Peter Attia

Scientists have been exploring the medical mysteries of the human heart for almost as long as poets have been probing its metaphorical depths.

It is not an accident that the two biggest risk factors for heart disease, smoking and high blood pressure, cause damage to the endothelium.

a sedentary person may not notice that she has a partially blocked coronary artery until she goes outside to shovel snow.

*8] Monounsaturated fats, found in high quantities in extra virgin olive oil, macadamia nuts, and avocados (among other foods), do not have this effect, so I tend to push my patients to consume more of these, up to about 60 percent of total fat intake.

The sooner you cut the head off the snake, the lower the risk that it will bite you.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
—Margaret Thatcher

Like heart disease, cancer is a disease of aging.

If the first rule of cancer is “Don’t get cancer,” the second rule is “Catch it as soon as possible.”

The single most powerful item in our preventive tool kit is exercise, which has a two-pronged impact on Alzheimer’s disease risk: it helps maintain glucose homeostasis, and it improves the health of our vascula

As we’ll see in chapter 11, endurance exercise produces factors that directly target regions of the brain responsible for cognition and memory.