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26:51We have not evolved that much differently. There's been some evolution, but not a lot. And our body never evolved to take in as much sugar as we do. We take in about 60 times more sugar per year than we did 100, 200 years ago in the diet. And sugar, what happens is sugar coats proteins and it makes them inflammatory. So when you're raising your sugar levels in your bloodstream, it has two major impacts. Well, three major impacts. One on your brain. So it is a neuroinflammatory. It causes inflammation. It is a cardiac inflammatory in your heart, and it causes metabolic disease. I'll give you an example.

27:38We just are publishing the study out of Fountain Life again, covering our first few thousand members in which we measured what correlated highest with heart disease. Was it LDL we hear about or HDL or triglycerides or LP little a or any other factors, cholesterol, et cetera? No. What correlates the highest with heart disease is your blood sugar levels. It's called your hemoglobin A1C. And so I wear a continuous glucose monitor. And I am watching what I eat. I mean, listen, I'm not a angel. I will eat something sweet on occasion. I will gravitate towards 80 % dark chocolate or something like that, which actually has health benefits for you.

28:29But I have this debate with Elon on Twitter all the time where he says, I eat donuts for breakfast and go, you can do that if you want. When you turn 60, buddy, you're going to change your mind about this. True. Do you do a glucose tolerance test with your labs? We do. We also do a fasting glucose levels. That's what I meant, actually a fasting one. I'm just curious. If you personally do that, I know you... I do it. I do it on a regular basis, yes. In fact, this Saturday, I'm drawing my next set of labs. And I do this on a regular basis to understand what's going on. I'm really focused on reducing what's called my hemoglobin a1c yep i want to get it down to uh 5.3 or below um and you know stress can rise it well that's my biggest my biggest challenge is i'm i i shoot for eight hours of sleep a day we can talk about that again but i'm operating uh at high intensity from 6 a.m till you know 9 p.m and i'm loving life i'm i mean yeah i know you can relate but i'm loving life it's the most exciting time ever to be alive.

29:32And so I don't want to miss a second of it. But so sugar is, when you think about diet, I think about a few things. Let me give a few pearls, if I could, for those listening, things you could do right here, right now. First off, when you sit down for dinner tonight, drink a full glass of water at the beginning of your meal, right? That's easy. The second thing is don't sit down in front of, you know, CNN, the Crisis News Network, or I take a second to actually take a deep breath in and out. That puts you into the parasympathetic, your rest and digest mode so you can absorb your food. If you're in a debate, if you're watching every murder on the planet on TV, it puts you into a fight or flight mode, which is the worst way to get nutrients.

30:20And then when you're looking at your food on your plate, eat your vegetables first it's eating your fiber that slows your digestion down your protein next and then eat your carbs if you have room third just doing that you'll lose pounds of weight and so another thing is I'm listen I only have so much willpower right I've got lots willpower in the morning get out of bed go to the gym get exercise and so forth and night you know if i'm at a restaurant and they put like chocolate cake in front of me it's like i'm like i'm not gonna touch it i'm not gonna touch oh you just try a little bit of it and so the most important thing is it doesn't hit the plate in front of me it's like no don't even tempt me it's easiest to say no before it hits the plate and that's the truth by the way that's uh just amazing how we land on similar things like i i wear my monitor i do a fasting glucose test um but i'm going to make that change right now i'm going to make that change of i do watch the crisis news network or fox or whoever's on when i eat that's not good and i i uh it's interesting i have a tendency to want to eat my vegetables first like genetically i know i'm probably supposed to and so i'm going to make those adjustments those are simple things you guys as are a lot of the supplements that are in the book as well

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33:09It's a fascinating term. So if you look at human longevity over, you know, thousands of years, it's pretty flat where, you know, over the last 100 ,000 years, people lived in their late 20s, 30 years old. It went up in the 19, in the 1800s up to like 40 years old. And it's skyrocketed, doubled to roughly 80 today. And we can see that science has added about a quarter of a year of lifespan for every year that you're alive pretty consistently. And now the concept is, and this is proposed by Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil, that there's going to be a moment in the future where for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year.

