Longevity Expert Reveals The Science That Could Add Decades To Your Lifespan | Peter Diamandis

30:27I had my kids when I was 50. And that's one of the, I think one of the great longevity therapeutics is having young kids. And I want to see them, you know, I want to meet their kids and their grandkids. And there's lots of other whys that I've created for myself, but it has to do with, I think this is the most extraordinary time ever to be alive. And I want to see as much of that as I can and live in that future. So that why is important. You know, when it's six or 7 a.m. in the morning and it's comfy in bed and you're, you know, you're a little bit groggy and you would set yourself up to go to the gym.

31:08Do you work out in the morning? Yeah, it's hard to do it at night. Yeah, it is. But, you know, the why of getting out of bed to go and work out needs to be there. Yes. Right? I mean, if you're 25 and you're dating, you know, your why might be procreation or landing that partner. but then when you're at night, you're at a restaurant, you've got this basket of bread in front of you and this glass of wine brought out before any of your food lands and you start chomping down on that and spiking your blood sugar or at the end of dinner when this dessert comes and lays in front of you and it's sitting there staring at you, saying no, you need a why.

32:03You need a why and you need habits that are going to serve you. And you know this. It's like that is part of this. I think this is interesting. This is, I think, I've had a lot of these, you know, a lot of the people in the back of your book, all the doctors, researchers, scientists on biohacking and health and longevity. I've had a lot of individuals on the show and heard a lot of information. but I think what a lot of them are missing that you talk about so brilliantly is kind of a basic thing, which is mindset around like a positive future. Yeah. Cause most people just think, okay, what's the supplements?

32:39I know I need to sleep eight hours a night. And if I don't, there, you know, there's no, we're coming back from sleep dead. You can't overcome it. And you're creating chronic illness and disease when you sleep less than six hours a night consistently. Uh, if you're eating sugar, you're going to be obese and it's inflammation, all these different things. And so I hear all that, right? I hear all that. How do you create the sleep sanctuary, you know, exercise, resistance training, no sugar, environment, all these different things. You hear it all, which you have all this backed by science as well in the book.

33:08But I think what you talk about differently than most people is just a positive belief. And most people don't believe in themselves. They live in self-doubt on accomplishing anything in their life. How do I get this job? How do I earn more money? How do I get out of a toxic relationship? How do I find a partner who's good for me? They lack the self-worth that it's possible to accomplish a lot of things, let alone a belief that they can live to 100 or 120. It just seems so hard to comprehend mentally and emotionally. And what I think you're talking about that's different than everyone else is first you need the belief that it's possible.

33:48You need to see other case studies or scenarios of people living a certain way. And you need to have a why that's attached to beliefs. And I think the third thing is we need to believe that we are worthy of living that long. Because most people don't believe they're worthy of existing now. Wow. That's what I think is different about this. Because a lot of people lack self-worth. And if we lack the self-worth, we do things to cause harm. The more harm compounds, the less life we live. Emotionally, spiritually, but also physically. And I think that's where a lot of this comes from. Of course, you've got half a billion dollar funds every two years to move humanity forward.

34:31So you're just so expansive in your thinking because you've got to deploy this money to build a greater future. And you've got to live into it in 60 years. Most people don't think that positively that they're worthy and deserving of existing now. They're depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, stressed, living in chaos, let alone, how can I think beyond next week? Because I can't survive today. So one of the things I talk about in the mindset chapter here, right? And there's a chapter on mindset and the hormones of happiness is that our brains, we're all hearing about large language models and neural nets and AI all the time.

35:16Our brains are neural nets, right? We have a hundred billion neurons, a hundred trillion synaptic connections that shapes everything you do, hear, all of that is upstairs in your, you know, three pound mass of jelly. And our minds and our mindset is being crafted and shaped every day. The way that Google and OpenAI and Anthropic and XAI, how these companies shape their large language models is by showing them data, data, data, and they're collecting. So if you want to train a neural net how to recognize a cat, you show it photo of a cat after a cat after a cat. And it finally learns furry, pointy ears, whiskers, tail.

