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Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
November 2025 Issue 29
November 2025 Issue 29
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If you’ve been around West Egg Living for a while, you already know this: We don’t just want to add years to life — we want to add life to our years. That’s why I picked up Dr. Peter Attia’s book Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity.
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Issue 29- Overview of the Book Outlive teaches that longevity isn’t just about living longer—it’s about staying strong, sharp, and independent as we age. This overview introduces Attia’s core ideas on proactive health, the Four Horsemen of disease, and why the choices we make now shape the life we get to live later.
Issue 30 - Setting the Long Game Part 1 of the book challenges us to stop thinking in “one-year health goals” and start planning for the strength, mobility, and independence we want decades from now. This issue explains how to build a long-range strategy for aging well by training today for the abilities we’ll need at 80, 90, and beyond.
Issue 31 - The Four Horsemen Part 2 reveals the four main threats that silently shorten most lives: heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic dysfunction. This issue breaks down why these “Four Horsemen” matter—and what we can start doing now to outlive them.
Issue 32 - Tactics & Tools of Longevity Part 3 moves from theory to action, outlining the daily habits, measurements, and lifestyle levers that have the greatest impact on extending healthspan. This issue focuses on the four big drivers of longevity—exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health—and how to start applying them with purpose and precision.
Welcome to Issue 29 of Wellness Wisdom!
Overview of the Book
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Dr. Peter Attia
Overview of the Book
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Dr. Peter Attia
Welcome to The Longevity Series
What This Book Is Really About
5 Big Ideas Introduced in the Book
West Egg Translation
Small Action Step of the Week
What’s Coming Next Week
Poll of the Week
Fit After 50 Blueprint
🥚 Welcome to The Longevity Series
🥚 Welcome to The Longevity Series
If you’ve been around West Egg Living for a while, you already know this: We don’t just want to add years to life — we want to add life to our years.
That’s why I picked up Dr. Peter Attia’s book Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity.
At age 67, I’m not training for a number on a calendar — I’m training so I can pick up grandkids, travel with Pam, and still get up off the floor without bracing on the furniture.
This book isn’t another “eat kale, live forever” book.
It’s a complete re-imagining of how we approach health after 50.
Over the next four weeks, we’re going to walk through its biggest lessons — West Egg style.
📘 What This Book Is Really About
📘 What This Book Is Really About
Longevity is not luck.
Longevity is a strategy.
Attia argues that modern healthcare waits too long. We treat disease after it arrives — when it’s already stolen a decade of life, mobility, or memory.
He calls that Medicine 2.0.
Reactive. Late. Symptom-focused.
His solution?
Medicine 3.0 — proactive, personalized, prevention-focused health.
The core question of the book is:
“How do we stay strong, sharp, and independent into our 90s and beyond?”
And that’s not just a medical question — it’s a lifestyle design question.
🧠 5 Big Ideas Introduced in the Book
🧠 5 Big Ideas Introduced in the Book
1️⃣ Healthspan > Lifespan
It’s not just how long you live — but how long you can move, think, remember, love, climb stairs, laugh, hug, walk, and play.
2️⃣ The Centenarian Decathlon
Think of the “events” you want to be able to do at age 90–100:
✔️ Carry groceries upstairs
✔️ Lift a grandchild
✔️ Walk a mile
✔️ Get off the ground without help
If you want that later, you must train for it now.
3️⃣ The Four Horsemen
The four diseases most likely to shorten our lives:
🫀 Heart disease
🧠 Neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer’s, dementia)
🦠 Cancer
⚠️ Metabolic dysfunction (diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance)
4️⃣ The Earlier You Act, the More Life You Get Back
Most diseases begin 10–15 years before symptoms appear.
5️⃣ Your Doctor Can’t Want Your Health More Than You Do You are the CEO of your health. Your doctor is a consultant — not the driver.
🟢 West Egg Translation
🟢 West Egg Translation
Attia Principle West Egg Pillar
Train for your future self 🟩 Wellness
Think long-term, plan backward 📘 Wisdom
Health is a form of wealth 💰 Wealth
Live long enough to love well ❤️ Relations
✨ 3 Takeaways You Can Use Today
✨ 3 Takeaways You Can Use Today
1. Longevity is a choice — but only if you make it early.
2. Your muscles, metabolism, and memory are all on a timer — unless you resist decline.
3. You are not too old — you are just at the perfect age to get serious.
🛠️ Small Action Step of the Week
🛠️ Small Action Step of the Week
Write down 10 physical abilities you want to still have at age 90. That becomes your Centenarian Decathlon.
Need ideas? Here are five:
• Get up off the ground without using your hands
• Carry two 20-lb grocery bags
• Walk a mile without stopping
• Lift a 30-lb grandchild
• Climb a flight of stairs while holding something
This is not fantasy. It is training.
📅 What’s Coming Next Week
📅 What’s Coming Next Week
➡️ Week 2: Setting the Long Game
We’ll talk about mindset, longevity planning, and what it means to “front-load the effort.”
🗳️ Poll of the Week
🗳️ Poll of the Week
Which pillar of longevity do you feel strongest in?
🔘 Exercise
🔘 Nutrition
🔘 Sleep
🔘 Emotional health
Fit After 50 Blueprint
Fit After 50 Blueprint
If you’re not exercising yet, now’s a good time to start. Because it’s never too late to build strength, or protect what matters most. If you still have questions about how to get started, check out our Fit After 50 Blueprint.
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I love the video on this one.
I will try dinking water every hourr like I am trying to go 250 steps each hour.. Encouraging idea.
This is great information. I love the new layout. I cannot wait for the next edition!!!
Thanks Riaan.
Great article!