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Peter Attia

  • Kirill Kirillovhas quotedlast year
    “I think people get old when they stop thinking about the future,” Ric told me. “If you want to find someone’s true age, listen to them. If they talk about the past and they talk about all the things that happened that they did, they’ve gotten old. If they think about their dreams, their aspirations, what they’re still looking forward to—they’re young.”
    Here’s to staying young, even as we grow older.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Longevity has two components. The first is how long you live, your chronological lifespan, but the second and equally important part is how well you live—the quality of your years. This is called healthspan
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Fast death waits for no one.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Continuing to ignore healthspan, as we’ve been doing, not only condemns people to a sick and miserable older age but is guaranteed to bankrupt us eventually.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Nearly all the money flows to treatment rather than prevention—and when I say “prevention,” I mean prevention of human suffering.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Aging is characterized by a progressive loss of physiological integrity, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to death,”
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Lifespan deals with death, which is binary: you’re alive, and then you’re dead. It’s final.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    sometimes long before, most people suffer through a period of decline that, I would argue, is like dying in slow motion.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    The first vector of deterioration is cognitive decline.
  • Habitante de librohas quotedlast year
    Not everyone who dies in their eighties or nineties passes through the valleys of cognitive, physical, or emotional destruction on the way there.
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