36:10But at the end of the day, if you show it a dog, it's never seen a dog before, it's going to say it's a cat. So the question is, how are we training our neural nets? and we train our neural nets, our mindset about what we believe is possible for us in the world, in our happiness, in our longevity, by virtue of who you hang out with, right? What you listen to, congratulations on listening to this podcast. What you read, right? What's on your walls. All of these things shape how you think. And so if you're watching, you know, the crisis news network, what I call CNN, every night where you're getting every murderer, every crooked politician, you know, into your living room hour after hour after hour in living color, because their business model is to deliver your eyeballs to their advertisers.

37:10So we pay 10 times more attention to negative news and positive news. So we're being just inundated by negative news. And if you're old and you're hanging out with people who are dying and reading the obituaries, you're just compounding this. And you're like, I must not have much time left. My friends are dying. We're also creating an immune system. Your nervous system would be heightened levels of anxiety. You're fully sympathetic instead of parasympathetic. Yes. So these things are critically important and things that we can change. I mean, you know, I talk about a few of these things, like in the chapter on diet, right?

37:56A few simple things that I want to share that people can implement right now. When you sit down at dinner tonight, take a few deep breaths. Just in and out. that puts you instantly to what's called a parasympathetic. It's a rest and digest nervous system before you eat, before you eat. It allows you to consume your nutrients a lot better. If you're eating in front of the television watching the evening news, you're screwed. You're in a fight or flight. You don't absorb the nutrients. You're empty calories. Next thing. Even the order in which you eat your foods matters. So if you have a plate of food, eat your veggies first.

38:46Those veggies slow down your digestive tract. They are absorbing the best nutrients first. Eat your protein next. And then if you have room, at the end, you can eat your carbs, right? So that order is critically important. Is that the sequence secret? Yeah, the sequence secret. And I think this is the interesting part that, you know, I want people to know this because there's kind of five parts of this. Please, great. And this is, you talk about how to build your GLP-1 naturally. And you also say that this secret could actually boost post-meal GLP-1 levels by 38%. And that's kind of the, a Zempic drug is known for having GLP-1 levels.

39:29So, Zempic drugs are like, I mean, they're every place. They're the get-rich-quick scheme or the get-skinny-quick scheme. And people need to know it's not that simple, right? JLP1 drugs, you do lose weight. You basically cut out your hunger. But a significant amount of the weight that you lose is muscle. And if there's one thing that correlates with longevity, it's your muscle mass. Yes. All right. So there's a very large study that the more muscle mass you have, the longer you're likely to live. And for a number of reasons that occur there. And so what happens is if you're on a GLP-1 drug, you're losing weight, you're losing fat and muscle.

40:16And then if you stop the drug, you'll put on 70 % of the weight you lost. And most of that that you put on is fat and not muscle. Oh, man. So you're kind of a victim to the drug forever. You're effectively addicted. Wow. And so if you're going to take the drug, the single most important thing that you should be thinking about is how do I use this to create better habits? I mean, there's some people who are morbidly obese. They can't move well. And yes, it's fantastic to help them. But the important thing is while you're in this situation, learn how to eat healthy. I think about everything I put into my mouth in the same way that I'm so careful about what I watch.

41:01I don't watch the news, first of all. I don't read the papers. I don't watch the news. I have Google searches and an AI that I set up for you and that bring in the stuff that's relevant to me. I don't need some editor like working up my sympathetic system and telling me, I mean, pick up the newspaper tomorrow morning and count the number of negative stories and positive stories. I guarantee you it's 10 to one at least. And the same thing on the TV news. I mean, it's all negative news. And you have to ask yourself the question, is this all that's going on in the world? Or is that what they're reporting to me?

