Peter AttiaMultiple problems with a study linking proximity to major roads to dementia, Parkinson’s disease…I’m often asked how I keep up with a deluge of information on a relatively wide variety of fields in medicine. One thing I do is skim the…7 min read·Mar 8, 2020----
Peter AttiaThe red meat and plant-based recommendation warsA few months ago, the Annals of Internal Medicine published 6 papers by the same group of investigators — part of the Nutritional…3 min read·Mar 1, 2020----
Peter AttiaThe pleasure of finding things outWhy do those last few “O”s in a bowl of Cheerios tend to clump together in the middle of the bowl or around the edges? If you’ve ever…5 min read·Feb 23, 2020----
Peter AttiaAlzheimer’s disease and glucose metabolismI recently read an encouraging perspective in JAMA titled, “In Alzheimer’s Research, Glucose Metabolism Moves to Center Stage.” The…2 min read·Feb 16, 2020----
Peter AttiaThe killer(s) on the road: reducing your risk of automotive deathLast week we talked about how we can often conflate the frequency and severity of accidents. We may mistakenly believe that the chances of…10 min read·Feb 9, 2020----
Peter AttiaMaking sense of tragedyAs soon as this week’s podcast with Ryan Holiday went up people began contacting me to say how timely it was, if not outright eerie, given…5 min read·Feb 2, 2020----
Peter AttiaNobel retractionsFrances Arnold, a chemical engineer at Caltech, was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Arnold received the Nobel Prize for the…3 min read·Jan 26, 2020----
Peter AttiaIntermittent fastingIn my previous email, I laid out a nutritional framework, consisting of 3 levers-dietary restriction (DR), caloric restriction (CR), and…4 min read·Jan 19, 2020----
Peter AttiaMy nutritional frameworkI recently read a paper in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): “ Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease.”…3 min read·Jan 12, 2020----
Peter AttiaWhy is life expectancy in the US declining?According to a new study in , life expectancy (LE) at birth stopped increasing since 2010 and actually decreased in the US for three…2 min read·Dec 29, 2019----