123. Dr. Peter Diamandis: The Future of Health with Stem Cells, Blood Filtration, & AI

What if you could become biologically 20 years younger in just 12 months? According to Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPRIZEFoundation founder and author of the “Longevity Guidebook,” we’re closer than you think. In this episode, Dr. Peter Diamandis reveals why 2024 marks the beginning of a health span revolution that could help humans live past 120 years. Learn why he also believes mindset is the most overlooked factor in longevity, and how your beliefs about aging program your biology. Are you ready to take control of your biological age? Watch now to learn why mastering these fundamentals today could help you intercept the most powerful anti-aging breakthroughs of tomorrow! Pre-order Dr. Peter Diamandis's “Longevity Guidebook” here!: https://theultimatehuman.com/book-recs Listen to "Moonshots with Peter Diamandis” on all your favorite platforms! YouTube: https://bit.ly/41GvX6X Spotify: https://bit.ly/3DggC31 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/41IysG5 Join Dr. Peter Diamandis’ XPRIZE Foundation: https://bit.ly/3BzneZO Connect with Dr. Peter Diamandis: Website: https://bit.ly/3ZWvE6H Instagram: https://bit.ly/3VKPdN0 Facebook: https://bit.ly/3Dv0Y3B TikTok: https://bit.ly/4ghjg71 X.com: https://bit.ly/41Ce5tO LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3VHw7aC 00:00 ​​Intro of Show 03:18 ​Building Blocks of a Long, Healthy Life 07:05 ​Self-Care is Not Selfish​​ 10:15 ​Health Span Revolution 16:01 ​Why Minimize Sugar Intake? 23:30 ​Impact of Mindset on Health 27:22 ​What Excites Dr. Peter Diamandis? 33:50 ​Saving Your Child’s Placenta 36:45 ​Therapeutic Plasma Exchange 38:50 ​What is Immune Exhaustion? 43:50 ​Health Span Prize 53:35 ​Life Force (Book) 1:00:23 ​Importance of Big Data and AI on Health 1:04:40 ​Taking Up to 80 Supplements in a Day 1:07:26 ​Sirtuins Correcting DNA Mutation 1:10:10 ​Impact of Community on Life Expectancy 1:12:58 ​Connect with Dr. Diamandis 1:15:19 ​Final Question: What does it mean to you to be an “Ultimate Human?” GET GARY’S WEEKLY TIPS ON HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE OPTIMIZATION: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU EIGHT SLEEP - SAVE $350 ON THE POD 4 ULTRA WITH CODE “GARY”: https://bit.ly/3WkLd6E BODY HEALTH - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF YOUR ORDER: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV BAJA GOLD - 91 ESSENTIAL MINERALS PER PINCH! 10% OFF USE CODE "ULTIMATE10": https://bit.ly/3WSBqUa ELEVATE YOUR WORKOUTS WITH THE ULTIMATE HUMAN STRENGTH TRAINING EQUIPMENT: https://bit.ly/3zYwtSl THE COLD LIFE - BOOST RECOVERY & WELL-BEING WITH THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE: https://bit.ly/4eULUKp MASA CHIPS - GET 20% OFF YOUR FIRST $50+ ORDER: https://bit.ly/40LVY4y PARKER PASTURES - GET PREMIUM GRASS-FED MEATS TODAY: https://bit.ly/4hHcbhc SHOP GARY’S TOP-RATED PRODUCTS & EXCLUSIVE DEALS: https://theultimatehuman.com/amazon-recs Watch the “Ultimate Human Podcast” every Tuesday & Thursday at 9AM EST on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 Connect with Gary Brecka: Website: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8fo Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H X.com: https://bit.ly/3Opc8tf LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4hH7Ri2 Download the “Ultimate Human Podcast” on all your favorite podcast platforms: https://bit.ly/3RQftU0 Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. It is not intended for diagnosing or treating any health condition. Always consult a licensed healthcare professional before making health or wellness decisions. Gary Brecka is the owner of Ultimate Human, LLC which operates The Ultimate Human podcast and promotes certain third-party products used by Gary Brecka in his personal health and wellness protocols and daily life and for which Ultimate Human LLC and / or Gary Brecka directly or indirectly holds an economic interest or receives compensation. Accordingly, statements made by Gary Brecka and others (including on The Ultimate Human podcast) may be considered promotional in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Our bodies were never designed to live past age 30. Our muscle mass starts decreasing after the age of 30. Our hormone levels, our muscles begin to atrophy.

• 0:10Gary Brecka?

  I don't think that the majority of Americans even think of muscle as an organ. They don't think of it about it being our metabolic currency.

• 0:17Speaker 00

  There's a direct correlation between the amount of skeletal muscle you have and your longevity. Fundamentally, it comes back down to diet, sleep, exercise, and mindset. And the way that you do those things is to wrap routine around them.

• 0:31Gary Brecka?

  Sort of the discipline over motivation. We've actually gotten away from the basics, the basics that you just talked about.

• 0:37Speaker 00

  Most people are healthy till 63. And our goal here is can we at least move your health span up to that 80 year mark? This is the decade of a health span revolution. And the biggest impact is going to be coming from AI.

• 0:50Gary Brecka?

  When you have artificial intelligence that can take 700 trillion independent variables and create an actionable result.

• 0:56Speaker 00

  And no human can understand all that. But AI can take it all in, process it and help you. And ultimately, it's about being in the best health I can in order to intercept these breakthroughs.

• 1:07Gary Brecka?

  We're both on the same journey, you know, this childlike fascination with longevity. What are just the basic building blocks of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life?

• 1:16Speaker 00

  Yeah, one of the best pro longevity things I've ever done is having.

• 1:32Gary Brecka?

  Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And as you just heard, today's guest is probably one of the most iconic guests that we've had on the podcast in a long time, if not the most iconic guest. I'm an enormous fan of his. We were actually just fanboying over each other and he's like, I'm a fan of yours. I'm like, well, I'm actually a fan of yours. I'm following you for longer, but welcome to the podcast, Dr. Peter Diamandis.

• 2:05Speaker 00

  My pleasure, Guy. It's amazing to be here with you in beautiful Miami. And in your incredible environment here, you you walk the talk, you live it and so proud of what you built.

• 2:18Gary Brecka?

  Thank you so much. I mean, that that is a very high compliment coming from someone like yourself. You know, I've actually been following your trajectory from, you know, from from afar for for several years now. I kind of find it fascinating how I think you're you're one of those rare kind of left brain, right brain kind of entrepreneurs. They're able to get deeply embedded in the science, but also see how it can have a practical application to humanity. And we're both on the same journey, you know, this this this fascination, this childlike fascination with longevity and and the the extension of life. And, you know, I want to go down that road with you a little bit because, you know, as I've traveled around the world

• 3:04Gary Brecka?

  and met with some of the brightest minds and seeing all the biohacking equipment in the world. And we're going to talk about some of the things that I think are fascinating, both of us in the in the space of longevity. The one thing that seems to stick with me is that we need to get back to the basics.

• 3:23Gary Brecka?

  And then advance to the fancy stuff.

• 3:28Gary Brecka?

  And what is your your feeling on that? I mean, what are what are just the basic building blocks of of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life?

• 3:36Speaker 00

  I I think about that a lot and I'm clear that fundamentally, there are a whole slew of things that cost you nothing.

• 3:46Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 3:46Speaker 00

  That have a huge impact right now. A lot of people know me as a technologist or investor in biotech or AI and building companies in that field. But what I really want to gift in this conversation with you is like what you can do right now that moves the needle for you. And it's not spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. You can do that as well. But fundamentally, it comes back down to diet, sleep, exercise and mindset.

• 4:15Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 4:16Speaker 00

  Those are the elements that if you don't have those dialed in, you know, forget about the other stuff.

• 4:22Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 4:22Speaker 00

  Let's dial those in and, you know. We're here discussing my latest book, Longevity Guidebook, how to go, you know, how to slow stop, reverse aging and not die from something stupid.

• 4:33Gary Brecka?

  I love that, not die from something stupid.

• 4:36Speaker 00

  It's important because.

• 4:37Gary Brecka?

  I think that should have been the title of the book, it's such a great. It really is.

• 4:41Speaker 00

  Thank you. But you know, it's there. So there's a chapter on on diet, a chapter on sleep, a chapter on exercise, a chapter on mindset. And importantly, this time, a chapter on routines. Because I think this single greatest innovation, I'm 63 right now. I feel like I'm the best health I've ever been in my life.

• 4:59Gary Brecka?

  You look amazing, by the way. You're a lot more jacked than you look on camera.

• 5:02Speaker 00

  I added 10 pounds of muscle last last year.

• 5:04Gary Brecka?

  Really?

• 5:05Speaker 00

  I went down, you know, muscle is your longevity organ. And I went full on.

• 5:09Gary Brecka?

  Did you do full statin gene therapy?

• 5:11Speaker 00

  No, no, no. It was working out in the gym with weights every day, five days a week. It was cretin, cretin, it was 150 grams, because I weigh 150 pounds of protein every day. And it was doing the work.

