But imagine you’re trying to sue a company that has wronged you. You need someone to order and check those labs, and you may need prescriptions as a result. But there is a big chunk of this that does require a physician. Nutrition, sleep, the emotional-health stuff - you don’t need an M.D. The exercise - you don’t need a doctor for that. says, contrary to you, “Nah, we don’t need to get into the weeds of your glucose levels and lipids.” Then what? How do people operationalize Medicine 3.0 in a world of Medicine 2.0 doctors? Some of the work you can do on your own. Then they go to their general practitioner, and their G.P. Let’s say someone reads your book and decides that they want to pursue a Medicine 3.0 approach to health.

As such, we have to accept the fact that it might take work to get it right.” “When you’re at the end of your life, if your health has failed you, no amount of money is going to buy that back,” says Attia, who is 50. How exactly? Not through any techno-fantasies of biohacking or wonder-drug supplements but largely with highly rigorous, detailed and personalized monitoring and treatment of our nutrition, sleep, exercise and mental health.

(Those chronic diseases are heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and related neurodegenerative diseases and Type 2 diabetes and related metabolic dysfunction.) Medicine 3.0, though, aims to proactively prevent those things for as long as possible and allow us to maintain better health deeper into old age. In his telling, Medicine 2.0 is oriented toward addressing the four chronic diseases of aging that will probably be the cause of most of our deaths, but only after they become problems. In the book, Attia distinguishes between standard medical thinking, what he calls Medicine 2.0, and his approach, Medicine 3.0. Peter Attia’s book, “Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity,” which he wrote with Bill Gifford and has been a runaway best seller since it was published this spring. But what if we’re still thinking about the subject of living better for longer all wrong? That’s the premise of Dr. Modern medicine has been a miracle for healthy aging.

Vendetta by Peter David