Podcast interview (Ultimate Human) with Dr. Peter Diamandis and Gary Brea focused on longevity and healthspan. Diamandis argues skeletal muscle is a key 'longevity organ' and stresses basic, low-cost interventions—diet, sleep, exercise, mindset, and daily routines—are foundational. He states most people are healthy until about 63 and aims to move healthspan toward ~80 years. He describes his personal regimen: age 63, added 10 pounds of muscle last year via weight training (5 days/week), creatine, and ~150 g protein/day. The conversation also highlights AI as an upcoming accelerator able to process massive variable sets for personalized health recommendations.
Questions this video answers
Age 30.
Most people are healthy till 63.
Move healthspan up to an 80-year mark.
63 years old.
10 pounds of muscle.
Chapters
Our bodies were never designed to live past age 30. Our muscle mass starts decreasing. After the age of 30, our hormone levels, our muscles begin to atrophy.
I don't think that the majority of Americans even think of muscle as an organ. They don't think of it about being our metabolic currency.
There's a direct correlation between the amount of skeletal muscle you have and your longevity. Fundamentally, it comes back down to diet, sleep, exercise, and mindset. And the way that you do those things is to wrap things routine around them.
Sort of the discipline over motivation. We've actually gotten away from the basics, the basics that you just talked about.
Most people are healthy till 63, and our goal here is, can we at least move your health span up to that 80 year mark? This is the decade of a healthspan revolution. And the biggest impact is going to be coming from AI, when you have.
Artificial intelligence that can take 700 trillion independent variables and create an actionable result.
And no human can understand all that, but AI can take it all in, process it and help you. And ultimately, it's about being in the best health I can in order to intercept these breakthroughs.
We're both on the same journey, you know, this childlike fascination with longevity. What are just the basic building blocks of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life.
Yeah. One of the best pro longevity things I've ever done is having.
Ultimate.
You win.
Hey, guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brea, where we go down the road of everything, anti aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And as you just heard, today's guest is probably one of the most iconic guests that we've had on the podcast in a long time, if not the most iconic guest. I'm an enormous fan of his. We were actually just fanboying over each other and he's like, I'm a fan of yours. I'm like, well, I'm actually a fan of yours. Been following you for longer, but welcome to the podcast. Dr. Peter Diamantes.
My pleasure, guy. It's amazing to be here with you in beautiful Miami and in your incredible environment. Here. You, you walk the talk, you live it, and so proud of what you built.
Thank you so much. I mean, that, that is a very high compliment coming from someone like yourself. You know, I've actually been following your trajectory from, you know, from, from afar for, for several years now. I kind of find it fas. I think you're, you're one of those rare kind of left brain, right Brain kind of entrepreneurs that's able to get deeply embedded in the science, but also see how it can have a practical application to humanity. And we're both on the same journey, you know, this, this, this fascination, this childlike fascination with longevity and, and the extension of life. And, you know, I want to go down that road with you a little bit because, you know, as, as I've traveled around the world and met with some of the brightest minds and seen all the biohacking equipment in the world, and we're going to talk about some of the things that I think are fascinating both of us in the, in the space of longevity. The one thing that seems to stick with me is that we need to get back to the basics and then advance to the fancy stuff. And what is your, your feeling on that? I mean, what are, what are just the basic building blocks of, of somebody who wants to live a long, healthy life?
I, I think about that a lot, and I'm clear that fundamentally there are a whole slew of things that cost you nothing.
Right.
That have a huge impact right now. A lot of people know me as a technologist or investor in biotech or AI and building companies in that field. But what I really want to gift in this conversation with you is like, what you can do right now that moves the needle for you, and it's not spending hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. You can do that as well. But fundamentally, it comes back down to diet, sleep, exercise and mindset. Yes, those are the elements that, if you don't have those dialed in, you know, forget about the other stuff.
Right.
Let's dial those in. And, you know, we're here discussing my latest book, Longevity Guidebook. How to go, you know, how to slow stop reverse aging and not die from something stupid.
I love that. Not die from something stupid.
It's, it's, it's important because I think.
That should have been. The title of the book is such a great. It really is.
Thank you. But, you know, it's there. So there's a chapter on, on diet, a chapter on sleep, a chapter on exercise, a chapter on mindset, and importantly this time, a chapter on routines. Because I think the single greatest innovation. I'm 63 right now. I feel like I'm in the best health I've ever been in my life.
You look amazing, by the way. You're a lot more jacked than you look on camera.
I added 10 pounds of muscle last, last year.
Really?
I went down. You know, muscle is your longevity organ. And I went full on did you.
Full statin gene therapy?
No, no, no. It was working out in the gym with weights every day, five days a week. It was Cretan creatine. It was 150 grams because I weigh 150 pounds of protein every day. And it was doing the work. Yeah, it was doing the work. Now doesn't mean. And we can talk about this, some amazing biotechnology coming in the future that will make it a lot easier. My job now is to maintain that. But lots of studies around the world show that there's a direct correlation between the amount of muscle mass, skeletal muscle, you have, and your longevity. So again, the chapter on on diet, a chapter on sleep, a chapter on muscle, a chapter on mindset. Those are things that we should be doing now. And the way that you do those things is to wrap routine around them.
Yes.
You know what is routine? It's not negotiating with yourself over and over again.
Right, right.
It's like waking up in the morning and like, this is who I am.
Sort of the discipline over motivation.
It is discipline. Or. That's a good point, a good way to put it. And it's like, it's. It's creating that person who you want to be and who you are. So it's like I am the person who gets up at this time and does these things. And when you identify with that, it helps you not negotiate and say, well, you know, I want to stay in the cuddly bed a little bit longer, or, you know, that dessert. I can rationalize eating that dessert right now.
Yeah, you know, it's, it's. I, I talk about this a lot too. You know, I, you know, in some of my workshops, we, we. I talk to a lot of folks, and it's interesting how people think that self care is very selfish. Right. So, you know, I've developed this philosophy that, and I applied every day, that the first 90 minutes of every day belongs to me.
Yes, Your golden hour.
Yeah, it's just my. It's my golden hour. And it doesn't belong to my spouse or my employees, my clients or my partners, or even to my podcast.
