Peter Attia· MD
we've solved all of the infectious problems that gave us most our longevity gains way back in the day we figured out that you shouldn't drink out of your sewer and we learn to wash our hands and we've got great antibiotics
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
we've solved all of the infectious problems that gave us most our longevity gains way back in the day we figured out that you shouldn't drink out of your sewer and we learn to wash our hands and we've got great antibiotics
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there really hasn't been a step function change in human longevity probably since the introduction of sanitation I mean everything has been quite incremental