The School of Greatness - Longevity Expert Reveals The Science That Could Add Decades To Your Lifespan | Peter Diamandis

Episode Date: December 9, 2024

Join me for a mind-expanding conversation with visionary entrepreneur Peter Diamandis about his new book "The Longevity Guidebook." Peter shares groundbreaking insights on extending human lifespan, re...veals the science behind aging reversal, and explains why mindset is the critical first step to living longer. From his personal 75-supplement daily routine to the future of AI-powered health optimization, Peter outlines practical steps anyone can take today to add decades of healthy living. Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about aging and discover why the next 15 years could revolutionize human longevity.Pre-order The Longevity GuidebookIn this episode you will learn:Why science predicts we'll reach "longevity escape velocity" by 2030-2035, potentially extending life indefinitelyHow your mindset and belief about your potential lifespan directly impacts your longevityThe "sequence secret" for eating that can boost your body's natural GLP-1 levels by 38% without medicationWhy muscle mass is one of the strongest predictors of longevity and how to preserve it as you ageHow advanced imaging and AI diagnostics can detect diseases years before symptoms appearFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1704For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. Daniel Amen – greatness.lnk.to/1243SCAndrew Huberman – greatness.lnk.to/1455SCGlucose Goddess – greatness.lnk.to/1575SC Get more from Lewis! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey guys, Louis Howes here and I'm so grateful for you today for coming and taking a look at the School of Goodness episode. We've got the inspiring Peter Diamandis. He is revealing his secrets to not only living longer but also living healthier. You're going to learn some incredible strategies on how to optimize your health now but also some crazy things that are happening in science research that if you can really optimize in the next five to 10 years, you may be able to extend your life decades if you can do a few of these things over the next five to 10 foods. It's extremely powerful. This man takes 75 supplements. He is doing all the rituals and routines to try to increase
Starting point is 00:00:55 his health and his lifespan. And I don't want you to get overwhelmed by all the things he's talking about. He does a ton of research on all of this stuff. I want you to find one or two things that you can implement today to feel better, to live a happier, healthier life. And he really dives into something that most of these experts don't cover. Of course, a lot of people cover environment, they cover exercise, cutting out sugar, what foods to eat, how to sleep. But there's something about the mindset of believing you are worthy of living a healthy and long life that I don't hear anyone else talking about. And we dive
Starting point is 00:01:34 into this towards around the middle of this interview. And I think it's the most important thing to listen to. So make sure to click the follow button on Apple Podcast or Spotify right now wherever you're listening to this. If this is your first time coming and someone recommended this to you, send them a text, send them a message, give them a call, tell them you appreciate them for thinking about you. And I want you to think about one person in your life who could use this information. It's completely free. Send them a link over from Apple podcast or Spotify, text it to them and say, Hey, I'd love for us to go over this together and tell me what you thought about this episode with Lewis Howes and Peter Diamandis on the School of Greatness.
Starting point is 00:02:21 Welcome back everyone at the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guests. We have the inspiring Peter Diamandis in the house. Good to see you, my friend. Good to see you, brother. Very excited. You've written a new book called The Longevity Guidebook, How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging
Starting point is 00:02:34 and Not Die from Something Stupid. And that part at the end is one of the most important things. As I continue my journey of trying to compete in sports at a high level, the biggest thing is preventing injury. Yes. Because in order to play the game at a high level, you need to be healthy.
Starting point is 00:02:52 And I think that's related to life as well. In order to play the game of life at a high level, we need to stay healthy. There's a few things in your book that have really stood out to me that I got to dive into, and I'm sure we'll talk about many other things. But I think a lot of people, as they age, their bodies shut down. So it's like when they're in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, they don't have the energy or the
Starting point is 00:03:17 capacity to live a rich and full life. And what do you think are the main factors today that are causing people to live longer but not have the vitality to enjoy the length of their life? My goal for anybody watching us here is that they walk away with immediately useful things they can do to maintain that vitality and energy and that they are motivated more than ever before
Starting point is 00:03:44 to take care of themselves because something amazing is coming down the pike in terms of science right now. And so I wanted to lay that out there. My mission in writing this book is to get the knowledge out there. Tony Robbins and I wrote a book, 700 pages that was a extraordinary book.
Starting point is 00:04:04 It was number one in New York Times for I think like six weeks, but it's hard for people to consume a 700 page book. And I've made this longevity guidebook as something that is consumable and it's a manual to how to, it's like, okay, I gotta remind myself I'm sleep or diet or exercise or mindset and I've laid it out in that way,
Starting point is 00:04:25 where it's something you pick up and utilize. It's, you know, what's different today, right? So I think that we're living in a time where AI is gonna make a massive difference and a whole slew of biotechnology capabilities like single cell sequencing, CRISPR, gene therapies, all these exotic things you hear about are technologies that are gonna become
Starting point is 00:04:49 available to us in a decade ahead. One of my mentors and dear friends, Ray Kurzweil, right? Who wrote the Singularity is Near, Singularity is Near. He proposed a concept years ago called Longevity Escape Velocity. What's that? He proposed a concept years ago called longevity escape velocity. What's that? And so longevity escape velocity is the idea that today, for every year that you're alive,
Starting point is 00:05:13 science is extending your life for about a quarter to a third of a year. But there's going to be a point that for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And the question is, when is that gonna happen? And so Ray's prediction, and if you Google Ray's predictions, it's like he's got an 86% accuracy rate,
Starting point is 00:05:33 which is pretty extraordinary. On all of his predictions. On all of his predictions, like when we're gonna have AI, when we're gonna have these robots, when we're gonna have nanotechnology. His prediction on longevity escape velocity is by the end of the year 2030. That's when we're supposed have nanotechnology. His prediction on longevity escape velocity is by the end of the year 2030. That's when we're supposed to reach this.
Starting point is 00:05:49 That if you're in reasonably good shape and you have reasonable affluence, not like Rich, reasonable abilities that you'll reach this longevity escape velocity. So I speak to all the scientists I know about this and folks like George Church and David Sinclair at Harvard Medical School, when I query them about this, their answer is by the mid 2030s.
Starting point is 00:06:13 But here's the point, right? It's not 50 years from now or 30 years from now. It's a decade, it's the next 15 years. So our job between now and then is to keep ourselves in reasonably good health and we'll talk about that and not die from something stupid. Yes. I mean, what are the main factors
Starting point is 00:06:31 that are causing us to die younger? It seems like I saw a stat or a study that the current life expectancy in the US in 2024 is 79.25 years. And that's a 0.18 increase from 2023 from macro trends. And we had dipped during COVID obviously, and now we're coming back up. But it's not that much still.
Starting point is 00:06:54 It isn't, it isn't. And it's measuring everybody versus people who are focused on taking care of themselves. One of the biggest issues is we're killing ourselves by what we eat. I mean, we can dive into diet. The number one thing is people's over consumption of sugar. The human body never evolved to eat as much sugar as we do.
Starting point is 00:07:20 It was not something that was plentiful. You have to remember our biology evolved 100,000, 200,000 years ago in the savannas of Africa. And we haven't changed our biology over the last 200,000 years. And so you have to remember what was life like back then. Well, we were hunters and foragers. We fasted because we didn't have access to food.
Starting point is 00:07:43 We didn't have sugar. We had some fruit in our diet. We fasted because we didn't have access to food. We didn't have sugar. We had some fruit in our diet. But today we're eating like 100 kilograms of sugar a year. And 100 years ago, it was like two kilograms a year. And before that, it was even less than that refined sugar. And it is a cardiovascular inflammatory. It's a neurocognitive inflammatory,
Starting point is 00:08:06 and it is dangerous for our health. Now, I'm not saying don't eat any sugar, but it's like just starting with donuts. I had this argument with Elon all the time. It's like he jokes, I eat donuts every morning. He said, don't eat donuts. When you're 60, you're gonna regret that. If someone eliminated sugar from their diet,
Starting point is 00:08:25 or 95% of it, let's say, how much longer do you think they could live without doing something stupid? Yeah. Do you think it can extend your life if you eliminate sugar? I think it can extend your health. So let's begin by talking about two things,
Starting point is 00:08:41 lifespan and health span. All right, now there's a challenge here because while we're living longer, we're living, let's round up to 80, right? Most people are living the last 20 years of their life in some level of physical pain, cognitive loss, cardiovascular loss, inflammation, all these things.
