Here are 10 great quotes / insights from Peter Attia’s latest podcast episode on longevity.

1. If your definition of longevity is “I want to live to be 200,” I wouldn’t be able to help you. The way I think about it is longevity means how do we live longer? I think that means years longer, a decade longer. It doesn’t mean a doubling of lifespan.

2. Medicine 3.0 really is aimed at preventing rather than treating disease by acting early, acting aggressively, and tailoring the therapies to the individuals based on the best available evidence

3. I am a strong supporter of the importance of early and aggressive cancer screening

4. It is a very bizarre tragedy that 19 million people a year still die from cardiovascular disease, given how much we know about what causes it and how many tools we have to prevent it.

5. A heart attack it is fatal about 50% of the time, the first time a person has one

6. “Oh, red meat this or soy that, or whatever,” there’s actually just the scantest of evidence to suggest that any of these are promoting cancer in the slightest way

7. The challenge in nutrition is you have a lot of people that speak with such insane conviction, and they talk about something as though it is absolutely correct, even though if you were putting an error bar on their statement, it would dwarf anything they’re saying.”

8. A person today with stage IV, metastatic endothelial tumor has about the same 10-year survival as a person did with that tumor 50 years ago

9. “What’s good for the heart is good for the brain,” and study after study after study have demonstrated the following. Every intervention that we take to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease also reduces the risk of dementia

10. The evidence for the benefits of exercise are both greater in magnitude and greater in confidence when it comes to the prevention of neurodegenerative disease.