Hack the Next Decade: Make Millions & Reverse Aging with AI (Do THIS to GET AHEAD!) | Peter Diamandis

Recently named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter Diamandis is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University. As an entrepreneur, Diamandis has started over 25 companies in the areas of health tech, space, venture capital, and education. He is the Co-founder and Vice-Chairman of two public companies, Celularity and Vaxxinity. Dr. Diamandis is Co-founder & Chairman of Fountain Life, a fully-integrated platform delivering predictive, preventative, personalized, and data-driven health. Finally, he also serves as Co-founder of BOLD Capital Partners, a venture fund with half-billion dollars under management being invested in exponential technologies and longevity companies. Diamandis is a New York Times Bestselling author of four books: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think, BOLD – How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World, and The Future is Faster Than You Think. Most recently, he co-authored the #1 best seller LIFE FORCE with Tony Robbins, which chronicles the extraordinary healthcare and biotech revolution unfolding before our eyes. He earned degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and holds an M. D. from Harvard Medical School. Diamandis’ favorite saying is, “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.”Buy his new books, Longevity and Exponential Organizations 2.0In this episode you will learnInsights into the current state of research and technology in extending human lifespan, and what the future holds. How to prepare your body and mind for achieving audacious goals, embracing the concept of 'moonshot thinking'. How individuals and organizations can develop a mindset that encourages risk-taking and boundary-pushing for innovative success. About the most recent breakthroughs and advancements in life extension and why they are promising. The major challenges and obstacles that researchers face in the quest to extend human lifespan. For more information go to www.lewishowes.com/1541For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Rob Dial – https://link.chtbl.com/1516-podDr Joe Dispenza – https://link.chtbl.com/1494-podInky Johnson – https://link.chtbl.com/1483-pod Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  Today, every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for about a quarter of a year, right? There's going to be a point at which for every year you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And that's called longevity escape velocity.

• 0:19Lewis Howes?

  Welcome to the School of Greatness. My name is Lewis Howes, a former pro athlete turned lifestyle entrepreneur. And each week, we bring you an inspiring person or message to help you discover how to unlock your inner greatness. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let the class begin.

• 0:41Lewis Howes?

  Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. We have the inspiring Peter Diamandis in the house. Good to see you, sir. Lewis, a pleasure to be back. Very excited. You have recently been named by Fortune as one of the world's 50 greatest leaders. Yeah, my mom paid a lot for that. Exactly. You're also a multiple New York Times bestselling author of many books, founder of X Prize, and Singularity, and many other businesses. But what I'm most fascinated by is your commitment to helping people live longer and live healthier. You know, in a world where it seems like there is more stress and chaos and disease

• 1:21Lewis Howes?

  and war and suffering than ever, what we need is internal harmony and peace. Yeah. That'll help us live better lives today and longer. And I wanted to ask you, you've got this incredible guide that is free online right now, and a book coming out that is your longevity practices, and a book that is your practice called Longevity, Your Practical Playbook, coming out. This is all your life's experience on how to sleep better, the right diets, the right exercises, the mindset, the medications, and how to not die from something stupid.

• 2:00Lewis Howes?

  And I'm curious, is it possible for us to become immortal, in a sense? And to extend our life, maybe not forever, but farther than we could ever imagine?

• 2:12Peter Diamandis?

  I think this is the decade that we're making a real inflection in that. You know, for most of human history, you have to remember, if you go back 100,000 years in earliest days of Homo sapiens as cavemen, we would go into puberty at age 12 or 13, and we'd have the baby, we'd get pregnant, we'd have a baby, and by the time you were 27 or 28, you were a grandparent, your baby was having a baby, right? And back then, your job was to perpetuate your species, and because we didn't have abundant food, the last thing you wanted to do was steal food from your grandchildren's mouths. So, most people died by age 30. So, the human body evolved really to live to age 30, and then it was a slow decline after that.

• 2:57Peter Diamandis?

  And we moved to about 100 years ago, the average age was around 40.

• 3:02Lewis Howes?

  100 years ago?

• 3:03Peter Diamandis?

  100 years ago. And then, we had pasteurization, and antibiotics, and better sanitation, and other medications, and we've moved from an average age of 40 to upper 70s now. But, many people know people who are 100 years old, right? Or a centenarian, or a super centenarian. The question is, how old could we live? So, I remember when I was in medical school, I watched a television show on long-lived sea life, that certain species of whales, bowhead whales, could live 200 years, and Greenland sharks could live like 500 years, and then babies at 200 years.

• 3:44Lewis Howes?

  Oh my goodness.

• 3:45Peter Diamandis?

  And so, the question was, why could they live that long, and why couldn't we? And I remember thinking to myself, that it's either a hardware problem or a software problem, and we're gonna have the ability to solve that. I think this is the decade that we are learning how to solve that. So, do I think we're immortal? Probably not. Do I think we can make it to 120 consistently, 150? Yeah, I think we could. And I think that... Again, the breakthroughs to enable that are coming as a result of all these exponential technologies that we spoke about last time I was on your show. You know, this is computation, sensors, networks, AI, robotics, 3D printing, synthetic biology,

• 4:29Peter Diamandis?

  you know, quantum technologies. All of these things are coming together and reinventing, you know, how we understand aging and how we deal with it. So this is a magical, magical decade. I'll say one other thing and I'll mention why this work. There's a concept that a guy named Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil talk about called longevity escape velocity. So today, you know, science is, there's more money going into longevity research and biotech every year. I mean, it's just massively increasing. And so today, every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for about a quarter of a year, right?

• 5:14Peter Diamandis?

  There's going to be a point at which for every year you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And that's called longevity escape velocity. And I interviewed a few, for me, of the top scientists and thinkers in this field. I said, when are we going to see that? And their answer was pretty shocking. Ray Kurzweil believes it's within the next 10 to 12 years. George Church out of Harvard said probably the next 15 years. So if that's the case, if we can really hit longevity escape velocity in that timeframe, your job and the job of everyone listening is not to die from something stupid in the interim.

• 5:54Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 5:54Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So it's like, how do you, how do you keep yourself in the best health to intercept these breakthroughs that are coming? Because they are coming. There's no greater business, you know, for me, AI and longevity, the two biggest business opportunities on the planet.

• 6:08Lewis Howes?

  If you could go back to your 30s or 40s.

• 6:11Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 6:12Lewis Howes?

  What would you have done differently then that you know now?

• 6:15Peter Diamandis?

  Ah, yes. There's a bunch of things. So, um, so the book that I have coming out, um, or just came out, uh, is called Longevity, Your Practical Playbook. And that's amazing. I actually wrote up my, uh, my longevity practices and they're available for everybody online and I would do what I did, what I did there.

• 6:35Lewis Howes?

  Right. And they can get this on your website?

• 6:36Peter Diamandis?

  They can go, yeah, dmantis.com/longevity and it's a free, a free download.

• 6:40Lewis Howes?

  Yep.

• 6:41Peter Diamandis?