Starting point is 00:09:03 So their health span, they're healthy up until 60 and then it's a decrease from there. And you have to realize that you're trading these things all the time. And so if you wanna have, I mean, my goal for myself and for those I love is to live a life where I've got the vitality, the energy, the cognition, looking good, feeling good, moving well, you know, from now through a hundred.
Starting point is 00:09:31 And then during these next, I'm 63 today, right? Over these next 37 years, we're gonna have so many breakthroughs coming, right? It does, science doesn't stand still. We forget that it's moving at this exponential speed. And my job is to keep myself in the best health I can to intercept the breakthroughs that are coming that will give you the next decade, the next decade.
Starting point is 00:09:55 How much do you lean into on the spiritual side of your health and life? Because there's so much science and AI and tech and biohacking and doing everything perfectly in terms of the right foods, the right sleep, the right supplements. Where does spirituality and the divinity of life come in the future of your health and your lifespan? So, you know, most people know me as a technologist
Starting point is 00:10:19 in AI or biotech or space rockets where I spent my first years. But the last decade, I have been truly focused on longevity as one of the largest markets. I have a $600 million venture fund in that area and written a few books, started a number of companies, we'll talk about perhaps Fountain Life.
Starting point is 00:10:42 A few years ago, I was on stage at the Vatican to bring it back to spirituality. And so it sounds like a joke, but I'm on stage in the Vatican with a alderman, a rabbi, a cardinal, myself. And we're having the title of the panel was the morality of immortality. Interesting, right? Very.
Starting point is 00:11:06 And I flipped it to the immorality of mortality. And so that was our conversation. And the rabbi there gave this amazing historical overview of human lifespan. And he said, yes, we had Methuselah and all of these people living to seven, 800, 900 years. And then something happened where humans sinned or parably with God.
Starting point is 00:11:35 And God said, you shall have no more than 120 years. And this is in the Bible. Really? And what's amazing is up until now, the longest lived human is 122 years old. Wow. And we have people, typically these super centenarians who are making it from 110 to 120.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And so it's interesting that the Bible actually called out 120 years. I find that pretty extraordinary. Why do you think that is? Maybe that was their experience back then, maybe. Knowing a little bit about that. They're prophetic, who knows, I don't know. But I remember saying, okay, listen,
Starting point is 00:12:10 if we're promised by the Bible 120 years, I'm fine taking that 120. Give me that 120, yeah, yeah. And then we'll renegotiate after that. So, listen, spirituality, I'm gonna take it slightly different and talk about mindset, right? Because you love mindset, I'm gonna take it slightly different and talk about mindset, all right? Because you love mindset, I love mindset,
Starting point is 00:12:28 I love the work that you do, and when I listen to your show, it's around mindsets. And as it turns out, mindset, which is connected to spirituality, yes? Is one of the most powerful forces in you living a healthy long life. It truly is, and here's the numbers. There was a study done and reported,
Starting point is 00:12:52 actually I've got it here, report the National Academy of Sciences, right? The Journal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, like one of the most prestigious journals. And it said, in the study of 69,744 women and 1,429 men, it's one of the only studies that had more women than men, published in the National Academy of Sciences,
Starting point is 00:13:14 it was found that optimistic people lived as much as 15% longer than pessimists. Isn't that interesting? I find that fascinating. And I do think that is true. I think that is stronger than pessimists. Isn't that interesting? I find that fascinating. And I do think that is true. I think that is about our mindset, our belief of mind over matter. And so, you know, people tell me you're optimistic.
Starting point is 00:13:36 Oh yeah, I got double benefit from being optimistic. Sure. I love life. I love every minute of it. I'm trying to remember the researcher, I think it was Dr. Ellen Langer, I think, who did a study, hopefully I'm not making this up on the person, but I think she did a study
Starting point is 00:13:52 where she had people go back into the nostalgia of their life, like back to the 60s or the 50s, and they lived in a home with like the music from the 50s, the music from the 60s, the artwork from that time, like the food, all of it was like the music from the 50s, the music from the 60s, the artwork from that time, like the food, all of it was like the clothes, they wore the clothes from that decade of their teen years. And they started to see themselves get healthier,
Starting point is 00:14:15 start to heal certain things, have more energy, and almost reverse time by living back in time. So into a more positive, optimistic, useful. One of the things I opened the book with that I want people to realize is a couple of things if I could lay these down as cornerstones. The first is you're born with 3.2 billion letters from your mom and 3.2 billion letters from your dad.
Starting point is 00:14:42 And that's your software you're running. You're running it at age zero, at age 20, at age 50, 80, hopefully at 100. And so if you're running the same software, why do you look different? Why don't you have a six pack at 100 that you had when you were 18? And it turns out it's not the genes you have.
Starting point is 00:15:01 We have some 20 to 22,000 genes inside of that genome. It's what genes are on, what genes are off. That is your epigenome. It's epi from the Greek word for above, and it's controlling which genes are on and off as you age. And control those genes do two things. It says, okay, we're gonna turn these genes on in your skin cell, these genes on in your neuron,
Starting point is 00:15:28 these genes on your hepatocyte, your liver cell. And so cell type is controlled. But also as we grow older, these genes, some get turned on that shouldn't be on, some get turned off that shouldn't be off and that is aging. And what's been proven in the last, I say this is work done over the last five years,
Starting point is 00:15:53 is that we can reverse your epigenetic age. Your biological age. Well, it's, yeah, you can call it your biological age. Very specifically, I'm saying the epigenome, like your genes are the keys on a piano, right? All those genes are there. And when you're playing a song, you're playing certain genes.
Starting point is 00:16:16 And as you get older, the song starts to blur and the wrong keys are being hit and such. And that's your epigenome. And can you reverse it back where the song being played is correct? And a number of things impact our epigenome. It is your mindset, definitively mind over body. It is your environment.
Starting point is 00:16:41 It is very much exercise. It's sugar. It's what you eat, it's sugar, it's what you eat, it's sleep. And so when people talk about reversing their age, right, and this is something I've been focused on doing for myself, there are a number of things that can reverse your age to a younger epigenetic age. And those are the things I talk about in the book.
Starting point is 00:17:06 It is exercise, sleep, diet, the supplements and meds you take, your mindset, your habits. It sounds really expensive to take care of yourself. It's not economically expensive. There are some things that are expensive for sure. But one thing I want everyone to take away from this conversation today is here are a number of things
Starting point is 00:17:26 you can do effectively for free that can make a big difference, but you're not gonna do them unless you're motivated. It's all about that motivation. And the motivation here should be, if I can keep myself in reasonably good health the next decade, there's this massive benefit that's gonna be paid out.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And so I don't wanna be the last person to die before you reach longevity escape. Right. I mean, you had a lot of great people review this book. Dr. Mark Hyman was just on the show recently, and I think he said, I can't remember the stats, but I believe it's over 50% at least of Americans are more obese than less obesity, right?
Starting point is 00:18:07 There's more obesity than not than ever before. And I'm curious, you talk about mindset, environment, exercise, sugar, what you eat and sleep are kind of the key tenets within this book. But if someone doesn't have the mindset that they wanna get out of suffering or pain or they wanna get out of obesity or they wanna get out of the chronic illness
Starting point is 00:18:32 that they have, because it's just too hard for them to think otherwise or it's too much inertia to switch. They don't have the role models, they're not in the wrong environment. Everything, it seems like so many different things that you need to pay attention to and stop doing. When a lot of people just feel sick, tired, a lack of energy, exhausted from work,
Starting point is 00:18:55 in relationships that aren't really serving them, and they just don't have all these put together, how do you get to the mindset first to say, I've tried these things before, it didn't work. I tried to eat better, it didn't work. I tried to sleep better, it didn't work. I tried the medicine and I'm just getting bigger. I'm getting more chronic teeth.