41:40And there's so much amazing things going on. You just don't hear about them. Good news networks do not succeed. And so you have to actively shape what you allow into your mind. in the same way that you shape what you let into your body, what you eat. And so there's a way to increase this GLP-1 naturally after you eat, right? And the first thing he's talking about is a sequence secret, which is how you eat fiber, protein, then carbs. That sequence first. I think it's interesting you say that. I think we've lost the ability to sit down without the TV on. Most people have lost this ability to sit down without phone or TV consumption and actually take a deep breath.

42:23You know, growing up, my dad used to do a prayer before. Yes, exactly. And we'd sit there and hold hands. Yes, exactly. And we'd actually connect with each other. And do gratitude. And do gratitude. And then now we eat. Yes. Even if you're rushing around, we sit and we take 30 seconds. Calm your nervous system down. Then we eat, not just stuff it in really quick, which I've been, you know, tend to do a lot. So my fiance, Martha, is always, we put the food down and she will energetically pray over the food and say, thank you so much and put good energy into the food with her hands hovering over it.

42:56And it's just a moment. It may feel unnatural because you're like, I'm hungry. I want to eat this now. That little habit change will add to the sequence secret of helping you boost that metabolism faster, increase that GLP-1 faster with these little tweaks. is chewing your food. Yes. You know, I mean, listen, I'm guilty as everybody when I'm like in the middle of, it's like, I gotta get this into my body as quickly as possible. But the answer is no. It's like, when you do that, you're shortchanging the nutrients you're absorbing and you're doing yourself a massive disservice. Yep. And so if you're gonna take the time to eat and believe me, this is a, you have to get into a mantra mode where it's like, I'm gonna eat now.

43:42One other thing, you know. Pause. I'm gonna pause, I'm gonna take some deep breaths, I'm gonna drink a full glass of water, you know, first. We all know this, right? Just to calm down my hunger pangs and I'm gonna enjoy every bite. And I'm gonna chew it, you know, a dozen times, 20 times, I'm gonna savor the food. And all of these things are basically activating your natural equivalent of Ozempic in your body. Yes, yes. You talk about yerba mate magic. How powerful is yerba mate over like a coffee or some other? Well, I think I've got a chart there. Yep. Which... It's page 37 for you. Yeah. This is 200 milligrams of, I don't know how you say this, uramine?

44:30Yes. Tested against a placebo. So this is with yerba mate versus a placebo. You know, the elements here are each of them make sense, right? The last one here, move your body. So regular exercise. I mean, we know this after when the healthiest things you can do, especially as a family with your loved ones, with your kids, with your spouse is after an evening meal, go take a walk. All of these things make a fundamental difference. You can actually see yourself lose kilograms just by the order which you eat your foods. Really? Yeah. So you eat the same amount of calories, same amount of food. Because you're slowing down your eating and because you're eating your fiber first and your protein next and not your carbs.

45:24So the challenge is when you eat empty carbs, white rice, right, for example, it's converted to glucose. It spikes or bread at the beginning of your meal. You know, you got this basket of bread, you're just munching and drinking wine. All of this turns into raising your blood glucose levels that then spikes your insulin, which then makes you hungry again to eat more. So if you think that the restaurant is like just doing you this favor of bringing you out to wine. Free bread, yeah, yeah, and bread. No, they're manipulating you. Wow. They're just making you hungry to order more food. You know, it's, I hate to say that, but that's what's going on.

46:07I mean, it's a smart business move, I guess, as a restaurant, I get more sales. They give you a little heroin dose to get you addicted. Exactly. What is this lemon power? What does that mean? So there is an extract called Aramin and you have these, what's called L cells in your gut that are producing the GLP-1. And it's basically stimulating your L cells to produce the same drug normally. And instead of giving yourself an injection of the stuff. So, I mean, listen, these are all, at the end of the day, these are all small actions you can take. Yes. But it's, how do you make these things into habits?

