Sergey Young outlines three ways to reach 200 years: mindset work like the placebo effect and affirming a target age, near-term technologies like gene editing and new anti-aging drugs within 10-15 years, and far-future DNA manipulation and AI-brain integration. A daily practice: write 28% each morning to anchor your minimum lifespan and reprogram your body.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance, it's possible lived at 200 years. Have you staked a number for yourself?
Yes, I do. So my plan is to live to 200 years.
Okay, it is 200.
Okay, yeah, 200. So partly because I'm typical placebo guy, if I kind of believe in something and it's called psychological aspects of aging, then I'm gonna, I'm gonna do it. And as insecure overachiever, I do everything to achieve this number. Unfortunately, you know, all of the technology that we, what we've been doing so far, we were just avoiding early death on Earth. We were fighting cancer, heart disease, diabetes, we're trying to find new regenerative diseases. But it was enough just to move like a statistical average of the lifespan. And I mean we've done a lot. It's up from 35, 40 years 100 years ago to 75, 80 years of average lifespan today. But we never actually cross this border, this barrier of 122 years of maximum lifespan. And this is where technologies that we're expecting to be available to us in 10, 15 years from now, like gene editing, gene therapy, organ regeneration, longevity in appeal, like we're going to see a new class of drugs which going to tackle and fight the aging at its core rather than go disease by disease. So it's going to be like super helpful for us and you know, finally to expand the maximum lifespan and you know, have an ability to live 150 and then, and so this is near horizon of longevity. But to enjoy that in 10, 15 years from now, you need to stay on longevity bridge, as our mutual friend Ray Corswell say. So you just need to be to keep your body and your mind in a state which is worth expanding its resource. And then it comes down to far horizon of longevity, which going to be available to us in 25 to 50 years. But we're going to be redefining humans by this time. We're going to be heavily influencing our DNA. We're going to stop or even reverse aging processes in our body, influencing all 3,000 longevity genes that we already know in our DNA. And it's going to be a world of human avatars, human brain, AI integration. And we're going to talk about concept called Internet of bodies, similar to Internet of Things. We all going to be full of sensors. I'm full of sensors today, you probably as well. But you know, people around the earth, you know, all going to be interconnected to this distributed artificial intelligence run system which is going to be responsible for our health. So that's like, you know, three things, three steps that we need to take to enjoy 200 years of healthy and happy life.
Okay, you dropped one really important piece of advice that I think we glossed over. And the first actionable thing from this, and I'm going to share what I do for it. This is a piece of paper. It says 28% on it, and it sits right here under my camera. What's 28%? Well, this year I'm having my 28% birthday because I don't think in years. That's minimum expected lifespan. I love it. And what Sergey just told you, there is a placebo effect. In fact, it's as powerful as a lot of pharmaceuticals within 5 or 10% of them. So if you don't tell every. By the way, placebos work better if you tell everyone about them. Like literally, oh, yeah, I'm doing this. Even if they crap over it, it doesn't matter. So you need to pick a number. This is the minimum acceptable thing. And you need to tell yourself, I am not old. I am actually this percent of that. And the cells in your body I believe will listen. That's part of how placebo works. The really stupid, really fast systems in the body that pick that stuff up. So you actually really do need to pick a number and make that your reality. And that's a part of it. And Sergey does it, I do it. And I'm pretty sure a lot of the other leaders in anti aging are like, this is my number and I'm sticking to it. And if you tell me I'm wrong, it's because you're dumb. And we go on.
Look, when I started to do my motto every morning and every evening, which is, I'm going to be living to 200 years in a body of 25 years old man. My life has changed exactly. Like, imagine every morning I wake up and like 3 4th of my life is ahead of me. I'm full of dreams, I'm full of energy. I'm so young in kind of lifespan terms. And I like it. My body responds to that, Sam.