• 5:24Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 5:24Speaker 00

  It was doing the work. Now, doesn't mean, and we can talk about this, some amazing biotechnology coming in the future that will make it a lot easier. My job now is to maintain that. But lots of studies around the world show that there's a direct correlation between the amount of muscle mass, skeletal muscle you have, and your longevity. So again, the chapter on on diet, a chapter on sleep, a chapter on muscle, a chapter on mindset, those are things that we should be doing now. And the way that you do those things is to wrap routine around them.

• 6:03Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 6:03Speaker 00

  You know, what is routine? It's not negotiating with yourself over and over again.

• 6:08Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 6:09Speaker 00

  Right? It's like waking up in the morning and like, this is who I am.

• 6:13Gary Brecka?

  Sort of the discipline over motivation.

• 6:16Speaker 00

  It is discipline, or that's a good point, a good way to put it. And it's like, it's, it's creating that person who you want to be and who you are. So it's like, I am the person who gets up at this time and does these things. And when you identify with that. It helps you not negotiate and say, well, you know, I want to stay in the cuddly bed a little bit longer or that dessert. I can rationalize eating that dessert right now.

• 6:44Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, you know, it's, it's, I talk about this a lot too. You know, I, you know, in some of my workshops, we, I talked to a lot of folks and it's interesting how people think that self-care is very selfish. Right? So, you know, I've developed this philosophy that, and I apply it every day, that the first 90 minutes of every day belongs to me.

• 7:07Speaker 00

  Yes, your golden hour.

• 7:09Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, it's just my, it's my golden hour and it doesn't belong to my spouse or my employees or my clients or my partners or even to, you know, my podcast. It belongs only to me and it sounds very selfish, but then I just give the rest of my day away.

• 7:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 7:23Gary Brecka?

  Right? I'm very intentional with my children, my spouse, with my, my team, you know, with the clients. I'm able to be very present with them. And for me, it's been an absolute game changer. And then I put some non-negotiables, simple non-negotiables into my schedule, you know, where I, I schedule all of my meetings and travel around sleep and exercise.

• 7:43Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 7:44Gary Brecka?

  And I'm not the fittest person in the world and I get some nights where I don't get good sleep, but by and large, you know, my sleep scores are 96% plus and, and I don't go a day without doing some kind of physical exercise. It has had the most dramatic change.

• 8:00Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 8:01Gary Brecka?

  On the amount of enjoyment that I get out of doing what I do.

• 8:05Speaker 00

  Yeah. I agree with you a hundred percent. So I have the same philosophy. I'm up typically at five, three in the morning and that starts by being in bed by nine 30 the night before. Right? So I'm at my abundance summit. I've got 600 CEOs, people from around the world. They're partying hardy and they watch me. They say, Peter, come on. I said, sorry, it's bedtime.

• 8:26Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 8:27Speaker 00

  So I'm out of my own events at nine 30, you know, at nine to be in bed by nine 30. And then when I get up at five 30, that first, really it's the first 90 minutes, it is my, my golden time. And it is, I love writing during that time. So I'm writing every day. I've got three books. In production, this is the first of the of the three.

• 8:47Gary Brecka?

  I'm very excited about this.

• 8:48Speaker 00

  Thank you. And, um, and, uh, you know, I put out two blogs a week, but I'm in the gym, doing red light therapy, meditating, and it's, it's that period of time that, like you said, it's selfish, it's mine. And it allows me to perform at a much higher level. Now, to be clear, I wasn't always that way. Right? And it doesn't mean you go from zero to infinity. I got there over time. I wasn't that way a decade ago. I got into longevity. I'd started human longevity with Craig Venter, Bob Hury back in two thousand,

• 9:25Speaker 00

  two thousand and twelve.

• 9:27Gary Brecka?

  That is, that makes you a great grandfather.

• 9:32Speaker 00

  Yeah, I got, I got Brian.

• 9:33Gary Brecka?

  Not just the father of longevity.

• 9:35Speaker 00

  I got Brian Johnson into longevity. It's very funny.

• 9:39Gary Brecka?

  That's awesome. Well, he definitely caught the bug.

• 9:42Speaker 00

  He did.

• 9:42Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, we were talking about this before. I think he's showing us what's possible, maybe not what's practical. And I say somewhere between the intersection of a Brian Johnson and, you know, and,

• 9:52Speaker 00

  and what we're talking about here. I think that's really important because there are very practical things. It really is an eighty twenty rule. You know, if you feel like you have to do it all to get that additional health span, right? And let's upfront say it's not really lifespan we're talking about. It really is health span. You know, today, the average lifespan in the United States is call it seventy nine. But the average health span is sixty three, meaning you're living till seventy nine. Hopefully, everybody here is gonna have a vision of living well.

• 10:25Gary Brecka?

  My listeners are gonna live to one hundred and twenty.

• 10:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, they're fantastic. But the average.

• 10:29Gary Brecka?

  Greatly offended by what you just said. I'm sorry. I'm just kidding.

• 10:33Speaker 00

  But the reality is that, uh, most people are healthy till sixty three, then there's a sixteen year gap.

• 10:39Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 10:40Speaker 00

  And our goal here is can we at least move your health span up to that eighty year mark? And yeah, I believe that we're, that this is the decade of a health span revolution, of a lifespan revolution as well. And, you know, half my life is in the longevity world, half my life is in the AI world, and the biggest impact is gonna be coming from AI.

• 11:03Gary Brecka?

  I agree with you.

• 11:03Speaker 00

  Right? We're a collection of forty trillion cells. Every cell is running one to two billion chemical reactions per second. And there's no way for any human to understand. The vastness of that by AI can. And we're going to be making discovery after discovery after discovery. But it all begins with sleep, diet.

• 11:27Gary Brecka?

  I agree.

• 11:27Speaker 00

  Exercise and mindset. Dial those in first.

• 11:30Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 11:30Speaker 00

  And then get ready for an extraordinary ride in the decade ahead.

• 11:34Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, I totally agree with you. I think that about every half decade, we're going to see three centuries of of medical advancement. And what I mean by that is when you have artificial intelligence that can take 700 trillion independent variables and create an actionable result. When you stop doing clinical trials where you study things in isolation, you know, you take a cell out of the body, you look how it behaves in a Petri dish, and then you assume that when you put it back into its community, that it's going to behave the same way. I think, you know, you're talking about leaps and bounds. And, you know, I mean, I think the old arcane, in my opinion, you know, randomized clinical

• 12:14Gary Brecka?

  trial, placebo controlled trial that takes, you know, eight or 10 years and then comes out with a compound that lets it gets FDA approved and then goes into the market for 10 years and gets data.

• 12:26Speaker 00

  So. And by the way, it only works for 20% of the people who it's prescribed for.

• 12:29Gary Brecka?

  Right. And you don't figure that out for 20 years. You know, until you get really large data and they go, well, we made a mistake and and we either pay a fine or take something off the market or or change it up. I mean, those cycles are so long.

• 12:41Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 12:42Gary Brecka?

  And then and then I think we also have the inhibition. And I don't mean this in a negative way, but the, you know, the regulatory environment just doesn't have the capacity to keep up. I mean, with the pace of innovation. So I think that stalwarts a lot of what people have available to them. So, you know, a lot of treatments that I believe can really can extend life or at least extend health span, stem cells, exosomes, natural killer cell treatments.

• 13:08Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 13:09Gary Brecka?

  Blood filtration.

• 13:10Speaker 00

  And we can talk about all of those.

• 13:11Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. And I actually want to go down that road. First of all, I'm glad that we agree on the foundation because I think that the greatest shift in humanity, like when you, I was a mortality expert for many decades. And the biggest shift.

• 13:24Speaker 00

  That must have been a great line for opening up your dating conversations.

• 13:27Gary Brecka?

  Don't chicks chicks love mortality experts. They love. I mean, you can predict death to the month, man.

• 13:34Speaker 00

  Oh, my God.

• 13:34Gary Brecka?

  It's a great party trick. Here, give me your wrist. Let me feel your pulse and I'll tell you. But, um, uh, you know, I think my, my, my wife would probably disagree with that. But, um, but you know, but you know, what's, what's really interesting is, um, you know, there's so many people that are fascinated by, um, this life extension, you know, extending our life, our, you know, lifespan. And, and I believe that there's evidence-based modalities, um, and, and things that we can do, but they're just, they're just not available in the United States. You're going to travel outside.

• 14:08Speaker 00

  But and hopefully that will change in the EU administration.

• 14:11Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 14:11Speaker 00

  Under RFK.

• 14:12Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 14:13Speaker 00

  And there's so much, it's, it's a disservice that some of my closest friends, some of my, uh, our members at Fountain Life to get advanced therapeutics need to travel outside the US to, you know, to Costa Rica or Mexico, other places. And that is all going to change. The data is going to materialize as well as regulatory reform to support that.

• 14:37Gary Brecka?

  Mm hmm. You know, and, and, and so, you know, having been a mortality expert, we studied long, uh, we, we studied mortality and, and lifespan. And the, the greatest advances in life expectancy weren't like major medical breakthroughs or, or specific tinctures. They were, uh, sewers, sanitation.

• 14:56Speaker 00

  Sanitation.

• 14:57Gary Brecka?

  You know, these are.

• 14:58Speaker 00

  Vaccines.

• 14:58Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 15:00Speaker 00

  Pasteurization of milk.

