Hack the Next Decade: Make Millions & Reverse Aging with AI (Do THIS to GET AHEAD!) | Peter Diamandis

29:11And one of the challenges is that we don't feel anything until it's stage three or stage four, until it's too late. the body's great at covering this up. Amazingly good. You don't have shakes from Parkinson's until 70 % of the substantia nigra neurons in the brain are gone. And so the question, if that's the case, if the body's really great of covering it up, it's like no symptoms, no symptoms, no symptoms, boom. And then it's like you go to the hospital and the doctor says, I'm sorry to tell you this, but guess what? It didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for some time. So the question becomes, how do you know?

29:51And so the way you know is by looking. So one of the companies I started with Tony Robbins three years ago was a company called Fountain Life. We have four centers right now, New York, Orlando, Naples, Dallas, we'll be opening up LA. We have a 40-center waiting list. And people come in, and we digitize you. It's a full-body MRI, brain imaging, brain blood flow. Organs, everything. Everything, right? A coronary CT with an AI looking for soft plaque in specific, right? A DEXA scan, 120 biomarkers, your full genome, your microbiome, your metabolome. It's 150 gigabytes of data. To answer two questions, one, is there anything going on inside your body you need to know about right now, first and foremost?

30:49And if there isn't, you know, knock on wood or whatever you want, what is likely to happen to you? and how do we slow it down or prevent it? Was there anything in you when you did these scans that scared you or that was worrisome? There was. So one of the things of people say, should I do this early in life? Should I wait until I'm in my 50s or 60s? So when I had my first scan, I had an enlarged aortic root where the aorta comes into the ventricle of the heart. And the question was, is that way I've always been, or is that something that is developing and enlarging? Because there's a few different diseases that have that as a symptom.

31:36And so in eight years, it hasn't changed at all. Okay. And so I'm good with that, right? And so having a baseline is really important. I had a dear friend of mine who lives in Miami. We're doing business together. I said, come through Fountain. and he went to our headquarters in Orlando. He went through. He is a very wealthy, very healthy 50-year-old guy. Comes through. Next day, gets called from our physicians. We found two aneurysms in your brain. Wow. And he just had surgery. It's all fixed and repaired, but those could have ruptured. and we've had people who have come through whose physicians said, don't waste your time.

32:24You don't need that test. You don't need this stuff and so forth. We have saved hundreds of lives. So 2 % of people who come through have a cancer they don't know about. Wow. 2%. 2.5 % of aneurysms they don't know about. 14.4%, which is a pretty big number, have either neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular disease, or metabolic disease. They need to take care of right away. And so, again, you know, I like to say we don't know what's going on inside our body. So one of the things we do at Fountain Life is we put you through this advanced diagnostic. You go once a year. You're uploaded once a year.

33:03And then on a quarterly basis, we do some maintenance blood tests to see what's going on. The second half of Fountain Life is the most advanced therapeutics. So at the centers, we are scanning the world for what are longevity therapeutics that are safe and reasonably low risk and have efficacy. And so we've just started doing what's called therapeutic plasma exchange. And this is where you pull your blood out, you spin it, you take out the cells, you separate the cells and you pull out the plasma, which is like an oil change. and you put back pure albumin and saline. And it's like, this has been a regenerative feature in animals and it does a lot of good for humans as well.

33:55It's a six treatments a year. Wow. We have - How long have you been doing that process? I just started. We just got the equipment in, so I'm super excited about this. We have an IND with a company called Cellularity, which is one of the leading stem cell companies in the United States for giving people supplementary natural killer cells and stem cells and exosomes. So the goal is, as we start delivering these services under an FDA, what's called the Investigational New Drug, IND, is to make available these therapeutics, but to do it with a wraparound of science, which is you're uploaded, we're fully tested, then you have therapeutics and then you're fully tested again and let's measure what's actually going on inside your body and then report on the science so uh super excited about about these things you were talking about stats for a minute what is the stat that you've heard recently that scares you the most about the human population where things are going health and wellness diseases like what is the stat obesity, what is the stat that scares you the most?

35:09I think what scares me, and you know me, I'm the guy, not the glass is half full, it's overflowing. But the things that worry me are mental health and obesity.

35:28I think those two those two elements are really important for us to get a handle on. Obesity is greater than ever now, right? It is, and in different parts of the world, in different populations. And there's a very clear reason for it. It goes back to our conversation about sugar. The body was never designed to ingest these super empty calories. right? So, you know, I put blame on the food companies, on parts of the government that are not regulating around this. I mean, the garbage that kids eat for breakfast, including my kids on occasion, right? These empty calories, I mean, these are not nutritious breakfasts.

