#385 - AMA #82: Applying the tools of longevity in the real world: disease prevention, DEXA scans, artificial sweeteners, injury recovery, stability training, habit formation, protein intake and mTOR activation, and more

Hey, everyone. Welcome to a sneak peek, ask me anything or AMA episode of the Drive podcast. I'm your host, Peter Attia. At the end of this short episode, I'll explain how you can access the AMA episodes in full along with a ton of other membership benefits we've created. Or you can learn more now by going to peterattiamd.com forward slash subscribe. So without further delay, here's today's sneak peek of the Ask Me Anything episode. Welcome to Ask Me Anything AMA episode 82. In today's AMA, I answer listener questions across a wide range of topics. Less about deep dives and more about how I think through real world trade offs and apply the science and practice. So what are we talking about here today? We can talk about how health priorities and strategies should shift across different decades of life, which chronic diseases feel toughest to manage, and how I think about that hierarchy of risk, which emerging interventions look most promising beyond exercise, wearables, which consumer metrics are actually useful in practice, DEXA scans, what optimal screening intervals look like and how to interpret the results over time, behavior change, what patients struggle with most in health routines and how to help changes stick, training for balance, stability, and injury resilience, and lessons from some training setbacks, high protein diets and mTOR, how to think about mechanisms versus outcomes, diet sodas and non nutritive sweeteners, how to evaluate them, and frankly, what to compare them to, plus a grab bag of some additional listener questions, including health fads, emotional health, and sleep routines. So without further delay, I hope you enjoy AMA number 82. Peter, welcome to another AMA. For today's AMA, our goal is to hit a variety of topics and questions that have come through frequently, most commonly. And instead of doing deep dives on some of these topics, what we're gonna do is more talk about them, how you would speak with patients about them if they ask these questions, or their questions on how you work with your patients on specific issues. So goal here is to be much less in-depth and much more practical and actionable. And with this, we'll cover a variety of topics, including how priorities around health shift as people age, the best tools we have to prevent dementia, what wearable data do you think is actually useful for your work with patients, how you work with patients to make lasting changes in their health routine, how to think about training for stability, recovering from injuries, question on diet soda, mTOR as it relates to high protein diets, and more. So with that said, I think we'll just jump right into it. First question being, as someone thinks about their trajectory as age, so if someone goes from their twenties to forties to sixties and beyond, how do you work with patients around how their health priorities, strategies, tactics should shift across those decades as they age? Well, …