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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
the odds are overwhelming that you will die as a result of one of the chronic diseases of aging that I call the Four Horsemen: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or type 2 diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction.
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Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
Longevity has two components. The first is how long you live, your chronological lifespan, but the second and equally important part is how well you live—the quality of your years. This is called healthspan,
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Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
Medicine’s biggest failing is in attempting to treat all these conditions at the wrong end of the timescale—after they are entrenched—rather than before they take root.
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Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
the odds are overwhelming that you will die as a result of one of the chronic diseases of aging that I call the Four Horsemen: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or type 2 diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction.
from Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
the odds are overwhelming that you will die as a result of one of the chronic diseases of aging that I call the Four Horsemen: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, or type 2 diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction.
from Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —Bishop Desmond Tutu
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Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
Medicine’s biggest failing is in attempting to treat all these conditions at the wrong end of the timescale—after they are entrenched—rather than before they take root.
from Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago
More than any other tactical domain we discuss in this book, exercise has the greatest power to determine how you will live out the rest of your life. There are reams of data supporting the notion that even a fairly minimal amount of exercise can lengthen your life by several years. It delays the onset of chronic diseases, pretty much across the bo
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Daniel Wentsch added 2mo ago
Exercise has, by far, the biggest effect on longevity
Longevity has two components. The first is how long you live, your chronological lifespan, but the second and equally important part is how well you live—the quality of your years. This is called healthspan,
from Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia MD
Serim Tarcan added 4mo ago