Peter Attia is the President and co-Founder of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI) who spent five years as a general surgery resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also describes himself as a “relentless self-experimenter,” who has spent the last few years obsessively reading everything on the science of nutrition and applying it to his own life.
In this episode we discuss…
- Why carbohydrate reduction followed by carbohydrate restriction through a period of adaptation helped Dr. Attia reach his fitness goals after his metabolism slowed down
- You need to eat to be healthy because not all elements of health can be seen in the mirror
- There are slender people with metabolic syndrome
- People who are really insulin sensitive tend to access fat as long as possible
- Fat adaptation does not require ketosis
- Maximal fat oxidation rate is an amazing metric of metabolic efficiency
- If you don’t fix nutrition and sleep, you’re in for a world of pain
Metabolic syndrome is a clinical proxy involving 3-5 of the following:
- Elevated glucose
- Elevated blood pressure
- Elevated triglycerides
- Elevated truncal girth
- Depressed high density lipoprotein cholesterol
The five diseases that track with metabolic syndrome
- Heart disease
- Stroke
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Alzheimer’s
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