Peter's key takeaways on bone health, calorie restriction and energy balance, dopamine and addiction, gene editing, and testosterone therapy safety with a prostate cancer diagnosis | Quarterly Podcast Summary #3

**Peter Attia** (0:10)
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Welcome to another AMA episode of The Drive. Today's episode will be the third of what we're calling the quarterly podcast summary. The feedback again has been very positive on these, so we're going to continue to do these. In these conversations, what I do, take the interviews that I've done over the preceding quarter and note the most important insights that I've gained personally from these interviews, along with any changes that have resulted in my practices from these insights. So with all that said, these shouldn't be seen really as a replacement for listening to these, but I hope they serve as both a primer if you've listened to them, or maybe they direct you to go back and listen to something that you missed. In today's episode, I'm going to cover interviews that I did with Anna Lembke, Feng Zhang, Belinda Beck, Eric Ravussin, and Ted Schaeffer. In this discussion, we speak about topics such as dopamine, addictions, CRISPR, gene editing, bone health, the importance of exercise at any age, energy balance, caloric restriction, prostate cancer, testosterone, and much more. 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 a sneak peek of the video on our YouTube page. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy this special quarterly podcast summary AMA of The Drive.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:05)
Peter, welcome to another quarterly podcast summary AMA, which is a mouthful. How are you doing?

**Peter Attia** (2:11)
Good. Do we have an abbreviation for that?

**SPEAKER_1** (2:13)
I think it's QPS. One, two, three. This is three.

**Peter Attia** (2:18)
QPS, three AMA, 60 something.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:22)
Yeah. We're just going to keep throwing numbers at it until it sticks. That's definitely not confusing to the listener.

**Peter Attia** (2:28)
Well, thank you for coming to Austin to do this one in person.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:30)
Yeah. It's honestly weird to not look at you through a screen for one of these.

**Peter Attia** (2:35)
I feel the same way.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:36)
Yeah. I can't hide what I usually do behind the screen in this one. So this is a much more serious episode. So for this one as a reminder for people because it's still relatively new, what we're doing with these quarterly podcast summaries is we're taking previous episodes and just going through them with your thoughts. This came about because you take an insane amount of notes through the podcast you have in front of you there. And so we would internally go through these and we did a few of these and people really liked them. And so what we're going to do is we'll go through, we won't necessarily summarize them as much as you will talk about your big takeaways and then we'll have a conversation on how that's affected either your behavior, how you deal with patients, anything of that nature. And so for today's episode, we're going to talk about dopamine through Anna's podcast. We have CRISPR, which is super interesting through Feng's podcast, bone mineral density, lifting in females, especially as you age with Belinda, calorie restriction with Eric, which is always of interest, and then prostate cancer, which was kind of a special, shorter episode we did with Ted. So I think it's really good, kind of a huge variety of things that we'll cover. But with that said, anything you want to say before we roll.

**Peter Attia** (3:52)
No, just to reiterate, I'm sure I'll have said this already in the intro, which I obviously haven't recorded yet, that this is not a substitute for going back and listening to the podcast, because I'm not even attempting to provide the full context of everything. What I'm really trying to do is capture what I'm taking away in real time as I'm having these discussions with people. What am I making notes on? That's effectively the filter here is, what is Peter pulling out of this as the most interesting stuff? Sometimes, that comes with an assumption that other content is understood and heard. So the hope is that you're listening to this after you've heard these podcasts or that you listen to these and maybe go back and listen to a podcast that you skipped because the insight is particularly interesting.