Dr. Peter Diamandis
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first heard Dec 2024
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Another company that you and I are both fans of, Xterra Medical, is fabulous. So here's a technology coming out of DARPA years ago and developed jointly in Sweden in this blood filtration system that has got 40 square meters, about the size of a tennis court, worth of this material called a glycocalyx. that filters out all viruses, all bacteria, all circulating cancer cells. I mean, amazing.
And there's a very real phenomenon people don't talk about called immuno-exhaustion. I don't know if you've heard of that term. I can understand what it means. As we grow older, we have been burdened
with all of these different viral infections, besides COVID, maybe you have Epstein-Barr virus, maybe you have cytomegalovirus, maybe you have a multitude of other viruses that you're, they're not active, they're in your body. And on occasion when you get run down or stressed, they start coming out and your immune system needs to fight
all these viruses and cancer, and it's the same innate immune system, your natural killer cells. And so it can become overloaded. It can become exhausted. Yes. And so one of the things I like about Xthera Medical, and we're rolling that out through Fountain as well. I saw that. Yeah, Fountain, you get a 15K discount on the blood filter systems if you're a Fountain member, which I'm proud of.
It's the ability to filter out all of these pathogens and give your immune system a deep breath. Yeah. A chance to, okay, now we're going after you.
Is that Dr. Mink Chawla? Yeah. Yeah, Dr. Chawla. He's brilliant. Oh, he's so brilliant.
People need to understand your body is always producing cancers. There's something called the Hayflick limit that a cell divides 50 times and then should have the decency to die. But sometimes it becomes an inflammatory cell, a grouchy old man cell, a senile cell. Senescent, yeah. Other times it becomes a cancer. And when that happens, your innate immune system, your NK natural killer cells,
typically detect it and kill it. But sometimes it evades those and they become a cancer.
work i mean your upside is at least that it's not very likely and by the way it's probably going to help you if not under directly in the cancer it will help you on getting rid of your viral loads it's about really giving your immune system a chance to take a breath and and defend you You know, one of the things we're very proud of, I'd like to mention, is our HealthSpan prize.
Yeah, this is fascinating. Yeah. So folks who don't know me from the XPRIZE perspective, 30 years ago, hard to believe, I launched our first $10 million prize. So I offered up $10 million for the first person who could build a private spaceship, go to 100 kilometers, land, and make the trip again with the same ship within two weeks.
This was way before SpaceX and Blue Origin and space was not a common conversation. And the idea of commercial space didn't exist. An amazing woman, Anusha Ansari, who's now the CEO, I serve as chairman of the XPRIZE, put up the 10 million for a family. I put up the first, you know, I don't know, I didn't have that much money back then, the first 100,000 or so. And it worked.
And on the heels of the X Prize getting won, the first one in 2004, I was able to attract Elon Musk on my board, Larry Page, James Cameron. It's like, you know, everybody loves a winner. And so we turned the foundation into an organization that was launching large scale global competitions. And we're saying, I don't care where you went to school, what you've ever done.
If you demonstrate and solve this problem, you win the money. So we've launched 30 prizes, about $550 million of competitions, driving close to $8 billion in R&D. And this is not like a Nobel Prize that you award somebody for something done 30 years ago or 10 years ago.
This is a prize where we say, okay, the first person to do this, it was modeled after the prize that Lindbergh won flying from New York to Paris. It was a $25,000 prize offered for the first person to fly. Nine teams made the effort. Lindbergh won. Wow. I did not know that. And so we've launched 30 prizes, mapping the ocean floor, pulling water out of the atmosphere.
Let's see, five years ago, I got Elon to fund $100 million carbon extraction prize, which will be awarded this coming April for pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere and out of the oceans at mass. It's an amazing prize. Wow. I'd love to know what the hell that technology works. Yeah. Well, you'll find out. Okay.
In January of 2020, Elon became the most wealthiest person on the planet, and he was getting a lot of crap for not being philanthropic. So I texted him. I said, why don't you fund an XPRIZE? He says, what do you have in mind? I said, how about one around carbon? He said, how much? I said, 100 million. He said, he wrote back, sure.
i love you and then a month a month later we were assigned and he put up the money so that's great so for the last five years i was like there's got to be a prize and uh uh in the longevity space and um We ended up designing a prize, you know, folks like George Church and David Sinclair, Ray Kurzweil. I'm blanking on his name. Aubrey de Grey, who really was the first person to prompt me on this.
And we designed this prize and I raised $141 million. And this is a prize that was launched a year ago. And to win this, you need to demonstrate a therapeutic they could deliver in one year. So imagine someone comes to you, I'm going to give you, Gary, for a year, we're going to give you this therapy. And the impact is going to be that your cognitive, immune, and muscle will be 20 years younger.
Wow. Right? So we're not looking at your epigenetic age or anything like that. What we're looking at is how do you feel? Do you have the ability to build muscle, maintain muscle as strong and capable as you did 20 years earlier? Do you have the cognitive span of memory? Do you have the immune function to mount a reaction to a... And how are you measuring that? Just immune markers?
No, we'll do an immune challenge. We'll give you a vaccine and how well do you mount a response to that? And it's functional. It's using functional endpoints instead of just markers. And so I'm really excited about it because I think that's what really matters. Yeah, I think so too. Do you feel younger? Are you functioning in a younger state versus, oh, look at my printout.
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