• 15:01Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. I mean, these were, there was a massive jumps in, in life expectancy. And I think now what's happened, because I think that aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort and people don't want to challenge themselves anymore, is we've actually gotten away from the basics, the basics that you just talked about. And, um, I, I don't think that the majority of, of Americans even think of, of muscle as an organ.

• 15:24Speaker 00

  Right.

• 15:25Gary Brecka?

  I mean, you know, they don't think of it about it being our metabolic currency.

• 15:28Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 15:30Gary Brecka?

  And so I want to talk a little bit about that. And then I want to get right into some of the things that are really exciting you, like blood filtration, stem cells, exosomes, some of these, some of these.

• 15:39Speaker 00

  Some amazing things coming. I mean, shall we, should we hit some of the, the basics so that coming out of this podcast, people have some actionable items right away?

• 15:48Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. And I mean, most people aren't going to go, hey, I'm going, I'm going to Panama and getting a $25,000 stem cell IV.

• 15:53Speaker 00

  But let's, let's break them down. First on diet.

• 15:59Speaker 00

  It is, if you think about your body, your genetics, what powers you evolved 200,000 years ago on the savannas of Africa, and our DNA has not changed very much in 200,000 years. And back then, two things were true. Number one, there was no sugar in the environment. You had some small amount of natural fruits. There was no refined sugar. And the second was there, you know, feeding was intermediate. There was no defined glutinous food consistently. We didn't have Whole Foods or McDonald's. And so today, what I tell people, if you want to go on the diet front, what you can do for yourself, number one, it's cut out

• 16:42Speaker 00

  this poison called sugar. Sugar, refined sugar is a neuroinflammatory, a cardiac inflammatory. We just did a study at Fountain Life in which we looked at cardiac disease as a function of a bunch of things like LDL, HDL, triglycerides, LP little a, all these things you hear about. And the number one correlate to heart disease was none of those things. It was your hemoglobin A1C. It was what was your average blood glucose levels over the last three months? And so sugar correlates with heart disease. It also correlates with obviously diabetes and correlates with neurodegenerative disease. So can you minimize that first and foremost?

• 17:27Speaker 00

  And it takes a while. Sugar is addictive. But I've trained myself to minimize that in my diet. We actually ran a no sugar challenge for 22 days that a friend of mine, Guillermo Nevarete, ran for my abundance community. And if you do it as a group, it's a lot easier to do. Whole plants, of course, everybody talks about whole plants. It is true, I'm not going to go, you know, plant versus animal protein. I mean minimizing sugar, whole plants, even the order which you eat your food. Right? So when you're sitting down at your, at your plate, uh, at lunch or dinner,

• 18:10Speaker 00

  eat the vegetables first, which is the fiber going through your small, your stomach and small intestine. It slows it down. It allows you to absorb nutrients, eat your protein next. And then eat your carbs last, if you have room. Just doing that alone will flatten your

• 18:27Gary Brecka?

  Couldn't agree with you.

• 18:28Speaker 00

  Your, your insulin curve and help you lose weight. Anyway, I mean, those are just some, a few

• 18:33Gary Brecka?

  Mobility, I mean, you know, and I think when you look at blue zone dieting or blue zone diets, there was no really specific continuity between diets, other than that they were all whole foods. I mean, Sardinia was very different from the Mediterranean, very different from Singapore. Um, you'd have very high meat consumptions, long life expectancies, very high carbohydrate consumptions with long life expectancies. And then you had very high fat consumptions with long life expectancies. And, and, but they were all whole foods and they, none of those people were eating a processed diet.

• 19:02Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:02Gary Brecka?

  You didn't find there besides pesticides, insecticides, glyphosate, you know, the red dye number 40s, you know, all the things that we invented in the agricultural revolution.

• 19:12Speaker 00

  And we slowed it down a little bit, right? I mean, at the beginning of your meal, take a deep breath. I love that. Put yourself in a parasympathetic mode. Say gratitude, chew the food 20 times. Uh, you know, we talk about all these GLP, GLP-1 drugs. You can induce that same impact by just chewing your food and eating slowly.

• 19:37Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't think most people realize that the GLP-1s, the semaglutides, terseptides, um, these, these are just mimicking hormones that we produce in our gut. And, um, and they respond to, they create satiety based on nutrient density. And, um, you know, so, so when you're eating highly processed foods, they're not nutrient dense. You're hungry more frequently, um, and you have tendency to overeat.

• 20:02Speaker 00

  It's crazy. I've been saying, you know, our kids cereals should have black box warnings on them.

• 20:09Gary Brecka?

  Like a cigarette. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with that. I totally agree with that. There's a big movement to get Kellogg's to take, you know, the food dyes, you know, out of the, out of the cereals. I'm like, why don't we just get rid of cereal? You know, we, you know, taking the, the food dye from red dye number 42, a beet juice dye is great.

• 20:26Speaker 00

  I mean, honestly, we're marketing this to our kids.

• 20:28Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Yeah. It should be, it should, I, I think this has, I mean, this is a whole different conversation, but this has to go to with, you know, the corruption in our, you know, the, our research institutions and the, and the stranglehold the big food and pharma has on our public policy.

• 20:41Speaker 00

  It's insane.

• 20:42Gary Brecka?

  And that research needs to be independent. I mean, NIH needs to be, my opinion, it needs to be a publicly funded, taxpayer funded independent.

• 20:49Speaker 00

  Well, I hope, I hope under RFK that this will make some significant changes. Whatever your politics, make America healthy again. Fundamental stuff.

• 20:58Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. I mean, it's hard to disagree with, um, you know, the, the statistics, you know, maybe the highest rates of childhood cancer in recorded history. We, we just now, as of December 6th, um, I just saw this article in the, in the Daily Mail. As of December 6th, we're ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy. Four and a half trillion dollars a year.

• 21:18Speaker 00

  Crazy.

• 21:19Gary Brecka?

  We spent on healthcare and we're ranked, I mean, our ROI on healthcare is, is horrible.

• 21:24Speaker 00

  It's negative. Um, so in, in the category of diet, it's not that difficult, right? It is drink enough water. I don't do sodas, um, caffeine, I'll, you know, it depends on what your genetics are. If you're a slow or fast metabolizer.

• 21:38Gary Brecka?

  Right. That's easy.

• 21:39Speaker 00

  I've minimized, um, alcohol like to half a glass of wine socially a week, but you know, it's a good lubricant for social, but don't abuse it. It is, it is another form of sugar, but minimizing sugar, eating whole plants. If you do just those two things and slow it down when you're eating your food, really hard. And don't watch, don't watch the crisis news network while you're eating your food.

• 22:03Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Don't be in a sympathetic state, you know, while, while you're, while you're trying to, uh, while you're trying to eat your food. All right. Let's get into the good stuff. Um, because I think we are.

• 22:15Speaker 00

  Can I, can I hit one more thing, which is mindset? I think people don't recognize how powerful mindset is on your health. And there's a study, I just want to quote in here that I write about in the book.

• 22:31Gary Brecka?

  By the way, I'm going to put a link to the longevity guidebook in the show notes below. I mean, this is available now before you sent me a pre.

• 22:39Speaker 00

  Yes, it is. It is available. I am donating 100% of all profits to the X Prize Foundation. We've got a large health span prize I'll mention. I also, you can order on Amazon, great 26, 27 bucks. I have it available, if you go to longevityguidebook.com, it's like $12 cheaper. And it's basically, I do it at break even. I want to get this out there.

• 23:08Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 23:08Speaker 00

  For me, making, you know, a few bucks on a book is not the goal. It's how do I get this out there? People should be empowered. This is the most extraordinary time ever in human history. I want to watch and see and participate in as much of it as possible.

• 23:21Gary Brecka?

  Me too.

• 23:21Speaker 00

  And I want people to have that vitality, that love of life, that health. All right, so here's two data points here on mindset. Because I think mindset is one of the most important things that people don't connect to your longevity. So this is in a study of 69,744 women and 1,429 men. So it's a large powered study, many more women than men. Published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You don't get higher level than that. It was found that optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists. It's like a double dividend.

• 23:59Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 24:00Speaker 00

  And if you're not optimistic, get around people who are optimistic.

• 24:03Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 24:04Speaker 00

  Here's another, another fun.

• 24:09Speaker 00

  And this is the power of mind over, over, uh, over death. So it's one of my favorite stories coming from, uh, the analysts of American history. So as it turns out, in an extraordinary demonstration of the will to live, two of America's founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both willed themselves to live long enough to see the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Even though the average life expectancy was only 44 years old in the, in the early 1800s, Jefferson, who was 83 and Adams, who was 90, made it to July 4th, 1826, both dying on that exact date, the 50th anniversary of the nation they had founded.

• 24:52Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 24:53Speaker 00

  Isn't that powerful?

• 24:55Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 24:55Speaker 00

  I mean, if you, uh, another friend, you know, Dan Sullivan says, make sure that your future is bigger than your past.

• 25:02Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 25:02Speaker 00

  Having a purpose to live for.

• 25:04Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 25:04Speaker 00

  Is so important.

• 25:05Gary Brecka?

  That was, that, that actually came out in the blue zone research too. The sense of purpose, sense of community.

• 25:10Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 25:11Gary Brecka?

  Mobility into later in life, you know, I, we know, um, and from the mortality research that, uh, the group I did was a part of, that, uh, sedentary lifestyle is now the leading cause of all cause mortality.