33:59and that idea is called longevity escape velocity it's so and it is it is a powerful idea now what's even more powerful is if you go and you ask some of the world's top experts and i've done this um they're friends um i've invested in their companies i've written about them i have um you know they've been on my stages uh folks like dr george church at harvard medical school one of most prolific scientists in the field, David Sinclair, who we both know, Ray Kurzweil. And you ask, when will we reach longevity escape velocity? Well, Ray Kurzweil, who has probably the most accurate predictions of any futurist and technologist, right?

34:40He's the futurist at Google. If you look at Wikipedia, I think it's like 86 % accuracy rate for his predictions. He predicted when we're going to have human level AI and a whole bunch of things. Well, his prediction for when we reach longevity escape velocity, um, still blows me away. He says by the end of the year, 19, uh, by the end of the year, 2030. So in, in five, six years, uh, we, we reach LEV. You know, when I asked David Sinclair and George Church, uh, they put it at the mid 2030s, you know, which still means it's, you know, 10 to 15 years away. And so I think this, this is the motivation you want to be in the best health you can to intercept this so that um you're it's not so you're there uh when these new breakthroughs come out and you're in the best health and for me that's called my longevity mindset i think my longevity mindset is i'm going to do i'm going to get out you know so one of the one of the chapters is on exercise right and i put on 10 pounds of muscle, you know, you look, you've got incredible physique.

35:51How often do you work out? It waits four days a week. Yeah. And I, to add it, I bumped it to five days a week. And it's something that I think is one of, you know, your muscle is your longevity organ. It's one of your most important things. So I think LEV, longevity, escape, velocity, people need to have that motivation. Like I'm going to stay in the best health. I'm going to get out on a go workout in the morning. I'm going to avoid the sugar. I'm going to focus on getting eight hours of sleep. I'm going to switch to an optimistic mindset, all of these things. And then ultimately, you know, not die for something stupid because I think that's an important part to the extent that a person can afford to do the kind of testing that's out there.

36:36The last test I did everybody, the day that I was there, there was a gentleman in the room in front of me and they took them to the hospital as I was waiting to do one of my scans. He literally was taken directly to the hospital. And the reason that that was the case is they found the beginnings of an aneurysm in his brain the day that he was there. And I was told months later that he lived and that had he not had his scan done that day, that he likely would have either had a significant event or passed away. And so these are things, you know, you were going to say something about that. I'll say it.

37:06One of my business partners, a guy named Sam Nazarian, who is the founder of a number of hotels, including SLS. He and Tony Robbins have partnered on a large project called The Estates. And he's going to be putting Fountain Life centers into these six-star resorts and six-star residential developments. I said, great. Why don't you come through Fountain and experience it? Now, here's a guy who has best physicians in the world and can afford whatever he wants. And he comes through the program and he calls me and goes, I just got a call from the doctors. I have two brain aneurysms. And he was in surgery a week later.

37:48Now, he's fine, but that's it. We don't know what's going on inside our bodies until we look. I didn't think I was going to ask you this, but it just occurred to me because someone brought it up to me. Any thoughts about, like, I keep hearing more and more about zombie cells in our bodies. Do you have any thoughts about that? Of course. And I talk about this again in the book. The book is intended to be a very digestible, you can read a segment at a time. You can read a segment at a time, but it's actually a sit down and sit out at the pool and read for a day book also. You're not going to get it done in a day.

38:22But it's outstanding. And it's easy to read on such an important topic. The brilliant things about him is he's the smartest guy in the room and never tries to sound like it. He wants you to actually understand what he's saying. I just want to say that about the book, too. Thank you. Thank you. I'd written a book with Tony Robbins called Life Force, which is an amazing book, but it's 700 pages. And it's hard to consume a 700-page book. And so I turned this book into a roughly 200-page book where it is this is what I do and why I do it and the science behind it. And I put it all out there for folks to adopt what they want.