Starting point is 00:19:14 How do I switch the mindset? There has to be a why. How does someone find that one? So when I talk about this with my abundance community, my Fountain Life members, I'm saying, okay, listen, in your mind, there is a number. Each of us have a number of how long I'm going to live. Like it or not, you've got a number, right? And that number comes from someplace. It comes from your parents, your grandparents, the Bible, society, what you heard on CNN or whatever.
Starting point is 00:19:47 And you're tracking towards that number. I remember when I taught my nieces how to ride a bike, we were on a tennis court that didn't have a net and there were two poles in the court, right? And they kept on hitting the poles. And I'm like, what's going on here? It's like, you have to tie a tennis court. You're gonna go around it.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Yeah, yeah. It's because that's where they were looking. That's where they were focusing. And so if you got a number that says, my dad made it to 80, 85, I hope I can make it there. Or the oldest person in my family was 75, so I hope I can make it there. You're gonna hit that number.
Starting point is 00:20:28 And so you need to let go of that and getting you number. This is interesting, because I haven't heard it this way, and the way you're saying it right now, and I think this is really something that people need to fully pay attention to what you're saying, because you're reframing, creating a number in your mind so that you can see how many they extended. Because if our father or grandfather died at a certain age,
Starting point is 00:20:49 like you're saying, we're automatically or unconsciously saying, well, maybe I last a few years longer because I'm doing things a little differently. Maybe. My medicines may be better. Right, exactly. But you're saying we need to think of a new number. You do.
Starting point is 00:21:03 So we have to look at- What if it seems unrealistic? My grandfather, my dad was 80 something or 85. You know what? Let me provide context here. The average human lifespan for most of human existence for homo sapiens is 30. Wow.
Starting point is 00:21:21 Right? So you and I would be dead a while ago. Right. So to frame this, and again, I talk about this, I'm trying to provide the construct, mental construct, to change people's belief about what's possible for them, which is the number one thing to do, because if you believe it's different,
Starting point is 00:21:38 you're then gonna take these next steps, which make these things different for you. So number one, 100,000, 200,000 years ago, before birth control, right? You were pregnant at age 12 or 13. Wow. And just was the case. And we actually, puberty has moved later
Starting point is 00:21:59 over these last few hundred thousand years. Number two, by the time you were 26, 27, 28, you were a grandparent. Wow. Amazing. And before food was abundant, before we had McDonald's and Whole Foods, it was scarce. And the worst thing you could do if you wanted to perpetuate your species
Starting point is 00:22:18 was stay alive and steal food from your grandchildren's mouths so you would die. Wow. Right. So this evolutionary context is important here. And if you look at the human body, we peak in functional biological age at around 27 and it's a slow decrease. What does that mean? It means our immune system begins to decrease in its power.
Starting point is 00:22:46 We become immuno exhausted. Our muscle mass comes down. We have sarcopenia, right? So last year I went heads down to add 10 pounds of muscle mass, right? And working out every day, making it. Now my job is I got what I wanted. Now it's to maintain it.
Starting point is 00:23:04 And I think about that a lot. Wow. And I measure it, and we can talk about that, and you're doing amazing. I mean, how often do you work out? Four or five days a week, depending. Yeah, but I'm also doing sauna for 20, 30 minutes, three, four times a week.
Starting point is 00:23:18 I'm doing all the different things that I can do. And you look amazing. Thank you. And these are creating habits in your life. Okay, so first context here evolutionarily is it's downhill after call it 30. Your hormones, your metabolism, everything is dropping because there was never any reason to maintain it.
Starting point is 00:23:40 You were dead. Second thing, so understanding that is important that you've got to say, I refuse to let that be the case and I'm gonna do everything I can to change it. But you need some motivational hooks going forward. What's that? First of all, should realize that there are species of whales on earth,
Starting point is 00:24:09 the bowhead whale that can live for 200 years. That's crazy. That's amazing, right? How do they track that? I mean, how do they even know that they're 20 years old? They have found, they've. How do they know they're 200 years old? I mean, it's like. They have found whales with harpoons in them
Starting point is 00:24:21 and been able to carbon date. Come on. Yes. That is fascinating. Isn't that amazing? Yeah. Wow. And then Greenland sharks can live to 500 years old and have babies at 200 years old. That's not fair.
Starting point is 00:24:36 It is crazy. But we're humans, we're not whales. We're not whales, we're not sharks. But the point I'm saying is that these large mammals in cases like that can live that long. There's a proof case. But the point I'm saying is that these large mammals in cases can live that long. There's a proof case. The second thing to realize is there are people who live routinely in good neurocognitive
Starting point is 00:24:54 and cardiovascular health and metabolic health to over a hundred. They're sharp, they're at work, they're capable, they're motivated. They pull up still, all that stuff. And why can they and why can't others? There's a reason it's not random. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:10 And so we're beginning to discover that. We're beginning to discover what's the underlying metabolic, genetic, all of those things. And we now have the tools to edit those things and change them. I think that's the important point. If we understand why something exists
Starting point is 00:25:24 and then how to transform what you've been given to match that, we can begin to see an extension of health span. What was your mindset like when you were in your 40s or mid 40s, when most people hit a midlife crisis, where were you mentally, emotionally around life and death? I never thought about life. I said, listen, I went to medical school.
Starting point is 00:25:50 I was at MIT as an undergrad studying molecular biology. And then I went to Harvard for medical school to make my parents happy. I had promised them I would do this. But then my fourth year of medical school, I had two companies that I was running, a rocket company and a space university. And I thought about longevity to some degree,
Starting point is 00:26:11 but it was not my driver. And I was focused on space, and I was focused on opening the space frontier. And then I was focused on, through the XPRIZE and Singularity University, focused on solving grand challenges. And it was really the last decade that I'm like, oh my God, the biggest grand challenge is,
Starting point is 00:26:33 can we extend the healthy human lifespan, right? The new, you know, the greatest wealth is your health. I love the saying, the man or woman who has their health has a thousand dreams, the man or woman who does not has but one. Yes. And it's so true. And so I started saying, oh my God, this, I love impact.
Starting point is 00:26:53 I love, you know, how can I change lives? How can I support and uplift? And helping people see this future, see what is possible for them, for me, is my goal. And in this book. Did you ever fear death though? I lost my fear of death doing DMT, dimethyltryptifan, which is the active ingredients in ayahuasca.
Starting point is 00:27:20 And I don't want to go down that journey too much. How old were you? This was seven, eight years ago. Okay. And, but it was a, it was, you know, it's a dissolution of the ego and a connection with the, with a universe of love and God at its most epic proportion.
Starting point is 00:27:44 And it was extremely powerful for me. And I lost that fear of death. One of my motivations in longevity is my why. All right, and so coming back to this, it's like to get people to put in the work, to live a longer, healthier life, you've got to have a reason for it. And when I work with my abundance 360 community,
Starting point is 00:28:15 my fountain community, I'm like, okay, let's discuss this. If you had 10 healthy years, what would you do with it? If you had 20 healthy healthy years, what would you do with it? If you had 20 healthy additional years, what would you do with it? When I ask people if you had 50 additional years, their mind breaks. It's like you can make up stuff for 10 or 20 years, but 50 years, like it becomes really hard
Starting point is 00:28:41 for people to think that far out. I find that fascinating. But if you've got a why, and one of my whys was, I've been a space cadet since I was born 61, Apollo lands on the moon in 69, Star Trek comes out in 67, all those things influenced my life.
Starting point is 00:28:57 And it's like, we're on the verge of humanity becoming a multi-planetary species. We're just talking about the SpaceX launch, going to the moon on a recurring basis, we're going to go to Mars. It's amazing. It's like the kid in the candy store here is like, I wanna see as much of that as I can.