46:59That's what you mean. Because if you have to think about it all the time, it's going to be exhausting. If you're thinking about it all the time, and I have a whole, added a chapter in this book, the last chapter I wrote is on routines. And routines are basically a mechanism that gets rid of your ability to negotiate with yourself. I mean, I think about it. You need to do that, though. By small steps. Yeah. Small steps. Don't try and do everything you want. I lay out in the book all the routines I built. I lay out in the book routines from other individuals as well. And you can Google a lot of amazing health experts and look at their routines.

47:39But, you know, give yourself the gift of deciding what you consider healthy for yourself and take it in small incremental steps. and if you do that after a while you know when i get out of bed i set my alarm as a backup i typically you know this morning i woke up at 5 15 i'm up between like 5 15 and 5 30 because i go to sleep by 9 30 the night before it's like for me everything begins by me you know turning down the lights at nine going into a getting ready for sleep putting on my blue light blocking glasses, slowing things down. I listened to a audible book on tape as sort of like it's like being read a bedtime story when I was an adult.

48:33It kind of puts you to sleep? Well, yeah, it's like I set a 15 minute timer and I go, some people like reading, some people like a hot bath, some people are focused on prayer, but there are certain triggers that you can have that get you from wide awake to slowing down and getting ready for sleep. We can talk about turn down room temperature and all a bunch of other things. But when I'm up in the morning, that first hour and a half is mine. And it's when I have maximum control of my day. Is that the same for you? Sure, yeah. Well, I just need to go to the gym right away. Yeah, so you might have different days that I'll do different things, but every day it's some red light meditation.

49:23I use something called a pulsetto, which is a vagal nerve stimulator to basically put me into parasympathetic. And all of these things have become routine for me. I just bought a home sauna, which I'm excited to start using. I know, it's great. So these are the routines that you do that feel natural. And if you don't have the routines, you find yourself in a position of renegotiating things with yourself. And a routine becomes a habit, which is the mechanism by which you don't negotiate with yourself. It's what I do. It's who I am. It becomes identity. It becomes identity. Yeah. What is the thing you still get to unlock within yourself that you're still holding onto?

50:12Is there anything that you're holding onto that's a negative identity or something that's still a crutch, that's the hardest thing for you to break through on? A routine, a habit, a non-negotiable? That, a routine that I want to have? But something that's still holding you back from like, ah, I still eat that ice cream once a week. Yeah, and by the way, if you're dictatorial on it And you don't give yourself the ability to forgive yourself for eating something that, you know, I just couldn't help. That's not healthy either. Yeah. Right? To rigidity is not good. Yeah. I mean, it's like, give yourself credit for what you're able to do.

50:57And one of the other things, by the way, I'll come back to your question in a moment, is be careful at night. I mean, night is when things break down, right? You have a certain amount of willpower. Yeah. And you know this, right? Of course. You have your greatest willpower in the morning. And as you've had an exhausting day, I've battled. Oh my God, I deserve that piece of cake. Damn it, I worked hard today. You know, I think I want more meditative time in my life. And I need more stretching time in my life. So those two things are probably, if I had to move the needle, I have to let go of something else.

51:34There is one thing that all humans have in common, all humans, everywhere, from Elon Musk, the poorest child. It's 24 hours a day, seven days in a week, 365 in a year. It's how we use our time that is everything. And you've got to give something else up to add something to that time. Yeah. So meditation and stretching. Yeah. In page 50 of your book, you say there's a direct relationship between how well you sleep and how long you live. Yeah. So it's not about the length of sleep. It's also the quality of sleep at house. It is. Not being interrupted throughout the night. Yeah. So I use an aura ring to gamify my sleep.

52:16I have an eight sleep mattress. How helpful is that? It is because I think one of the things that lets me sleep through the night is having a mattress that cools me down. And I can shape the temperature curve to the night. And it warms up in the morning. To wake you up. To wake me up. I've just added a set of full spectrum lights that as the sun sets, the lights become, you see the sun setting and getting red. And then in the morning, the lights come on in a blue, you know, and so this is about controlling your cortisol levels and just getting you started for the day. And so these are things that you can do.