36:22this is, these are, you know, sugar covered sugar. And it's like, and when did this become, when did this become accepted as, as healthy, healthy, acceptable? Yeah. Yeah. What is the, do you know the statistics on obesity or mental health right now? I, I probably have them in, in my book. I don't have them at top of the top of mind here, but, but obesity, how much is obesity affecting healthspan and lifespan. Healthspan. Yeah. Healthspan and lifespan. Lifespan. Yeah, no, it's crazy. I mean, obesity is tied directly to cardiovascular disease. It's tied to your lack of your metabolic disease where you're basically becoming insulin insensitive.

37:16You're putting on weight. It can lead to renal disease. It can lead to even cognitive disorders.

37:27We've become a society where we're couch potatoes most of the time, and we're not incentivized to stay in good health. So it's a challenge. I mean, staying in good health takes a commitment. And the way I think about it is really, we have an amazing life coming our way. I wrote a book called Abundance, The Future is Better Than You Think now 12 years ago. I'm writing the follow-on called Age of Abundance, which I hope will come out in mid-24. And if you think about the idea that we're heading towards a world where we can uplift every man, woman, and child, give them access to all the food, water, energy, health care, education that they want, I think that's a world which is going to be a more peaceful world.

38:24Because if you have something to live for, that's an important aspect. What do you think will be the biggest problem of humanity when they have safety, food, shelter, health and wellness? What is the biggest problem that we're going to have? So the question is going to be, it may be a conversation on purpose. Right. When everything is too good and there's no problems. So do you remember that Twilight episode where there's a character who's like a gangster and he dies? and in the Twilight episode, he's in Las Vegas and all the women are there fawning over him. He goes and he's gambling. He's winning all the time.

39:09He's winning all the time. He's winning all the time. And everything's so easy. And he's like, man, heaven sucks. You know, because it's way too, it's like, you know. And then the person there goes, what makes you think you're in heaven, right? When everything is, when there's no challenge, right? We have evolved. But on the same side, I don't know if you know Sadhguru. Yeah. So brilliant. I was on stage with him in St. Petersburg years ago, and he said something I never forget. He said, technology is the means by which humanity takes a vacation from survival. so we've been surviving for a hundred thousand years surviving each other surviving the elements surviving famine disease um so but the question becomes what do we do when you can do anything and what war have we created when technology allows us to not have to survive anymore these are things we're going to figure out soon enough it's kind of like the i don't know the the generalization or the stereotype that you know rich kids get messed up you know kids of rich parents if they don't have discipline or purpose or you know something that they need to figure out things on their own they turn out to be menaces I guess of society or something right it's like spoiled yes spoiled yeah entitled as opposed to you know in service giving and hardworking.

40:39You know, it's like, how do we manage that when we have everything at our fingertips? I think the question becomes, do we up-level our challenges that we do? I mean, I would like to go start a city on the moon. Wow. That's crazy. I'd like to upload my mind into a computer. I mean, I mean, what kind of crazy things can we imagine? But you think about, you know, we're living in the year 2023, okay. But if we went back to our great-grandparents in, you know, 1900 and said, this is what life is like, you know, I think it would be almost unfathomable for them, right? Zipping around in airplanes, having Zoom conversations, you know, doing podcasts, you know.

41:32FaceTiming someone around the world. Yeah, for free. Yeah, right? And it's like, you know, what, you don't grow your food? Where's your horse to get around? And so life is going to change dramatically. It's going to change as a function of AI. I mean, dramatically within the next 10 years. Half my life is longevity. Other half my life is focused on AI, right? And so AI is going to create near infinite abundance. we have humanoid robots coming, and these robots will do our bidding for us. They'll do our labor for us. They'll do our work. They'll be accessible to us for less than the price of a car.

42:12And so what is life going to be like when we've got this? It's going to be different, for sure. What should we be most afraid of? I don't like to think of things in terms of being afraid of. abundance because I look at it as a positive thing. Yeah. But what should we be afraid of with a lot of abundance? I don't have an answer for you. Let me, you know, let's think this through together. With mental, with people who have mental illness around abundance, you know, it's like, how do we manage? Listen, we're going to, as we have abundance, we're going to have abundance of good things and abundance of bad things.

42:50I think the AI will be the tools by which we detect and it'll be a white hat, black hat, counterbalancing war. Would I rather solve the problems with the technology we're going to have in 20 years versus the technology we had 20 years ago? Sure. Will people become powerful and bored? Will we all play video games? Are we living in the middle of a video game, right? I'm still convinced this is a giant simulation. Yeah. And it means nothing. If it was, you know, it wouldn't matter. I wouldn't do anything differently. But how will we sort of engage, entertain, educate, give purpose? I mean, you know, my two 12-year-olds, they're fraternal twins.