Starting point is 00:29:14 All right, to one of my whys is to be here alive, to see humanity become a multi-planetary species, to be part of that. Setting up the first town on the moon, I wanna mine asteroids. I mean, crazy, right? But at the end of the day, this is the future we have potential for.
Starting point is 00:29:30 You can dream big if you've got those extra decades. If you don't think that you had a positive mindset, you were pessimistic, and you didn't have a why for a greater future, how old do you think you'd be able to get to? I don't know. I think I would sort of be tracking into my 80s. Really?
Starting point is 00:29:49 Yeah. So you think you can extend 40 years based on positive mindset, a greater vision of the future. Oh, and then doing the work. Of course, of course. But without the mind, I feel like the mindset and the vision for why is actually everything. It makes it easier to do the work.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Because if you did all the work and you were negative, it's gonna counteract itself. You have to believe this is possible. One of the reasons I wrote this Longevity Guidebook was to give people an understanding that what's possible. And then you need to have the mindset of like, so for me, opening the space frontier, I have two 13 year old boys,
Starting point is 00:30:27 I had my kids when I was 50. And that's one of the, I think one of the great longevity therapeutics is having young kids. And I wanna see them, you know, I wanna meet their kids and their grandkids. And there's lots of other whys that I've created for myself,
Starting point is 00:30:44 but it has to do with, I think this is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And I wanna see as much of that as I can and live in that future. So that why is important. When it's six or 7 a.m. in the morning and it's comfy in bed and you're a little bit groggy and you would set yourself up to go to the gym.
Starting point is 00:31:09 Do you work out in the morning? Yeah, it's hard to do at night. Yeah, it is. But the why of getting out of bed to go and work out needs to be there. Yes. Right. I mean, if you're 25 and you're dating, you know, your why might be procreation or landing that.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Or just fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Landing that partner. But then when you're at night, you're at a restaurant, you've got this basket of bread in front of you. It's hard. It's hard. And this glass of wine brought out before any of your food lands and you start, you know, chomping down on that and spiking your blood sugar.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Or at the end of dinner, when this dessert comes and lays in front of you and it's sitting there staring at you, saying, no, you need a why. You need a why and you need habits that are gonna serve you. And you know this, it's like, it's so bad is part of this.
Starting point is 00:32:11 I think this is interesting. This is, I think, I've had a lot of these, you know, a lot of the people in the back of your book, all the doctors, researchers, scientists on biohacking and health and longevity, I've had a lot of individuals on the show and heard a lot of information. But I think what a lot of individuals on the show and heard a lot of information. But I think what a lot of them are missing
Starting point is 00:32:27 that you talk about so brilliantly is kind of a basic thing, which is mindset around like a positive future. Because most people just think, okay, what's the supplements? I know I need to sleep eight hours a night, and if I don't, there's no overcoming back from sleep dead. You can't overcome it. And you're creating chronic illness and disease when you sleep less than six hours a night, and if I don't, there's no coming back from sleep dead, you can't overcome it.
Starting point is 00:32:45 And you're creating chronic illness and disease when you sleep less than six hours a night consistently. If you're eating sugar, you're gonna be obese, and it's inflammation, all these different things. And so I hear all that, right? I hear all that, how do you create the sleep sanctuary, exercise, resistance training, no sugar, environment, all these different things, you hear it all, which you have all this
Starting point is 00:33:06 backed by science as well in the book. But I think what you talk about differently than most people is just a positive belief. And most people don't believe in themselves. They live in self-doubt on accomplishing anything in their life. How do I get this job? How do I earn more money?
Starting point is 00:33:21 How do I get out of a toxic relationship? How do I find a partner who's good for me? They lack the self-worth that it's possible to accomplish a lot of things, let alone a belief that they can live to 100 or 120. It just seems so hard to comprehend mentally and emotionally. And what I think you're talking about that's different than everyone else is first you need the belief that it's possible. You need to see other case studies or scenarios
Starting point is 00:33:51 of people living a certain way. And you need to have a why that's attached to beliefs. And I think the third thing is we need to believe that we are worthy of living that long. Because most people don't believe they're worthy of existing now. Wow. That's what I think is different about this. Because a lot of people lack self-worth.
Starting point is 00:34:10 And if we lack the self-worth, we do things to cause harm. The more harm compounds, the less life we live. Emotionally, spiritually, but also physically. And I think that's where a lot of this comes from. You have a, of course, you've got, you know, half a billion dollar funds every two years to move humanity forward. So you're just so expansive in your thinking
Starting point is 00:34:34 because you've got to deploy this money to build a greater future and you've got to live into it in 60 years. Most people don't think that positively that they're worthy and deserving of existing now. They're depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, living in chaos, let alone, how can I think beyond next week,
Starting point is 00:34:54 because I can't survive today. So one of the things I talk about in the mindset chapter here, right, and the chapter on mindset and the hormones of happiness is that our brains, we're all hearing about large language models and neural nets and AI all the time. Our brains are neural nets, right? We have a hundred billion neurons,
Starting point is 00:35:20 a hundred trillion synaptic connections that shapes everything you do, see, feel, hear, all of that is upstairs in your three pound mass of jelly. And our minds and our mindset is being crafted and shaped every day. The way that Google and OpenAI and Anthropic and XAI, how these companies shape their large language models is by showing them data, data, data,
Starting point is 00:35:54 and they're collecting. So if you want to train a neural net how to recognize a cat, you show it photo of a cat after cat after cat and it finally learns furry pointy ears, whiskers, tail. But at the end of the day, if you show it a dog, it's never seen a dog before, it's gonna say it's a cat. Right? So the question is, how are we training our neural nets? And we train our neural nets,
Starting point is 00:36:24 our mindset about what we believe is possible for us in the world, in our happiness, in our longevity, by virtue of who you hang out with, right? What you listen to, congratulations on listening to this podcast. What you read, right? What's on your walls. All of these things shape how you think.
Starting point is 00:36:52 And so if you're watching, you know, the Crisis News Network, what I call CNN, every night where you're getting every murderer, every crooked politician, you know, into your living room, hour after hour after hour and living color, because their business model is to deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers. We pay 10 times more attention to negative news
Starting point is 00:37:13 and positive news. Wow. Right, it's just, so we're being just inundated by negative news. And if you're old and you're hanging out with people who are dying and reading the obituaries, you're just compounding this. And you're like, I must not have much time left,
Starting point is 00:37:31 most of my friends are dying. We're also creating a loom system, your nervous system would be heightened levels. Yes, you're fully sympathetic instead of parasympathetic. Yes. So these things are critically important and things that we can change. I mean, you know, I talk about a few of these things
Starting point is 00:37:50 like in the chapter on diet, right? Few simple things that I wanna share that people can implement right now. When you sit down at dinner tonight, take a few deep breaths, just in and out. That puts you instantly to what's called a parasympathetic. It's a rest and digest nervous system before you eat, before you eat.
Starting point is 00:38:20 It allows you to consume your nutrients a lot better. If you're eating in front of the television, watching evening news, you're screwed. You're in a fight or flight. You don't absorb the nutrients. You're empty calories. Next thing, even the order in which you eat your foods matters.
Starting point is 00:38:41 So if you have a plate of food, eat your veggies first. Those veggies slow down your digestive track. They are absorbing the best nutrients first. Eat your protein next. And then if you have room, at the end, you can eat your carbs. So that order is critically important. Is that the sequence secret?
Starting point is 00:39:06 Yeah, the sequence secret. I think this is the interesting part that, you know, I want people to know this because there's kind of five parts of this. Please, go ahead. And this is, you talk about how to build your GLP-1 naturally, and you also say that this secret could actually boost post-medical GLP-1 levels by 38%,
Starting point is 00:39:24 and that's kind of the, Ozempic drug is known forical GLP-1 levels by 38%. And that's kind of the, Ozempic drug is known for having GLP-1 levels. So Ozempic drugs are like, I mean, they're every place. They're the get-rich-quick scheme or the get-skinny-quick scheme. And people need to know, it's not that simple, right? GLP-1 drugs, you lose, you do lose weight.
