Peter Attia, longevity prophet

Over the summer, several of my friends recommended that I read Outlive, the massively popular book by Peter Attia, an oncologist turned longevity evangelist. Like me, they’re Gen Xers who’ve reached middle age and are realizing that the lifestyle choices they make today will determine the quality of life they have when they’re old. Peter Attia is the thinking person’s wellness guru: a Stanford-educated doctor who uses science to promote the habits of better living. His podcast is a hit, and his book, co-authored by Bill Gifford, has been on the bestseller list for 22 weeks.

The child of Coptic Egyptian immigrant parents, Attia grew up in Toronto and did his undergrad at Queen’s in Kingston, Ontario. He now lives in Austin, Texas. In an in-depth Q&A for Maclean’s, he lays out his signature prescription for health—a combination of regular exercise, good sleep and low stress—designed to prevent chronic conditions before they take hold.

He also offers his impressions of the Canadian medical system and how it compares to what he sees in the U.S. “When my brother, who lives in Toronto, has to fly outside of Canada,” he says, “to get a procedure done—one that I could get done here in the U.S. within a day—there’s a problem.” Attia dreams of a world where patients can access the best of both systems. “It’s frustrating that we can’t come up with a hybrid.”

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In Memoriam

Peter C. Newman died early today at age 94 from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Newman was the editor-in-chief of Maclean’s from 1975 to 1982 and was responsible for transforming the magazine into a popular newsweekly. He was the author of several massive bestselling books that chronicled the Canadian establishment and defined the power players of the nation. In a 2013 article for Maclean’s, he called the clubby group of men who ran the country a “tight-fisted cadre of elitists who controlled Canadian business, an informal junta of several thousand circumspect pragmatists, linked more closely to one another than to their country.”

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