The Most Overlooked Test For Longevity | Dr Peter Attia

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[alexforce]

It's about the mitochondria. The more and healthier mitochondria you have - more oxygen you can use and more energy to produce.

[Shankar-Bhaskar]

People living at high altitudes have a high VO2 max, that is because their lungs have to work much harder to extract oxygen from the atmosphere than the lungs of people who are living at the sea level.

VO2 MAX goes down with an increase in altitude, hence a person's VO2 Max at higher altitude is lower than it is at the sea level.

[atomic_poppy]

I’m a 60 year old woman and mine is 36.5. Trying to get it higher!

[adrianmasters]

The fitter you are, the healthier you are, groundbreaking stuff

[sagizelnick]

I am 51 years old today and my VO2 max is 51. Just walk 10 miles a day and workout 4 days a week :-)

[mikehobart]

If you haven’t done a Wingate 60, you should change that. Everyone should experience a Wingate and feel what really pushing max feels like. It’s suffering best experienced in a group.

[timonschneider]

One important thing: more O2 capacity to fight of illness is an extremely bold claim without any direct evidence. Everything else is true, the measure is a proxy for how much exercise you do and exercise creates all these positive effects for your health. Oxygen is not the mediating factor, it’s just a proxy.

[cress]

Simply learning to breathe through your nose when you exercise for up your VO 2 max. Heavy breathing pushes too much carbon dioxide out of your system. Without carbon dioxide oxygen doesn’t move around the body. Grip strength is correlated with your life expectancy too.

[freespiritwithnature]

My mother's never exercised in her life, and she's eaten healthy and no allergies. She's been 70 pounds overweight and 87 and not one single pill, no heart surgeries. Clean garden living.

[WillSavage]

The problem with this theory is that it when you assess the populations round the world who actually live the longest and healthiest lives, they aren’t all athletes who suck down protein shakes and deadlift every week. They’re humble people who eat mostly starchy foods and do a little bit of physical activity (walking, gardening etc) each and every day. They also have strong social groups. They’re not people with high VO2 max numbers and other good ‘performance’ metrics.

[TPQ]

Good to know. I've been hoping that my terrible aerobic capacity would shorten my life and here's the confirmation. Now, can you tell me how much it effects lifespan because I'm very tired of living in this horrific world run by the worst kinds of people. Thanks.

[ReeceMyBro]

Sleep. Diet. Oxygen. Sauna. Cold Exposure. 5 A Day. Fasting. No Sugar…

There are a million so called ways to live longer…

Yet I know someone who was extremely fit who collapsed and died at 50 and my girlfriends gran who is currently 97 who can walk stable, talk clearly and do maths equations within 3 seconds who has never done anything specific health wise with her life apart from no alcohol.


Obviously we should cut out the bad habits: alcohol, smoking, drugs, takeaways, KFC etc..

Do the good habits: exercise daily, eat clean, keep hydrated, reduce stress etc..


But even with all the above, we should all assume that we will only live until 70, even on an extremely good diet and lifestyle.

It’s a harsh reality check, but anything above that is a blessing.

[bigjim]

So the next question is, is there a tipping point where more exercise becomes detrimental.

I remember an old study done on endurance athletes with the minimum criteria of at least a 100 marathons in their career.
The study found fibrotic tissue and damage to the cardiac muscle of the heart in just over 50% of the athletes due to the amount of exercise they did.

I think top level cyclists were similar although Miguel Indurain was found to not have any issues.

[youdontknow]

As I watched this, I feel very sad. I used to play three sports. I always had a stomach but I had a ton of muscle. I still have some strength but I’m way overweight out of shape. It’s very frustrating.

[Justinegallows]

Mtor is more correlated with longevity. So is AMPK. So is what your overall dietary pattern.

[viktorgoa]

but there is no study where the ppl who live long have high VO2, is there?

[Fran-orlt]

Pretty sure the research would say otherwise. In fact I think for both men and women, healthy hormone levels and musclemass are the biggest predictors of helathy ageing. I.e factors preventing all cause mortality.

[MarcellHanson]

I don’t completely disagree. It is a metric useful to do exactly what he says know your VO2 maximum. I’ve had it done. I feel having a good grasp on what your HRV is is also very insightful of how responsive your autonomic nervous system is. How resilient you are to stress.
I like both and I am in the top 1% of people much younger than me in HRV and too 10% in VO2max. I also have a 100% sleep rating with whoop and track with a number of devices. I think several metrics are truly insightful and VO2max is one. 💪🏼

[-Rickster-]

And yet someone has also said that grip strength is the highest correlated longevity indicator

[ookiee]

Doesn’t take long for it to go down. I was I’ll for two weeks and mine went down considerably