  Um, and so, uh, you know, it breaks down to the fundamentals. It is about what you eat. It's about the exercise you get. It's about your sleep. It's about your mindset and it's about what I call not dying for something stupid, which we can talk about, which is understanding what's going on inside your body. And I think that,

• 7:08Peter Diamandis?

  it's pretty damn logical. People just need to want to get there. Um, it's, it's what you do with your time. It's how you trade, uh, the things in your life. I don't know if you want to go with this, but happy to dive into any of that.

• 7:21Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. I mean, what would you have done if you were?

• 7:23Peter Diamandis?

  Alright. So, first of all, okay, so when I was in medical school and grad school, I used to like pride myself on how little I would sleep.

• 7:31Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 7:32Peter Diamandis?

  Right. It was like, I'd say, okay, five, five and a half hours, I can get by on that. And now I'm like, you know, I'm like eight hours. It's like my objective, I'm in bed by nine, nine thirty the latest. Uh, cause my, my eyes pop open at five, five thirty and so.

• 7:48Lewis Howes?

  You have to go to bed earlier.

• 7:49Peter Diamandis?

  It's so, I can control when I go to sleep. Uh, so getting, uh, eight hours of sleep, if the body, if evolution had allowed us to get away with less sleep, we would have evolved that way.

• 8:02Lewis Howes?

  Hmm.

• 8:02Peter Diamandis?

  Right? I mean, while you're sleeping, you're not hunting, you're not procreating, you're not defending yourself. It's a very vulnerable time. And so, evolution would have reduced the amount of sleep. And it didn't. Uh, we need eight hours of sleep. You know, seven is a minimum, eight, and people who think to get away with less, you're fooling yourself. Uh, so sleep is the first. Uh, we can go into diet and I spent a lot of time on that and there's no one diet for everybody, right? I've been a I've been in a keto diet, I've been a vegan, I've probably back to my Mediterranean diet roots. But there are some fundamentals and one is minimizing sugar. Sugar is a poison.

• 8:45Peter Diamandis?

  I mean, to be very clear, the body was never designed to take in as much sugar as we do. And it's addictive. And the sugar molecule attaches to different proteins in the body and it's an inflammatory agent. It's a cardio inflammatory, it's a neuroinflammatory, it's, it's not good. So, cutting out sugar, I think is one of the most important things you can do.

• 9:12Peter Diamandis?

  The next, of course, is eating whole plants, a whole plant diet. I still, I'll, you know, eat fish and chicken. Whole plants for me is, I attack plants. By the way, one little trick that I learned that I think is brilliant. It matters the order in which you eat your food.

• 9:31Lewis Howes?

  Really?

• 9:31Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so if you got a plate in front of you, eat your veggies first, eat your fiber. Eat your protein next and then eat your carbs last.

• 9:41Lewis Howes?

  Why is that?

• 9:42Peter Diamandis?

  Well, the fiber coming in actually slows your digestive tract. It slows your ability and allows you to actually absorb the nutrients that come from your plants first and foremost. It slows digestion, the protein. If you eat your white rice or your bread, I mean, you go to a French or Italian restaurant, they serve you a glass of wine and a big loaf of bread. You eat that first.

• 10:02Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 10:03Peter Diamandis?

  And boom, it just spikes your blood sugar. And you fill yourself with the good stuff. I mean, you have to learn the tricks and the tricks are when the, when the bread and the wine comes, is can you hold off until the main course comes?

• 10:15Lewis Howes?

  To the end, yeah, yeah.

• 10:17Peter Diamandis?

  And then if, you know, you're at a dinner party and they're putting dessert on your, on your plate. It's like, just say no before it ends up there, because if it's in front of you, you're battling the entire time to not eat it.

• 10:27Lewis Howes?

  And you're waiting 20 minutes until the food comes, yeah.

• 10:29Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so, I mean, the order of food, you know, your fiber, your veggies, then your protein and then any carbs you want to take in. So, I mean, those are just some real simple basics and then exercise, you know this, you're an amazing shape. How often do you work out?

• 10:44Lewis Howes?

  Six days a week.

• 10:45Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 10:45Lewis Howes?

  Yeah. Living and cardio and running.

• 10:47Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so that's, that's super important, right? So I am trying to do the same. I'm trying to get five weight workouts in a week. Minimum of three, targets five.

• 11:01Peter Diamandis?

  There's no, no better pro longevity drug right now than exercise.

• 11:08Peter Diamandis?

  And so it, if you're, if anybody's listening over 60, working out like once or twice a week, right, reduces your all-cause mortality by 50%, reduces your chance of cancer by threefold, right? And so it really is an amazing element here. And building muscle mass is one of the most important things. So for me, it's like I've been pushing to get to 10 extra pounds of muscle mass. I'm at six this year, so I've got four more to go.

• 11:35Lewis Howes?

  Feel like a straw, man. You're like a jack.

• 11:37Peter Diamandis?

  I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good. And it's, so those are the things that I wish I had thought about. So I'm 62 now, right? I'm in the, I feel like I'm in the best shape I've ever been in. And I wish I had thought about this 20 or 30 years ago.

• 11:53Lewis Howes?

  What is, how much harder is it to build muscle after 50, 60, 70?

• 11:58Peter Diamandis?

  It's a lot harder, right? So your body, there's a whole process of sarcopenia, which is the, basically the wasting of muscle. And it's, again, as we're aging, after 30, a whole number of different elements. So your hormone levels begin to dysregulate, right? The number of stem cells in your body begin to go down. Your ability to build muscle reduces. Your thymus that generates your immune system begins to be lost and go down. So the body, because, you know, evolution never selected for these things after you reproduced.

• 12:39Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 12:39Peter Diamandis?

  There's no pro selective factor. It's the body begins to dysregulate and drops down. So, which brings me to what we just announced, you know, a few days ago, which I've been working on for 15 years. Wow. Which is, we've just announced a $101 million X Prize health spend. So, as you know, I had started the X Prize Foundation 29 years ago, hard to believe. Wow. And we've launched $300 million in competitions globally. And those $300 million in prizes, one was for $10 million for spaceflight, $10 million for mapping the ocean floor,

• 13:20Peter Diamandis?

  $100 million that Elon funded for pulling gigatons of carbon out of the atmosphere. And these are prizes for doing hard things. It's not for an idea, you have to actually do the thing. Solve the problem. Solve the problem. Show it, show it done, build the hardware, do the science, demonstrate it, and then you win the money. Wow. And so the largest prize to date had been this $100 million prize that Elon put up for pulling gigatons of carbon. And that prize is ongoing right now, it'll be won in the next couple of years. 15 years ago, I had a conversation with Peter Thiel and Aubrey de Grey, could we do a longevity prize? And it was like, don't know how we'd measure it, don't we do?

• 14:03Peter Diamandis?

  Five, so it stopped. Five years ago, the conversation picked up again. John Benet of Sergey Young, venture capitalist, dear friend of mine. Yeah. Gave X Prize a half million bucks to look at this again. Yeah. Then I had a conversation with a guy named George Church at Harvard Medical School. He's one of the most brilliant bio researchers, entrepreneurs on the planet. And he said, listen, you can't think of a longevity prize, but what you have to think about is a rejuvenation prize, or age reversal prize, where you're asking teams not to wait and see, can a person live 30 years extra? It's gonna take you 30 years to pay this thing out.

