being recorded very shortly before it's going to be released. In this episode, we talk about a number of topics. We talk about changes in my viewpoints around things that deal with cancer, both in terms of screening and therapeutics. We talk about my evolved thinking on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and around Alzheimer's disease genetics.
In the topic of nutrition, we get into some changes in my views around fasting and protein consumption. Talk a little bit about psychedelics under the molecules heading. In exercise, we talk a lot about strength training, cardio training, and I touch a little bit on my recent surgery and the implications of that, although we're going to have a dedicated podcast on all things pertaining to that.
Talk about sleep and a supplement that I used to be very bullish on that has basically vanished, and then talk about a drug that I'm very excited about right now.
And let's see, what else do we talk about? I think we then turn it over to a special discussion on all things Formula 1 We do get a lot of questions about Formula 1, and I think that there's probably a relatively small, but enthusiastic cohort of you who have a lot of questions about F1. So we end on that deliberately, so that those of you who are not interested in F1 can tune out. But I think it's actually a pretty cool discussion, and I think even people who are just casually becoming interested in F1 will find this interesting. So hopefully that's more than six of you. So anyway, without further delay, please enjoy this episode, celebrating 200 episodes of The Drive and specifically looking back at the last 100

**Nick Stenson** (3:10)
All right, Peter, welcome to a special episode here. This is one you and Bob did way back for episode 103, which is kind of this concept around Strong Convictions, Loosely Held, which I'll have you explain in a second.
And we did this after the first 100 episodes of the podcast, and now we just crossed episode 200 If we were a little better at planning, this would be episode 200 But episode 200...

**Peter Attia** (3:41)
Maybe 201, technically, right?

**Nick Stenson** (3:43)
Maybe 201, but this kind of snuck up on us, so I think it's going to be episode 202, so we're only off by one.
This will be a little bit of a different episode in the sense where it will kind of have an AMA feel to it, where I'll be asking you some questions, but it will be much more laid back.
The prep that usually goes into a podcast didn't really go into this one, because it's more so just asking you questions around looking back at the last 100 episodes, episode 100 to 200, where has your opinion changed? Where has it maybe gotten stronger? How has it evolved? Which I think is really important for people to understand, because I think sometimes they can listen to podcasts or hear people talk about things and just assume they can never change their mind or assume it doesn't evolve. And so that's why I really like doing these. I think this will be a good one for people, and then also for the small percentage of people who are interested, we do get a lot of F1 questions, and at the end of this episode, we'll dedicate a little bit of that for all those people who really want to dive into that.