Peter Attia

Impact

Peter Attia is a physician and public communicator on longevity medicine. He founded Early Medical, a practice that, in its own description, applies what he calls "Medicine 3.0" with the aim of lengthening both lifespan and healthspan, and hosts the podcast The Peter Attia Drive, which features long-form interviews with researchers and clinicians on exercise, nutrition, sleep, emotional health and disease prevention. He is the author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, listed on his site as a #1 New York Times bestseller, and publishes a weekly newsletter and premium research articles. He received his MD from Stanford University School of Medicine, trained for five years in general surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and spent two years as a surgical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute working on immune-based therapies for melanoma. He is based in Austin, Texas.

Metrics

• 1,040,000 subscribers on YouTube as of 2026-09-23 source ↗

Research output

49 works · 6,358 citations · h-index 19 OpenAlex ↗

Selected publications

• Data-driven prediction of battery cycle life before capacity degradation ↗ 2019 · 3,190 citations
• Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning ↗ 2020 · 1,172 citations
• Review—“Knees” in Lithium-Ion Battery Aging Trajectories ↗ 2022 · 488 citations
• Evolution of the Solid–Electrolyte Interphase on Carbonaceous Anodes Visualized by Atomic-Resolution Cryogenic Electron Microscopy ↗ 2019 · 198 citations
• Predicting the impact of formation protocols on battery lifetime immediately after manufacturing ↗ 2021 · 175 citations

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