Starting point is 00:39:46 You basically cut out your hunger, but a significant amount of the weight that you lose is muscle. And if there's one thing that correlates with longevity, it's your muscle mass, right? So there's a very large study that the more muscle mass you have, the longer you're likely to live and for a number of reasons that occur there.
Starting point is 00:40:08 And so what happens is if you're on a GLP-1 drug, you're losing weight, you're losing fat and muscle. And then if you stop the drug, you'll put on 70% of the weight you lost. And most of that that you put on is fat and not muscle. Oh man, so you're kind of a victim to the drug forever. You're effectively addicted. Wow.
Starting point is 00:40:30 And so if you're going to take the drug, the single most important thing that you should be thinking about is how do I use this to create better habits? I mean, there's some people who are morbidly obese. They can't move well. And yes, it's fantastic to help them. But the important thing is while you're in this situation,
Starting point is 00:40:52 learn how to eat healthy. I think about everything I put into my mouth in the same way that I'm so careful about what I watch. I don't watch the news, first of all. I don't read the papers, I don't watch the news, first of all. I don't read the papers, I don't watch the news. I have Google searches that, and an AI that I set up for you, and that bring in the stuff that's relevant to me.
Starting point is 00:41:15 I don't need some editor, like working up my sympathetic system and telling me, I mean, pick up the newspaper tomorrow morning and count the number of negative stories and positive stories. I guarantee you it's 10 to one, at least. And the same thing on the TV news. I mean, it's all negative news.
Starting point is 00:41:33 And you have to ask yourself the question, is this all that's going on in the world? Or is that what they're reporting to me? And there's so much amazing things going on. You just don't hear about them. Good news networks do not succeed. And so you have to actively shape what you allow into your mind in the same way that you shape
Starting point is 00:41:54 what you let into your body, what you eat. And so there's a way to increase this GLP-1 naturally after you eat, right? And the first thing you talk about is the sequence secret, which is how you eat fiber, protein, then carbs. That sequence first. I think it's interesting you say that. I think we've lost the ability to sit down
Starting point is 00:42:15 without the TV on. Most people have lost this ability to sit down without phone or TV consumption and actually take a deep breath. Growing up, my dad used to do a prayer before and we'd sit there and hold hands. And we'd actually connect with each other. And do gratitude.
Starting point is 00:42:31 And do gratitude and then now we eat. Even if you're rushing around, we sit and we take 30 seconds. Calm your nervous system down. Then we eat, not just stuff it in really quick, which I've been, you know, tend to do a lot. So my fiance Martha's always, we put the food down and she will energetically pray over the food and say thank you so much and put good energy
Starting point is 00:42:53 into the food with her hands hovering over it. And it's just a moment, it may feel unnatural because you're like, I'm hungry, I wanna eat this now. That little habit change will add to the sequence secret of helping you boost the avatabilism faster, increase that GLP-1 faster with these little tweaks. Chewing your food. Yes.
Starting point is 00:43:18 You know, I mean, listen, I'm guilty as everybody when I'm like in the middle of it. It's like, I gotta get this into my body as quickly as possible. But the answer is no. It's like when you do that, you're shortchanging the nutrients you're absorbing and you're doing yourself a massive disservice.
Starting point is 00:43:34 Yeah. And so if you're gonna take the time to eat and believe me, this is a, you have to get into a mantra mode where it's like, I'm gonna eat now. One other thing, you know, pause, I'm gonna pause. I'm gonna take some deep breaths. I'm gonna eat now. One other thing, pause, I'm gonna pause. I'm gonna take some deep breaths. I'm gonna drink a full glass of water.
Starting point is 00:43:49 You know, first. We all know this, right? Just to calm down my hunger pangs. And I'm gonna enjoy every bite. And I'm gonna chew it a dozen times, 20 times. And I'm gonna savor the food. And all of these things are basically activating your natural equivalent of Ozempic in your body.
Starting point is 00:44:11 Yes, you talk about Yerba Mate magic. How powerful is Yerba Mate over a coffee or some other? Well, I think I've got a chart there. It's page 37 for you. This is 200 milligrams of, I don't know how you say this, I have a chart there, which- It's page 37 for you. Yeah. This is 200 milligrams of, I don't know how you say this, Uromine. Yes. Tested against a placebo.
Starting point is 00:44:34 So this is with Uromate versus a placebo. The elements here are, each of them make sense, right? The last one here, move your body, so regular exercise. And we know this after, when the healthiest things you can do, especially as a family with your loved ones, with your kids, with your spouse, is after an evening meal, go take a walk.
Starting point is 00:45:05 All of these things make a fundamental difference. You can actually see yourself lose kilograms just by the order which you eat your foods. Really? Yeah. So you eat the same amount of calories, same amount of food. First of all, because you're slowing down your eating
Starting point is 00:45:19 and because you're eating your fiber first and your protein next and not your carbs. So the challenge is when you eat empty carbs, white rice, right, for example, it's converted to glucose. It spikes or bread at the beginning of your meal. You know, you got this basket of bread, you're just munching and drinking wine.
Starting point is 00:45:40 All of this turns into raising your blood glucose levels that then spikes your insulin, which then makes you hungry again to eat more. So if you think that the restaurant is like just doing you this favor of bringing you out to wine. It's free bread, yeah, yeah, and bread. No, they're manipulating you. They're just making you hungry to order more food.
Starting point is 00:46:06 I hate to say that, but that's what's going on. I mean, it's a smart business move, I guess. If it's a restaurant, I get more sales. They give you a little heroin dose to get you addicted. Exactly. What is this lemon power? What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:46:18 So there is an extract called Eramin, and you have these, what's called L cells in your gut that are producing the GLP-1, and it's basically stimulating your L cells to produce the same drug normally, and instead of giving yourself an injection of the stuff. So I mean, listen, these are all, at the end of the day, these are all small actions you can take.
Starting point is 00:46:56 Yes. But how do you make these things into habits? That's what you mean. Because if you have to think about it all the time, it's going to be exhausting. If you're thinking about it all the time, and I have a whole, added a chapter in this book, the last chapter I wrote is on routines. And routines are basically a mechanism that gets rid of your ability to negotiate with yourself.
Starting point is 00:47:21 I mean, I think about it. Let me do that, though. But I mean, as I. Small steps. Yeah. Small steps, don- Let me do that though. Buy small steps. Yeah. Small steps. Don't try and do everything once. I lay out in the book all the routines I've built.
Starting point is 00:47:32 I lay out in the book routines from other individuals as well. And you can Google a lot of amazing health experts and look at their routines. But, you know, give yourself the gift of deciding what you consider healthy for yourself and take it in small incremental steps.
Starting point is 00:47:53 And if you do that, after a while, when I get out of bed, I set my alarm as a backup. I typically, this morning I woke up at 5.15, I'm up between like 5.15 and 5.30 because I go to sleep by 9.30 the night before. It's like, for me, everything begins by me, turning down the lights at nine, going into a getting ready for sleep,
Starting point is 00:48:19 putting on my blue light blocking glasses, slowing things down. I listened to a audible book on tape as sort of like, it's like being read a bedtime story at night as an adult. Really? It kind of puts you to sleep? Well, yeah, it's like I set a 15 minute timer
Starting point is 00:48:37 and I go, some people like reading, some people like a hot bath, some people are focused on prayer, but there are certain triggers that you can have that get you from wide awake to slowing down and getting ready for sleep. We can talk about turning down room temperature and all a bunch of other things,
Starting point is 00:48:56 but when I'm up in the morning, that first hour and a half is mine. Yeah. Right, and it's when I have maximum control of my day. Is that the same for you? Sure, yeah. Well, I just need to go to the gym right away. Yeah, so it's, so I'll do, I have different days
Starting point is 00:49:15 that I'll do different things, but every day it's, you know, some red light meditation. I use something called a pulsero, which is a vagal nerve stimulator to basically put me into parasympathetic. And all of these things have become routine for me. I just bought a home sauna, which I'm excited to try. I know it's great.