53:06I mean, you have to remember, all of this got programmed 200 ,000 years ago. You know, we lived outside. We were in nature. We were in nature. You know, we're grounded, feet on the ground. We woke up when the sun came up, went to sleep when the sun went down. We also only lived 30 years. You also lived 30 years. But it was predation and it was infection and it was a whole slew of other things. Other things. How much does emotional trauma hold us back from living longer? You know, I don't have an answer for you. I think you'd be better off answering that. I think - Kind of these stored traumatic wounds from our past.

53:49Like if we're holding on to these traumatic events and reliving them. Yeah, I think, you know, you have to be loving life to want to live, right? So I love life. I truly love life. I love the world I'm living in, my family, the things I get to do. And that gives me this joy and this desire to live as long as I can. and I'm driven by making a difference, right? It's my massive transformative purpose is to inspire and guide entrepreneurs to create a hopeful, compelling and abundant future for humanity. And so that's what I love doing. And, you know, in a similar, very similar way to what you do, it's how do I inspire people to go big, to create a life they love living.

54:44um and i think i think trauma um is very real and needs to be addressed and there are ways to address it now than ever before yeah um but you have to feel worthy you have to have a life you know uh a friend dan sullivan says uh you need to see a life a future that's bigger than your past Yes. Right? I mean, just think about that one second. If your future is bigger than your past, then I'm like, so much to live for. Yes. If you think like, oh, my God, my best days were behind me. It's a slow, you know, landing into the grave. You're dead already. What's the point? You're dead already. Might as well live it up right now and eat everything and drink everything.

55:30I'll get the tequila going. Yeah. Hit the parties. I heard you. Exactly. I've heard you once say that you take 75 supplements and pills a day. Yeah. supports your health and optimization for longevity. We don't need to go into all of those, but if you were only allowed to take five supplements a day, so what would those be? Yeah, so I'm not gonna answer that. Okay. Let's start with that. This book began as a document. People would ask me like, what do you do? Always, right? So it's like, Peter, you look great. You're doing great, whatever. What do you do for your sleep? What do you do for your meds and your supplements?

56:08And this started as a 10-page document. It then became a 100-page longevity document. And it's become now, I think, 180 pages. I made it so that it was very readable and usable. And the longest chapter in here is a chapter on meds and supplements. Not because I think that's the most important thing that you should be doing. but because i wanted to disclose fully what i'm doing and why so to back up one second uh years ago about 20 years ago or so i think it was 20 uh there was a a paper written uh called the hallmarks of aging and a group of scientists event identified okay what are the nine things that are causing aging, like stem cell exhaustion and epigenetic changes and whole telomere shortening.

57:07And so they wrote up these nine things. It was updated now to a dozen things. And so these are what we believe cause aging. And I went through with my physicians. I employ like 20 physicians at Fountain Life. I have one who's amazing, Mona Izat Villanov, who's my personal doctor. And there's a team behind that as part of my Fountain Life membership. But I went through and I checked my bloods every quarter, sometimes more frequently than that. And I build a protocol of what I take. and there's, I actually have five different pill packs. One when I wake up in the morning, one in the A.I. with my breakfast, one at lunch, one in dinner, and one before I go to sleep.

58:03Listen, I guarantee you, my mom says, Peter, you're insane. How do you know those things all don't interfere with each other and so forth? I go, mom, you got a good point. And this is what I'm taking. So, but what I wrote up in the book was every one of those supplements or meds what are they impacting on those hallmarks of aging? What are the things that, and how are they reversing it? We're going to be sometime in the next three years, we're going to have the ability for an AI to take in your entire genome, to take in all of your upload data, all of the imaging data of your body, all the blood biochemistry of your body.

