This content was created by Eric Siu. This content was uploaded by Eric Siu. This is a YouTube interview/talk titled "Peter Diamandis Reveals the Secret Killer Limiting Lifespan Beyond 30" (published/recorded 2024-07-05). The excerpt features Peter Diamandis speaking with an interviewer (labeled here as "Speaker B"). The discussion focuses on longevity and healthspan—claiming humans evolved to live ~30 years and outlining practical longevity strategies: diet (minimizing sugar, plant-first, protein ~150g/day), exercise (weight training, zone 2/VO2 max, steps, biking), sleep (prioritizing 8 hours, using Oura Ring and Eight Sleep, cool room ~63°F), mindset/purpose, supplements/medications (hyper-personalized), and basic safety measures to avoid accidental death. Diamandis also mentions an upcoming short book, "Peter's Longevity Principles."
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At the age of 30, it's downhill. Our bodies were never evolved to live past age 30. We're on the verge of a healthspan revolution, which you can live to 500 years. It's diet, exercise, sleep, mindset, not dying from something stupid. Okay, let's talk about each of those.
I think you mentioned about wanting to live to 200 years, correct?
Well, yeah. I mean, listen. What are you doing? The thing is, if you can live to 200 years, you can live To 500 years or longer. We're on the verge of a healthspan revolution. We humans were evolved to live to about age 30. You'd go into puberty at age 12, you'd become pregnant by age 13. By the time you were 26 or 27, you're a grandparent. And back 100,000 years ago, in the age of the caveman woman, before food was abundant and was scarce, the last thing you wanted to do was steal food from your grandchildren's mouths. So you would die, give your bits back to the environment. So at the age of 30, it's downhill. Our bodies were never evolved to live past age 30. And your thymus shrinks, your number of stem cells in your body go down orders of magnitude, your muscle building capability goes down. And so our goal now is to change that.
And what are you doing right now?
Yeah, what am I doing? Okay, let's run down that. I'll give the high notes. Diet, exercise, sleep, mindset, not dying from something stupid. Okay, let's talk about each of those. So, diet. It's really simple. Don't eat sugar. Sugar is a poison. The body was never evolved to eat sugar. We didn't have sugar in our diet 10,000 years ago.
How much protein are you consuming per day?
So I am working on maintaining maximum muscle mass, right? And so I weigh 140 2 pounds, I consume 150 grams of protein. So typically a gram per pound.
So I've read that in a single sitting, like a single meal, if you go over 50 grams of protein, maybe 40 grams, it just becomes glucose, right?
Is that what you think? Yeah. So I agreed. So I used to do intermittent fasting. I've stopped intermittent fasting.
Same.
For the purpose of being able to take in enough protein through the day. I will do a morning protein shake and probably do an afternoon protein shake, and I'll have lunch and I'll have dinner. So I'll have protein throughout the day with minimized sugar. So the Nutra11 has zero sugar. I minimize my sugar everywhere I can. And then when I'm eating, there's a right way to eat to minimize things. It's plants first, it's protein next, and if you're going to eat any carbs, it's last.
And are you— I'm assuming this is all homemade, mostly food?
Yeah, homemade food. And if it isn't homemade food, it is food that I recognize. It is a grilled chicken breast from organically fed, and it's broccoli and it's salads. So it's whole plants and proteins. So that's my eating habits. I think the most important thing I tell people is get rid of sugar and whole plants. If you have to do— there's no one diet for everybody, but at least do that. Maximize the number of plants. Next thing is sleep. Listen, we need 8 hours of sleep. No two ways about it. If evolution could have gotten rid of sleep, it would have. We are not productive. We're not reproductive. We're, you know, we could be— We're not happy. someone's dinner. So it's a dangerous time. So I'm always prioritizing sleep. It wasn't that way when I was in medical school. God, oh, God. I used to pride myself on 5 hours of sleep or 5.5 hours of sleep, and now it's like, I need to be in bed at 9:30. So what do you do to get a great night's sleep? First of all, you measure it. So I've got an Oura Ring, I've got an Eight Sleep mattress. I'm measuring everything I can. I have blue light blocking glasses that I put on half an hour before I get to sleep. I bring the room temperature and the bed temperature down.
What's yours at? Mine's -6.
Yeah, I'm probably exactly there. And I have my room temperature thermometer set at 63 degrees.
Wow.
Okay. Yeah, I like it cold. And that helps me get into deep sleep. The most important thing, I think, is getting to sleep at the same time every night. Having 8 hours of sleep between 1:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. is not the same as 8 hours between 10:00 and 6:00 if your normal sleep time is there. So I like to be winding down at 9:00, in bed at 9:30, out cold by 10:00, and my body will typically wake up sometime between 5:30 and 6:15.
Got it. You take any magnesium?
I do. I take 2 different constructs of magnesium.
And why would you take 2?
Just the magnesium? They're for 2 different reasons, but I do take magnesium.
Yeah. Okay.
Are you exercising regularly?
Yeah.
How often are you exercising?
Every day. And then sometimes there's some Brazilian jiu-jitsu added in.
Oh, that's nice. I wish. So I'm trying to do a heavyweight workout 3 times a week.
Okay.
And then at home, I'm doing sort of an at-home push-ups, pull-ups, squats every day, and then trying to get 10,000 steps in. The latest thing I'm really trying to focus on is Getting my VO2 max up and getting into zone 2, which is—
How many hours are you doing a week?
I need to get to 4 1-hour sessions a week.
Got it.
I just ordered a bike so I can take all my Zoom calls and board meetings on the bike. So that's exercise, diet, exercise, sleep, mindset. One of the most important things, hanging out with people who are in good shape and people who are pro-longevity. who care about living a healthy, long life is magical, right? People who are optimistic, people who have purpose, right? There was a study— I'm writing a book which will come out. It'll be free. I'm just making it available to people called Peter's Longevity Principles. And so the book is 70 pages. And it's like, do this in every case. Actually, not do this. This is what I do and why I do it. Whether you want to do it or not, that's fine. But on mindset, people who have a purpose in their life and are optimistic have like a 17% advantage in lifespan, which is insane. Final 2 categories are meds/supplements and then not dying from something stupid.
How do you prevent the not dying from stupid?
Well, it's pretty basic. It's like the major part of that one is go to Fountain Life or something The other part of not dying of something stupid is not texting while you're driving, wearing your seatbelt, wearing a helmet while you're skiing. I mean, it's like the obvious stuff, right? And then meds and supplements are all hyper-personalized, right? And in this book, when it comes out, is everything I take and why I take it so people can decide what's right for them.