38:59There's an entire chapter on routines. I think routines are, we'll come back to that in a minute. Let's talk about zombie cells. So a human cell will replicate 50 times and then should have the decency to die. It's called the Hayflick limit. And so when cells replicate 50 times in the normal course of division, at the end of that 50 replications, there are three possible outcomes. Number one, they can die, make room for a young stem cell to create a new young cell that enters into your liver, kidney, skin, whatever. Alternatively, they can become a tumor cell, they can become a cancer, and they become immortal.

39:41And we are, here's a key point folks don't realize we're always developing cancers all the time. And our immune system, God bless it, we have this amazing brain, a very complex machine in our heads, but the immune system is almost always as amazing. Our innate immune system, something called natural killer cells, are the cells that are running through our bodies looking for a virally infected cell or a cancer cell and then zapping them. And hopefully that happens. When it doesn't, that's when you need to be scanning yourself and finding it because there are things you can do. The third option is they become a senile cell, a senile cell or a zombie cell, sometimes called a grouchy old man cell.

40:29And they're sitting there at the end of life, just pumping out inflammatory factors, trying to recruit other cells to become inflamed as well. And there are new drugs called senolytics. The face cream I use and I write about in the book is called One Skin. And these four PhD women discovered this 10 amino acid peptide that kills the zombie cells in your skin. and you know I love the product and anyway so there are different approaches to killing the senile cells you need some because they help in wound repair but you don't want too many and you can measure that today you can measure how many you have in your body step back for a second this is so good I told you guys there's not a wasted minute when Peter's on I know that some of you listening is you're like this is great it's two pretty affluent guys talking about these things that cost some money there are a lot of things scans are a little bit different there's a lot of things and some of the scans aren't expensive but there are a lot of things you can be doing in the book in terms of sleep hydration your nutrition supplementation that truly are not expensive probably even a realignment of money you already spend elsewhere and that would infinitely help you extend your life until we get to this escape velocity that we're going to get to.

41:59And so please don't just discount this, that these are all things that cost money because it isn't true. And that probably is an appropriate time to shift to the role of AI and longevity as well. Because I know this is something you're really excited about. I had Peter on guys, and we talked a lot about AI in a time where, kind of like now, where there's a lot of fear about it, a lot of concern, and maybe justifiable when it comes to, you know, income in the workplace. But when it comes to longevity, let's talk about AI a little bit, because this will benefit everybody. Yeah, it really is. I think folks need to be excited about this.

42:32So here, here we go. AI is going to be the single biggest impact on human health ever. There was a study that just came out about 10 days ago in which it looked at physicians diagnosing a patient on their own, given a bunch of data, physicians diagnosing a patient using a chat bot, a large language model as their partner, and then the large language model diagnosing on their own without the physician loop. Interestingly, the numbers approximately were like 70 % accuracy with the physician alone, 75 % with the physician and the AI and like 90 % with the AI by itself. Why? Why? Because humans have biases.

43:20Humans have biases that will tilt the data because they've seen a bunch of cases. We have all these cognitive biases. Like if I've just seen a bunch of these cases in a row, I'm more likely to say, well, this person might have that as well. The AIs are not cognitively biased in that regard. Another thing which is interesting is that a study done as well, the American Medical Association, that looked at trust and empathy. And it found out that AI psychologists have a higher level of trust and empathy because you don't feel judged by the AI and you don't have a, I'm sorry, I've got to cut us off.

44:07I have my next patient waiting. I will spend as much time with you as you want. So AI is coming. Interestingly enough, if you think about this, some of the most powerful technologies in the world are free, like Google, right? I mean, amazing. Well, guess what? Gemini 2, Grok, when it comes on, Grok 3 from XAI, from Elon, um uh we have uh you know chat gpt and gpt uh 01 all of those maybe 20 bucks a month but these technologies are going to become your diagnostician you got to get the data right so fountain life is the place you collect the data that other places you can go as well you're ultimately going to be uploading data from your wearables to the the ai doc that's going to be monitoring everything all the time and another thing i mean i want to give you the scope of this So our bodies are 40 trillion cells.

