“It's a super exciting time because every time we unlock essentially a function of a certain part of the brain, there's a very high probability that there's going to be a therapy either through a brain-computer interface or through a new biological approach.” —Edward Chang The post #363 ‒ A new frontier in neurosurgery: restoring brain function with brain-computer interfaces, advancing glioblastoma care, and new hope for devastating brain diseases | Edward Chang, M.D. appeared first o...| Peter Attia
"Avoidance is a behavioral coping tool that's highly effective in the moment for the anxiety, but ineffective long-term for functioning, that is shared amongst almost all the anxiety disorders.” —Josh Spitalnick| Peter Attia
"Humans are habit machines. We literally have evolved a brain that is fantastic at making habits.” —Charles Duhigg The post #360 ‒ How to change your habits: why they form and how to build or break them | Charles Duhigg, M.B.A appeared first on Peter Attia.| Peter Attia
“The ovary and the thymus. We call them the canary in the coal mine.” —Eric Verdin The post #359 ‒ How metabolic and immune system dysfunction drive the aging process, the role of NAD, promising interventions, aging clocks, and more | Eric Verdin, M.D. appeared first on Peter Attia.| Peter Attia
“I really think that all of these interventions that we're looking at are restoring dynamic range…We're restoring things that happened when you were young.” —Brian Kennedy The post #357 ‒ A new era of longevity science: models of aging, human trials of rapamycin, biological clocks, promising compounds, and lifestyle interventions | Brian Kennedy, Ph.D. appeared first on Peter Attia.| Peter Attia
“Beauty and aesthetics is an integral part of being human… and choosing to make changes that are appropriate for your situation, has the potential of increasing quality of life.” —Tanuj Nakra The post #355 – Skincare strategies, the science of facial aging, and cosmetic-intervention guidance | Tanuj Nakra, M.D. & Suzan Obagi, M.D. appeared first on Peter Attia.| Peter Attia
“Whether it's palliative care or hospice, the focus is really on helping someone feel as well as possible, and that is an inherently holistic question because it gets at their identity.” ‒BJ Miller The post #354 – What the dying can teach us about living well: lessons on life and reflections on mortality | BJ Miller, M.D. and Bridget Sumser, L.C.S.W. appeared first on Peter Attia.| Peter Attia
“When you give women information about how their bodies work, they make great decisions for themselves.” —Rachel Rubin| Peter Attia
“I frequently focus on getting people back to a good quality of life and giving them control of their life and their pain, rather than a promise to eliminate pain. In the acute setting, often, it's eliminating pain.” —Sean Mackey| Peter Attia
“We don't have that deficit like we did 20 years ago when our fields weren't as precise. It was the shotgun approach versus our sniper approach.”‒ Sanjay Mehta| Peter Attia
“I just remind people, you can never really make up for lost sleep that easily, because sleep architecture really matters.” —Ashley Mason| Peter Attia
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