• 25:22Speaker 00

  Sitting is the new smoking.

• 25:23Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, it really is. It's the new smoking. Hey guys, I'm really excited to announce this. Perfect Aminos has gotten a serious upgrade. They've added nucleotides, the building blocks of our nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. And this is important. We know essential amino acids are the building blocks of protein and collagen. Having all the essential amino acids in the correct ratio is necessary for complete protein synthesis without the caloric impact. But if we want perfect protein synthesis, we need to look at the process of protein synthesis itself. Because if the process is faulty, we won't get the correctly made protein, collagen, fibrin, or the red blood cells in our bloodstream or our muscles.

• 26:07Gary Brecka?

  We can even stop creation of specific proteins, which can affect us in so many different ways. Our DNA and our RNA are what direct protein synthesis, building new proteins. If our DNA or RNA get damaged from toxins, harmful bacteria, or just plain aging, we get faulty protein synthesis. So cells, enzymes, and hormones are less functional, and we get premature aging. By adding nucleosides and nucleotides, the building blocks of the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, our cells get exactly what they need to help repair faulty DNA and RNA and improve the process of protein synthesis itself. This is next level science,

• 26:48Gary Brecka?

  and you need to try these. Now, let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. We both have that childlike curiosity and fascination with, you know, the extension of life. And I think the majority of the really promising research has gone into the serum of the blood, through the wall of the cell, through the cytoplasm, and into the mitochondria. And I think we know mitochondria are not just the powerhouse of the cell, but they are the key, in my opinion, in the opinion of many, to longevity. So what are some of the things that are really exciting you? I asked you this question the other day when we were on a Zoom call, and I really enjoyed your answer. But what's some of the things that are really waking you up in the morning and exciting you about the field of longevity?

• 27:33Speaker 00

  Yeah. So when I wake up in the morning, the very first thing I do is good gratitude. All right. It's like my instant reaction. Thank you for the ability to live another amazing day. And can I contribute the maximum I can? And I just, it's like being excited to see what's gonna, you know, there's infinite possibilities we're living in. And just excitement for the day. And a lot of the breakthroughs coming are across everything. So I have a $600 million venture fund in biotech called Bold Capital and Bold Longevity Growth.

• 28:08Gary Brecka?

  B O L D?

• 28:09Speaker 00

  B O L D, yeah. And we're in our fourth fund now. And so I see a lot of deals. And then I run something called the Longevity Platinum Trip. Dr. Yanni Pasaltis and I scan through 500 companies, and we pick 50. And every year, it's a new crop of 50. And we spend five days. I bring my Abundance 360 members in who want to be part of it. And we meet with the CEOs of all these companies. And a lot of the people there do invest or just learn. And

• 28:44Speaker 00

  This year, or last year, 2024, was the first year we're starting to see, instead of theory, actual therapeutics, actual things becoming available. I mean, I can jump into some of them.

• 28:57Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, yeah, no, I want to hear about some of them. I mean, in my audience, this is right up there.

• 29:02Speaker 00

  Yeah, so one of them that I love is a company called Immunos. Dr. Hans Kiersted, this is his fifth company. He's had four increasingly bigger exits. He's brilliant in stem cells. And what he identified was a, he created a iPSC-derived and an embryonic cell-derived stem cell that he can grow, and it puts out 450 discrete molecules and exosomes consistently.

• 29:36Gary Brecka?

  Is this the MUSE cell?

• 29:38Speaker 00

  It's not, it's not a MUSE cell, but it is a, and I'll let him define it when he's ready to release it. They just completed, so what they've done is that, it was 440, actually, 440 secretome that comes out of these cells. He's been able to characterize it, consistently produce it, and turn it into a drug. And the FDA has allowed him to use that as a drug. So they just completed their phase one two-way study in which they were injecting IM twice a week for three months. And he's figuring out whether once a week or whatever the protocol will be. But his first 18 patients were 50 to 75 years old. They were severe osteoarthritis, meaning they couldn't walk. They were in

• 30:23Speaker 00

  pain. And he did this for a three-month period, and here's the results. Number one, these people who were effectively in bedrest, right?

• 30:32Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, because of the pain.

• 30:34Speaker 00

  Because of the pain, because they couldn't walk, their skeletal muscle mass increased 6%, 6%.

• 30:40Gary Brecka?

  Without?

• 30:41Speaker 00

  Without exercise, zero exercise.

• 30:42Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 30:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, amazing. Uh, number two, their pain reduced as much as 70%.

• 30:49Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 30:50Speaker 00

  Uh, they were able to reverse their immune age by 30 years.

• 30:56Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 30:56Speaker 00

  And reduce their inflammatory markers by 50%.

• 31:00Gary Brecka?

  And, and there were no other interventions?

• 31:02Speaker 00

  Zero.

• 31:02Gary Brecka?

  Fasting?

• 31:03Speaker 00

  And it's consistent across everybody, no adverse reactions. And so he's doing an expanded trial.

• 31:09Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 31:10Speaker 00

  Um, I have signed up to be, you know,

• 31:13Gary Brecka?

  Of course you have. I mean, we're gonna talk about me signing up as soon as this podcast is over.

• 31:17Speaker 00

  So, uh, so we're actually, um, we've cut a deal with, uh, between him and Fountain Life. Uh, so Fountain Life is my diagnostic and therapeutic centers. Tony Robbins and I and Bill Capps started this a couple of years ago. We have four centers today in New York, uh, in Naples, where you started, in Orlando, in, in Houston. We're adding next year LA, uh, Phoenix, Dallas, uh, and probably Miami.

• 31:45Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 31:46Speaker 00

  Uh, and then we've got a growth path for another 25. Anyway, we're making this therapeutic available at no cost to our Fountain Life members as part of the expanded trial he's doing. So very, very excited about that.

• 31:59Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 31:59Speaker 00

  Because our members are fully characterized.

• 32:02Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 32:03Speaker 00

  And we know they're healthy, we know what shape they're in.

• 32:06Gary Brecka?

  Hmm. Yeah, all their data.

• 32:07Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:08Gary Brecka?

  You know, um, uh, for folks that are not exceedingly familiar with stem cells, and I, I don't want to put words in Peter's mouth, but these, these cells that you harvest either from Morton's Jelly or, you know, these

• 32:18Speaker 00

  Placenta.

• 32:18Gary Brecka?

  placental cells or placenta's. Very often you can put these cells in specific type of media and, and they react to different ways. You know, they, these secretomes you're talking about or exosomes are, are a reaction to, you know, the cell's media, what its environment is.

• 32:34Speaker 00

  And it's pumping these factors out based upon the environment it finds itself in.

• 32:38Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, and you can get high myelocerein, high oleic acid, you can get growth factors. So, so you can, you can manipulate the cell to secrete these exosomes or secretomes.

• 32:50Gary Brecka?

  That are specific to the outcome that you want. Maybe it's, you know, joint repair, or it's collagen elastin and fibrin, or if it's inflammation reduction. And, and again, I don't purport to be a stem cell scientist, but I'm fascinated by how they can take this one pluripotent cell and they can bathe it in different media. And, and it literally is like a chemical factory. And depending on its environment, like a human being, it can have hundreds, if not thousands of different reactions. And then you can capture the byproduct of that stem cells reaction and use it to treat specific conditions.

• 33:23Speaker 00

  There's a lot coming in that realm. I'm the co-founder and vice chairman of a company called Cellularity, which I love. Bob Hury, who is an MD PhD, Tony Robbins, and I and Bob Hury wrote a book called Life Force. Yeah, Tony's everything. Tony's a dear, dear friend. And we started a few companies together.

• 33:41Gary Brecka?

  He's amazing. I have nothing but love for him.

• 33:42Speaker 00

  But Bob would be a, Bob Hury would be a great guest. So Bob figured out early on that the placenta is really the 3D printer that manufactures the baby. And at the end of childbirth, most people, you know, you don't know this, but you're paying the hospital to incinerate and get rid of the placenta. Which is like, if your baby was born with an extra set of lungs, kidney, heart, liver, would you like throw them away? And so, one of the things that Cellularity has is a division called First Bank USA, in which you can save

• 34:23Speaker 00

  your child's placenta, you decellularize it, you pull out the stem cells, the natural killer cells, the T cells, the exosomes, and so forth. And it's cryopreserved so that your child, for the rest of its life, has a day zero set of its own stem cells forever. So I, both of my, my boys, who are now 13, when I go visit Cellularity's headquarters, I go say hello to the nitrogen doer that has their stem cells in it.

• 34:52Gary Brecka?

  That's awesome.

• 34:53Speaker 00

  But, you know, we talk about Wharton's jelly, we talk about umbilical cord. The placental stem cells are probably the most powerful.

• 35:00Gary Brecka?

  Really?

• 35:01Speaker 00

  And so, Cellularity is developing those products as well. And hopefully they'll become allowable. We'll put those through Fountain as well when they become approved in the US.

• 35:12Gary Brecka?

  When you say allowable, we can use them topically and intra-articulately, right? I mean, or not?