45:03Hard to understand that number. And every cell is doing about 1 billion chemical reactions per second. And so there's so much. As we sit here and talk and breathe and our heart's beating, there's so much going on. I mean, it's unfathomable. And there's no way that a human physician can understand all that. But AI can. What a great point. And we're going to start to understand why can someone live to 105, let's call it, mentally sharp, going to work every day, and there's a good number of people who do that at that age, and other people are in pain or dying in their 60s. What is it? It isn't random.

45:50There are reasons for this. And so we're about to have these discoveries occur. And do you believe that that is mitigated, limited by your genetic predispositions to some extent? In other words, if a person with the best hand dealt of them might someday go to 150, that, you know, gene expression or whatever might impact somebody like me who's got the cancer and heart disease and all this stuff right in my genes, that maybe that is limited to some extent? There is a study done, and I quote it in the first chapter of the book, that looked at a very large population that were genetically sequenced.

46:32And the answer is that the population's longevity, in other words, how old a person would live, was attributed only 7 % to your genetics. Wow. 7%. The upper bound in another study that was done earlier, I believe the 7 % one was 30%. So at a minimum, 70 % of how long you will live and your health is up to you. It's up to your lifestyle. It's what you eat. It's your sleep. It's your mindset. It's your exercise. These are things, and this is what gets me excited. This is why this book, by the way, I don't need money from selling a book. I'm donating 100 % of the proceeds to the XPRIZE Foundation which I'll talk about in a moment and if you buy it from Amazon it's like 26, 27 bucks all the profit there goes to the XPRIZE my goal is get it out as far and wide as I can and so if folks go to longevityguidebook.com which is the website you can get it for half the price on Amazon plus a bunch of other bonuses it's my cost of printing and shipping it to you That's great, brother.

47:47That's wonderful. And it's like I'm on a mission to help a million people understand the power they have to become the CEO of their own health. That's my goal. It's like the greatest gift we can give anybody. He is everybody. Peter and I have met multiple times. There are people that you have on their show like this is like part of his life's work and a huge part of his passion. He does not need the money from it and thank god some of the most brilliant people in the world like peter Are enrolling and enlisting others of the most brilliant people in the world To really pursue this science really 25 years ago There wasn't a lot of people if anyone really talking about these things Never mind seeing these advancements and people like peter or david Even five and ten years ago were being told that they were exaggerating And now it turns out these things are happening sooner and faster than even some of them predicted them.

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49:26Is it that we're going to have a society on Mars? Is it that we're going to have an ability to age every year? Or is there even something outside of that? We're going to de-age every year for every year we live. Something in that brain of yours you go, Ed, you know what I think is going to happen in the next 10 years? that's going to blow humanity's minds, it's this. All right. I don't think there's just one. I'll give you three or four real quickly. Okay. Okay. So first of all, we are going to extend the healthy lifespan, the health span, right? How long you're healthy to over 100. I think the breakthroughs are going to come there.

50:01Secondly, I run this Abundance Summit every year, and I have some incredible people on stage this year. One of them, Max Hodak, who is the co-founder of Neuralink with Elon, his work is connecting your brain to the cloud. So being able to think in Google, being able to like understand quantum physics, being able to like become a master in chess, being able to do any of these things just by thinking, right? And I've seen his work, I've seen the tech he's built and it blows me away. You know, we're going to be rocket rockets, hundreds of people living on the moon in the next 10 years. We'll have the first boots on Mars.

50:42I mean, flying cars and autonomous cars, all these things are just going to become child's play compared to... We're living... I've had a chance to have Elon twice on my podcast, my Moonshots podcast, and we were talking last time about how fast AI is moving. His prediction is that by 2029 or 2030, AI will be more intelligent than the sum total of 8 billion humans. The sum total of 8 billion humans. Yes. Yeah. Oh my gosh. So what is possible when you've got AI at that level of intelligence, right? In 2024, we saw AI reach an IQ of 120 from GPT-01. and I expect one of my predictions for 25 is we'll reach an IQ of 140.