• 14:45Peter Diamandis?

  But can you actually reverse a person's aging process by 10 or 20 years? How do you measure that? Yeah, so, it's interesting, right? So there's no accepted biomarkers of aging, like a cholesterol level or something. But what I realized with George's help was...

• 15:07Peter Diamandis?

  What you really want, you don't care what a biomarker or a number on a, you know, blood report says. What you care about is at the end of this, do I feel, do I have the muscle strength I had 20 years ago? Mm-hmm. Do I have the cognition I had 20 years ago? The recovery process. Yeah, the immune system I had 20 years ago. Mm-hmm. So this is an X Prize that we're asking teams around the world to demonstrate the ability to restore function. And we're doing this in individuals who are aged 65

• 15:49Peter Diamandis?

  to 80. So any team around the world can compete. They're going to have to get a population of people aged 65 to 80, and they have to give a treatment to those individuals in 12 months or less. So at the end of that 12-month process, we're then going to measure, we're going to measure those, that cohort of individuals before and then measure after. And did we restore the strength they had? Are we going to restore their immune function and their cognition? From 20 years prior. From 20 years prior. Wow. Right? Do they have, and, and there's, there's a lot of well-characterized data. And, and that's the goal. So fascinating, there was a study done at Harvard London School

• 16:34Peter Diamandis?

  of Business in Oxford that said, every year of additional healthy life is worth $38 trillion to the global economy. Really? Yeah. Think about it, because you're still productive. Uh-huh. Right? You're not spending your money on, on health. You know, the question is, why do people retire and get out of the business world? Either they're forced to, right, because they hit some retirement limit, or they're in pain, or they're tired, right? But if you, if you're at 65, 75, 85, and you feel amazing, your brain is clear, you've got incredible strength, you're healthy, the last thing you want to do at the top

• 17:16Peter Diamandis?

  of your game is like, you know, shut down and go crawl into a living room someplace. For people that have this, this desire to retire at a certain age and, and not work...

• 17:28Lewis Howes?

  What do you think happens to that type of individual when they stop being productive or having a purpose towards some type of work?

• 17:35Peter Diamandis?

  I'll never forget, I was, I, you know, years ago, I was meeting with a billionaire here in LA who had just retired as CEO of a major company. And we had lunch and he said something along the lines of, you know, ever since I've retired, you know, like going shopping for food and getting my hair cut in a day is the most complicated thing I do. You know, and it's, it's like, I think people need to live a purpose driven life. They need to have something to do. And so the question is, what are you going to do when you have that extra couple of decades of life?

• 18:18Peter Diamandis?

  Maybe it's start another company, maybe it's go and travel around the world, maybe it's go to the moon, maybe it's get another degree. But if you've got the energy, right? And the vitality, I think that it's great. I think people sort of conflate getting old with being in a wheelchair and drooling and being in pain. And no one wants that. So, you know, let me just distinguish the term lifespan and health span. Right? Lifespan is how long your ticker is going, how long your brain function is functioning.

• 18:56Peter Diamandis?

  And health span is how long are you, the health, to enjoy your life in every way you want, your grandkids, your, you know, traveling around the world.

• 19:07Lewis Howes?

  The quality of life.

• 19:08Peter Diamandis?

  Quality of life, not the length of life. And, and one of the challenges is that health, you know, lifespan is a lot longer than health span. And there's a, the last 20, 30 years can be a degrading period. What you really want is that you want your health span to continue and the life just drop.

• 19:27Lewis Howes?

  Drop in the last week.

• 19:28Peter Diamandis?

  Drop in the last week.

• 19:29Lewis Howes?

  Right.

• 19:29Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 19:30Lewis Howes?

  That's what David Sinclair talks about. He said his, I think his mother was suffering for 10 years. From, I can't remember if it was lung cancer or something, but she was declining for a decade plus. And he said, it's agony watching someone you love and care about suffer.

• 19:46Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 19:46Lewis Howes?

  And have, live longer, but suffer with their health. And he was like, I hope when I'm older, I just, you know, in one week, I just, you know, die.

• 19:55Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 19:55Lewis Howes?

  And don't suffer.

• 19:57Peter Diamandis?

  And, and I think everybody should want that.

• 20:01Peter Diamandis?

  And I think the breakthroughs we're gonna see out of this X Prize will help people get there. So it's, you know, it's a hundred and one million dollars. We expect to have hundreds of teams competing for this around the world. We're gonna give away ten million dollars after two years to the, we're gonna give away a quarter of a million to the top forty teams, help perpetuate them forward. And then a year and a half later, we'll give away a million dollars each to the top ten teams.

• 20:31Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 20:31Peter Diamandis?

  And then there's eighty one million dollars up for grabs.

• 20:35Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, it's incredible.

• 20:36Peter Diamandis?

  It is our, one of, we have two major sponsors and a bunch of individuals. I'm, you know, I've committed five million dollars to this prize myself. We have a number of ten million dollar donors, a group called Evolution, which is out of, out of Riyadh and the US, has committed forty million towards this prize.

• 20:58Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 20:59Peter Diamandis?

  And then a guy named Chip Wilson, you know him as the founder of Lululemon.

• 21:03Lewis Howes?

  Okay, yeah.

• 21:04Peter Diamandis?

  Chip's an amazing entrepreneur, beautiful man, who has been suffering from a muscular dystrophy. And this is a muscle function loss. And so he was the first major funder of this prize, put up a quarter of it. And then he's added a ten million dollar bonus for anybody who can slow or reverse his muscular dystrophy, his, his disease called FSHD. And so, you know, I think there is a lot of brilliant scientists out there. And the cost of doing biotech has plummeted. The tools that we have with AI are incredible. So it's really about, how do you make a call out to the world and say, I don't care who you are,

• 21:47Peter Diamandis?

  where you went to school, what you've ever done, if you can solve this problem. Right? And so we're all solving, we're all suffering from aging. That is a problem, a universal problem.

• 21:56Lewis Howes?

  Yes. And I think you were telling me earlier that the kind of three main things we need to learn how to either optimize or reverse is the decline of. Muscle mass and strength.

• 22:06Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 22:06Lewis Howes?

  The immune system and cognition.

• 22:08Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 22:09Lewis Howes?

  Those are the three.

• 22:09Peter Diamandis?

  For this competition, those are the three we chose. And so, within a year, you're gonna need to sharpen individuals' mind, give them back the memory, the acuity that they had from 20 years earlier. And so, someone who's 80, you know, going back to 60, or someone who's 65, going back to 45, that's a big deal. And we know this decline that occurs as we age. For immune system, this is about, your immune system is amazing, right? The two most complicated and advanced machines in the universe of the human brain, and the immune system comes second. And for the immune system, your immune system is what defends you against,

• 22:52Peter Diamandis?

  you know, hopefully COVID or any infectious disease.

• 22:55Lewis Howes?

  Diseases, yeah.

