How To Improve Longevity & Age Powerfully with Dr Peter Diamandis

I'm going to start out by bringing forth my dear friend Dr. Peter Diamandis. He's going to tell you a little bit about the medicine revolution that's out here. Give it up for Dr. Peter here. Let us say, Peter, how you doing, brother?

Hi, brother. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see everybody.

Let him hear you.

All right.

Oh, yes. Peter, how you doing, bro? How are you, brother?

I'm doing awesome. It's a beautiful day here in Santa Monica. I wish I was with you. You know, Tony, one of the things that I love and appreciate about you is the energy and depth in which you go into a project. I mean, after working on this project with you for three years, I have two universities. I think I'm going to give you a medical degree and a PhD because.

I truly have learned so much from you. Will you share a little bit about where you see this regenerative medicine revolution happening and why it's best time to be alive with no BS so people understand?

Absolutely. So I want to give some context here. First of all, that's important, and I'm going to go back a little bit of time. 100,000 years. We evolved never to live past age 30 as a human species. Back 100,000 years ago, you would go into puberty at age 12 or 13, and then you were pregnant a year later. And by the time you were 26, 27, 28 years old, your baby was having a baby. And the best thing you could do back then was not steal food from your grandchildren's mouths and you would die. I mean, we literally were designed as a species to procreate, perpetuate the species, and to live till age 30. Then after age 30, as you'll hear from some of these speakers, a lot of things start going downhill. We're at peak health at about the age of, you know, mid-20s to 30. And then we start to go into this disequilibrium. 100 years ago would live towards 50, you know, 60. Today for men it's about 75. For women it's about 80. How old could we live? And that's one of the questions I've asked myself. The majority of my last decade has been dedicated to the field of longevity and health span. Increase my investments, my companies. But I remember when I was in medical school, I watched this television show on long lived sea life. And I learned that certain species of whales, a bowhead whale could live 200 years. Greenland sharks could live 3 or 400 years. Sea turtles could live. And I asked Myself the question, if they can live that long, why can't we? And I remember thinking, it's either a hardware problem or a software problem. And we're eventually going to have the tools to understand why things start breaking down, why we go into this disequilibrium. And that's now it's this decade that's been an incredible revolution, and it's only accelerating. So if we think about what are the tools that we're bringing to bear today, and you're going to hear about it from some of these incredible people that tony and I wrote about, their friends, they're just leaders in this field. A couple of things, right? We've all heard about genome sequencing. We have 3.2 billion letters from your mother and your father. It's your genome. And we didn't understand what was inside the genome. But it was about 20 years ago this process began. And for the first genome, it cost about $3 billion to sequence. And then it was $100 million, it was $10,000. Today, the cost of genome sequencing has been dropping faster than five times faster than moore's law, which is how fast computers are getting cheaper. And today it's a couple hundred dollars to sequence your genome. And instead of doing it over the course of years or months, the new record is seven hours to sequence your genome. Let's add to that that we've got technologies like crispr. We'll hear about it. Won the Nobel Prize in 2020. That besides being able to read your genome, we can now edit your genome and write your genome. If you're, you know, if you're using word for doing your documents, it's reading, writing, editing. We have computation in particular, artificial intelligence. And what's coming soon is quantum computers. I'll talk about some of this stuff later on. We have sensors right today, we think we know what's going on inside our bodies. I'll ask you right now, do you know what's going on inside your body? I would posit that for most of us, we don't actually know what's going on inside our body. We hope things are great. You know, if you end up. And we've all seen this, where someone, you know, goes to the hospital and they get a checkup and there's a diagnosis. I'm sorry to tell you this. You've got stage, you know, three or stage four cancer. You know, it didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for months, maybe years. And we now have the ability to look into our body with sensors this is Besides, you know, MRIs and CAT scans, these are sensors, like continuous glucose monitoring or an aura ring for sleep or an Apple watch. And there's a explosion of sensors that are coming online that we're going to have in our bodies, on our bodies, in our chairs, in our beds, monitoring us 24 hours a day, seven days a week so we can truly understand the state of our health. Because for most of us, we know more about how our car is doing or how our refrigerator is than we do our own health. So the revolution that's coming is moving medicine out of the hospitals, out of the doctor's office, into your home, onto your body to monitor you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so that you can catch disease at the very beginning. You know, when do you want to catch cancer? It isn't at stage four. Right. Tony will talk about this. We'll talk about. With some great individuals, you want to catch it when it is just at the inception. And one thing that you should also know is we're always developing cancers in our body. It's just that our immune system finds the cancer and zaps it before it's too late. It's when your immune system fails to find the cancer that it develops. And so we need to be monitoring ourselves. They're incredible technologies. We'll hear about some of those from Dr. Bill Capp at Fountain Life. Technology like Grail, that's able to, from a blood sample, diagnose 50 different cancers at their earliest stages. So it's incredible what's coming. One of the questions I want to ask you, we're here talking about vitality and energy. If you're got all the vitality and energy at 60 or 70 that you had when you're in your 20s or 30s, are you going to want to retire? Probably not. You're probably going to start your next company or go and travel the world. Go have an amazing time. So one of the questions I ask people all the time is, how long do you want to live? You know, not in a wheelchair, a drooling, but with the vitality. Right. The cognition, so you're thinking clearly. The aesthetics, so you look good. The mobility, so you're moving well. How long do you want that for? Because we're about to see the technologies over the course of the next few hours that will give us that cognition, aesthetics and mobility. I'll close on a thought. We opened this book with a dear friend of both of ours, Ray Kurzweil. He is. He's written our forward and I first heard Ray and offer opera degrade talk about something called longevity escape velocity. And it's an important idea. I want to share it with you because it motivates me every day. So it turns out that today, for every year that you're alive, science is extending your year by about a quarter. Science is making our lives longer and healthier every year. Breakthroughs that are occurring across the board, there's going to be a point at which science, for every year that you're alive, is extending your life for greater than a year. And that concept is called longevity escape velocity. And when I asked Ray when is that going to be, he said his prediction was it would be 11 or 12 years from now. And I was blown away. Right. You're telling me that 11 or 12 years from now, if I can stay in good health, that I'm going to be able to be adding additional years onto my life. Then I asked Dr. George Church, who heads genomics at Harvard. He was brilliant. And I expected clearly a conservative Harvard scientist would think that it would be way out in the future. George's answer was, it's probably about 15 years from now. So I have a question for you. Are you prepared to do what it takes to keep yourself in a good state of health, not to die from something stupid in order to intercept the technologies that are coming to give you the vitality, the energy, and the potential for a long health span? So, Tony, I'm excited about the work that we've done and the work that we're doing together in fountain life, in LifeForce Digital, in all of these things. It's truly, you know, you've said it, I've said it. You know, the true wealth is your health today. And we should expect to get to 100. We should expect perhaps to go further than 100. All right, buddy. Back to you, pal.

All right. Give him a hand, Peter. Ladies and gentlemen.