Peter Attia, the controversial wellness influencer and a recent addition toCBS News' contributors, is frequently mentioned in thelatest batch of Epstein files.
Attia is reportedly mentioned in a new heap of documents from its investigation ofconvicted sex offender Jeffrey Epsteinover 1,700 times, according toVarietyand others, including crude exchanges with Epstein about female genitalia and emails that suggest the self-proclaimed longevity expert may have been with Epstein while his wife was alone with their son in the hospital after a nearly fatal incident. Other emails suggest the doctor discussed longevity with the financier.
USA TODAY has reached out to Attia and CBS News for comment.
In one particularly crass email to the convicted sexual predator from 2016, Attia joked that female genitalia is "indeed, low carb. Still awaiting results on gluten content, though."
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Other emails note an appointment between Attia and an unknown associate on July 13, 2017, while emails between Epstein and his longtime assistant and planner Leslie Groff confirm a meeting with Attia for the same afternoon. The dates would have been around the time of an incident the wellness coach wrote about in his 2022 book "Outlive," in which he admonishes himself for not being by his wife and son's side after the month-old baby suddenly stopped breathing.
"In reality, I was out of control. I wasn't just some garden variety road raging maniac either. A few months earlier, on Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at 5:45 to be exact, I had received a call from Jill, my wife. She was in an ambulance with our infant son … on the way to the hospital," Attia wrote. "For some reason, he had suddenly stopped breathing and fallen unconscious. His eyes were completely rolled back in their sockets, and he was lifeless and blue, with no heartbeat."
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His son had begun breathing a short time later, but was still being held in the hospital for four days, all the while his wife "pleaded with me to come home. I called in daily to talk to the doctors and discuss each day's test results, but I stayed in New York, busy with my, quote, important work."
He added: "I feel nauseous about my behavior. I can't believe I did that to my family. I can't believe what a blind, selfish, checked out husband and father I was."
The Canadian doctor and "The Peter Attia Drive" podcast host was named a paid contributor to CBS News by Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, days before theDOJ released 3 million new Epstein documentson Friday, Jan. 30.
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