51:36And so this will be the mechanism by which we understand the complexity of the human body, that we begin to learn how to extract CO2 out of the atmosphere, out of the oceans, by which we learn how to do the things that we dream about doing. We would make a mistake today, though, if we didn't lock a little bit about the microbiome, at least a little bit. So let's just let's let you go on there. Before we dive in there, I just want to say I'm so happy to have this conversation. You are my mom's favorite podcast. So shout out to mom. Thank you. She's so smart. Now I get where you got your brains from.

52:18It's clear.

52:22So your microbiome, you know, I said you're a collection of 40 trillion cells. That's not actually true. You have 40 trillion human cells. We also have on the order of 100 trillion other organisms that are hitching a ride with us in our oral microbiome and our gut microbiome. These are bacteria, these are fungi, these are viruses, and we are a community of organisms. And we're learning that your microbiome is extraordinarily important. It will determine, your microbiome can determine whether you put on weight or lose weight, whether a drug works for you or doesn't work for you. It impacts your cardiac health, your neural health, all of these elements.

53:06So you can now understand your microbiome. One of the technologies I write about in the book is a company called Viome, these products I use. And they built their technology from Los Alamos Labs. So we know Los Alamos is the place where Oppenheimer built a nuclear bomb, but they also did other advanced work. And they said, if we're ever struck by bioterrorism weapons, we need to be able to understand what hit us. And so they developed a technology for looking at not the DNA, but the RNA, ribonucleic acid, which tells you what genes are being expressed. Long story short, what Viome does is it takes a sample from your mouth, from a finger prick, and from your stool, and it's able to understand what's going on, your transcriptome, as it's called, in your body.

54:08And it tells you what foods are healthy for you because not all foods are identical for everybody. If you don't have the right bacteria in your microbiome, you may not digest something or it may create a chemical that's not healthy for you. So I use Viome to analyze my diet. It also analyzes my oral microbiome. I have a whole segment on my mouth. I pay much more attention to my oral microbiome than ever because your mouth is a direct passageway to your brain and to your heart. Yeah. Amazing stuff. Yeah. I think, you know, because time's limited, I know my audience is going to want me to ask you, and I know you can't be too specific, but there are chapters in the book on hormones.

54:56And I'm just curious about, you know, when we talk hormone stuff, I'm always worried about the younger listeners because I end up getting men, especially who are in their early 20s or mid-20s, that now want to go get jacked on testosterone because they're seeing all these fit guys like you that are 63 years old and probably have concluded maybe they've had some supplements. with exogenous testosterone. But your thoughts overall on any... Measure, measure, measure, measure. And there is an ideal range for your testosterone level, typically in the 700 to 800 range. I have done some testosterone supplementation and then I stopped.

55:38I didn't feel any different. And I wasn't treating... My numbers were fine, but it was like, do I feel different? The one thing they have to be careful about is if you do supplement testosterone, you can blow your hair out, right? You can lose your hair. Your DHT will go through the roof if you've got a predisposition. You have to do the research. There's drugs like finasteride you can use to counter that. But don't be surprised if you're pumping testosterone and it's not healthy for you to drive it through the roof. What is healthy for you is working out five days a week. I talk about in the book when I was putting on 10 pounds of muscle last year I was like 150 grams of protein 1 gram per pound of body weight using 5 grams of creatin every day to supplement my muscle building and so forth and that's the way to do it it's work hopefully we'll see if this immunist product from Hans Kirstead can increase your ability to add muscle, but there's very few do it for free.