• 22:56Peter Diamandis?

  It also defends you against cancer. So, we're always developing cancers in the body. It's just that your immune system, your innate immune system, your natural killer cells, discover the cancer and zap it.

• 23:09Lewis Howes?

  So, if you have a weakened immune system, you're more susceptible to cancers.

• 23:13Peter Diamandis?

  And the flu and other things. And there's a concept called immuno-exhaustion that's occurred. And so, what we wanna do is give people back their physical strength, their immune strength, and their cognitive strength, right? And I think those are, if you've got those, then the quality of your life has increased. So, we, this is a seven-year competition. And we're gonna follow this very carefully. And at the end of the day, my hope is by 2030, we're gonna be adding at least a decade, hopefully 20 years of health to people's lives.

• 23:55Lewis Howes?

  That's incredible.

• 23:56Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 23:57Lewis Howes?

  That's amazing. Now, here's the thing. There seems to be more information about health and wellness than ever before with.

• 24:06Lewis Howes?

  You know, I've had a lot of different experts on over the last couple of years. There's so many other experts sharing their content and findings online. Again, you've got this incredible guide. There's, there's tech and tools and all these different things that can seem overwhelming for people. And it can feel like a full-time job to just manage your health and be worried about, okay, what do I need to do and can I eat this and when, you know, when to sleep? I just turned 40 this year.

• 24:32Peter Diamandis?

  Good. Young man.

• 24:33Lewis Howes?

  And in my, yeah, exactly. And in my teens and twenties, I felt invincible, right? I felt like I can do whatever. I can train as hard as I want. I'm going to recover. I don't need to sleep. I can eat whatever and I'm still going to be a great athlete and a specimen because I have got that, you know, testosterone or whatever.

• 24:51Lewis Howes?

  But now I started to feel a little injuries over the last couple of years and I realized, okay, I can't just do whatever. I need to be intentional about my health. I've lost 30 pounds this year. I've really taken on tracking and measuring things better and just optimizing and tweaking. I've got a long way to go. But for people who are in their 30s and 40s.

• 25:10Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 25:12Lewis Howes?

  You know, I want them to get this and dive in deeper. But if they're like, you know what, I don't have the ability to do everything. But here are these five habits that I can do and take on. What could I be doing?

• 25:22Peter Diamandis?

  Got it. So first and foremost, there is help that's going to be coming. You know it. We all know it. It's going to be AI, right? AI is going to ultimately become your diagnostician. We'll all have some version of Jarvis.

• 25:38Lewis Howes?

  Like a coach.

• 25:39Peter Diamandis?

  A health coach, right? That is, you know, connected to your wearables and everything. You give it permission to see what you're eating, to measure your blood sugar, right? I'm, I'm wearing a continuous glucose monitor. I've got my Oura ring, my Apple watch. And it will ultimately be there. You set it for whatever you want, right? I'm willing to take these many pills a day. I'm willing to spend this amount of time. I'm willing to be bothered to eat the right thing or not. You know, take the stairs, don't take the elevator, all those little things that can like. So that is coming down the line. How long is it from now? Is it three years, five years?

• 26:18Peter Diamandis?

  Probably not much longer than that where it's going to be integrated into our lives all the time. And it's going to be an incredible, you know, it's like.

• 26:32Peter Diamandis?

  There's no more advanced health diagnostician and coach than you can have at that point. Yeah, and it'll be personalized for you. Personalized for you. It'll know your genomics. It'll know when you're stressed. It'll have listened to your conversations. It'll know your schedule. It may say, listen, I have an amazing executive assistant, Chief of Staff Esther, and she's like, "You've got an hour Thursday morning. You should go work out," right? And I love her for it. And so, but your AI may be doing that for you. So, so those, those kinds of make it super easy is coming in the interim.

• 27:12Peter Diamandis?

  And, you know, I lay out in, in this, these longevity practices, you know, diet, sleep, exercise, mindset, not dying from something stupid, meds and supplements, and you can go and ultimately decide what you want to do. Let me take them a little bit at a time.

• 27:32Peter Diamandis?

  There's one important thing. So, the not dying from something stupid standpoint, let's talk about that. So, most people, if I ask them, "Is there anything going on inside your body that you need to know about?" They would answer, "No, I'm fine. I feel fine." I feel good. I feel good. I feel good. But the reality is, we have no idea what's going on inside our bodies. You know, we know more about what's going on inside our refrigerator or inside our car than we do inside our body. And the body is incredibly good at hiding disease. A few stats. Seventy percent of people who have heart attacks have no symptoms before their heart attack.

• 28:16Peter Diamandis?

  No shortage of breath, nothing on even a CT scan, on a typical calcium scan.

• 28:24Peter Diamandis?

  And it's because historically, if you were looking for calcified plaque, that isn't what killed you. It was what's called soft plaque that isn't calcified, that in the middle of the night can evolves and block a coronary artery and boom, you're dead.

• 28:44Peter Diamandis?

  The cancers we die from, 70% of those are not screened for. We screen for prostate and breast, right? And those typically don't kill you because we we screen for those. But the ones like a pancreatic cancer or a glioblastoma, wherever those other cancers are that you don't screen for, those are the ones that nail you. And one of the challenges is that we don't feel anything until it's stage three or stage four. It's too late. The body's great at covering this up. Amazingly good.

• 29:22Peter Diamandis?

  You don't have shakes from Parkinson's until 70% of the substantia nigra neurons in the brain are gone. And so the question, if that's the case, if the body's really great of covering it up, it's like, no symptoms, no symptoms, no symptoms, boom. And then it's like you go to the hospital and the doctor says, I'm starting to tell you this. But guess what? It didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for some time. So the question becomes, how do you know? And so the way you know is by looking. So one of the companies I started with, Tony Robbins, three years ago, was a company called Fountain Life. We have four centers right now, New York, Orlando, Naples, Dallas.

• 30:06Peter Diamandis?

  We'll be opening up LA. We have like a 40 center waiting list. And people come in and we digitize you. It's a full body MRI, brain, brain imaging, brain, blood flow. Organs, everything. Everything, right? A coronary CT with an AI looking for soft plaque in specific, right? A DEXA scan, 120 biomarkers, your full genome, your microbiome, your metabolome. It's 150 gigabytes of data to answer two questions. One, is there anything going on inside your body you need to know about right now? First and foremost.

• 30:50Peter Diamandis?

  And if there isn't, you know, knock on wood or whatever you want. What is likely to happen to you? And how do we slow it down or prevent it?

• 31:00Lewis Howes?

  Was there anything in you when you did these scans? That scared you or that was?

• 31:05Peter Diamandis?

  There, there was. So I had a, so one of the things of, you know, people say, should I do this early in life? Should I wait till I'm in my 50s or 60s? So when I had my first scan, I had an enlarged aortic root where the aorta comes into the ventricle of the heart. And the question was, is that where I've always been? Or is that something that is developing and enlarging? Because there's a few different diseases that have that as a, as a symptom. And so in eight years, it hasn't changed at all.

• 31:38Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 31:38Peter Diamandis?