43:50they love playing their video games, right? So they're in Roblox or they're in Minecraft or they're role-playing. And it's an engaging world, right? And someone's created that world and they're playing in it and having fun and it's creating challenges for them. I wish they were more educational as games and maybe they will be, but I can imagine a world in the future where there are engaging and challenging and fun worlds that we immerse ourselves into. We immerse ourselves into a movie right now for two hours, two and a half hours, books and so forth, entertain ourselves. I'm going to, you know, listen, a friend of mine who's the CEO of Stability AI, Imad Moustak, his company created Stable Diffusion that creates all these images, they can now create minutes of photorealistic movies, right?

44:52And next year, full length feature films. So imagine in the future where I'll say, hey, Lewis, listen, I created this virtual world of ancient Greece. If you want to go and check it out, we're exploring and talking to philosophers. Let's go for a walk with Plato and Socrates and see what it's like. And it's photorealistic and you're in your VR and you're like living there or you're on the moon or you're playing in a real life game. So I think AI and VR coming together is going to do some amazing things for us. This is an amazing period of human evolution. and we're going from one state of evolution to another.

45:44We are going to transform. Ray Kurzweil talks about the singularity, that moment in time where we're unable to predict what's coming next, where we're connecting our brains to the cloud. His prediction is that that's 10 to 12 years away, Wow. Right? Where we've got nanotechnology going in and fixing things. The challenge is that we like the world being the way it was when we went to sleep last night. We don't like challenges. We don't like these dramatic differences, but it's happening. There's no velocity switch on this change. There's no on-off switch. AI, biotech, right? At the same time, you know, two amazing women won the Nobel Prize for CRISPR to be able to go in, right?

46:39You have 3.2 billion letters from your mom, 3.2 billion letters from your dad throughout your life. That's your software. And if, unfortunately, you were born with a genetic, you know, disease, in other words, a few of those letters were off and you had sickle cell anemia, beta thalassemia, a congenital blindness, you were stuck with it. And you were fearful about having kids because you're going to pass it on to them. Now, you can expect that within our lifetime, there's going to be a cure, not a treatment, not a palliative, like take this drug, we'll take the pain away. A reversal. A single injection where you go and edit your genome, change those few letters, and you're now cured.

47:25Your genome is normal, and you don't have it anymore. Wow. I mean, this is biblical stuff. So our mind instantly goes to the negative. But I just feel like this is the most exciting time ever to be alive. And so I do think that we need to create a vision of the future that people are excited about. You know, the work I do at the XPRIZE, we've talked a little bit about this$101 million XPRIZE health span. And folks who are interested, just go to XPRIZE.org. You can learn more about it, especially if you want to compete for this prize. Go to XPRIZE.org and go for$101 million of prize money. By the way, I'll just mention the reason it's$101 million versus$100 million.

48:15Chip Wilson, my first donor, said, how big is your biggest prize? I said, well, Elon put up$100. You've got to beat that. You've got to beat that. I said, do you want to put the extra million? And he said, sure. Wow. There you go. So it's$101. One of the things we're looking at doing is creating a vision for the year 2040 of what can energy look like in 2040? What does the environment look like? What does health look like? What does education look like? And painting that hopeful, compelling, and abundant future, and then giving people a target to shoot for. And I think that's important, because we do need to know where we're going with this powerful tech.

48:56For this X Prize, again, we mentioned these kind of three categories, the muscle, immunity, and cognition. Of those three, what are you most afraid of failing? in either yourself or humans? So I think for everybody, cognition is the scary thing, right? If you lose your mind, if you have neurodegenerative disease, whether it's Alzheimer's or some form of dementia. My dad, in his later years, had dementia. I think it was secondary to his atrial fibrillation and throwing some clots. I think it was vascular dementia. but uh it's sad right uh and if you lose your memories you lose your clarity of thought you lose your your your ability to communicate focus you lose yourself and nobody wants that that's not life anymore so that's the most important thing and i think we're what are the biggest contributors to cognition loss uh well one of them is is is sugar and one of them is uh is you know, another one is stress.

50:09Um, uh, you know, another one is, uh, not understanding what your, your genetics are and not taking action. So, um, the, what are the best things? Exercise is one of the strongest ways of keeping your, your brain in great shape, uh, sleep, right minimizing sugar it's all of these very simple things and ultimately it's also putting yourself in a situation like you do every day here on this podcast it's learning something you learning right learning so everybody here listening and learning um it's it's basically exercising those neurons you have a hundred billion neurons a hundred trillion synaptic connections in your mind and you want to be stimulating and exercising those.

