Dr. Peter Diamandis
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And It's something that wakes you up in the morning, keeps you going through the night. It's what longevity connects with, right? Having a purpose and a future bigger than your past. And my massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future for humanity.
So my job through the XPRIZE, through Singularity, through all of this is how to help entrepreneurs go big and bold in the world. Yeah. Yeah.
To be my ultimate self is to put it all out, leave nothing in reserve. It's being true to myself, authentic to myself. It is playing all out on my mission and purpose in life. It's being a good person. It's knowing that I have left this planet better than I came into it. I mean, those are the elements and, and to make that happen, I need to have the best physical health I have. Yes. Right.
To, you know, cause I'm, I'm going 24 seven with my eight hours of sleep in there. Yeah. And I'm just, I feel blessed to be alive. This is the most magical time ever in human history. Gosh, I do too. Right. One of my favorite slides I use in presentations is a slide that, that the title is our ancestors would view us as gods.
I mean, just reflect on that for a second. The things that we did this morning is we're omniscient, we're omnipotent, we're omnipresent. We are creating new life forms in AI. I mean, it's amazing the life we're living.
It is.
My goal for anybody watching us here is that they walk away with immediately useful things they can do to maintain that vitality and energy and that they are motivated more than ever before to take care of themselves because something amazing is coming down the pike. in terms of science right now. And so I wanted to lay that out there.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
We fasted because we didn't have access to food. We didn't have sugar. We had some fruit in our diet. But today, we're eating like 100 kilograms of sugar a year. And 100 years ago, it was like 2 kilograms a year. And before that, it was even less than that refined sugar. It is a cardiovascular inflammatory. It's a neurocognitive inflammatory, and it is dangerous for our health.
Now, I'm not saying don't eat any sugar, but it's like just starting with donuts. And I had this argument with Elon all the time. It's like, he jokes, I eat donuts every morning. I said, don't eat donuts. When you're 60, you're gonna regret that.
I think it can extend your health. So let's begin by talking about two things, lifespan and healthspan. All right, now there's a challenge here because while we're living longer, we're living, let's round up to 80, right? Most people are living the last 20 years of their life in some level of physical pain, cognitive loss, cardiovascular loss, inflammation, all these things.
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