Publisher's Synopsis
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert
"One of the most important books you'll ever read."-Steven D. Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics Don't you want to live longer? Furthermore, better? Dr. Peter Attia presents cutting-edge nutritional interventions, strategies for maximizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health in this operating manual for longevity, which draws on the most recent research. Despite its successes, mainstream medicine has not done much to combat the majority of people's fatal aging diseases: coronary illness, malignant growth, Alzheimer's sickness, and type 2 diabetes. Too frequently, it intervenes with treatments that do not work until too late, extending lifespan at the expense of quality of life or health. Dr. Attia is of the opinion that this out-of-date framework needs to be replaced with a customized, proactive strategy for longevity, one in which we take action right away rather than waiting. This is science, not "biohacking," a well-thought-out strategy and tactical plan for extending our lives and enhancing our mental, physical, and emotional well-being at the same time. Dr. Attia doesn't want to tell you what to do; rather, he wants to help you learn how to think about your long-term health so that he can make the best plan for you. In Outlast, perusers will find: - Why your annual cholesterol test doesn't give you enough information about your actual risk of dying from a heart attack.- That you may as of now experience the ill effects of a very normal yet underdiagnosed liver condition that could be a forerunner to the ongoing sicknesses of maturing.
- Why exercise is the most effective "drug" for increasing longevity and how to start training for the "Centenarian Decathlon."
- Why you ought to disregard diets, and spotlight rather on wholesome organic chemistry, utilizing innovation and information to customize your eating design.
- Why it could be the greatest curse of all to strive for physical health and longevity while neglecting emotional health. Life expectancy and aging are much more adaptable than we realize; our destiny isn't firmly established. With the right guide, you can plot an alternate way for your life, one that allows you to outlast your qualities to improve every ten years than the one preceding.