51:03Wow. So. What is the thing with paddle sports? I keep hearing this information around like people who play paddle or racket sports either live longer or have less memory loss or something around like ping pong and pickleball and racket ball and tennis. Like people have better quality of life. I don't know if you've heard of this. Well, I mean, I can imagine. I can imagine that. Something around the hand-eye coordination and the movement. Yeah, well, it's exercise. It's cardiovascular exercise, right? So, I mean, losing cognition, I think, is what people worry about the most. But then you lose muscle mass and you fall over.

51:41You can't push yourself up. You die that way. So what happens, and this was how my dad ended his life ultimately, was he was becoming sarcopenic. In the middle of the night, he got out of bed to go to the bathroom and fell and broke his hip. And when you break your hip or your pelvis, you're in the hospital. You can't move. You typically develop pneumonia. and then it's the same. So it's like over the age of 60 or 65 with a broken hip or pelvis, there's some ridiculously high percentage of people who die within a year. Oh, man. So injury is a problem, right? Sarcopenia, so maintaining muscle mass is critically important.

52:35So that's why I'm like, for my goals, it's muscle mass and cognition and just being in the best health. And then ultimately, your immune system is about battling infectious disease and cancer. So I think about those things. And I think about that finish line, which is not retirement, which is not death, which is that longevity escape velocity ahead of me. And those are what drive me. And I believe that these are coming. I love this. I want people to get this book. They can go on your website and get it. Yeah, diamandis.com backslash longevity. You can get the free guide online, which has got a lot of stuff, but also the book, Longevity.

53:15Yeah, on Amazon, right. And then I also, you know, one of the things, remember I said training your neural net? You're training your neural net by what you read, what you watch, what you listen to, who you hang out with. If you're reading the obituaries, right, that's not a good thing. If you're hanging out with old people in aches and pains, not a good thing. And so on the what you read, I built this AI engine called longevityinsider.org. And it scans all of the media out there. And it finds high quality articles about breakthroughs that are extending the healthy lifespan. And I get a digest of an image and a paragraph summary and a link to the article every day.

53:59And so when I read that, it's like, oh my God, that's amazing. Oh my God, that's amazing. Oh my God, that's amazing. thing. It's not what you see on CNN, right? It's the antithesis to what you see. It's this hopeful, positive future. So that's available at the same part of my website. That's your website? Yeah. Okay. It's a newsletter. Every day you get this update. Every day. Yeah. You get an update. And there's a lot going on. It's an amazing time. Yeah. What else can we do to support you today? How else can we have service? I think, tell your friends about this HealthSpan XPRIZE. We're looking for teams out there.

54:34I hope, you know, we had 6 ,000 teams enter the$100 million prize that Elon funded for gigaton carbon removal. I'm hoping to have, you know, 500 to 1 ,000 teams enter this one. There'll be startups, there'll be universities, there'll be labs, there'll be all kinds of things coming in. And, you know, I want all ideas. I like to say the day before something is really a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. If it wasn't a crazy idea, it wouldn't be a breakthrough. So I want to find people around the world working on this. I want to change people's mindset about what's possible, capital to flow in, regulations to change.

55:18And I think it's the greatest gift we can offer humanity. Yeah, absolutely. And then, you know, if you're able, and I hope you will, go to Fountain Life and check it out. What does that consist of at Fountain Life? What do you have to do? How much time does it take? Yeah. We have four centers and a whole slew coming online, L.A. and 24, and then we're going to Europe.

55:49you sign up, you're in advance meeting over online, and then you come into one of the centers the night before and you spend the day with us. And during that day, again, we gather more information about you than you know is possible, right? So it is a full, it's 150 gigabytes of data and there's no way any human can analyze all that information. But we have a whole set of AI algorithms that are looking at your mitochondria to your cardiovascular, to your neurocognitive, everything. And our goal, again, is, is there anything going on that you need to know about? And if there is, tell you about it, because guess what?

56:36You can do something about it, right? If you catch anything early enough, including early dementia, including cardiovascular disease, including cancer, you want to know early. You don't want to wait. People say, I don't want to know. Of course you want to know. And then the other part is how do we optimize you for the decades ahead? And your job is not to live forever from this. It's to live long enough to intercept the breakthroughs that are coming. Wow. Yeah. And then there's what, like quarterly blood tests? And then we have, right, you get a, as part of this upload, you get a, it's all functional medicine.