Starting point is 00:49:42 So these are the routines that you do that feel natural. And if you don't have the routines, you find yourself in a position of renegotiating things with yourself. And a routine becomes a habit, which is the mechanism by which you don't negotiate with yourself. It's what I do, it's who I am.
Starting point is 00:50:02 It becomes identity. It becomes identity, yeah. What is the thing you still get to unlock within yourself that you're still holding onto? Is there anything that you're holding onto that's a negative identity or something that's still a crutch that's the hardest thing for you to break through on? A routine, a habit, a non-negotiable?
Starting point is 00:50:25 That a routine that I want to have? Something that's still holding you back from like, ah, I still eat that ice cream once a week or whatever. And by the way, if you're dictatorial on it and you don't give yourself the ability to forgive yourself for eating something that just couldn't help. That's not healthy either.
Starting point is 00:50:51 Too rigidity is not good. It's like give yourself credit for what you're able to do. And one of the other things, by the way I'll come back to your question in a moment, is be careful at night. I mean night is when things break down. You have a certain amount of willpower. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:07 And you know this, right? You have your greatest willpower in the morning. And as you've had an exhausting day, I've battled, oh my God, I deserve that piece of cake. Damn it, I worked hard today. You know, I think I want more meditative time in my life and I need more stretching time in my life, and I need more stretching time in my life. So those two things are probably,
Starting point is 00:51:31 if I had to move the needle, I have to let go of something else. There is one thing that all humans have in common, all humans everywhere, from Elon Musk to the poorest child, it's 24 hours a day, seven days in a week, 365 in a year. It's how we use our time that is everything. And you gotta give something else up
Starting point is 00:51:52 to add something to that time. Yeah. So meditation and stretching. Yeah. In page 50 of your book, you say there's a direct relationship between how well you sleep and how long you live. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:06 So it's not about the length of sleep, it's also the quality of sleep is how it is not being interrupted throughout the night. Yeah, so I use an aura ring to gamify my sleep. I have an eight sleep mattress. How helpful is that? It is because I think one of the things that lets me sleep through the night is having a mattress that cools me down.
Starting point is 00:52:30 And I can shape the temperature curve to the night and it warms up in the morning. To wake you up. To wake me up. I've just added a set of full spectrum lights that as the sun sets, the lights become, you see the sun setting and getting red. And then in the morning, the lights come on in a blue,
Starting point is 00:52:57 and so this is about controlling your cortisol levels and just getting you started for the day. And so these are the things that you can do. I mean, you have to remember all of this got programmed 200,000 years ago, you know, we didn't have, we lived outside. We were in nature. We were in nature, you know,
Starting point is 00:53:15 we're grounded feet on the ground. We woke up when the sun came up, went to sleep when the sun went down. And we also only lived 30 years. You also lived 30 years. But it was predation and it was infection and it was a whole slew of other things. How much does emotional trauma
Starting point is 00:53:36 hold us back from living longer? I don't have an answer for you. I think you'd be better off answering that. I think- Kind of the stored traumatic wounds from our past, like if we're holding on to these traumatic events and reliving them. Yeah, I think, you know, you have to be loving life
Starting point is 00:54:00 to want to live, right? So I love life. I truly love life. I love the world I'm living in, my family, the things I get to do. And that gives me this joy and this desire to live as long as I can. And I'm driven by making a difference, right?
Starting point is 00:54:21 It's my massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a difference, right? My massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling, and abundant future for humanity. And so that's what I love doing. And in a similar, very similar way to what you do, it's how do I inspire people to go big, to create a life they love living?
Starting point is 00:54:44 to create a life they love living. And I think trauma is very real and needs to be addressed. And there are ways to address it now, than ever before. Yeah. But you have to feel worthy. You have to have a life, you know, a friend Dan Sullivan says, you need to have a life, you know, a friend, Dan Sullivan, says you need to see a life, a future that's bigger than your past.
Starting point is 00:55:10 Yes. Right, I mean, just think about that one second. If your future is bigger than your past, then I'm like, I have so much to live for. Yes. If you think like, oh my God, my best days were behind me, it's a slow landing into the grave, you're dead already. What's the point?
Starting point is 00:55:26 You're dead already. Might as well live it up right now and eat everything and drink everything. I'll get the tequila going and hit the parties. I heard you, exactly, I've heard you once say that you take 75 supplements and pills a day. It supports your health and optimization for longevity. We don't need to go into all of those,
Starting point is 00:55:43 but if you were only allowed to take five supplements a day, so what would those be? Yeah, so I'm not gonna answer that. Okay. Let's start with that. This book began as a document. People would ask me like, what do you do? Always, right?
Starting point is 00:56:01 So it's like, Peter, you look great, you're doing great, whatever. What do you do for your sleep? What do you do for your meds and your supplements? And this started as a 10 page document. It then became a 100 page longevity document. And it's become now, I think, 180 pages. I made it so that it was very readable
Starting point is 00:56:25 and usable and there's the longest chapter in here is a chapter on meds and supplements. Not because I think that's the most important thing that you should be doing, but because I wanted to disclose fully what I'm doing and why. So to back up one second, years ago, about 20 years ago or so, I think it was 20, there
Starting point is 00:56:48 was a paper written called The Hallmarks of Aging. And a group of scientists identified, okay, what are the nine things that are causing aging, like stem cell exhaustion and epigenetic changes and whole telomere shortening. And so they wrote up these nine things. It was updated now to a dozen things. And so these are what we believe cause aging. And I went through with my physicians. I employ like 20 physicians at Fountain Life.
Starting point is 00:57:28 I have one who's amazing, Mona Izzat-Villanoff, who's my personal doctor, and there's a team behind that as part of my Fountain Life membership. But I went through and I checked my bloods every quarter, sometimes more frequently than that. And I build a protocol of what I take. And there's, I actually have five different pill packs. One when I wake up in the morning,
Starting point is 00:57:57 one in the a.m. with my breakfast, one at lunch, one dinner and one before I go to sleep. Listen, I guarantee you, my mom says, Peter, you're insane. How do you know those things all don't interfere with each other and so forth? I go, mom, you got a good point. And this is what I'm taking.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Sorry, right. Sure, sure. So, but what I wrote up in the book was every one of those supplements or meds, what are they impacting on those hallmarks of aging? What are the things that, and how are they reversing it? We're going to be sometime in the next three years, we're gonna have the ability for an AI
Starting point is 00:58:34 to take in your entire genome, to take in all of your upload data, all of the imaging data of your body, all the blood biochemistry of your body. And then it will ask you, okay, here's your input. What do you wanna do? You want more energy, you wanna live longer, you want more muscle, what's your goals?
Starting point is 00:58:56 What are your top three goals? And then how many pills you wanna take? Right, I'm gonna take five pills, I'm gonna take 75 pills. And then it will spit out an optimum supplement protocol. Based on you. Based on you. Is that happening right now?
Starting point is 00:59:12 Is that out there? We're working on it at Fountain. Wow. And it's an area that I think is very, very doable. The data is being collected at large scale. Wow. But today, if you went to three different doctors and gave them your data and asked them
Starting point is 00:59:28 what you should be taking, you get three complete different answers. But there is an optimal set for you. The next decade, the biggest impact is gonna be from access to AI as your extraordinary health partner. as your extraordinary health partner, right? I mean, it's, I can't explain how exciting it is to have this capacity and capability coming our way.
Starting point is 00:59:53 So in the book, I lay out the meds, the supplements and the why, and I think it's for everybody to evaluate for themselves with your physician, right? And decide where are you in your journey? If you're 25, it's very different, right? So you might be taking creatinine to focus on building muscle. Yes.