  And so I'm, I'm good with that, right?

• 31:43Peter Diamandis?

  And so having a baseline is really important. I had a dear friend of mine who lives in Miami. We're doing business together. I said, come through Fountain. He went to the, our headquarters in Orlando. He went through. He is a, you know, very wealthy, very healthy 50-year-old guy. Comes through.

• 32:06Peter Diamandis?

  Next day, he gets called from our physicians. We found two aneurysms in your brain.

• 32:10Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 32:11Peter Diamandis?

  And he had, just had surgery. It's all fixed and repaired, but those could have ruptured. And we've had people who have come through, um, whose physician said, don't waste your time. You know?

• 32:25Lewis Howes?

  You don't need that test.

• 32:26Peter Diamandis?

  You don't need this stuff and so forth. We have saved hundreds of lives. So 2% of people who come through have a cancer they don't know about.

• 32:34Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 32:34Peter Diamandis?

  2%. 2.5% of aneurysms they don't know about. 14.4%, which is a pretty big number, have either neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, or metabolic disease they need to care of right away. And so, um, again, uh, you know, I like to say we don't know what's going on inside our bodies. So one of the things we do at Fountain Life is we put you through this advanced diagnostic. You go once a year. You're uploaded once a year. And then on a quarterly basis, we do some maintenance blood tests to see what's going on. The second half of Fountain Life is the most advanced therapeutics.

• 33:13Peter Diamandis?

  So at the centers, we are scanning the world for what are longevity therapeutics that are safe and reasonably low risk and have efficacy. And so we've just started doing what's called therapeutic plasma exchange. And this is where you pull your blood out, you spin it, you take out the cells, you separate the cells, and you pull out the plasma, which is like an oil change, and you put back pure albumin and saline. And it's like, this has been a regenerative feature in animals, and it does a lot of good for humans as well. It's six treatments a year. Wow. We have...

• 33:58Peter Diamandis?

  How long have you been doing that process? I just started. We just got the equipment in, so I'm super excited about this. We have an IND with a company called Cellularity, which is one of the leading stem cell companies in the United States, for giving people supplementary natural killer cells and stem cells and exosomes. So the goal is, as we start delivering these services under an FDA, what's called the investigational new drug IND, is to make available these therapeutics, but to do it with a wraparound of science, which is you're uploaded, we're fully tested, then you have your therapeutics, and then you're fully tested again.

• 34:42Peter Diamandis?

  And let's measure what's actually going on inside your body, and then report on the science. So, super excited about these things. You were talking about stats for a minute. What is the stat that you've heard recently that scares you the most about...

• 35:01Lewis Howes?

  The human population, where things are going, health and wellness, diseases, like what is the stat obesity? What is the stat that scares you the most?

• 35:09Peter Diamandis?

  I think what scares me, and you know me, I'm the guy, not the glass is half full, it's overflowing.

• 35:17Peter Diamandis?

  But the things that worry me are mental health and obesity.

• 35:29Peter Diamandis?

  I think those two, those two elements are really important for us to get a handle on, you know.

• 35:37Lewis Howes?

  So obesity is greater than ever now, right?

• 35:39Peter Diamandis?

  It is, and in different parts of the world, in different populations. And there's a very clear reason for it. It goes back to our conversation about sugar. The body was never designed to ingest these super empty calories. Right? So, you know, I put blame on the food companies, on parts of the government that are not regulating around this. I mean, the garbage that kids eat for breakfast, including my kids on occasion, right? These empty calories, I mean, it's,

• 36:20Peter Diamandis?

  these are not nutritious breakfast. This is, these are, you know, sugar covered sugar. And it's like,

• 36:31Peter Diamandis?

  and when did this become, when did this become accepted as?

• 36:35Lewis Howes?

  Healthy or acceptable, yeah.

• 36:37Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah. What is the, do you know the statistics on obesity or mental health right now? I, I probably have them in my book. I don't have them at the top of mind here. But, but obesity, how much is obesity affecting?

• 36:51Lewis Howes?

  Health span and long span?

• 36:54Peter Diamandis?

  Health span, yeah, health span and lifespan.

• 36:55Lewis Howes?

  Lifespan.

• 36:56Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, I know, it's, it's, it's crazy. I mean, obesity is tied directly to cardiovascular disease. It's tied to, to, you know, your lack of, your metabolic disease where you're basically becoming insulin insensitive. You're putting on weight. It can lead to renal disease. It can lead to, you know, even cognitive disorders. It's.

• 37:27Peter Diamandis?

  You know, and we've become a society where we're couch potatoes most of the time.

• 37:34Peter Diamandis?

  And we're not incentivized to stay in good health. So it's a challenge. I mean, staying in good health is, takes a commitment.

• 37:48Peter Diamandis?

  And the way I think about it is really, we have an amazing life coming our way. All right. I wrote a book called Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think. Now 12 years ago, I'm writing the follow on called Age of Abundance, which I hope will come out in mid 24. And if you think about the idea that we're heading towards a world where we can uplift every man, woman, and child, give them access to all the food, water, energy, healthcare, education that they want. I think that's a world which is going to be a more peaceful world. Because if you, if you have something to live for,

• 38:30Peter Diamandis?

  that's an important aspect. What do you think will be the biggest problem of humanity when they have Abundance? Safety, food, shelter, health and wellness? What is the biggest problem that we're gonna have? So the question is gonna be, it may be a conversation on purpose. Right, when everything is too good. If, you know. And there's no problems. So, so, do you remember that Twilight episode? Where there's a character who's like a gangster and he dies? And in the Twilight episode, he's in Las Vegas. And all the women are there fawning over him. He goes, he goes and he's gambling, he's winning all the time, he's winning all the time, he's winning all the time. And everything's so easy. And he's like, man, heaven sucks.

• 39:16Peter Diamandis?

  You know, because it's way too, it's like, you know, and then the person there goes, what makes you think you're in heaven? Right? When, when everything is, is, when there's no challenge, right? We have evolved. But on the same side, I don't know if you know Sadhguru? Yeah. Yeah, so brilliant. I was on stage with him in St. Petersburg years ago. And he said something I'll never forget. He said, "Technology is the means by which humanity takes a vacation from survival."

• 39:46Peter Diamandis?

  So we've been surviving for 100,000 years, surviving each other, surviving the elements, surviving famine, disease.

• 39:58Peter Diamandis?

  So but the question becomes, what do we do when you can do anything?

• 40:02Lewis Howes?

  And what war have we created when technology allows us to not have to survive anymore?

• 40:09Peter Diamandis?

  These are things we're going to figure out soon enough.

• 40:11Lewis Howes?

  It's kind of like the, I don't know, the

• 40:14Lewis Howes?

  the generalization or the stereotype that, you know, rich kids get messed up. You know, kids of rich parents, if they don't have discipline or purpose or, you know, something that they need to figure out things on their own, they turn out to be menaces, I guess, of society or something, right? It's like

• 40:31Peter Diamandis?

  Spoiled, yes.

• 40:32Lewis Howes?

  Spoiled.

