Medicine 3.0
Medicine 3.0 is a term described and popularized by Dr. Peter Attia, an innovative and influential Longevity Medicine Physician. It represents a potential future state of healthcare that differs fundamentally from the current medical paradigm.
Key Characteristics
- Goal: Keep diseases from developing by preventing or managing the causes of disease
- Approach: “Proactive medicine”
- Primary Tactics: Focus on “lifestyle factors” such as exercise, nutrition, sleep, and stress management, with limited use of drugs, hormones, and supplements
- Time Horizon: Extends for decades or a lifetime
- Effectiveness Measures: Broader approach to determining the benefit of interventions, integrating all available evidence balanced against the risk of no action
- Patient Involvement: Patient takes a much more active role (captain of their “health ship”)
Resources
You can find more detailed information in Dr. Attia’s book Outlive, on his website peterattiamd.com, or on his podcast The Drive.