Building strength and muscle mass: optimize training & nutrition for longevity (AMA #71 rebroadcast)

Hey everyone, welcome to the Drive Podcast. I'm your host, Peter Aia. [music]

Welcome to another Ask Me Anything episode with Dr. Peter Ailla, Stanford, educated physician. How you doing?

>> Thank you for that incredible introduction. I'm doing well and I I appreciate you having me back. I just wanted to make sure you knew it was your show, so I thought more of an introduction would make it feel more like home.

Um, [sighs] before we start today's topic, how's your day going? You learn anything new today? Have you uh been educated in any way?

>> Well, you're always learning, Nick. That's the thing. Uh, at least I think we should all try to be learning at all times. And uh today I had a a particularly fun day. I I went to my son's school uh to uh to take him lunch.

This is something that I I like to do once in a while is take lunch and eat with my kids. And um he wasn't really in the mood to have lunch with me today, which uh happens from time to time with seven-year-olds. So, I ended up just in the cafeteria sitting at a table all by myself eating lunch. Um, which in and of

itself was pretty funny cuz I really got a kick out of watching all the kids, you know, do doing their thing. But eventually a bunch of kids in his class, I think, felt bad for me and they came up and just sat around me and they started asking me a bunch of questions.

Um, which of course turned into me asking them more questions like what are they doing in PE? What are they learning in science? That kind of stuff. But the kid sitting right across from me noticed I was drinking a diet soda. And truthfully, I don't really drink that many. I'm mostly a Toppo Chico, you

know, Waterlue guy. But this was the first thing I grabbed. And he said, "Uh, huh, I noticed you're drinking whatever it was I was drinking, a fresca, actually. Um, you know that that has a sweetener in it that is 500 times sweeter than sugar?" And I said, "Oh, yeah. I I think that's how they get away

with making it have no calories. He goes, "You know that causes cancer, right?" I just decided at that moment probably not a good time to argue the the abundance of the human literature and the animal literature and all that. So, I I let that one go. But but I appreciated the conviction and his

concern for my health. He also pointed out afterwards that it wasn't going to kill you quickly because you were only ingesting so little of it, which I thought was a very astute comment for a seven-year-old. Uh, but anyway, needless to say, I had a lot of fun doing second grade lunch today and um I would be

interested in going back. I I do love it, especially because you've openly talked about how when you go to like parties and events where there are adults there, you usually don't explain what you do cuz you don't want to have those conversations. And I love the fact you went to the local