56:48And one of the things, let's just talk about it, the GLP-1 drugs, right? Losempics and all. Yep. You know, I write about it in the book. I want to just, I want to share my thinking on this. It's miraculous for people who truly are significantly obese where their greatest health risk is their massive obesity. If you have an extra 20, 30 pounds, OZEMPIC is not your get-out-of-jail-free card. If you're going to use OZEMPIC, be aware that a lot of the weight you're going to lose is muscle, which is a problem. Is that simply because you're just eating less and not getting your protein intake? Yes, yes, it is that.

57:33And what happens is people are like, oh, I lost weight. Fantastic. Well, you've lost fat and you've also lost muscle. And then when you stop the Ozempic, are you going to take this for the rest of your life? If you stop your Ozempic, you put on the fat, but not the muscle. And so it's got this negative connotation. Now, one of the most smartest things I heard, and this is from our chief medical officer at Fountain Life, Helen Messier, who's brilliant, is, listen, if you're going to take Ozempic, use it for a period of time and use it to develop good habits. And again, I have an entire chapter on routines.

58:12It's like what I do every day on a routine basis. And habits and routines are the way that you don't negotiate with yourself in the morning. It's like, this is who I am. This is how I eat. This is how I exercise. This is how I sleep. And you build these routines and they become your greatest. I never thought about routines earlier in my life, but now it's like one of the most important things. Well, same here. And I just think there's an, there's a value prop in your life of doing difficult things. And when you rob yourself from doing difficult things, you cheat yourself from all of the ancillary benefits of the confidence that comes with it and the strength that comes with it, the belief, the mindset changes that come with it, but just things that people are doing that I wonder if you understand the value of or, or, or appreciate or believe in the value of rather not understand what about red light therapy so i do it it's part of my routine so you know i talk about my routines at night my routine is to be cruising towards sleep starting at nine and in bed hopefully out at 9 30 so my day begins the night before if i can get to sleep at 9 30 my body wakes up at 5 30 i've got my eight hours of sleep when I get out of bed, the first thing I do is I'll do, first of all, the very first thing I do is while I'm in bed still, I say gratitude.

59:35Thank you for the amazing day ahead. Thank you for, you know, giving my energy, my life, my family and all the incredible things I have. And it's just starting the day with gratitude is like, I've literally jumped out of bed and go, uh-oh, get back in bed, focus on my gratitude before getting out because it's important. And then I I will do about 20 minutes of red light therapy while I'm meditating. Really? Okay. In the morning. Yes. I use a red light cap on my head for keep my hair growth going. I use a red light mouthpiece for oral and I use a red light full body panel. And it's really about energizing.

1:00:12It's about maintaining skin youthfulness. It's stacking these things. Yeah. Yes. By the way, so do I, everybody. Just want you to know our routine on that is very similar. I want to say one thing before I ask him the last question. You should go get the longevity guidebook. I would just go get it. It will be reading that will benefit you whether you are 22 or 82. There are elements of this book that you should know. And I did read it in two full settings. The part that I got, the digital copy that I got. And I recommend it. I recommend you do that in your life. Obviously, this interview has been incredible, but there's a lot more in the book that you're not going to get out of today's interview.

1:00:48you. I can't have you on and ask about the XPRIZE because I think it's one of the greatest things of the last two decades. And so I just want you to be able to have the floor and tell us a little bit about the XPRIZE and what you guys are doing there right now. Yeah, sure. I'm so excited. So it's 30 years old this year. It's hard for me to believe. I started the foundation 30 years ago, feels like yesterday. And we've launched 30 XPRIZE, about$600 million in competition. So what is it? I read one day that Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic in 1927, not on a whim, but to win a prize. And so this Frenchman offers up this$25 ,000 prize for the first person to fly between New York and France.

1:01:29Long story, amazing book, Spirit of St. Louis, Pulitzer Prize winning book. And I'm like, huh, interesting, a prize. And he doesn't pay any of the losers. He only pays the winner. And so I'm a young space cadet. I'm passionate about space. It's like what I want to do. I think humanity is on its greatest adventure ever. And so I organized a$10 million prize for the first team who can build a private spaceship carrying three adults up into space land and with the same ship do it again. Now, this is way before Virgin Galactic or SpaceX or Blue Origin or any of these companies. This is when only the government thought about space.

