Dr. Peter Diamandis
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I'm getting more chronic fatigue.
How do I switch the mindset?
So when I talk about this with my Abundance community, my Fountain Life members, I'm saying, okay, listen, in your mind, there is a number. Each of us have a number of how long I'm going to live. Like it or not, You've got a number, right? And that number comes from someplace. It comes from, you know, your parents, your grandparents, the Bible, society, what you heard on CNN or whatever.
And you're tracking towards that number. I remember when I taught my nieces how to ride a bike, we were on a tennis court that didn't have a net. And there were two poles. in the court, right? And they kept on hitting the polls. And I'm like, what's going on here? It's like, you have to tie a tennis court here. You go around it. Yeah, yeah. It's because that's where they were looking.
That's where they were focusing. And so if you got a number that says, my dad made it to 80, 85, I hope I can make it there. Or the oldest person in my family was 75, so I hope I can make it there. you're gonna hit that number. And so you need to let go of that and getting you number.
Maybe. My medicines may be better. Right, exactly.
You know what? Let me provide context here. The average human lifespan for most of human existence for homo sapiens is 30. Wow. Right? So you and I'd be dead a while ago. Right.
So to frame this, and again, I talk about this, and I'm trying to provide the construct, mental construct, to change people's belief about what's possible for them, which is the number one thing to do, because if you believe it's different, you're then going to take these next steps, which make these things different for you.
So number one, 100,000, 200,000 years ago, before birth control, right, you were pregnant at age 12 or 13. Wow. It just was the case. And we actually, puberty's moved later over these last few hundred thousand years. Number two, by the time you were 26, 27, 28, you were a grandparent. Wow. Amazing. And before food was abundant, before we had McDonald's and Whole Foods, it was scarce.
And the worst thing you could do if you wanted to perpetuate your species was stay alive and steal food from your grandchildren's mouths. So you would die. Wow. Right. So this evolutionary context is important here. And if you look at the human body, we peak in functional biological age at around 27, and it's a slow decrease. What does that mean?
It means our immune system begins to decrease in its power. We become immuno-exhausted. Our muscle mass comes down. We have sarcopenia, right? So last year, I went heads down to add 10 pounds of muscle mass, right? And working out every day, making it. Now my job is I got what I wanted. Now it's to maintain it. And I think about that a lot.
Thank you.
And you look amazing. Thank you. And these are creating habits in your life. Okay, so first context here evolutionarily is it's downhill after call it 30. Your hormones, your metabolism, everything is dropping because there was never any reason to maintain it. You were dead.
Second thing, so understanding that is important, that you've gotta say, I refuse to let that be the case, and I'm gonna do everything I can to change it. But you need some motivational hooks going forward. What's that? First of all, should realize that there are species of whales on earth, the bowhead whale, that can live for 200 years. That's crazy. It's amazing, right?
They have found whales with harpoons in them and been able to carbon date... Come on. Yes. That is fascinating. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. And then Greenland sharks can live to 500 years old and have babies at 200 years old. That's nuts. Yeah, it is crazy. But we're humans, we're not whales. We're not whales, we're not sharks. But the point I'm saying is that
these large mammals in case they can live that long. There's a proof case. The second thing to realize is there are people who live routinely in good neurocognitive and cardiovascular health and metabolic health till over a hundred. They're sharp, they're at work, they're capable, they're motivated. You pull up still, all that stuff. Yeah. Why can they and why can't others? There's a reason.
It's not random, right? And so we're beginning to discover that. We're beginning to discover what's the underlying metabolic, genetic, all of those things. And we now have the tools to edit those things and change them. I think that's the important, if we understand why something exists and then how to transform what you've been given to match that, we can begin to see an extension of healthspan.
I... I never thought about... Listen, I went to medical school. I was at MIT as an undergrad studying molecular biology. And then I went to Harvard for medical school to make my parents happy. I had promised them I would do this. But then my fourth year of medical school, I had two companies that I was running, a rocket company and a space university.
And I thought about longevity to some degree, but it was not my driver. And I was focused on space. And I was focused on opening the space frontier. And then I was focused on, through the XPRIZE and Singularity University, focused on solving grand challenges. And it was really the last decade that I'm like, oh, my God, the biggest grand challenge is can we extend the healthy human lifespan, right?
The greatest wealth is your health. I love the saying, the man or woman who has their health has a thousand dreams. The man or woman who does not has but one. Yes. And it's so true. And so I started saying, oh my God, this, I love impact. I love, how can I change lives? How can I support and uplift? And helping people see this future and see what is possible for them for me is my goal.
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