From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 7:17 AM To: Peter Attia Subject: Re: JASON . i have 20 minutes now. lets chat if you are free On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Peter Atti wrote: Think Bruce Lee: extract what is useful, disregard what is useless. I think you're taking the examples too literally. We can do much better than the long lived societies today because we have more than they do on most fonts—drugs, hormones, greater sense of purpose—but they have a few things we didn't and that's what we need to "extract" in insight. Chief among them is what they ate. The problem I'm trying to solve, as unemotionally and undogmatically as possible, is how to hack all of the variables to maximize lifespan in the constraints of maximum healthspan. From: Jeffrey E. [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 4:35 AM To: Peter Attia Subject: Re: JASON thanks, i had to laugh, your examples of long living socieites appears to bolster my arguement that it might be inversely proportional to cognitive skills. . those tribes stand out from the rest of the world as the most backward. maybe ignorance is not only bliss but you live longer in it. its not your darkened room of 150 years example , but its pretty close 2 EFTA_R1_01334507 EFTA02353721