Peter's takeaways on navigating HRT, rejuvenating the face, understanding the biology of aging, optimizing fertility, and learning to live well from the dying | Quarterly Podcast Summary #6

**Peter Attia** (0:10)
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Welcome to a special episode of The Drive. In today's debrief, I focus on what I consider the most important learnings and insights from the past quarter of interviews, as well as any behavioral changes I've applied as a result. In this episode, I'll cover a variety of topics, including male and female infertility, women's sexual health, menopause, and hormone replacement therapy, the biology of aging, skin care, facial aging, and rejuvenation strategies, and lessons we can learn about living from the dying. 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 are 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 quarterly podcast summary episode of The Drive.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:30)
All right, Peter, thank you for showing up to another episode of your podcast. How are you doing?

**Peter Attia** (1:35)
Good. Thank you for having me back.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:37)
I see you brought someone else with you in the studio today. Do you know who that is?

**Peter Attia** (1:43)
I do not.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:44)
Who's the little guy in your shirt?

**Peter Attia** (1:46)
Oh, Charles. Yeah.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:48)
Charles. Is he going to jump in at all today, provide any insight for us, or what's his deal?

**Peter Attia** (1:53)
He might. It's the funniest shirt in the world.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:57)
It is. Just little Charles, just peeking up there happy as could be. I know.

**Peter Attia** (2:03)
I know.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:03)
I love it. Bringing the excitement over there, which is good. Today, we are doing another podcast summary episode. To remind people what we do, we pull recent episodes that have come out. We go through them one by one, highlight things you found really interesting, things that were your biggest takeaways, anything you changed your mind on, behavior on, how you work with patients on, as a result. So, these aren't meant to replace people listening to episodes, but these episodes, I think this is our sixth one, and to date, we get some of the most feedback compared to any episode on these, where people really enjoy them. And a lot of times, people will either go back and listen to certain parts, say that things kind of make more sense from this. And so, a lot of good feedback from this, but again, should not be a replacement for these episodes. Today, we got a lot to cover. We have Paul and Paula on male and female fertility. So, they were two different episodes, but for this, it made the most sense to combine them into one as we look at insights, so we'll do that. We have Rachel on women's sexual health, menopause, HRT, something I know you're passionate about and enjoy talking about. Brian Kennedy, which was a really deep dive around biology of aging, kind of a throwback to some of our original episodes where you dive super deep into that. You have Tanuj and Suzan, which looked at all things, skincare, facial aging, rejuvenation strategies. On that note, you're looking pretty sharp over there. You've been taking some of their recommendations into your day-to-day practices.

**Peter Attia** (3:41)
We are absolutely going to talk about that because we are probably two and a half months now since that episode, and I'm looking forward to discussing exactly what I have done. In fact, of all the episodes, this would be the one where I've had the greatest change in my personal behavior.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:59)
Can't wait to hear it. Did you do anything different with Charlie, or is he still on the same skincare routine?

**Peter Attia** (4:04)
No, Charles is still doing the exact same skincare routine.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:07)
It's working for him though, so why fix it? And then we're going to end with the episode with BJ and Bridget, which was all around death, dying, but more so what you can learn from people on their deathbed. So, huge variety of topics we'll cover. Anything you want to say before we get rolling?

**Peter Attia** (4:27)
No, other than it's interesting that the last and second to last topics we will cover could not be more apart in terms of relevance and superficiality. You know, it will be a stark juxtaposition of something not to bring any sort of judgment against aesthetics, but ultimately talking about end of life and lessons about life through death versus how to make your skin look better are about two opposite ends of the spectrum. But nevertheless, it is a spectrum and I think we can find value in talking about everything along it.