• 40:33Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 40:33Lewis Howes?

  Entitled as opposed to, you know, in service, giving and hardworking.

• 40:39Peter Diamandis?

  You know,

• 40:40Lewis Howes?

  how do, you know, it's like, how do we manage that when we have everything at our fingertips?

• 40:44Peter Diamandis?

  I think the question becomes, do we up level our challenges that we do? I mean, I would like to go start a city on the moon.

• 40:55Lewis Howes?

  Wow, that's

• 40:56Peter Diamandis?

  You know, I'd like to upload my mind into a computer. I'd like, I mean, I mean, what kind of crazy things can we imagine? But you think about, you know, we're living in the in the year 2023, okay? But if we went back to our great grandparents in, you know, 1900 and said, this is what life is like.

• 41:19Peter Diamandis?

  You know, I think it would be almost unfathomable for them. Right? Zipping around in airplanes, having Zoom conversations, you know, doing podcasts, you know?

• 41:31Lewis Howes?

  Face timing someone around the world.

• 41:33Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, for free.

• 41:34Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 41:34Peter Diamandis?

  Right? And it's like, you know, what? You don't grow your food? Where's your horse to get around? And and so life is going to change dramatically. It's going to change as a function of AI.

• 41:47Peter Diamandis?

  I mean, dramatically within the next 10 years. My half my life is longevity, other half my life is is focused on AI. Right? And so AI is going to create near infinite abundance. We have humanoid robots coming and these robots will

• 42:03Peter Diamandis?

  Do our bidding for us, they'll do our labor for us, they'll do our work, they'll be accessible to us for less than the price of a car. And so, what is life going to be like when we've got this? It's gonna be different, for sure.

• 42:22Lewis Howes?

  What should we be most afraid of? I don't like to think of things in terms of being afraid of abundance, because I look at it as a positive thing. But, what should we be afraid of with a world of abundance?

• 42:36Peter Diamandis?

  I don't have an answer for you.

• 42:39Peter Diamandis?

  Let me, you know, let's think this through together.

• 42:41Lewis Howes?

  With people who have mental illness around abundance, you know, it's like, how do we manage?

• 42:46Peter Diamandis?

  Listen, we're gonna, as we have abundance, we're gonna have abundance of good things and abundance of bad things. I think that AI will be the tools by which we detect and, and, you know, it'll be a white hat, black hat, counterbalancing war.

• 43:04Peter Diamandis?

  Would I rather solve the problems with the technology we're gonna have in 20 years versus the technology we had 20 years ago? Sure. You know, will we, will people become powerful and bored? Will we all play video games? Are we living in the middle of a video game, right? I'm still convinced this is a giant simulation.

• 43:27Lewis Howes?

  Yeah.

• 43:28Peter Diamandis?

  And it means nothing if it was, you know, it wouldn't matter, I wouldn't do anything differently. But, how will we, how will we sort of engage, entertain, educate, give purpose? I mean, you know, my two 12-year-olds, they're fraternal twins. They love playing their video games, right? So they're in Roblox, or they're in Minecraft, or they're role-playing. Yeah, and, and it's an engaging world, right? And it's, someone's created that world, and they're playing in it, and they're having fun, and it's creating challenges for them. I wish they were more educational as games and maybe they will be.

• 44:13Peter Diamandis?

  But I can imagine a world in the future where there are engaging and challenging and fun worlds that we immerse ourselves into. We immerse ourselves into a movie right now for two hours, two and a half hours. Books, movies. In books and so forth, entertain ourselves. I'm gonna, you know, listen, a friend of mine who's the CEO of Stability AI, Imad Mustak. He, his company created Stable Diffusion that creates all these images. They can now create minutes of photorealistic movies, right? And next year, full-length. It's incredible. Feature films.

• 44:57Peter Diamandis?

  So imagine in the future where I'll say, hey Louis, listen, I created this virtual world of ancient Greece. If you want to go and check it out, we're exploring and talking to philosophers. Let's go for a walk with Plato and Socrates and see what it's like. And it's photorealistic and you're in your VR and you're like living there. Or you're on the moon, or you're playing in a real-life game. So I think AI and VR coming together is going to do some amazing things for us. It's, this is an amazing period of, of, of human evolution.

• 45:36Peter Diamandis?

  And we're going from one state of evolution to another. We are going to transform, you know, Ray Kurzweil talks about the singularity, right? That moment in time where we're unable to predict what's coming next. Where we're connecting our brains to the cloud. His prediction is that that's 10 to 12 years away. Wow. Right? Where we've got nanotechnology, you know, going in and fixing things. The challenge is that we like the world being the way it was when we went to sleep last night. We don't like challenges. We don't like these, these dramatic differences.

• 46:22Peter Diamandis?

  But it's happening, alright? There's no velocity switch on this change. There's no on off switch. AI, biotech, right?

• 46:33Peter Diamandis?

  At the same time, you know, two amazing women won the Nobel Prize for CRISPR. To be able to go in, right? You have 3.2 billion letters from your mom, 3.2 billion letters from your dad. Throughout your life, that's your software. And if unfortunately you were born with a genetic, you know, disease in the words, a few of those letters were off and you had sickle cell anemia, beta thalassemia, a congenital blindness, you were stuck with it. And you were fearful about having kids because you're going to pass it on to them. Now,

• 47:08Peter Diamandis?

  you can expect that within our lifetime, there's going to be a cure, not a treatment, not a palliative, like take this drug will take the pain away. A reversal. A complete, you know, a single injection, we're going to go in, edit your genome, change those few letters and you're now cured. Your genome is normal and you don't have it anymore. Wow. I mean, this is biblical stuff, right? So, you know, our mind instantly goes to the negative. But I just feel like this is the most exciting time ever to be alive. And so I do think that we need to create a vision of the future that people are excited about.

• 47:52Peter Diamandis?

  You know, the work I do at the X Prize, we talked a little about this $101 million X Prize health span and folks who are interested, just go to Xprize.org, you can learn more about it. Especially if you're, want to compete for this prize, go to Xprize.org and go for $101 million. Amazing. A prize winning. By the way, I'll just mention the reason it's $101 million versus $100 million. Chip Wilson, my first donor, said, how big is your biggest prize? Said, well, Elon put up 100.

• 48:20Lewis Howes?

  You've got to beat that.

• 48:21Peter Diamandis?

  You've got to beat that. I said, do you want to put the extra million? And he said, sure.

• 48:24Lewis Howes?

  Wow, there you go.

• 48:25Peter Diamandis?

  It's 101.

• 48:28Peter Diamandis?

  You know, one of the things we're looking at doing is creating a vision for the year 2040. Of what can energy look like in 2040? What does the environment look like? What does health look like? What does education look like? And painting that hopeful, compelling and abundant future. And then, you know, giving people a target to shoot for. And I think that's important because we do need to know where we're going with this powerful tech.

• 48:57Lewis Howes?

  For this X Prize, again, we mentioned these kind of three categories.

• 49:01Peter Diamandis?

  Yes.

• 49:02Lewis Howes?

  Muscle, immunity and cognition.