Starting point is 01:00:17 Right, if you're 85, you might be taking a particular supplement to reduce your cholesterol. Or your blood sugar. So I wrote it very much with a few provisos and like, okay, this is what I do, it's what I do, I test myself all the time, I've spoken to a dozen doctors, I've done the research, this is why I do it, you decide. What is something that people, if they have a little bit of extra money they wanna invest in their health
Starting point is 01:00:47 to understand their biomarkers better? What is the best tools out there to get an accurate understanding of your blood work or a DEXA scan? Like what are the things that everyday people can do that don't have extreme amount of wealth to do the big tests? Yeah, so.
Starting point is 01:01:06 What should they be doing once a year at minimum? Yeah, I think there are, one thing that I do is I'm wearing a, where is it? Glucose monitor? I'm wearing continuous glucose monitor, yeah, right here. So you're always wearing that? I'm always wearing it. I still haven't gotten one of those. I keep hearing about it.
Starting point is 01:01:20 I keep wanting to try it. It's not expensive, right? You can get it from Dexcom or And those are those are different inside tracker and Life Force are companies that will do a quarterly blood test right so life force for example Tony and I were co-founders of that It will run you you know a couple hundred bucks a year,
Starting point is 01:01:47 up to 500 bucks a year, which is reasonably affordable. And it will give you your top 40 biomarkers. So at a minimum, give yourself a gift of that. Understand what's going on in your body. We're all optimists around our health. Let me give something that, and there's a whole chapter in here called not dying from something stupid.
Starting point is 01:02:12 And let me dive into that one second. Our bodies are incredibly good at hiding disease. If I asked you right now or folks watching, are you sure there's nothing going on inside your body to know about? 100%, are you positive? Most people truly have no idea, unless you've gone through what I call an upload, right?
Starting point is 01:02:40 You don't know what's going inside your body. And here's some stats. 70% of heart attacks have no precedence. There's no chest clutching or no shortness of breath. Even if you got what was called a calcium score, have you ever gotten a calcium score? Okay, a calcium score has been for a few decades the most popular cardiovascular test.
Starting point is 01:03:02 It's looking at a CT of your heart, looking for calcium. But calcified plaque in your coronary arteries, coronary arteries are the arteries that feed the muscle of the heart. If you block a coronary artery and it deprives the heart tissue from glucose and oxygen, the heart tissue dies and you have a heart attack. And if enough of it dies, you're dead.
Starting point is 01:03:32 Wow. Right, so when people talk about a coronary disease or heart attacks, that's what we're talking about. Talking about the blood vessels feeding the muscle of your heart being blocked. Now, if you get a calcium score, they range from like zero to over a thousand. If your plaque, your cholesterol plaques and so forth
Starting point is 01:03:58 are calcified, it's like imagine a pipe here that's pumping the blood through. If it's calcified on the side of the arteries and not blocking the pipe, it's stable, it's fine. But what we discovered is that there's a second kind of plaque. It's called soft plaque. And it doesn't show up in a calcium score.
Starting point is 01:04:20 And so you can have a calcium score of zero and have a heart attack that day because this soft plaque is in the wall of the artery and what we see is it can evolve. So it can break out and a glob of fat will block the coronary artery and starve your muscle. And so what is brand new over the last like three years is a new type of technology which is an AI overlay that can find the soft plaque in
Starting point is 01:04:53 your heart in your coronary arteries and if it identifies soft plaque your job is to either reduce it or calcify it. And it's the only thing that matters. So there's a company called Clearly that we use that you do your coronary CT, it takes 10 minutes, and that data is uploaded. This AI model finds a soft plaque, gives you a report, and that's all you should care about. If it's blocking your coronary, then you might need, you know,
Starting point is 01:05:27 some type of emergent treatment. But if it's not, but you have a high soft plaque burden, your job is to reduce it or calcify it so it can't like sneak up to you in the middle of the night. I had a fraternity brother of mine who died from a heart attack in the middle of the night was due to come down to Fountain Life in a month. And I'm like, it just slayed me, right?
Starting point is 01:05:53 What are the tests that people get when they go to Fountain Life? So let's break it up into three parts. There's imaging, so when you come through Fountain Life, it's a full-body MRI. Like a pre-nurvo type of scan or something. Pre-nervo type of stuff and more. So it's a full body, a brain, a brain vasculature.
Starting point is 01:06:12 So in the full body, we're looking for any kind of tumors, cancers, any kind of anomaly, any kind of nodules in the lung, looking for aneurysms. I'll mention this because it's public knowledge. A friend, Sam Nazarian, I don't know if you know Sam, he owns, started SLS hotels and one of the major hoteliers.
Starting point is 01:06:37 We have a partnership with Fountain and Sam. He's building out 25 resorts, six-star resorts and residential. he's gonna be building Fountain Life's into all of these around the world, which is amazing. So we're going to visit and say, Sam, come on down and go through Fountain Life. I was taking them to go see Richard Branson in Necker, and so we went through Orlando on the way down.
Starting point is 01:06:59 He goes through it. Now, this guy is extremely successful and wealthy and has many doctors. He goes through, we find two brain aneurysms. Wow. He's in surgery a week later. Holy cow. And he's cured now, but these were,
Starting point is 01:07:17 this would have been super bad news. And it's like, that's insane that you have the best medical care and you didn't know this was going on inside your home. So the imaging finds cancers, tumors and aneurysms. We do a clearly coronary CT to look for soft plaque. We do a low dose lung CT. We do a DEXA scan, which you're familiar with,
Starting point is 01:07:46 which is looking at your visceral fat, your muscle tissue, your body fat, your bone density. We do retinal scan. Wow. We do skin scans, looking for any kind of moles or any kind of early cancer. We have a brand new machine for women, which is a new type of breast scan, which is ultrasound.
Starting point is 01:08:14 It does not, you know, compress the breast. It works for people with breast implants or dense breasts. It's amazing ultrasound. It's a joy for women to use and it's something that makes it a lot easier for them. So those are the imaging paradigms. You have blood work in the skin. We have been off of the blood work.
Starting point is 01:08:40 It's 150 blood biomarkers that are tested. Your full microbiome, right, looking at your gut. We do toxin testing. We do food allergy testing. There's a whole bunch more. Your full genome, not just SNPs, just not like 23andMe, which is single nucleotide polymorphism.
Starting point is 01:09:03 It's all 3.2 billion letters, and it's looking at it and understanding this. All the scanning, it takes about four and a half hours. All the scanning is to answer two primary questions. What's going on inside your body you know about right now? And what's likely to happen to you so we can prevent it, we can optimize it, right? That's the goal. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:29 In the what's going on right now, what's amazing are the numbers. We've had like five, 6,000 people come through, 2% have a cancer they don't know about, right? It's like, hate to tell you this and happy to tell you this, we found it, let's do something about it. Two and a half percent have an aneurysm,
Starting point is 01:09:50 14.4% have either a neurocognitive, cardiovascular, metabolic disease, need to take care of right now. I was giving you the stats, 70% of a heart attack without any earlier. You don't feel a cancer until stage three or stage four. And your probabilities of a full remission and surviving it is much lower. It's like when you go into the hospital,
Starting point is 01:10:13 not feeling well and having a pain, and the doctor says, I'm sorry to tell you this, guess what, it didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for probably years and you wanna find it. When's the best time to find cancer? It's like at the very beginning. Yes.
Starting point is 01:10:30 What's even more concerning is that 70% of the cancers that kill us are never tested for. So it's not the breast cancer, the prostate cancer, the colon cancer, right? We test for those. It's the glioblastoma or it's pancreatic cancer. It's the things that are not routinely tested for, right? And so one other test that we do is a grail gallery test,
Starting point is 01:10:57 which is from a blood sample. We're able to look at 40 or 50 different cancers. So when cancer's growing, those cells are growing rapidly in some rupture and they release DNA into your bloodstream. So from what's called the liquid biopsy, we can determine if there's something that we should be looking for. Wow.
