内容简介

　　著名的长寿专家彼得·阿提亚博士也是一名马拉松游泳运动员，他曾在三十多岁的时候横渡卡特琳娜海峡。但他的健康状况居然也出现了异常，有早逝于心脏病的风险。这一发现促使他开始探索长寿之道：我们如何以及为何会死亡，我们如何才能延缓甚至预防那些导致大多数人死亡的慢性病，例如心脏病、癌症、阿尔茨海默病与2型糖尿病。

　　在这份旨在促进长寿与美好生活的颠覆性宣言中，阿提亚解释了这段旅程如何使他重新思考了对医疗保健的态度。虽然主流医学取得了很多成就，但在防治这些与年龄有关的疾病方面却进展甚微。往往它干预的时机太晚而无法提供及时的帮助，并以损害健康年限或生活质量为代价延长寿命。阿提亚认为，我们必须用个性化、积极主动的长寿策略来取代这种过时的框架，也就是一种我们应该立即采取行动而非等待的策略。这不是“生物黑客”，这是一种以科学为基础的战略方法，在延长寿命的同时改善我们的身体、认知和情绪健康。阿提亚的目标不是告诉你该做什么，而是更多地帮助你学会如何思考长期健康，以便为你个人制定最佳计划。在这本书中，读者将会发现：

　　为什么在年度体检中你的血液检测和胆固醇测试结果显示“正常”，但你可能仍然不健康——因为平均值并不等同于最佳状态。

　　为什么运动是最强效的长寿“药”，以及如何开始为“百岁老人十项全能”进行训练？

　　为什么你应该忘记“节食”，转而关注营养生物化学，利用技术和数据来个性化你的饮食模式？

　　为什么仅追求身体健康和长寿而忽视情感健康可能带来最终的灾祸？

　　寿命与健康的可塑性远比我们想象的要大。我们的命运不是一成不变的，有了正确的路线图，你就可以为你的人生规划一条不同的道路，让你比你的基因更长寿，让每一个十年都比前一个十年更好。

　　作者简介

　　彼得·阿提亚（Peter Attia），斯坦福大学医学博士，著名健康专家，长寿应用科学医疗研究机构Attia Medical创始人。他拥有约翰斯·霍普金斯医院五年的外科临床经验，曾获“年度住院医师”等重要奖项，师从史蒂芬·隆森伯格医生，在美国国立卫生研究院国家癌症研究所致力于肿瘤学与癌症的免疫疗法研究，离开医院后他曾加入麦肯锡公司。他曾在TED发表关于糖尿病危机的演讲，还长期主持一个热门的大众播客The Drive，关注肥胖、断食、生酮、阿尔茨海默病、癌症、心理健康、睡眠等主题，希望提高人们对长寿和健康改善的认知，拥有大量忠实粉丝。他曾和三获美国国家科学作家奖的加里·陶布斯共同创立了非营利组织“营养科学计划”并担任主席。同时，他自己还是一位耐力极好的运动员，在超长距离自行车运动、马拉松游泳、力量训练中一直保持高水平的表现。

　　比尔·吉福德（Bill Gifford），资深记者，《纽约时报》畅销书《永葆青春》的作者，美国发行量最大的户外杂志Outside的特约编辑，曾为许多出版物撰写过关于科学、体育和健身的文章。

Content introduction

Renowned longevity expert Dr. Peter Attiya is also a marathon swimmer who once swam the Catalina Strait in his thirties. But his health had turned out to be abnormal, putting him at risk of an early death from heart disease. This discovery led him to explore longevity: how and why we die, and how we can delay or even prevent the chronic diseases that kill most people, such as heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease and type 2 diabetes.

In this subversive manifesto aimed at promoting a long and good life, Attiyah explains how this journey has led him to rethink his approach to healthcare. While mainstream medicine has made many achievements, little progress has been made in combating these age-related diseases. It often intervenes too late to provide timely help and extends life at the expense of years of health or quality of life. Attiyah argues that we must replace this outdated framework with a personalized, proactive longevity strategy - one in which we should act now rather than wait. This is not "biohacking," it's a strategic, science-based approach to improving our physical, cognitive, and emotional health while extending our lives. Attiya's goal is less to tell you what to do and more to help you learn how to think about long-term health in order to make the best plan for you personally. In this book, readers will find:

Why your blood tests and cholesterol tests come back "normal" at your annual physical, but you may still be unhealthy - because average is not the same as optimal.

Why is exercise the most powerful medicine for longevity, and how do you start training for the Centenarian Decathlon?

Why should you forget about "dieting" and instead focus on nutritional biochemistry, using technology and data to personalize your eating patterns?

Why is the pursuit of physical health and longevity to the neglect of emotional health likely to be the ultimate disaster?

Longevity and health are far more malleable than we think. Our destiny is not set in stone, and with the right road map, you can chart a different path for your life that allows you to outlive your genes and make each decade better than the one before.

About the author

Peter Attia, M.D., Stanford University, is a renowned health expert and founder of Attia Medical, a medical research institute for the applied sciences of longevity. He has five years of clinical experience in surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was awarded Residency of the Year, studied under Dr. Steven Lonzenberg, worked on oncology and cancer immunotherapy research at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, and joined McKinsey & Company after leaving the hospital. He has spoken at TED about The diabetes crisis, and has long hosted a popular popular podcast, The Drive, focusing on obesity, fasting, ketogenic, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, mental health, sleep and more, with the hope of raising awareness about longevity and improved health, and has a large and loyal following. He co-founded and chairs the nonprofit Nutrition Science Project with three-time National Science Writer Award winner Gary Taubs. At the same time, he is also an endurance athlete, in ultra-long distance cycling, marathon swimming, strength training has maintained a high level of performance.

Bill Gifford is a veteran journalist, the New York Times bestselling author of "Forever Young," a contributing editor at Outside, the largest outdoor magazine in the United States, and has written about science, sports, and fitness for numerous publications.