1:02:06But I was sure commercial was the right way to go. And it was won in 2004. It took me six, seven years to raise a$10 million prize purse. And people told me I was crazy. That just fueled me forward. It was won in 2004 and really changed the entire landscape. And on the heels of that, we built this incredible foundation. And every year we launch one or two major prizes. Again, we've launched 30 over 30 years. The total cumulative prize money has been about$550 million, I think is the exact number. And it's driven about$8 billion in R &D by all the teams trying to compete to win the money. Last year, about almost exactly a year ago, we launched one of our largest prizes called the XPRIZE HealthSpan.

1:02:56And this is a competition in which we have asked teams to come up with a therapy in one year or less, Ed, will reverse your functional age by a minimum of 10 years, a goal of 20 years. So within, I give you this therapy for a year, and then you have the ability to build muscle that you had 20 years ago. You have the cognitive clarity, the scope of memory, the mind that you had 20 years younger. You have the immune system to fight cancer and fight viral infections that you had 20 years earlier. And so we launched that competition. I raised$141 million. It's a$101 million prize purse. I'll explain why it's 101 in a minute.

1:03:43But we have, in the first year, we have over 500 teams competing for this. That's awesome. It's amazing. And I've seen the stuff. It's incredible what these companies are doing. It's a crowdsourcing genius around the world. Gosh, it's awesome. Yeah, the first major sponsor is a wonderful guy, Chip Wilson, who was the founder of Lululemon. And he says, so, Peter, listen, I'm willing to kick in like$35 million towards it. I want you to find others. Come in. I'm a donor to the prize. We have an amazing group. Hevolution is a major sponsor as well. Anyway, so Chip goes, how much is Elon's prize for pulling carbon out of the environment?

1:04:22And I said, Chip, it's$100 million. He goes, can we make ours larger? That's awesome. I said, if you put the extra million in, buddy, we can make it$101 million. I love that, man. I'm so excited about you in the world. You're so good at this. You guys, don't you wish you listened to something like this more often than you do what you hear in traditional media or even social media every single day? The acceleration of transformation on this planet the next decade, thanks to thought leaders and philanthropists like Peter, is the greatest time ever to be alive. And I hope that in listening to this show today that you share it with people that, by the way, want to live longer.

1:05:00That's the most important thing. But also want a more optimistic and truthful view of what the future of the world is going to look like. And this needs to be out there more. I mean, thank you. Yeah. Thank God for you, brother. Thank you. You know, our traditional media, we pay 10 times more attention to negative news than positive news. And so if it bleeds, it leads. And so if you open your newspaper tomorrow morning, count the number of positive stories and negative stories, you know, it's 10 times more negative. It's not that that's the only thing going on in the world. That's what you're being fed.

1:05:28Remember this, by the way, when Peter's talking, these are he's been right for decades. So when you're listening to this, you go, that's what a what a neat dream. No, go back and listen to 10 years ago. And people are like, this guy's gone nuts. Turns out he wasn't. It turns out he probably won't be this time either. I just wanted to validate my enthusiasm about all of this. I just want to thank you. And again, the double dividend from being an optimist, right? A longer life and living a life that's more fun. Like you said, this is the most exciting time ever to be alive. The only time more exciting is tomorrow.

1:06:02That's so good, you guys. This is a show you should be sharing, everybody. You know when Peter comes on I really get really excited My producers will tell you and then when we're done It just exceeds my expectations It's just we're going to have him on every year If he'll come back I told him that last time I will I'm grateful For you having me on the show And thank you for all the work that you do buddy Yeah I love you brother and thank you To mom for her high praise Okay everybody you've got to go get This book go get the longevity guidebook How to slow stop and reverse Aging and not die from something stupid so you can stick around to see this world continue to change and transform people's lives god bless you peter thank you share the show everybody this is the edin mylin show