• 35:17Speaker 00

  So, no, so today, the FDA does not allow any stem cells, really. If they're your, if they're your stem cells, like from fat, or, you know, and they're not manipulated, meaning they're not expanded. You're taking them out of your fat, which has a high population, and your fat is actually one of your younger, is one of your, how do I put it this way? The stem cells in your fat are the youngest stem cells in your, in your body. Your stem cells from your blood marrow are just recently manufactured, but fat stem cells can be as much as eight years younger. You can pull it out and you can purify them and put them back in. But, that's fine, but the more interesting thing is, can you manipulate them and make

• 36:01Speaker 00

  them, expand them? There's another thing you can do. You can actually co-incubate your stem cells with young stem cells, like from a newborn, across a filter, but the, the exudate, the secretome of the young stem cells will rejuvenate your stem cells.

• 36:21Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 36:22Speaker 00

  So there's a lot of work that Bob and others have done in that realm.

• 36:25Gary Brecka?

  I've seen some studies on this in, in plasma exchange. Even Brian Johnson even did, changed blood with this.

• 36:30Speaker 00

  I've done, well, I've done five therapeutic plasma exchanges, but not, not blood boy.

• 36:36Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, yeah, I've done that. Dr. Deshaun did it for me over at Next Health. I did the therapeutic plasma exchange, which was amazing because, which is essentially where they take your plasma out. I took about two liters out. It was quite a bit.

• 36:50Speaker 00

  Typically.

• 36:51Gary Brecka?

  And, and then replaced that with sterile albumin. I was very tired that night, but it actually worked out because I did it in LA, and then I had a 15-hour flight, non-stop flight to Dubai. And, and I was on Emirates, so I just laid the seat flat and crashed. But the next day, I woke up. With like a level of clarity I don't recall having in probably 10 years. You know, I, I, um, I, I just felt cognizant, clear, awake, focused, just switched on.

• 37:21Speaker 00

  And, and therapeutic plasma exchange or TPE, uh, we have those that available at our Fountain Life Centers as well.

• 37:28Gary Brecka?

  You do have Fountain Life, okay, amazing.

• 37:29Speaker 00

  So, um.

• 37:31Gary Brecka?

  All, all of your centers do that?

• 37:32Speaker 00

  Uh, we are headquarters right now in Orlando. We will be rolling it out to all the centers, um, in the year ahead.

• 37:38Gary Brecka?

  That's amazing, yeah.

• 37:39Speaker 00

  And it really is, you're hooked up to a machine. It takes about two hours. Uh, you're, you pull, you pull out about two to two and a half liters of blood, about half of your blood supply.

• 37:48Gary Brecka?

  Mm-hmm, your plasma, yeah.

• 37:50Speaker 00

  Your, uh, well, of the, of the, all the blood, it spins out the red cells and white cells and platelets and it puts them over here. It pulls out your plasma, which I think a bit is my oil change, right? And then it gives you fresh saline and plasma, uh, puts the cells back in and returns that to your body. So you're pulling out all the inflammatory factors. Now for a number of diseases like neuro-related diseases, it's life savings. Uh, for others, um, and I think Dr. Kiprov, who developed this, uh, sees like a reversal of three to five years on your epigenetic age. But it really matters, how do you feel?

• 38:27Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 38:27Speaker 00

  At the end of the day.

• 38:28Gary Brecka?

  No, how do you feel? And I think that our plasma is, is a, you know, repository for a lot of the junk, mold spores, mycotoxins, metals, viral pathogens, um, cytokines, there are all kinds of things that are floating around in the plasma, um, that are not being evacuated.

• 38:44Speaker 00

  You know, another, another company that you and I are both fans of, Extera Medical.

• 38:48Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 38:49Speaker 00

  Right? Um, is, is fabulous, right? So here's a technology coming out of DARPA years ago and developed jointly, uh, in Sweden. In this blood filtration system that has got four, 40 square meters, about the size of a tennis court worth of this material called a glycolix that filters out all viruses, all bacteria, all circulating cancer cells.

• 39:14Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 39:14Speaker 00

  I mean, amazing. And there's a very real phenomenon people don't talk about called immunoexhaustion. If you've heard of that term. So.

• 39:24Gary Brecka?

  I can understand what.

• 39:25Speaker 00

  Yeah, as we get, 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.

• 39:45Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 39:45Speaker 00

  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.

• 39:58Gary Brecka?

  Mm hmm.

• 39:58Speaker 00

  And so it can become overloaded, it can become exhausted.

• 40:03Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 40:04Speaker 00

  And so one of the things I like about Exthera Medical, and we're rolling that out through Fountain as well.

• 40:10Gary Brecka?

  I saw that.

• 40:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, we're Fountain, you get a 15K discount on the blood filler, filter systems, if you're a Fountain member, which I'm proud of.

• 40:20Speaker 00

  It's, it's the ability to filter out all of these pathogens and give your immune system a deep breath.

• 40:29Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 40:30Speaker 00

  A chance to, okay, now we're going after you.

• 40:32Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Yeah. You're just taking, you're taking it from having to fight on so many different fronts, having to fight on fewer fronts. And I think you glossed over something, but I want, I want to drill in. So this, this, this filter, it's, think of a dialysis machine.

• 40:46Speaker 00

  Yes, exactly.

• 40:46Gary Brecka?

  That's probably the closest thing for people to, to, you know, analyze what, what it is. And you pull the blood out and it runs through this filtration system and they have heparin binding sites, which very, when he says the endocalyx, the glycalyx, he, what he means is it's mimicking sort of the, the lining of the artery, the wall.

• 41:04Speaker 00

  Yes, the inside of your blood vessels.

• 41:05Gary Brecka?

  Which is, which is where these pathogens like to go. And so, so they see this surface as the surface area of your blood vessels and they attach to it and they can be taken out of the body. And what I found fascinating, and I'm going to have their lead oncologist on the, on the podcast.

• 41:23Speaker 00

  Is it Dr. Mink Chella?

• 41:25Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 41:25Speaker 00

  He's brilliant.

• 41:26Gary Brecka?

  Oh, he's so brilliant.

• 41:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 41:28Gary Brecka?

  And he's so well spoken and I've done a number of Zoom calls with him and I like.

• 41:34Speaker 00

  He's a very giving human being.

• 41:36Gary Brecka?

  Very brilliant, but also very well spoken so that, you know, he's not just talking from PhD to PhD. He's, he really has a way of fundamentally helping you understand. And obviously he's an oncologist, so that that helps. But how he was explaining this to me, which made perfect sense was, you know, along the lines of this immunoexhaustion where, you know, all of us at some point in our life have had circulating cancer cells. Now, immune system is taking care of them.

• 42:04Speaker 00

  People need to understand your body is always producing cancers. It is, you know, 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.

• 42:23Gary Brecka?

  Senescent, yeah.

• 42:24Speaker 00

  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.

• 42:41Gary Brecka?

  And, you know, and, and all cancerous cells were at one time a healthy cell. I mean, they became metabolically sick.

• 42:48Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 42:49Gary Brecka?

  And the idea is if you can get these metabolically sick cells out of the bloodstream or circulating tumor cells. And now the immune system, immune system has less to do and it has more time and more strength to focus on whether it's a nodular cancer or something else that's, that's, that's going on in the body. And I really found that fascinating and also found it fascinating from the risk standpoint, because things like chemotherapeutics and high dose radiation or, or, you know, aggressive surgical resection, I mean, those have real consequences. They may be necessary, but they have very severe consequences and may not work.

• 43:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 43:25Gary Brecka?

  Whereas, you know, a blood filtration, if your downside is that it doesn't work, I mean, your upside is at least that it. Not very likely.

• 43:34Speaker 00

  And by the way, it's probably going to help you, if not indirectly on 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 defend you. You know, one of the things I'm very proud of, I'd like to mention, is our HealthSpan Prize. So.

• 43:54Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, this is fascinating.

• 43:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, so folks who don't know me from the X Prize 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 X Prize, put up the $10 million for her family. I put up the first, you know, I don't know, I hadn't had that much money back then, the first $100,000 or so. And it worked.

• 44:38Speaker 00

  And on the heels of the X Prize getting one, 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.

• 45:07Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 45:08Speaker 00

  Of competitions, driving close to $8 billion in R and 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.

• 45:33Gary Brecka?

  Wow. I did not know that.

• 45:36Speaker 00

  And so we've launched 30 prizes, mapping the ocean floor, pulling water out of the atmosphere.

• 45:44Speaker 00

  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.

• 45:58Gary Brecka?

  Wow. I'd love to know what the hell that technology works.

• 46:01Speaker 00

  Yeah, well, you'll find out.

• 46:03Gary Brecka?

  Okay.

• 46:05Speaker 00

  In like, in like, January of 2020, Elon became like 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 X prize? He's waiting for mine. I said, how about one around carbon? He said, how much? I said, 100 million. He said, he wrote back, sure.

• 46:26Gary Brecka?

  I love Elon Musk.

• 46:28Speaker 00

  And then a month, a month later, we were assigned, and he put up the money. So.

• 46:33Gary Brecka?

  That's great.

• 46:34Speaker 00

  So for the last five years, I was like, there's got to be a prize. And in the longevity space, and we ended up designing a prize, you know, folks like George Church and David Sinclair, Ray Kurzweil, I'm blanking on his, on his, Aubrey de Grey, who really was the first person to prompt me on this. And we designed this prize, and I raised 141 million dollars.

• 47:04Speaker 00

  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, for 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.

• 47:28Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 47:29Speaker 00

  Right? So we're not looking at your, 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, you know?