58:47And then it will ask you, okay, here's your input. What do you want to do? You want more energy? You want to live longer? You want more muscle? What's your goals? What are your top three goals? And then how many pills you want to take? Right? I'm going to take five pills. I'm going to take 75 pills. And then it will spit out an optimum supplement protocol. Based on you. Based on you. Is that happening right now? Is that out there? We're working on it at Fountain. Wow. And it's an area that I think is very, very doable. The data is being collected at large scale. But today, if you went to three different doctors and gave them your data and asked them what you should be taking, you get three complete different answers.

59:31Right, but there is an optimal set for you. The next decade, the biggest impact is gonna be from access to AI as your extraordinary health partner, right? Right. I mean, it's, I can't, I can't explain how exciting it is to have this capacity and capability coming our way. So in the book, I lay out the meds, the supplements and the why. And I think it's for everybody to evaluate for themselves. Sure. With your physician, right? And decide where are you in your journey? If you're 25, it's very different, right? So you might be taking creatinine to focus on building muscle. Yes. Right? If you're 85, you might be taking a particular supplement to reduce your cholesterol or your blood sugar.

1:00:27So I wrote it very much with a few provisos and like, okay, this is what I do. It's what I do. I test myself all the time. I've spoken to a dozen doctors. I've done the research. This is why I do it. You decide. What is something that people, if they have a little bit of extra money, they want to invest in their health to understand their biomarkers better? What is the best tools out there to get an accurate understanding of your blood work or a DEXA scan? Like, what are the things that everyday people can do that don't have extreme amount of wealth to do the big tests? Yeah, so... What should they be doing once a year at minimum?

1:01:08Yeah, I think there are... One thing that I do is I'm wearing a... Glucose model? I'm wearing continuous glucose model right here. So you're always wearing that? I'm always wearing it. I still haven't gotten one of those yet. I keep hearing about it. I keep wanting to try it. It's not expensive, right? You can get it from Dexcom or Avid Labs. And those are different. Insight Tracker and Lifeforce are companies that will do a quarterly blood test, right? So Lifeforce, for example, Tony and I were co-founders of that. it will run you you know a couple hundred bucks a year up to 500 bucks a year which is reasonably affordable and it will give you your top 40 biomarkers right so at a minimum give yourself a gift of that understand what's going on in your body you know we're all optimists around our health let me give something that and there's a whole chapter in here called not dying from something stupid and let me dive into that one second.

1:02:14Sure. Our bodies are incredibly good at hiding disease. If I asked you right now or folks watching, are you sure there's nothing going on inside your body to know about? A hundred percent, are you positive? Most people truly have no idea unless you've gone through what I call an upload, right? You don't know what's going on inside your body And here's some stats. 70 % of heart attacks have no precedence. There's no chest clutching or no shortness of breath. Even if you got what was called a calcium score. Have you ever gotten a calcium score? Okay, a calcium score has been for a few decades the most popular cardiovascular test.

1:03:03It's looking at a CT of your heart looking for calcium. But calcified plaque in your coronary arteries, coronary arteries are the arteries that feed the muscle of the heart. If you block a coronary artery and it deprives the heart tissue from glucose and oxygen, the heart tissue dies and you have a heart attack. And if enough of it dies, you're dead. Wow. Right? So when people talk about a coronary disease or heart attacks, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about the blood vessels feeding the muscle of your heart being blocked. Now, if you get a calcium score, you know, they range from like zero to over a thousand.

1:03:53If your plaque, your cholesterol plaques and so forth are calcified, it's like, imagine a pipe here. It's pumping the blood through. If it's calcified on the side of the arteries and not blocking the pipe, it's stable. It's fine. But what we discovered is that there's a second kind of plaque. It's called soft plaque. And it doesn't show up in a calcium score. And so you can have a calcium score of zero and have a heart attack that day. Because this soft plaque is in the wall of the artery. And what we see is it can evulse. It can break out and a glob of fat will block the coronary artery and starve your muscle.

