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Peter Attia’s 5 Longevity Rules That Will Add 10+ Years to Your Life
What if I told you that you could live longer, better? That the secret to having another 10 or even 20 years in health does not lie in some futuristic lab but here, right now, if you are willing to change your life?
That is precisely the message conveyed by Dr. Peter Attia in his seminal book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity.
The former cancer surgeon turned longevity doctor has one simple but radical message: Modern medicine is adept at saving lives in emergencies but is proving itself to be terribly inadequate at stopping the chronic diseases that slowly kill most of us: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and type 2 diabetes.
Attia calls these 21st-century Four Horsemen of death. Unless we adopt a preventive mindset — a movement he terms “Medicine 3.0” — we will be condemned to share the fate of millions before us.
So what does he suggest? Here are Peter Attia’s 5 longevity rules, which may add at least a decade of high-quality life to your years and years to your life.
1. Exercise Like Your Life Depends on It — Because It Does
Attia doesn’t shy away from giving opinions here: Exercise, he said, is the most potent longevity drug available to humankind…