• 49:04Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 49:05Lewis Howes?

  Of those three, what are you most afraid of failing in either yourself or humans?

• 49:11Peter Diamandis?

  So I think, I think for everybody cognition is the scary thing, right? If you lose your mind, if you have neurodegenerative disease, whether it's Alzheimer's or some form of dementia. My dad, in his later years, had dementia, I think it was secondary to his,

• 49:32Peter Diamandis?

  to his atrial fibrillation and throwing some clots. I think it was vascular dementia. But it's sad, right? And if you lose your memories, you lose your clarity of thought, you lose your, your, your ability to communicate, focus, you lose yourself. And nobody wants that. That's not life anymore. So that's the most important thing. And I think we're.

• 50:00Lewis Howes?

  What are the biggest contributors to cognition loss?

• 50:03Peter Diamandis?

  Well, one of them is, is, is sugar. And one of them is, is, you know, another one is stress.

• 50:11Peter Diamandis?

  You know, another one is not understanding what your, your genetics are and not taking action. So.

• 50:23Peter Diamandis?

  What are the best things? Exercise is one of the strongest ways of keeping your your brain in great shape. Sleep, right? Minimizing sugar. It's all of these very simple things. And ultimately, it's also putting yourself in a situation like you do every day here on this podcast. It's learning something new. Learning. Right? Learning. So everybody here listening and learning, it's it's basically exercising those neurons. You have 100 billion neurons, 100 trillion synaptic connections in your mind, and you want to be stimulating and exercising those. Wow. So.

• 51:04Lewis Howes?

  What is this thing with paddle sports? I keep hearing this this information around like people who play paddle or racket sports either live longer or have less memory loss or something around like.

• 51:14Peter Diamandis?

  I haven't heard that.

• 51:15Lewis Howes?

  Ping pong and pickleball and racquetball and tennis. Like, people have better quality of life? I don't know if you've heard of that.

• 51:22Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, well, I mean, I can imagine. I can imagine that.

• 51:24Lewis Howes?

  Something around the hand-eye coordination and the movement.

• 51:26Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, well, it's exercise. It's it's getting it's cardiovascular exercise, right? So, I mean, losing cognition, I think, is people worry about the most.

• 51:37Lewis Howes?

  But then you lose muscle mass and you fall over. You can't push yourself up. You die that way.

• 51:43Peter Diamandis?

  So what happens, and this was my dad's, how my dad ended his, you know, life ultimately was he was becoming sarcopenic. In the middle of the night, he got out of bed to go to the bathroom and fell and broke his hip. And when you break your hip or your, I mean, it was his pelvis, or your pelvis, you're in the hospital, you can't move, you typically develop pneumonia.

• 52:13Peter Diamandis?

  And then

• 52:13Lewis Howes?

  That's the decline.

• 52:14Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, so it's like, over the age of sixty or sixty-five with a broken hip or pelvis, there's some ridiculously high percentage of people who die within a year.

• 52:24Lewis Howes?

  Oh, man.

• 52:25Peter Diamandis?

  So injury is a problem, right? Sarkapenia, so maintaining muscle mass is critically important. So that's why I'm like, for my goals, it's muscle mass and cognition and just being in the best health. And then ultimately, your immune system is about battling infectious disease and cancer. So I think about those things.

• 52:48Lewis Howes?

  Yes.

• 52:50Peter Diamandis?

  And I think about that finish line, which is not retirement, which is not death, which is that longevity escape velocity ahead of me. And those are what would drive me. And I believe that these are coming.

• 53:03Lewis Howes?

  I love this. I want people to get this book. They can go on your website and get it.

• 53:07Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, go to, yeah, diamandis.com backslash longevity.

• 53:11Lewis Howes?

  You can get the free guide online, which has got a lot of stuff, but also the book.

• 53:14Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, on Amazon, right. And then I also, you know, one of the things, remember I said training your neural net? You're training your neural net by what you read, what you watch, what you listen to, who you hang out with. If you're reading the obituaries, right? That's not a good thing. If you're hanging out with old people in aches and pains, not a good thing. And so on the what you read, I built this AI engine called longevityinsider.org. And it scans all of the media out there. And it finds high-quality articles about breakthroughs that are extending the healthy lifespan. And I get a digest of a image in a paragraph summary and a link to the article every day.

• 53:59Peter Diamandis?

  And so when I read that, it's like, oh, my God, that's amazing. Oh, my God, that's amazing. Oh, my God, that's amazing. It's not what you see on CNN. Right. It's the antithesis to what you see. It's this hopeful, positive future. So that's available at the same, same part of my website.

• 54:15Lewis Howes?

  At your website? Yeah. Okay. It's a newsletter. Every day you get this update.

• 54:18Peter Diamandis?

  Every day. Yeah.

• 54:20Lewis Howes?

  Okay.

• 54:20Peter Diamandis?

  You get an update. And there's a lot going on. It's an amazing time.

• 54:24Lewis Howes?

  What else can we do to support you today? How else can we be of service?

• 54:27Peter Diamandis?

  I think, tell your friends about this lunch, this, this health span X Prize. We're looking for teams out there. I hope, you know, we had 6,000 teams enter the, the $100 million prize that Elon funded for gigaton carbon removal. I'm hoping to have, you know, 500 to 1,000 teams enter this one. There'll be startups, there'll be universities, there'll be labs, there'll be all kinds of things coming in. You know, I want all ideas. I like to say the day before something is really a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. If it wasn't, if it wasn't a crazy idea, it wouldn't be a breakthrough, so. So I want to find people around the world working on this.

• 55:10Peter Diamandis?

  I want to change people's mindset about what's possible. Capital to flow in, regulations to change.

• 55:18Peter Diamandis?

  And I think it's the greatest gift we can offer humanity.

• 55:20Lewis Howes?

  Yeah, absolutely.

• 55:22Peter Diamandis?

  And then, you know, if you're, if you're able, and I hope you will, go to Fountain Life and, and check it, check it out.

• 55:31Lewis Howes?

  What does that consist of at Fountain Life? What do you have to do? How much time does it take?

• 55:35Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, it's a, it's you, we have these five, we have four centers and a whole slew coming online, LA in 24, and then we're in, going to Europe.

• 55:48Peter Diamandis?

  You, you sign up, you're in advance meeting over online, and then you come into one of the centers the night before and you spend the day with us. And during that day, again, we gather more information about you than you know is possible. Right? So it is a full, it's 150 gigabytes of data. And there's no way any human can analyze all that information. But we have a whole set of AI algorithms that are looking at your mitochondria, to your cardiovascular, to your neurocognitive, everything. And our goal again is, is there anything going on that you need to know about?

• 56:34Peter Diamandis?

  And if there is, tell you about it, because guess what? You can do something about it, right? If you catch anything early enough, you can do, including early dementia, including cardiovascular disease, including cancer. You want to know early. You don't want to, you don't want to wait. People say, I don't want to know. Of course you want to know. And then, and then the other part is, how do we optimize you for the decades ahead? And your job is not to live forever from this. It's to live long enough to intercept the breakthroughs that are coming. Wow. Yeah. And then there's what, like quarterly blood tests? And then we have, right, you get, you get a, as part of this upload, you get a, it's all functional medicine.