• 47:52Gary Brecka?

  And how are you measuring that? Just immune markers?

• 47:54Speaker 00

  There's a whole, no, we're doing it, we'll do an immune challenge. We'll give you a, you know, a vaccine. And how well do you mount a response to that? And it's functional. It's using functional endpoints instead of just, you know, markers. And so I'm really excited about it because I think that's what really matters.

• 48:12Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, I think so too.

• 48:12Speaker 00

  Do you feel younger? Are you, are you functioning in a younger state versus, oh, look at my printout? Who gives a shit about your printout?

• 48:21Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 48:21Speaker 00

  If you don't feel that, right? So we have, and here's, here's the punchline. A year later, we have 460 teams competing for that health span prize.

• 48:31Gary Brecka?

  460 teams and they're all trying to reduce the age. And how, how are you measuring that? Telomere is like an age test?

• 48:39Speaker 00

  Again, it's, it's reversing the functional losses of an immune cognition and muscle. So that, you know, you've got the capabilities you had 20 years ago. And amazing companies. And so I'm seeing all of these companies and my job is to.

• 48:57Gary Brecka?

  So fascinating.

• 48:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, I take myself off the judging board and off of all of that so that I can help promote and support them. And not be, you know, in a, in a problem of promoting one over the other. But like yesterday, and I'm sorry, it was a few days ago, this one company that will go from a skin cell, regrow, regrow a pluripotent stem cell for you. And then, um, and let's get, put aside the ethics here, but create a clone of you, right? On a cellular level. So here's a, and grow that, that embryonic clone to 28 weeks of Gary. And maybe we'll produce a thousand of those clones. And way before the brain is developed and such.

• 49:42Speaker 00

  In fact, they have a genetic, um, uh, change they can make so that the head of the clone doesn't develop.

• 49:50Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 49:51Speaker 00

  Um, but what we can do now is pull out of your clone, day zero hemopoetic stem cells.

• 49:57Gary Brecka?

  That are an exact copy of my.

• 49:59Speaker 00

  Exact copy of yours of what they were when you were, when you were young.

• 50:02Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 50:03Speaker 00

  It's amazing stuff coming.

• 50:05Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 50:05Speaker 00

  So I, I talk about this idea of a longevity mindset.

• 50:09Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 50:10Speaker 00

  And, and I have a whole, you know, again, a chapter in the book about this, that your mindset is the most important thing. And if you, if you.

• 50:19Speaker 00

  Do the work, understand what's going on, right? And you realize, oh my God, there is a health span revolution coming and it's this decade. And I want to see, I want to be there. I want to be ready for it. I want to keep myself in the best health I can, right? I don't want to miss it. And that's, there's got to be some reason why you don't dig into the chocolate cake.

• 50:43Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 50:43Speaker 00

  Why you don't like just sleep through your alarm and forget the gym. Why you don't get your eight hours of sleep. And that reason for me is I want to keep myself, first of all, I love being in great shape. In terms of feeling strong, thinking clearly, ability to act, having the energy to run circles around my 20 something year old staff members. But ultimately, it's about being in the best health I can in order to intercept these breakthroughs.

• 51:15Gary Brecka?

  And when you say intercept these breakthroughs, a lot of these you're tangentially involved in through.

• 51:22Speaker 00

  Through the X Prize, through my venture fund, through the companies I advise and so forth, yeah.

• 51:26Gary Brecka?

  So who's, who's looking at the X Prize winner this year? What do you, what kind of things are you seeing?

• 51:32Speaker 00

  So we have, again, these 460 teams.

• 51:36Gary Brecka?

  I can't believe there's 460.

• 51:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, from around the world, from around the world.

• 51:40Gary Brecka?

  Well, it's a hundred million bucks, so.

• 51:42Speaker 00

  It's a hundred million bucks. And we're going to be, we're going to be announcing, so we're staging the money. So we'll be announcing the first 40 companies that will get a quarter million each. We'll be announcing those. It'll be worth keeping your eye out for who those 40 are.

• 52:01Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 52:02Speaker 00

  Then about a year, 18 months later, we'll be announcing 10 that will get a million dollars each. All the teams are still in the running. And then the remaining 80 million, 81 million is up for grabs for whomever can reverse it is, you have to reverse a minimum of 10 years. The goal is 20. Well, I know why it's 101 million dollars, not 100 million.

• 52:25Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, yeah, I'm curious about that.

• 52:26Speaker 00

  So the first donor, an amazing man, a guy named Chip Wilson. I don't know if you know Chip. He's the founder of Lululemon.

• 52:34Gary Brecka?

  Hmm, okay.

• 52:35Speaker 00

  And he has a muscular dystrophy called FSHD.

• 52:38Gary Brecka?

  I've heard about this.

• 52:39Speaker 00

  And we're on the phone and he's become a dear friend. I love him. He's a beautiful human being. And he's like, okay, I don't want to put all the money in, but I'll put a chunk in. But he says, how much is Elon's prize again for carbon? I said, it's 100 million. And he goes, can we make ours 101 million?

• 52:58Speaker 00

  And I said, okay.

• 52:58Gary Brecka?

  Cause I want to attract people to us and not the carbon. Yeah.

• 53:01Speaker 00

  Cause I said, okay, if you put the extra million in. So he increased his donation to 36 million. And we also have an additional $10 million bonus prize for a breakthrough in FSHD. And I'm very blessed. There's incredible woman, Jamie Justice, who's a PhD, who runs this competition. I just raised the money and handed her a set of rules. And she's, she's running this thing and it's, it's doing amazing. So proud.

• 53:32Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. And so does your, does your book go into some of these topics or?

• 53:37Speaker 00

  Yeah. So I made this book. So Tony Robbins and I wrote this book called Life Forces, 700 pages. New York Times bestseller.

• 53:44Gary Brecka?

  I made my way through it. Incredible book. I've actually put it on my top 10 must, must reads.

• 53:50Speaker 00

  So it, you know, it was New York Times bestseller for two months, but it's 700 pages. It's hard for someone to read 700 pages. So I wrote this book as a very digestible how to.

• 54:04Speaker 00

  And you can pick up any piece of it. So yes, there, it's like all the details, everything I do and what I've researched and what works in sleep and exercise and mindset and not dying from something stupid, which is what.

• 54:19Gary Brecka?

  I love that.

• 54:20Speaker 00

  The, I mean, let me take a second to talk about that. But, but then it does go into the X Prize and, and where these sciences are going. There's a chapter called, you know, don't die from something stupid. What does that mean? So you know this, our body is really great at hiding disease.

• 54:38Speaker 00

  You know, I tell you, in a, in a room of a thousand or 10,000 people, I'll say, how many of you here are absolutely sure there's nothing going on inside your body you need to know about? You know, raise your hand and, and no one does unless they've just gone through a, you know, a set of

• 54:54Gary Brecka?

  Like a fountain life.

• 54:55Speaker 00

  Yeah, a fountain life diagnostic. So, uh, four years ago, Tony, uh, Bob, Hariri and I backing from, uh, from Mark Benioff and others. We built this coming to call fountain life. These are 10,000 square foot facilities. We have four today, four more next year, a road mode map to get to probably about 30, 35 around the world. And you come in, you spend about five hours with us and we digitize you. It's everything knowable about you, full body MRI, brain, brain vasculature, coronary CT with an AI overlay, low dose lung CT, DEXA scan,

• 55:36Speaker 00

  retinal scan, skin scan, uh, full genome, microbiome, metabolome, full blood workup. Again, everything knowable about you. And all of that data then gets digested by our AI system. It's all functional medicine based. The entire company is functional medicine.

• 55:53Gary Brecka?

  Love that.

• 55:53Speaker 00

  We have an amazing, uh, chief medical officer, uh, Dr. Helen Messier, who teaches functional medicine and we have a fountain university. Our doctors, our nurses, our health coaches, everybody's functional medicine and the AI digested. And there, there are two things we're trying to, you come in for, to answer two questions. Is there anything going on inside your body right now you need to know about?

• 56:16Gary Brecka?

  No.

• 56:17Speaker 00

  And what's likely to happen to you and how do we prevent it from happening?

• 56:20Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 56:21Speaker 00

  Right? I mean, that's, that's what you should know. So, um, here's the results in our first 5,000 members, 2%, everybody coming in is seemingly healthy, 2% of a cancer they don't know about.

• 56:32Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 56:33Speaker 00

  Right? I mean, think about it. You know, someone who went to the hospital, went to the doctor's office with a pain in their side and it was like, sorry to tell you this, but you've got stage three or stage four.

• 56:41Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 56:42Speaker 00

  And it didn't happen that morning. Right? It's been going on for some time and people go, I don't want to know. I was saying bullshit. Of course you want to know.

• 56:50Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 56:51Speaker 00

  You're going to find out eventually. You want to know now when you do something about it or when it's too late?

• 56:55Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, you are going to find out eventually.

• 56:56Speaker 00

  So, um, so your body is great at hiding that. Uh, 70% of all cardiac disease has no precedent, no shortness of breath, no pain. Um, even your calcium score doesn't matter, right? Your calcium score, calcified plaque, unless it's blocking the coronary artery that feeds the heart muscle, sugar and oxygen, unless it's blocking it, in which case, yeah, you want to see that. Uh, calcified plaque on the side of a coronary artery is stable. What we've discovered in the last few years, it's something called the soft plaque.

