Dr. Peter Diamandis

My mission in writing this book is to get the knowledge out there. Tony Robbins and I wrote a book, 700 pages, that was an extraordinary book. It was number one in the New York Times for, I think, like six weeks. but it's hard for people to consume a 700-page book. And I've made this longevity guidebook as something that is consumable and it's a manual, it's a how-to.

My mission in writing this book is to get the knowledge out there. Tony Robbins and I wrote a book, 700 pages, that was an extraordinary book. It was number one in the New York Times for, I think, like six weeks. but it's hard for people to consume a 700-page book. And I've made this longevity guidebook as something that is consumable and it's a manual, it's a how-to.

It's like, okay, I gotta remind myself on sleep or diet or exercise or mindset. And I've laid it out in that way, where it's something you pick up and utilize. So what's different today, right?

It's like, okay, I gotta remind myself on sleep or diet or exercise or mindset. And I've laid it out in that way, where it's something you pick up and utilize. So what's different today, right?

So I think that we're living in a time where AI is going to make a massive difference and a whole slew of biotechnology capabilities like single cell sequencing, CRISPR, gene therapies, all these exotic things you hear about are technologies that are going to become available to us in a decade ahead.

So I think that we're living in a time where AI is going to make a massive difference and a whole slew of biotechnology capabilities like single cell sequencing, CRISPR, gene therapies, all these exotic things you hear about are technologies that are going to become available to us in a decade ahead.

One of my mentors and dear friends, Ray Kurzweil, right, who wrote The Singularity is Nearer, Singularity is Nearer, he proposed a concept years ago called longevity escape velocity. What's that? And so longevity escape velocity is the idea that today, for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for about a quarter to a third of a year.

One of my mentors and dear friends, Ray Kurzweil, right, who wrote The Singularity is Nearer, Singularity is Nearer, he proposed a concept years ago called longevity escape velocity. What's that? And so longevity escape velocity is the idea that today, for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for about a quarter to a third of a year.

But there's going to be a point that for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And the question is, when is that going to happen? And so Ray's prediction, and if you Google Ray's predictions, it's like he's got an 86% accuracy rate, which is pretty extraordinary.

But there's going to be a point that for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And the question is, when is that going to happen? And so Ray's prediction, and if you Google Ray's predictions, it's like he's got an 86% accuracy rate, which is pretty extraordinary.

On all of his predictions, like when we're going to have AI, when we're going to have these robots, when we're going to have nanotechnology. His prediction on longevity escape velocity is by the end of the year 2030.

On all of his predictions, like when we're going to have AI, when we're going to have these robots, when we're going to have nanotechnology. His prediction on longevity escape velocity is by the end of the year 2030.

That's when we're supposed to reach this... That if you're in reasonably good shape and you have reasonable affluence, not like rich, reasonable abilities, that you'll reach this longevity escape velocity. So I speak to all the scientists I know about this. And folks like George Church and David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School, when I query them about this, their answer is by the mid-2030s.

That's when we're supposed to reach this... That if you're in reasonably good shape and you have reasonable affluence, not like rich, reasonable abilities, that you'll reach this longevity escape velocity. So I speak to all the scientists I know about this. And folks like George Church and David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School, when I query them about this, their answer is by the mid-2030s.

But here's the point, right? It's not... You know, it's not 50 years from now or 30 years from now. It's a decade. It's the next 15 years. So our job between now and then is to keep ourselves in reasonably good health. And we'll talk about that and not die from something stupid.

But here's the point, right? It's not... You know, it's not 50 years from now or 30 years from now. It's a decade. It's the next 15 years. So our job between now and then is to keep ourselves in reasonably good health. And we'll talk about that and not die from something stupid.

And we had dipped during COVID, obviously, and now we're coming back up. But it's not that much still. It isn't. It isn't. And it's measuring everybody. versus people who are focused on taking care of themselves. One of the biggest issues is we're killing ourselves by what we eat. I mean, we can dive into diet. It's, you know, the number one thing is people's overconsumption of sugar. Yes.

And we had dipped during COVID, obviously, and now we're coming back up. But it's not that much still. It isn't. It isn't. And it's measuring everybody. versus people who are focused on taking care of themselves. One of the biggest issues is we're killing ourselves by what we eat. I mean, we can dive into diet. It's, you know, the number one thing is people's overconsumption of sugar. Yes.

The human body never evolved to eat as much sugar as we do. It was not something that was plentiful. You have to remember our biology evolved 100,000, 200,000 years ago in the savannas of Africa. And we haven't changed our biology over the last 200,000 years. And so you have to remember what was life like back then? Well... We were hunters and foragers.

The human body never evolved to eat as much sugar as we do. It was not something that was plentiful. You have to remember our biology evolved 100,000, 200,000 years ago in the savannas of Africa. And we haven't changed our biology over the last 200,000 years. And so you have to remember what was life like back then? Well... We were hunters and foragers.