Peter Attia - Longevity Letdown?

I've been following Peter Attia for years.

I'm a paid subscriber so that I can listen to all his podcasts and have access to his show notes. I've read his book Outlive highlighting it like a textbook - seriously, it's full of my underlines, margin notes and little stars next to the parts I wanted to go back and implement into my daily routine.

How could I have ever guessed that he'd become the main topic of discussion after the Epstein files emails surfaces a few days ago?

I certainly didn't see that coming.

So now I’m left holding two things at once:

• gratitude for everything I actually learned from him that still helps me and the women I work with
• and a real sense of disappointment that the person delivering the message was willing to participate — even casually — in a world that objectified and dismissed women so easily.

I don’t want to throw the science out with the person. But I also don’t want to pretend the person doesn’t matter.

Different Kinds of Trust

One thing I've been thinking about is the different kinds of "contracts" we have with public figures.

When an actor or musician shares strong political opinions I disagree with, I can cringe, roll my eyes, and determine whether to watch their next movie or listen to their album if I like the work. I know they're playing a role on screen or stage — I never thought I was getting unfiltered access to their true character or moral compass. The transaction is lighter.

But with someone like Peter Attia, the contract felt different.

I paid for the podcast, read the book like a textbook, highlighted passages, changed habits, recommended him to others, and let his voice shape how I thought about health, aging, discipline, and responsibility. He wasn't playing a character. He was presenting himself — the real doctor, the real thinker, the real human applying these principles to his own life.

So when those emails surfaced — casual, crude, spanning years of friendly contact with someone we all now associate with profound moral failure — it didn't feel like "just politics" or "just an opinion." It felt like a breach of a different kind of trust. The person I thought I was learning from turned out to have sides that make it hard to square with the framework he was selling.

That dissonance is what stings.

I can still use zone 2 training, prioritize protein, do resistance training, fix my sleep — those things are true independent of who first explained them well. But the teacher? That relationship has changed. The pedestal is gone.

And maybe that's the lesson: no expert gets a lifetime contract. We can keep the tools and release the guru.

Lesson in Self Trust

So here I am — still grateful for the knowledge, still disappointed in the man.
I’m not going to delete the episodes or toss the book. The tools still work. They belong to the body, not to any one person.

What I am doing is moving the source of authority back where it always should have been: inside my own experience, my own body’s signals, my own conversations with women who show up honest and real.

No more automatic pedestals.
Just clearer discernment, a little more self-forgiveness, and the daily decision to keep choosing what actually helps me live better.

This is my experience and where I’m standing today.
Your experience might look different — and that’s okay. We each get to decide what we keep, what we release, and how we walk forward.

In the meantime, let's flourish forward anyway.