Peter Attia· MD
if you look at like you you were talking about some of these elite elite athletes right I mean like people winning the Tour de France and uh people that are Olympic medalists or maybe that have even just entered the Olympics I mean you have to be quite an athlete to just get into the Olympics right and there's been a lot of interesting studies quite a quite a few um that I have seen and you know this is these are studies where um you know observational data again um so obvious obviously caveat with that looking at people um that have just entered the Olympics and you know over the course of like from 1912 to 2010 or something like that like you know just decades and looked at all cause mortality cancer-related mortality and compared it to like the general population so there's a couple of studies that have come out of the U.S and if you look at you know both of those studies one of them was actually looking at medalists and the other one was just looking at people that like were in entered the Olympics um they they saved about one and a half to two years like in in other words they were of life from not getting cancer and about five to six of just basically they they had a five to six year um what you could call lifespan extension compared to the general population