Special episode: Peter answers questions on longevity, supplements, protein, fasting, apoB, statins, and more

**Peter Attia** (0:11)
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Welcome to a special episode of The Drive. This is an episode that is set up like an AMA where Nick is asking me questions. However, this will be an episode that is available to everyone. Where this differs from most AMAs is that in this episode, I haven't seen the questions beforehand, and I come in kind of blind. As such, whereas most AMAs go an inch wide and a mile deep, here we go, I would say a mile wide and a foot deep.
For this conversation, the team pulled some of the most common questions that we are asked, including some that I traditionally can't stand answering. Of course, I have no choice here, and therefore we go through those in today's podcast. We end up talking about why I don't think people are currently going to be able to live to 120, 150 or 180, some of the claims you see out there all the time. We talk about what supplements I take and why you shouldn't just blindly follow me by taking the same thing. We talk about how to lower your APO-B with and without medications. We talk about how I think about taking statins over a long period of time and what we know about other ASCVD-modulating drugs today or in the pipeline. We talk about why there's no such thing as good or bad cholesterol, why nutrition research is so hard, how I think about the question of, what is the best diet, how I hit my protein targets throughout the day, what my current favorite wearable is, and what the role for CGM is in non-diabetics, and much more.
If you're not a subscriber, this episode will hopefully give you some insight into our AMAs. Although as mentioned earlier, the format here is a little different. Without further delay, please enjoy this special episode of The Drive.

**Nick** (2:49)
Peter, welcome to a special podcast. How you doing?

**Peter Attia** (2:52)
Doing pretty good.

**Nick** (2:53)
Good. So today's episode, we're gonna do something a little different. It's gonna be kinda like an AMA style, where you're the one answering questions, but it's gonna be an episode that's available to everyone. We've done this a few times in the past. Usually our Strong Convictions loosely held episodes, celebrating the 100, 200 episodes. Those have just received really good feedback. And so what we decided to do was do another type of those episodes, but instead, pull some of the most frequently asked questions that have come through the site.
And so we organized them a little bit by various topics, but this is gonna be an episode that's kind of more old school style, where it's just question, answer. A lot of these questions you haven't seen before, which is probably good, because some of them you've always refused to talk about on AMA, such as what supplements do you take.
I know it's not your favorite subject to go into those details, so we're gonna get into them today, which I think will be good. And I think it should just be a fun conversation where you're coming into this blind, and it should be really interesting, I think, for the listener and viewer. So, with that said, anything you want to add before we get started?

**Peter Attia** (4:08)
Why do people care what supplements I take?

**Nick** (4:11)
We can save that for the question. We will get to it, and I think people will find it enjoyable.
The other thing I should say is, do you know why I'm also excited to have this conversation today of all days with you?

**Peter Attia** (4:23)
No.

**Nick** (4:24)
As our friend, Kyler Brown, would say, based on some emails we've exchanged earlier, you kind of seem like you're in a spicy mood today.