Sublime

the centenarians can nevertheless help inform our strategy. Their superpower is their ability to resist or delay the onset of chronic disease by one or two or even three decades, while also maintaining relatively good healthspan.

Although your body is designed to last you 110 years, you can shred through it in 20 if you try hard enough. If you have a multimillion-dollar contract in place, there may be room for debate. But if you’re running for the sheer love of it…what then?

I couldn’t afford to become injured and therefore resilience and durability were just as important.

Peter rarely eats breakfast and has experimented with many forms of intermittent fasting, ranging from one meal a day (i.e., 23 hours of fasting per day) to more typical 16/8 and 18/6 patterns of eating (i.e., 16 or 18 hours of fasting and only eating in an 8- or 6-hour window).

Even when the cancer was in retreat, it cast long shadows.