Starting point is 01:11:18 But what is amazing about the Fountain Life experience is it's multimodal, meaning it's not any one thing, right? It's all the imaging, it's the genetics, it's the blood biomarkers, it's a cognitive testing, all of these things that come together. So, I mean, full disclosure, it's not cheap, right? It's $19,500, but it's not just the testing.
Starting point is 01:11:42 You get the medical team with you for the year. Wow. Right, so there's a functional medicine doctor, a longevity doctor, a nurse, a dietician, a health coach that work with you through the year and then repeat tests quarterly. So if you wanna go deep into this, we are releasing in the start of the new year a version for 6,500 bucks,
Starting point is 01:12:08 which is going through employers. So if a company buys 10 or more for their employees, the price comes down significantly. That's cool. So people can go to what? Foundlife.com for that. Yeah, foundlife.com for that.
Starting point is 01:12:24 There's one other part, which is the part I'm most excited about Foundlife.com for that. Yeah, foundlife.com for that. There's one other part, which is the part I'm most excited about. Tell me, okay. So one part is knowing what's going on in your body and not dying from something stupid, like holy, I wish I had found that earlier. The other part is this incredible world of longevity therapeutics.
Starting point is 01:12:44 This is the stuff that will extend your lifespan, your health span. Really move. And so Fountain has become, created partnerships with companies that are in FDA trials right now with amazing technology. And so we're making it available to our members through these companies.
Starting point is 01:13:05 Like these are the options you have that can extend, increase your muscle, reduce your immune age, increase your inflammation. And for me, that's the most important part because I think, you know, knowing what's going on in your body is step one and then optimizing your body. Now, again, clearly,
Starting point is 01:13:28 some of these things are expensive. Some of them are not. But the very first thing people need to do is, the biggest needle is gonna be moved by your sleep, your diet, your exercise, your mindset, right? Those will buy you a decade or two. It's crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:13:50 So for those who are serious about it, I think Fountain of Life, make sure you guys check that out. You've offered me like a year or two, you gotta go through it. I'm gonna take you up on it at some point. I still invite you to come. I'm gonna take you up on it at some point. Bring your fiance.
Starting point is 01:14:03 I'll bring Martha, yeah. Bring Martha, yeah. We'll do it. Bring Martha, yeah. Our headquarters is in Orlando. Okay. We have centers in New York, Orlando, Naples, and Dallas, Texas. We're opening up in 25 here in LA.
Starting point is 01:14:18 Okay, remember, now's the time, then. Now's the time. What does it take, like a day to do all the testing? Yeah, under a day. Okay, cool. You know, there's some work? Yeah, under a day. Okay, cool. You know, there's some work to do to get ready there. Sure, sure. But then we're opening up in Houston as well,
Starting point is 01:14:31 at the Rich Carlton in Arizona. So we're adding four new centers now, and then we have that roadmap of 25 centers with Sam. That's amazing. Well, for those that are interested in that, go to FountainLife.com. If you don't have that type of money yet yet there's a lot of free things that you can do right now like you talked about all of them in the Longevity Guidebook
Starting point is 01:14:52 how to slow stop and reverse aging and not die from something stupid so make sure you guys get a copy or two and give it to a friend. It's got a whole chapter on happiness hormones and how you can increase your happiness hormones. Because again, most of this is about mindset and being in a gratitude happiness state because that's gonna help you extend your life. You got your list of supplements in here, you got everything in here on how to optimize it.
Starting point is 01:15:17 And also some of the incredible therapeutics that are coming and to be excited about what's coming, to feel empowered, right? So this book, you can go buy it at Amazon. I think it's gonna be 26, 27 bucks. I'm giving it away at cost for me, which is like 15 bucks. You go to longevityguidebook.com. That will give you access to a bunch of additional things
Starting point is 01:15:46 and the book is shipped at a lower price. My goal is get this out as far and wide. Any profits I make through Amazon or Audible, I'm donating to the XPRIZE. Let me just mention that XPRIZE last year, because I think it's really important. So I started the XPRIZE Foundation 30 years ago, hard for you to believe.
Starting point is 01:16:04 Wow. We've launched 30 XPRIZES in 30 years. So what's an XPRIZE Foundation 30 years ago hard for you to believe. Wow We've launched 30 XPRIZES in 30 years. So what's an XPRIZE? It is a large pot of money That we say I don't care who you are Where you went to school what you've ever done if you can build and demonstrate this technology You win the money and the world gets the benefits. Right? So our first XPRIZE was for private space flight, carry a person up to space, actually three people up, land, and within two weeks make the trip again. This is way before SpaceX and Blue Origin and all of those companies.
Starting point is 01:16:37 And that was successful, but we launched XPRIZES on mapping the ocean floor, cleaning up oil spills on the ocean, pulling drinkable water out of the atmosphere. And, you know, I got Elon to fund a $100 million carbon extraction prize, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and the oceans. A year ago, we launched one of our largest prizes ever.
Starting point is 01:17:00 It was a $101 million prize for extending the healthy human lifespan. It's 101 million because Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon, who's one of our large sponsors, said, so how big is Elon's prize again, 100 million? There were one more million, yeah, yeah. I said, fine, if you fund it, we'll make it 100 million.
Starting point is 01:17:20 So we challenged teams to add 20 healthy years, right? Actually to reverse your functional age. So we ask teams with a therapy lasting less than a year, I want you to demonstrate the ability to make my cognition 20 years younger, the clarity of my thought, my span of memory, my muscle abilities, grow muscle 20 years younger, the clarity of my thought, my span of memory, my muscle abilities, grow muscle 20 years younger, and my immune system 20 years younger.
Starting point is 01:17:52 So we have 460 teams, whole in that team, the competition right now. This prize will be won by 2030. And again, and I talked about a little bit in the book, but this is about, I want people to realize this stuff is coming. It's a rocket ship. There's no bigger business on the planet
Starting point is 01:18:10 and no greater motivation for people. So I want folks to know this is coming. Be excited about it. Be hopeful. Share it with your parents, your grandparents. This is powerful. I've got one final question for you, but I want people to get the book, Longevity Guidebook.
Starting point is 01:18:24 Make sure you guys check it out. Share this with a friend. Let's say you, you know, I believe you're gonna make it to 120 if you believe it to be true. With everything that's coming. Let's say you are 120. And maybe you get to extend it a few more years. Let's say you made 120.
Starting point is 01:18:42 What's the thing you'll be most proud of looking back at 63 right now that you did for yourself to get to 120? The thing I'm most proud of is hopefully, and I believe my kids, right? I mean, that's always something. It's amazing when I go to sleep at night and I think about what are the three moments
Starting point is 01:19:04 that I'm most grateful for from the day, it always comes back to them, right? It's like all the deals, nice, but it's all about my kids saying I love you, right? It's amazing in that regard. I think this XPRIZE is a big deal. This XPRIZE is giving scientists, entrepreneurs permission to dream bigger than ever before. It's funded out of Saudi Arabia, out of evolution and Chip Wilson, I'm a multimillion
Starting point is 01:19:35 dollar donor to the prize as well, as are a number of amazing members of my abundance community. I think the biggest thing ultimately it goes back to where it began. I think it's helping people change their mindset because that's the first step. It really truly is. Everything follows from a belief that you can and a belief that you should and believe that you deserve it. Because the tools are gonna be there.
Starting point is 01:20:07 And it's not that hard. I mean, I laid them out in the book. You don't have to do everything. You pick a few things and increase. Next month add a few more things and a few more things. But if you don't believe it, if you don't believe you're worthy, like you said, you don't go pass go.
Starting point is 01:20:25 Peter, thanks for being here, man. Pleasure, buddy. Appreciate it. Always a pleasure. Powerful. with all the important links. And if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our greatness plus channel exclusively on Apple podcasts. Share this with a friend on social media
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