The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s conversation with physician and longevity expert Peter Attia about the benefits of exercise, even from just three hours a week. You can listen to or watch the full podcast episode on DailyWire+.
Start time: 04:07
Jordan Peterson: A long while back I was looking at interventions to improve people’s lives, and I knew at that point cognitive decline was a major problem, especially in terms of productivity and general competence. It is a pretty pronounced linear downhill trend on the fluid intelligence front from about the age of 25 forward, and that can decline precipitously in the late 70s and early 80s, especially with the onset of degenerative neurological diseases. I was looking at the literature on cognitive remediation. This was about 10 or 15 years ago when there were a lot of online sites that purported to run…
