[kqr]

I recently read Attia's Outlive which is about what sort of lifestyle makes one more resilient against diseases of old age.

I'm not in a position to verify more than a few of the factual claims made by the author (and a lot of it sounds like mumbo-jumbo), but it was persuasive enough to get me to exercise for health (instead of performance at a specific event) and my life has gotten much easier since I came to that realisation. Maybe I would have done so eventually without the book, but I'm glad the book sped the process up.

[lotsofpulp]

>it was persuasive enough to get me to exercise for health

Why was this one guy more persuasive than the recommendation of basically every medical organization in the world?

Also, his correspondence with Epstein is quite damning.

[kqr]

Mainly that the advice was more structured, maybe?

Note that I was exercising before, only I didn't do it for health. But I also didn't suffer from any obvious problems. What I got out of every medical organisation in the world then is "You're fine. Don't worry about it."

I was probably fine, but I'm even more fine now; I'm capable of doing more of the things I enjoy.

[lotsofpulp]

> What I got out of every medical organisation in the world then is "You're fine. Don't worry about it."

This is alien to me, because for at least 50 years now, heart disease and diabetes has been at the forefront of basically every developed country’s health problems, for which the only solution proposed by all health authorities has been to eat less and healthier, and to do cardiovascular exercise almost every day. Even from elementary school, I remember being taught in gym or health class that being active and exercising was necessary for long term health.

[Levitz]

I think there's a bit of a "marketing" failure happening in this context.

I've been exercising for most of my life, I'm the guy that has been going to the gym since forever to many of my acquaintances, and so they have often talked to me about how they want to start exercising or how they are doing etc.

Nobody, and I mean nobody has ever said anything like "I'm so happy to decrease my risk of diabetes". My father stopped smoking and started riding a bike, motivated by cardiovascular health, what actually makes him happy though is to be able to go up the stairs without breaking into a sweat.

Ask anyone in a gym why they exercise, they will talk about health, just not in the way doctors do. The stick of "You will die in 20 years rather than 35" pales in comparison of the carrot of "you will feel better basically all the time"