Outlive

Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

  1. Slow Death vs Fast Death
  2. Four Horsemen
  3. Longevity has two components
    1. how long you live - lifespan
    2. how well you live - quality of the years - Healthspan
  4. to create a better future - start thinking about it and take action Now
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  6. Medicine 3.0
    1. places a greater emphasis on prevention than treatment
    2. considers the patient as a unique individual
    3. out starting point is the honest assessment and acceptance of risk - including doing nothing
    4. pays far more attention in maintaining healthspan, the quality of life
  7. Chapter 2 - final page - you have Skin in the Game
  8. Chapter 3 - Objective, strategy, Tactics
    1. Marginal Decade
    2. What do you want to be doing in your later decades?
    3. What is your plan for the rest of your life?
    4. Hyperbolic Discounting
    5. in midlife, you will gradually begin to feel some changes - lose a bit of your youthful strength and stamina - occasionally forget passwords or the names of people you meet
    6. Three part approach to longevity - Objective -> Strategy -> Tactics
  9. Healthspan and its deterioration has 3 categories
    1. cognitive decline
    2. decline and eventual loss of function of physical body
    3. emotional health
  10. Medicine 2.0 relies on two ways
    1. procedures / surgery
    2. medications
  11. Medicine 3.0
    1. Exercise - Strength, Stability, Aerobic Efficiency and Peak Aerobic Capacity
    2. Nutrition
    3. Sleep
    4. Emotional Health
    5. Exogenous Molecules - drugs, harmones or supplements
  12. Esther Perel - Why would you want to live longer if you are so unhappy ?

Peter Attia

Blue Zones

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