Dr. Peter Diamandis
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first heard Dec 2024
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So their health span, they're healthy up until 60, and then it's a decrease from there. And you have to realize that you're trading these things all the time. And so if you wanna have, I mean, my goal for myself and for those I love is to live a life where I've got the vitality, the energy, the cognition, looking good, feeling good, moving well, you know, from now through 100.
And then during these next, I'm 63 today, right? Over these next 37 years, we're going to have so many breakthroughs coming, right? Science doesn't stand still. We forget that it's moving at this exponential speed. And my job is to keep myself in the best health I can to intercept the breakthroughs that are coming that will give you the next decade and the next decade.
So most people know me as a technologist in AI or biotech or space rockets where I spent my first years. The last decade, I have been truly focused on longevity as one of the largest markets. I have a $600 million venture fund in that area and written a few books, started a number of companies. We'll talk about perhaps Fountain Life.
A few years ago, I was on stage at the Vatican to bring it back to spirituality. And so it sounds like a joke, but I'm on stage in the Vatican with a alderman, a rabbi, a cardinal, myself, And we're having the title of the panel was the morality of immortality. Interesting, right? Very. And I flipped it to the immorality of mortality. And so that was our conversation.
And the rabbi there gave this amazing historical overview of human lifespan. And he said, yes, we had Methuselah and all of these people living to 700, 800, 900 years. And then something happened where humans sinned irreparably with God. And God said, you shall have no more than 120 years. And this is in the Bible. Really?
And what's amazing is up until now, the longest lived human is 122 years old. Wow. And we have people, you know, typically these super centenarians who are making it from 110 to 120 years. And so it's interesting that the Bible actually called out 120 years. I find that pretty extraordinary. Why do you think that is? Maybe that was their experience back then. Maybe they're prophetic. Who knows?
I don't know. But I remember saying, okay, listen, if we're promised by the Bible 120 years, I'm fine taking that 120 years. Give me that 120, yeah, yeah. And then we'll renegotiate after that. So listen, spirituality, I'm gonna take it slightly different and talk about mindset, right? Because you love mindset, I love mindset. I love the work that you do.
And when I listen to your show, it's around mindsets. And as it turns out, mindset, which is connected to spirituality, yes, is one of the most powerful forces in you living a healthy, long life. It truly is. And here's the numbers. There was a study done and reported – actually, I've got it here – reported the National Academy of Sciences, right?
The Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, like one of the most prestigious journals. And it said in a study of 69,744 women – And 1,429 men, it's one of the only studies that had more women than men, published in the National Academy of Sciences, it was found that optimistic people lived as much as 15% longer than pessimists. Isn't that interesting? I find that fascinating.
And I do think that is true. I think that is about our mindset, our belief of mind over matter. And so, you know, people tell me you're optimistic. Yeah, I got double benefit from being optimistic. Sure. I love life. I love every minute of it.
Let me, one of the things I opened the book with that I want people to realize there's a couple of things, if I could lay these down as cornerstones. The first is you're born with 3.2 billion letters from your mom and 3.2 billion letters from your dad. And that's your software you're running. You're running it at age zero, at age 20, at age 50, 80, hopefully at 100.
And so if you're running the same software, why do you look different, right? Why don't you have a six pack at 100 that you had when you were 18? And it turns out it's not the genes you have, right? We have some 20 to 22,000 genes inside of that genome. It's what genes are on, what genes are off. That is your epigenome.
It's epi from the Greek word for above, and it's controlling which genes are on and off as you age. And the control of those genes do two things. It says, okay, we're gonna turn these genes on in your skin cell, these genes on in your neuron, these genes on your hepatocyte, your liver cell. And so cell type is controlled, but also as we grow older,
These genes, some get turned on that shouldn't be on, some get turned off that shouldn't be off, and that is aging. And what's been proven in the last, I say this is work done over the last five years, is that we can reverse your epigenetic age.
biological age well it's it's yeah you can call it your biological age very specifically i'm saying the epigenome like your genes are are the keys on a piano right all those genes are there and when you're playing a song you're playing certain genes and as you get older The song starts to blur and the wrong keys are being hit and such, and that's your epigenome.
And can you reverse it back where the song being played is correct? And a number of things impact our epigenome. It is your mindset, definitively mind over body. It is your environment. It is very much exercise. It's sugar. It's what you eat. It's sleep.
And so when people talk about reversing their age, right, and this is something I've been focused on doing for myself, there are a number of things that can reverse your age to a younger epigenetic age. And those are the things I talk about in the book. It is exercise, sleep, diet, the supplements and meds you take, your mindset, your habits. It sounds really expensive to take care of yourself.
It's not economically expensive. There are some things that are expensive for sure. But you know, one thing I want everyone to take away from this conversation today is here are a number of things you can do effectively for free that can make a big difference, but you're not gonna do them unless you're motivated, right? It's all about that motivation. And the motivation here
should be, if I can keep myself in reasonably good health the next decade, there's this massive benefit that's gonna be paid out. And so I don't wanna be the last person to die before you reach longevity escape. Yeah, right. I mean, you had,
They don't have the role models, they're not in the wrong environment. Everything.
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