57:17I don't know if you know, functional medicine is like the most advanced medicine. It understands the root cause at a molecular level, what's going on. It's amazing. It didn't exist when I was in medical school years ago. Right. It's amazing. So all of our docs are functional medicine docs. You get a concierge functional medicine longevity doctor as part of that. who helps you interpret that and then guides you either to fix or optimize going forward. And then you get access to a set of therapeutics. Like we'll show you this is what's just come out of Israel. This just came out of Europe. This just came out of whatever.

57:56And we make those things available at the centers for people who want it right. This is powerful stuff. I'm so excited about this. what else can we do to support you? Anything else we can... I'm just thankful to get the word out. For me, this is a life's mission, literally and figuratively.

58:18And I think, you know, this is what keeps me going. You know, it's like... It's exciting, man. It is exciting. It's amazing. People can get this PDF for free at diamandis.com. Yep. And if they want more, they can get the entire book. Yep. They can go to all the different things, fountainlife.com, mylifeforce.com as well, which can get you set up there with analyzing different things about your health. XPRIZE Foundation, XPRIZE.org. There's so many amazing things. Again, you've got about six books a year every year coming out, which are all best of. Not six, but two. Yeah, two a year. Peter, I'm so grateful for you.

58:57And every time you're on, I just really am grateful for the wisdom and the knowledge that you share openly. and I want to acknowledge you for your, really your commitment to living a great life and helping as many people do that as well. Thanks, buddy. Every business, every XPRIZE, every free thing that you give to people, you're collecting the best minds in the world and trying to solve the biggest problems. So I really acknowledge you for that. Thank you, pal. And you're welcome on here anytime to talk about the latest and greatest. So I've asked you this question before, but I'm curious if it's changed about your three truths.

59:33So I'm curious, if you could only leave three lessons behind in the world, your three truths, what would that be? So the one that's most important for me is your mindset matters. Your mindset is your greatest tool. I like to say, what made Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Elon Musk successful? Was it their tech? Was it their friends? Was it their money? Or was it their mindset, right? It was their mindset. I really believe that. And if your mindset is that important to being a great leader, the question asks, what mindset do you have? Where did you get it? And what mindset do you need for the decade ahead?

1:00:16Wow. Right? So for me, I've been a lot of thinking and writing around mindset. The second truth is we are creating a world of abundance. that we humans are, we screw things up a lot of times, but we are incredibly good at fixing things as well and overcoming challenges. And we are creating a world of abundance. And the third one, I think the nature of the universe is love. I'm curious. I have one more question for you. Yeah, sure. if um you have twin boys you said yeah um i love dearly you love dearly yeah let's say you get to um you know see your your boys live to 60 um with all the things that happen over the next 48 years i guess um that you can predict or not predict but you know is a lot is going to happen in the world oh yeah 48 50 years based on where you see everything going in 40 to 50 years what would you say if you could share one final thing to them 50 years in the future what would you say to them about what's to come for their next oh my god 70 years beyond If you could go into the future and give a message to your sons.

1:01:49Wow. Listen, honestly, I get asked all the time to speak about the world in 50 years. I'm saying impossible. I cannot think past a decade from now, honestly. Maybe 20 years is a big stretch. 50 years from now, what is it? And we are evolving into something beyond human. We are going from evolution by natural selection to evolution by human direction. We are emerging with technology. And so I think it's unknowable. This is what Ray speaks about, the singularity, that this horizon beyond which you cannot see. So what happens when we're omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, you know, and we are to a large degree even now thinking about this, right?

1:02:51You can know anything, anytime, anywhere. We're living in a trillion-censor world where I can ask a question like, what's the average color of a woman's blouse or a man's jacket on Madison Avenue? and have an AI gather the data and give me the answer. We can start to know anything. So I was on stage with one of my favorite science fiction authors, Dennis Taylor. It's actually one of my son's favorite science fiction authors and mine. We've read the same books. And I asked him, it must be really hard to write science fiction these days. And he goes, it's near impossible because it's all happening.

1:03:33Wow. Yeah. Nine answer. Nine answer. Sorry. Well, maybe if it was not about the world, but just a message you'd want to give them. Oh, that it's the same message every dad wants for his kids, for them to be good humans, for them to leave the world in a better place than they had it, that they need to give their gifts to the world and do their best. And I think about there are three things I've said to my boys when they were born. I said three things I want for you. Number one, I want you to be best friends. Number two, I want you to learn to ask great questions. And number three, I want you to find your purpose in life and live that fully.

1:04:26That's beautiful. Thanks, buddy. Peter. You appreciate it, man. Thanks so much. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness. Make sure to check out the show notes in the description for a full rundown of today's episode with all the important links. And I want to remind you if no one has told you lately that you are loved, you are worthy, and you matter. And now it's time to go out there and do something great.