We have the potential to live longer and live better. Here’s what we need to do to make it happen, according to bestselling author Dr Peter Attia.
“Going from zero exercise to about three hours per week probably [leads to] about a 40 to 50 per cent relative reduction in all cause mortality,” says Attia, who recently featured in the docuseries. “And there’s a belief that you can get more compliance if you create the minimum standard as opposed to an optimal standard.”
“But I’m asking a question, which is what does [an extra] 10 to 15 years look like? And at an exceptionally higher quality of life. The metric for me is when I’m 80 … I want to function like a healthy, fit 60-year-old.”To function as a healthy, fit 60-year-old when we’re 80 and reach the limits of our health and lifespan, we have to break down “exercise” into its four most important parts, he argues: strength, stability, aerobic efficiency and peak aerobic capacity.
In real-world terms, he says, that means someone who is breathing poorly while shovelling in their garden, for instance, is putting themselves at increased risk of injury., are crucial to balance, stability and our ability to move safely into older age.
“VO2 max is astonishingly predictive of how long you live,” Attia says. According to one large study cited in the book, simply climbing from the least fit to below-average fitness , as measured by VO2 max, we nearly halve the risk of an early death.Credit:“Increasing your VO2 max by any amount is going to improve your life,” Attia says, adding that the beauty is that we can always improve it through training.
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