Outlive

"Exercise is by far the most potent longevity “drug.”"

— Peter Attia, Outlive (2023)

Outlive
Full title	Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Author	Peter Attia; with Bill Gifford
Language	English
Subject	Longevity; Aging; Preventive medicine; Nutrition; Exercise; Sleep; Emotional health
Genre	Nonfiction; Health; Self-help
Publisher	Harmony
Publication date	28 March 2023
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover); e-book; audiobook
Pages	496
ISBN	978-0-593-23659-8
Website	peterattiamd.com

Chapter summary

This outline follows the Harmony hardcover edition (28 March 2023; ISBN 978-0-593-23659-8).

I

🧭 1 – The long game: from fast death to slow death.

🧪 2 – Medicine 3.0: rethinking medicine for the age of chronic disease.

🗺️ 3 – Objective, strategy, tactics: a road map for reading this book.

II

🧓 4 – Centenarians: the older you get, the healthier you have been.

🍽️ 5 – Eat less, live longer: the science of hunger and health.

🛒 6 – The crisis of abundance: can our ancient genes cope with our modern diet?

❤️ 7 – The ticker: confronting and preventing heart disease, the deadliest killer on the planet.

🦠 8 – The runaway cell: new ways to address the killer that is cancer.

🧠 9 – Chasing memory: understanding Alzheimer's Disease and other neurodegenerative diseases.

III

♟️ 10 – Thinking tactically: building a framework of principles that work for you.

🏃‍♂️ 11 – Exercise: the most powerful longevity drug.

🏋️ 12 – Training 101: how to prepare for the centenarian decathlon.

🧘 13 – The gospel of stability: relearning how to move to prevent injury.

🥦 14 – Nutrition 3.0: you say potato, I say "nutritional biochemistry".

🍳 15 – Putting nutritional biochemistry into practice: how to find the right eating pattern for you.

🛌 16 – The awakening: how to learn to love sleep, the best medicine for your brain.

💙 17 – Work in progress: the high price of ignoring emotional health.

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