• 57:33Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 57:33Speaker 00

  That's on.

• 57:34Gary Brecka?

  You hear more and more about this.

• 57:35Speaker 00

  Of the arteries, right? So there's a special AI overlay called Clearly, James Min, Dr. James Min who invented is brilliant. And it's the soft plaque that in the middle of the night can break off and block your coronary artery and you don't wake up.

• 57:52Speaker 00

  And so we can detect through this AI overlay your soft plaque. Um, most of the cancers that kill people are not cancers we screen for because we screen for breast and prostate and intestinal cancers, but we don't screen for glioblastomas, pancreatic cancers. And so we find these things. We've saved hundreds of people's lives. I get thank you notes all the time. I, God bless you. Thank you for saving my life over and over again.

• 58:23Gary Brecka?

  That's.

• 58:24Speaker 00

  And one of the things that's important is it's not any one thing. It's multimodal, right?

• 58:28Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 58:29Speaker 00

  It's the imaging, plus the blood chemistries, plus the graal tests, plus everything. All this stuff comes together. So that's what the chapter on that is. It's not cheap.

• 58:40Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 58:40Speaker 00

  It's nineteen thousand five hundred, but it comes with a medical team for the entire year.

• 58:45Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 58:45Speaker 00

  With a physician, a nurse, a health coach, a dietitian. We have just rolled out a sixty five hundred dollar product.

• 58:54Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 58:54Speaker 00

  Called Core, which is through companies for their employees.

• 58:58Gary Brecka?

  And, and that's a scaled down version of what you're.

• 59:01Speaker 00

  It's all the same testing.

• 59:02Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 59:03Speaker 00

  Um, it's just not with the year round medical team. The humans still cost a bunch.

• 59:08Gary Brecka?

  Mm hmm. Yeah.

• 59:09Speaker 00

  Uh, they'll be demonetized and democratized by AI in the years ahead.

• 59:14Gary Brecka?

  And you, you plan to bring in AI to overlay a lot of this and make the diagnostics side easier. So then maybe it's.

• 59:20Speaker 00

  On my phone, I have all of my data.

• 59:22Gary Brecka?

  You do.

• 59:23Speaker 00

  And on my phone is an AI we call Zora that I can query. Like, tell me what you saw in my images. Tell me what correlation you have in my blood chemistries and my genetics. You can ask it.

• 59:36Gary Brecka?

  So that's already functional.

• 59:37Speaker 00

  It's all, it's here.

• 59:38Gary Brecka?

  And so a fountain life client could put that on their phone, get their diagnostics done and then start asking questions.

• 59:44Speaker 00

  Yes, your doctor will clue you in. And the most important thing is not to get overwhelmed.

• 59:50Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 59:50Speaker 00

  To give you an actual plan and to have a, a nurse, a physician, a health coach, a dietitian with you through the year. To then, and to get you through and improve. And by the way, this is never a one and done.

• 1:00:04Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 1:00:05Speaker 00

  It is, I do this, I've done this every year, originally through human longevity and now for the last four and a half years with, with Fountain. Because eventually I'll find something.

• 1:00:15Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:16Speaker 00

  And I'll say, thank you.

• 1:00:17Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, and you'll find it early enough. Um, and that's what I talk about a lot is the early detection, the artificial intelligence and the big data.

• 1:00:23Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:00:23Gary Brecka?

  Um, because one of the things that we realized in the, in the mortality space was the big data was actually more predictive than any kind of randomized clinical trial. Or a lot of the scientific, um, periodical data that we were getting. You know, you could look at large populace of data, um, three hundred and seventy one million lives in the, in the mortality database that we, we used to have access to. And we would see things like what you were talking about earlier. Um, well, there was elevated. LDL cholesterol in this entire populace, but the ones that had the lower triglycerides actually had no impact on mortality as as triglycerides rose and actually made the LDL more dangerous and we had an increase in all cause mortality. So just showing that, you know, it's not as linear as we think, just like you were you were you were saying,

• 1:01:08Gary Brecka?

  the the fascination that I have with AI are the 700 trillion independent variables. You talk about the number of methylation.

• 1:01:17Speaker 00

  And no human can understand all that.

• 1:01:19Gary Brecka?

  No.

• 1:01:19Speaker 00

  But AI can take it all in, process it and help you. And then eventually we'll have our AI coaches which say, hey, Gary, don't take the elevator. There's stairs around the corner. Take that. Like, you know, you'll give permission to your AI to watch everything you do, see what you're eating, listen to your, you know, your, your conversations, your emails, and it will advise you. And so you can turn on Health Coach. And the other thing is, you know, I'm wearing a, where is it?

• 1:01:48Gary Brecka?

  Constant glucose monitor?

• 1:01:49Speaker 00

  My CGM, I'm wearing my Oura ring and my Apple Watch, but I'm, I'm, I'm invest, I'm investing in.

• 1:01:55Gary Brecka?

  He's got data.

• 1:01:56Speaker 00

  I mean, I'm investing in all these sensor companies because eventually all of this data is going to be uploaded to my AI.

• 1:02:04Gary Brecka?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:02:04Speaker 00

  And uploaded to the robot in my kitchen.

• 1:02:07Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:08Speaker 00

  That will cook the perfect food that my body needs that next hour.

• 1:02:12Gary Brecka?

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• 1:02:56Gary Brecka?

  a calling. Chloe says it best, in honor of my mom. And for the health of all, I guarantee Parker Pastures meat will always be flavorful, nutrient dense and healing for both you and the land. You can order grass fed and grass finished beef, lamb, bison, as well as pasture raised pork and chicken to be delivered straight to your door next week. She delivers to all 50 states. So why settle for mystery meat from the store? When you can eat meat that nourishes your body and restores the earth? Visit Parker Pastures.com today and you'll get 25 bucks off your order. That's Parker Pastures.com and get $25 off your first order. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I mean, that's sort of the Brian Johnson method, right? I mean, he's, he's almost taken himself out of any

• 1:03:41Gary Brecka?

  decision, decisions, yeah, the decision processes and, and all of his supplements fight for the life and his caloric intake, you know, is, is prescribed, you know, right down to the macros and the micros.

• 1:03:51Speaker 00

  And his erection as well.

• 1:03:53Gary Brecka?

  His erection as well. He does talk about that a lot.

• 1:03:58Gary Brecka?

  But, um, you know, you're, you're also known for taking, um, up to 75 supplements in a, in a, in a day.

• 1:04:06Speaker 00

  I think I'm up to 80 now.

• 1:04:07Gary Brecka?

  Are you? I'm, I'm, I'm not far behind you, by the way.

• 1:04:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:04:10Gary Brecka?

  And sometimes I'm afraid to even tell people all the stuff that I'm taking because they'll think, wow. But how did you formulate? You don't have to be hyper specific, but how'd you formulate this supplement regimen?

• 1:04:20Speaker 00

  You know, I used to have people ask me, please tell me, and I had this five page document and this 10 page document. And I said, screw it. And so the whole chapter in the book of exactly what I take and why. And, um, I do all of this in consultation with my Fountain Life Medical Team, right? I'm tested at least quarterly, if not more frequently than that, because I, I care. Data is power.

• 1:04:45Gary Brecka?

  I agree with you. If you don't have data, you don't have nothing to take action on.

• 1:04:48Speaker 00

  And, and by the way, I talk about in the book, a lot of other lower cost programs that you can do. There's Life Force, which is a, which is around blood testing and supplements. There is prenova, which is only the MRI, without, without the, without the, uh, the follow up. And so there's a lot of different things and I list them all, um, so that people have alternatives. But the way I think about it, uh, there was a paper published in Cell that talked about the hallmarks of aging. And they're originally like nine, now they're like 12. And so when people said, why do we age? There's a number of very specific elements like stem cell exhaustion. I should just say, first of all, our bodies were never designed to live past age thirty.

• 1:05:34Speaker 00

  Hate to say it, right? If you think about it, two hundred thousand years ago, you were in puberty at age twelve. By thirteen, you were pregnant.

• 1:05:42Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 1:05:42Speaker 00

  Before birth control was around.

• 1:05:44Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 1:05:44Speaker 00

  By the time you were twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, you were a grandparent. And before McDonald's and Whole Foods was here, if you wanted to perpetuate the species and pass on your genes, you didn't want the grandparents stealing food from the grandchildren's mouths. And so lifespan was like thirty years. And so if we look at this.

• 1:06:07Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 1:06:08Speaker 00

  It's just, it is, and a lot of things, and I talk about this evolutionary rationale and reason from earlier on.

• 1:06:16Speaker 00

  Our muscle mass starts decreasing after the age of thirty, our hormone levels, right?

• 1:06:20Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:20Speaker 00

  Our thymus is gone, our muscles begin to atrophy. All of these things, and you can and should fight it, and I do with all the efforts and all of

• 1:06:31Gary Brecka?

  Exercise.

• 1:06:32Speaker 00

  All those things. When you look, go back to the hallmarks of aging, right? Our stem cell population, so stem cell exhaustion is one of them. The end caps of our DNA.

• 1:06:45Gary Brecka?

  Telomeres.

