超越百岁 – Outlive by Robert Greene

著名的长寿专家彼得·阿提亚博士也是一名马拉松游泳运动员，他曾在三十多岁的时候横渡卡特琳娜海峡。但他的健康状况居然也出现了异常，有早逝于心脏病的风险。这一发现促使他开始探索长寿之道：我们如何以及为何会死亡，我们如何才能延缓甚至预防那些导致大多数人死亡的慢性病，例如心脏病、癌症、阿尔茨海默病与2型糖尿病。

在这份旨在促进长寿与美好生活的颠覆性宣言中，阿提亚解释了这段旅程如何使他重新思考了对医疗保健的态度。虽然主流医学取得了很多成就，但在防治这些与年龄有关的疾病方面却进展甚微。往往它干预的时机太晚而无法提供及时的帮助，并以损害健康年限或生活质量为代价延长寿命。阿提亚认为，我们必须用个性化、积极主动的长寿策略来取代这种过时的框架，也就是一种我们应该立即采取行动而非等待的策略。这不是“生物黑客”，这是一种以科学为基础的战略方法，在延长寿命的同时改善我们的身体、认知和情绪健康。

Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health.

For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of aging that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late to help, prolonging lifespan at the expense of healthspan, or quality of life. Dr. Attia believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalized, proactive strategy for longevity, one where we take action now, rather than waiting.

This is not “biohacking,” it’s science: a well-founded strategic and tactical approach to extending lifespan while also improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health. Dr. Attia’s aim is less to tell you what to do and more to help you learn how to think about long-term health, in order to create the best plan for you as an individual. In Outlive, listeners will discover:

• Why the cholesterol test at your annual physical doesn’t tell you enough about your actual risk of dying from a heart attack.

• That you may already suffer from an extremely common yet underdiagnosed liver condition that could be a precursor to the chronic diseases of aging.

• Why exercise is the most potent pro-longevity “drug”—and how to begin training for the “Centenarian Decathlon.”

• Why you should forget about diets, and focus instead on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating pattern.

• Why striving for physical health and longevity, but ignoring emotional health, could be the ultimate curse of all.

Aging and longevity are far more malleable than we think; our fate is not set in stone. With the right roadmap, you can plot a different path for your life, one that lets you outlive your genes to make each decade better than the one before.