• 57:17Peter Diamandis?

  I don't know if you know, functional medicine is like the most advanced medicine. It understands the root cause. Yes. At a molecular level, what's going on. It's, it's amazing. When I, it didn't exist when I was in medical school years ago. Right. It's amazing. So all of our docs are functional medicine docs. You get a concierge functional medicine longevity doctor as part of that, who helps you interpret that and then guides you either to fix or optimize going forward. And then you get access to a set of therapeutics. Like, we'll show you, this is what's just come out of Israel. This just came out of Europe. This just came out of whatever. And we make those things available at the centers. It's amazing. For people who want it, right?

• 58:03Lewis Howes?

  This is powerful stuff. I'm so excited about this. What else can we do to support you? Anything else we can?

• 58:08Peter Diamandis?

  I'm just thankful to get the word out. For me, this is a life's mission, literally and figuratively.

• 58:17Peter Diamandis?

  And I think, you know, this is what keeps me going. You know, it's like

• 58:24Lewis Howes?

  It's exciting, man.

• 58:25Peter Diamandis?

  It is exciting.

• 58:26Lewis Howes?

  It's amazing. People can get this PDF for free at diamandis.com.

• 58:31Peter Diamandis?

  Yep.

• 58:31Lewis Howes?

  And if they want more, they can get the entire book.

• 58:33Peter Diamandis?

  Yep.

• 58:34Lewis Howes?

  They can go to all different things, fountainlife.com, mylifeforce.com as well, which can get you set up there with analyzing different things about your health. X Prize Foundation, xprize.org. There's so many amazing things. Again, you've got about six books a year, every year coming out, which are all best of.

• 58:52Peter Diamandis?

  Not six, but two.

• 58:53Lewis Howes?

  Yes, two a year.

• 58:56Lewis Howes?

  Peter, I'm so grateful for you. And every time you're on, I just really am grateful for the wisdom and the knowledge that you share openly.

• 59:02Peter Diamandis?

  Thank you.

• 59:03Lewis Howes?

  And I want to acknowledge you for your, really your commitment to living a great life and helping as many people do that as well.

• 59:10Peter Diamandis?

  Thanks, buddy.

• 59:10Lewis Howes?

  Through every business, every X Prize, every free thing that you give to people, you're collecting the best minds in the world and trying to solve the biggest problems. So I really acknowledge you for that.

• 59:21Peter Diamandis?

  Thank you, pal.

• 59:22Lewis Howes?

  And, you know, you're welcome on here anytime to talk about the latest and greatest. So I've asked you this question before, but I'm curious if it's changed about your three truths, you know? So I'm curious if you can only leave three lessons behind to the world, your three truths, what would that be?

• 59:40Peter Diamandis?

  So the one that most important for me is your mindset matters. Your mindset is your greatest tool. I like to say, what made, you know, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, you know, Elon Musk successful? Was it their tech? Was it their friends? Was it their money? Or was it their mindset, right? It was their mindset. I really believe that. And if your mindset is that important to being a great leader, the question is, what mindset do you have? Where did you get it? And what mindset do you need for the decade ahead?

• 1:00:16Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:00:16Peter Diamandis?

  Right? So for me, I've been a lot of thinking and writing around mindset. The second truth is, we are creating a world of abundance.

• 1:00:27Peter Diamandis?

  That we humans are

• 1:00:31Peter Diamandis?

  We screw things up a lot of times, but we are incredibly good at fixing things as well and overcoming challenges and we are creating a world of abundance. And the third one, I think the nature of the universe is love.

• 1:00:48Lewis Howes?

  I'm curious, I have one more question for you.

• 1:00:50Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah, sure.

• 1:00:51Lewis Howes?

  If

• 1:00:54Lewis Howes?

  you have twin boys, you said?

• 1:00:56Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:59Peter Diamandis?

  I love dearly.

• 1:01:00Lewis Howes?

  You love dearly?

• 1:01:01Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Lewis Howes?

  Let's say you get to, you know, see your boys live to 60.

• 1:01:12Lewis Howes?

  With all the things that happen over the next 48 years, I guess,

• 1:01:17Lewis Howes?

  that you can predict or not predict, but you know, a lot is going to happen in the world.

• 1:01:21Peter Diamandis?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:01:22Lewis Howes?

  Forty-eight, 50 years.

• 1:01:25Lewis Howes?

  Based on where you see everything going in 40 to 50 years,

• 1:01:30Lewis Howes?

  what would you say? If you could share one final thing to them, 50 years in the future, what would you say to them about what's to come for their next 50, 60, 70 years beyond? If you could go into the future and give a message to your sons?

• 1:01:49Peter Diamandis?

  Wow. Listen, I honestly, I get asked all the time to speak about, you know, the world in 50 years. I'm saying impossible. Cannot, I cannot think past a decade from now, honestly. Maybe 20 years is a big stretch. 50 years from now, what is it? What? I don't. We are, we are evolving into something beyond human. We are going from evolution by natural selection to evolution by human direction. We are evolving to, we are merging with technology.

• 1:02:31Peter Diamandis?

  And so I think it's unknowable. This is what Ray speaks about, the singularity, that this this horizon beyond which you cannot see.

• 1:02:42Peter Diamandis?

  So what happens when we're omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent? You know, and we are to a large degree even now thinking about this, right? You can know anything, anytime, anywhere. We are, we're living in a trillion sensor world where I can ask a question like, what's the average color of a woman's blouse or a man's jacket on Madison Avenue? And have an AI gather the data and give me the answer, right? You can, we can start to know anything. So it's, you know, I was on on stage with one of my favorite science fiction authors, Dennis Taylor. It's actually one of my son's favorite science fiction authors and mine. We've read the same books.

• 1:03:24Peter Diamandis?

  And and I asked him, it must be really hard to write science fiction these days. And he goes, it's near impossible because it's all happening.

• 1:03:33Lewis Howes?

  Wow.

• 1:03:34Peter Diamandis?

  Yeah. So not an answer, not an answer, sorry.

• 1:03:39Lewis Howes?

  Well, maybe if it was not about the world, but just a message you'd want to give them.

• 1:03:43Peter Diamandis?

  Oh, that it's the same message every dad wants for his kids, for them to be good humans, for them to leave the world in a better place than they had it, that they're, they need to to give their gifts to the world and do their best.

• 1:04:04Peter Diamandis?

  And to, you know, I, I think about there are, there are three things I've, I said to my boys when they were born, I said, three things I want for you. Number one, I want you to be best friends. Number two, I want you to learn to ask great questions. And number three, I want you to find your purpose in life and live that fully.

• 1:04:26Lewis Howes?

  That's beautiful.

• 1:04:28Peter Diamandis?

  That's funny.

• 1:04:28Lewis Howes?

  Peter, you've taken it, man. Thanks so much. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And I want to remind you, if no one has told you lately, that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And now it's time to go out there and do something great.