• 1:06:45Speaker 00

  Our telomeres. There is mitochondrial, you know, degradation that occurs. There's all of these, and I list all twelve hallmarks of aging. And then the way I built my supplements is looking at which are the supplements that can impact each of those twelve hallmarks. And there's great science behind each of them.

• 1:07:07Gary Brecka?

  So like resveratrol, DHEA.

• 1:07:10Speaker 00

  You know, and NAD, so NAD, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, which is the power currency in our cells. David Sinclair did a lot of incredible work on this, and kudos to him. You know, we have these seven sirtuins, these proteins. And the sirtuins have two functions in your cells. One function is that they are.

• 1:07:37Speaker 00

  Correcting DNA mutation that we accumulate as we get older.

• 1:07:41Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:42Speaker 00

  The other function is they keep our.

• 1:07:45Gary Brecka?

  How do they correct a DNA mutation? So they repair it?

• 1:07:48Speaker 00

  They. No, the sirtuins are are part of the, you know, DNA repair system, but they also maintain your epigenetic situation. So what do I what do you mean by that? When you're born, when you're 20, when you're 50, when you're 100, you have the same exact genome.

• 1:08:09Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 1:08:09Speaker 00

  Right. 3.2 billion letters from mom and from dad. Your software doesn't change. So why do you look different at at 80 or 100? Why don't you have the six pack you had when you were 18? It's not the software you're running. It's what genes are on and what genes are off. It's your epigenome.

• 1:08:28Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:08:29Speaker 00

  And the control of what genes should be on and which genes should be off is driven by these seven sirtuins. And as we get older, the sirtuins are having to correct DNA damage and keep us from having epigenetic drift. And they are powered by something called NAD plus.

• 1:08:55Speaker 00

  If they don't have enough NAD and the NAD in your cells drops by over 50% as you age.

• 1:09:00Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:01Speaker 00

  And so when David and others talk about NMN or NR as a supplement.

• 1:09:06Gary Brecka?

  Yep.

• 1:09:07Speaker 00

  That is the precursor to NAD.

• 1:09:09Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, you can't really take the NAD orally. I guess you do it injectively or.

• 1:09:13Speaker 00

  You can, but it doesn't get even it doesn't even get into the cell that way. It's you want a precursor like NMN or NR that crosses the cell surface and gets converted to NAD. So the supplements and meds I take are to address those hallmarks of aging. And the science is there. I I present it, but I'm very clear. Listen, this is what I do. This is why I do it. Do the research yourself, find a physician and start incrementally. My mom still says to me, Peter, how are you sure those things all don't interact with each other in the wrong way? So mom, I don't know. I don't know. Honestly, I don't know.

• 1:09:52Gary Brecka?

  I feel great though.

• 1:09:53Speaker 00

  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's ultimately, that is ultimately, you know, do you look good? Are you thinking clearly? Are you moving well? Are you enjoying life? Yeah. One of the best pro longevity things I've ever done is having kids at 50.

• 1:10:10Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 1:10:11Speaker 00

  All right. So I had two boys at 50, they're, they're 13 now. And a lot, you know, when I go to sleep every night, one of the things I, I do as a part of my practice is what are my three favorite memories from the day? What am I grateful for? And almost always it's around them.

• 1:10:28Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:28Speaker 00

  It's not some deal I closed or some investment I made.

• 1:10:31Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, that's so cool. I feel the exact same way about family. And this goes back to the whole idea about the importance of community and not, not being in isolation. You know, we knew in the mortality space that if you wanted to cut a human being's life expectancy in half, and I mean at any age, put them in isolation.

• 1:10:49Gary Brecka?

  And it would literally cut their life expectancy in half. And whatever age they are, you could have it in isolation. And I think that, you know, I, again, I don't purport to be a mental health expert by any means. But I think there's an argument to be made that the amount of social media that we consume, the amount of artificial relationships and stimulus that we create.

• 1:11:14Speaker 00

  I'm scared shitless for my 13 year olds about AI girlfriends.

• 1:11:16Gary Brecka?

  Them in isolation, right? Right? I mean, I don't consider you having access to your phone and the media on that phone to be out of isolation. I would actually consider that to be in isolation. And so, you know, with, with life expectancy, the United States is going backwards. It's actually tanking for a whole host of reasons, but not the least of which I believe is we are losing touch with the basics of humanity. You know, um, mother nature, we don't touch the surface of the earth. We don't get much sunlight. We don't ground. We don't walk in nature. We, we, we don't have a lot of human in.

• 1:11:53Gary Brecka?

  Interaction, we have a lot more of an electronic, you know, interaction. And I, I believe that this is a form of isolation, you know, it's, it's, it's removing. Again, back to the blue zones. I mean, there were no such things as assisted care living facilities. Grandma and grandpa moved back in with the kids until the day they died. And maybe her only role was to go get vegetables for dinner, you know? But.

• 1:12:16Speaker 00

  You're so, so right. I mean, human touch. You know, I have my favorite hug dealer, hug dealer T-shirt. And which I'm not sure if it's socially acceptable now to have that, but it's like, yeah. Just, I mean, it's like, it's like, yeah, just to give someone a hug.

• 1:12:33Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:12:33Speaker 00

  And breathe deep with them and just say, thank you for being in my life.

• 1:12:39Speaker 00

  It's a, it's a, it's a beautiful thing. These are the fundamental elements of life.

• 1:12:45Gary Brecka?

  Well, I am really excited that our paths cross. I don't think that you and I have written our last chapter. I think we're about to write our first.

• 1:12:53Speaker 00

  We're in the introduction, my friend.

• 1:12:54Gary Brecka?

  Our first chapter together. Where do people that have interacted with you, where can they find you? Where can they find out more about you?

• 1:13:03Speaker 00

  So longevityguidebook.com will give you a whole bunch of resources and a, a deep discount on the book.

• 1:13:12Speaker 00

  Please use this book, even if you just pick one chapter to focus on. My goal is to get this information out there. You have control over every aspect of your health. Take, you know, be the CEO of your own health. It's so truly important. You go to fountain life, fountainlife.com to learn more about those offerings. And I hope people will take advantage of it. My podcast is called Moon Shots.

• 1:13:38Gary Brecka?

  Moon Shots, okay.

• 1:13:39Speaker 00

  Yeah. And I've had the pleasure of interviewing Elon a couple of times and Eric Schmidt, a whole bunch of AI experts. A number of folks in the longevity space. Yeah, I'm focused on who's taking the biggest shots in the universe. Who's open for, you know, impacting the world at a tremendous level?

• 1:14:00Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:14:00Speaker 00

  And I need to have you on my Moon Shots podcast, buddy.

• 1:14:02Gary Brecka?

  I mean, I'd be honored to be on there.

• 1:14:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I'll take that.

• 1:14:06Gary Brecka?

  You shoot it out in LA?

• 1:14:07Speaker 00

  I shoot out in LA. Yeah, a new studio I built out in Santa Monica.

• 1:14:11Gary Brecka?

  Okay.

• 1:14:12Speaker 00

  DMandus.com. I put out two blogs a week. My job at this point in my life is to inspire. So I talk about something called a massive transformative purpose, an MTP. Right? Mark Twain said there are two important days in your life, the day that you were born and the day that you found out why. Right? Really beautiful. And so at Singularity and at Abundance 360, which is my CEO level forum. I teach creating a massive transformative purpose. And it's something that wakes you up in the morning, keeps you going through the night. It's what it's what longevity connects with, right? Having a purpose and, you know, a future bigger than your past.

• 1:14:53Speaker 00

  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 X Prize, through Singularity, through all of this is how do I help entrepreneurs go big and bold in the world?

• 1:15:08Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, that is amazing, man, especially in the in the area of longevity.

• 1:15:12Speaker 00

  Especially, yeah.

• 1:15:14Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, that's fantastic. Well, I want to get every podcast down by asking.

• 1:15:20Gary Brecka?

  Are my guests the same question? There's no right or wrong answer to this question. And that is, what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human?

• 1:15:28Speaker 00

  To be so to be my ultimate self is to give, put it all out, leave nothing in reserve. And 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.

• 1:15:53Speaker 00

  I mean, those are the elements and and to make that happen, I need to have the best physical health I have.

• 1:15:59Gary Brecka?

  Yes.

• 1:16:00Speaker 00

  Right? To, you know, because I'm I'm going 24/7 with my eight hours of sleep in there.

• 1:16:06Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 1:16:06Speaker 00

  And I'm just. I feel blessed to be alive. This is the most magical time ever in human history.

• 1:16:12Gary Brecka?

  Gosh, I do too.

• 1:16:13Speaker 00

  Right? One of my favorite slides I use in presentations is a slide that the title is, "Our ancestors would view us as gods."

• 1:16:22Gary Brecka?

  Hmm.

• 1:16:22Speaker 00

  Let me just reflect on that for a second, right? The things that we did since this morning is, you know, we're omniscient, we're omnipotent, we're omnipresent, we are, we're creating new life forms in AI. I mean, it's amazing the life we're living.

• 1:16:38Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, it really is. Yeah. Well, Peter, I cannot thank you enough for coming on. I mean, this is a true honor to have you on here. I'm excited to be on, on your show too. I will put everything that he discussed in the show notes below, guys, including a link to his book. Check Dr. Diamandis out. Absolute mentor of mine. And as always, guys, it's just science.