1:04:41And so what is brand new over the last three years is a new type of technology, which is an AI overlay that can find the soft plaque in your heart, in your coronary arteries. And if it identifies soft plaque, your job is to either reduce it or calcify it. And it's the only thing that matters. So there's a company called Clearly that we use that you do your coronary CT. It takes 10 minutes and that data is uploaded. This AI model finds a soft plaque, gives you a report, and that's all you should care about. If it's blocking your coronary, then you might need some type of emergent treatment. but if it's not but you have a high soft plaque burden your job is to reduce it or calcify it so it can't like sneak up in the middle of night right i had a fraternity brother of mine who died from a heart attack in the middle of night was due to come down to fountain life in a month oh and i'm like it's like just slayed me right uh and what are the tests that people get when when they go to Fountain Life.

1:05:55So let's break it up into three parts. There's imaging. So when you come through Fountain Life, it's a full body MRI. Like a prenuvo type of scan or something. Prenuvo type of stuff. And more so it's a full body, a brain, a brain vasculature. So in the full body, we're looking for any kind of tumors, cancers, any kind of anomaly, any kind of nodules in the lung, looking for aneurysms. I'll mention this because it's public knowledge. A friend, Sam Nazarian, I don't know if you know Sam. He owns Start SLS Hotels and one of the major hoteliers. And we have a partnership with Fountain and Sam. He's building out 25 resorts, six-star resorts and residential.

1:06:45He's going to be building Fountain Lifes into all of these around the world, which is amazing. So we're going to business. Sam, come on down and go through Fountain Lifes. I was taking them to go see Richard Bramson and Necker. And so he went through Orlando on the way down. He goes through it. Now, this guy is extremely successful and wealthy and has many doctors. He goes through. We find two brain aneurysms. He's in surgery a week later. Holy cow. And he's cured now. But these were, this would have been super bad news. and it's like, that's insane that you have the best medical care and you didn't know this was going on inside your body.

1:07:27So the imaging finds cancers, tumors, and aneurysms. We do a clearly coronary CT to look for soft plaque. We do a low dose lung CT. We do a DEXA scan, which you're familiar with, which is looking at your visceral fat, your muscle tissue, your body fat, your bone density. We do retinal scan. We do skin scans looking for any kind of moles or any kind of early cancer. We have a brand new machine for women, which is a new type of breast scan, which is ultrasound. It does not, you know, compress the breast. It works for people with breast implants or dense breasts. It's amazing ultrasound. It's a joy for women to use, and it's something that makes it a lot easier for them.

1:08:30Wow. So those are the imaging paradigms. Yeah, blood work. We have been all of the blood work. It's 150 blood biomarkers that are tested. your full microbiome, right, looking at your gut. We do toxin testing. We do food allergy testing. There's a whole bunch more. Your full genome, not just SNPs, just not like 23andMe, which is single nucleotide polymerase. It's all 3.2 billion letters, and it's looking at it and understanding this. All the scanning, it takes about four and a half hours. all the scanning is to answer two primary questions. What's going on inside your body you know about right now and what's likely to happen to you so we can prevent it, we can optimize it, right?

1:09:26That's the goal. Yeah. In the what's going on right now, what's amazing are the numbers. We've had like 5 ,000, 6 ,000 people come through, 2 % have a cancer they don't know about, right? I was like, hate to tell you this and happy to tell you this. We found it. Let's do something about it. Two and a half percent have an aneurysm. 14.4 % have either a neurocognitive, cardiovascular, metabolic disease need to take care of right now. I was giving you the stats, 70 % of a heart attack without any earlier. You don't feel a cancer until stage three or stage four. and your probabilities of a full remission surviving it is much lower.

1:10:11It's like when you go into the hospital not feeling well and having a pain and the doctor says, I'm sorry to tell you this, guess what? It didn't happen that morning. It's been going on for, you know, probably years and you want to find it. When's the best time to find cancer? It's like at the very beginning. Yes. What's even more concerning is that 70 % of the cancers that kill us are never tested for. So it's not the breast cancer, the prostate cancer, the colon cancer, right? We test for those. It's the glioblastoma or it's pancreatic cancer. It's the things that are not routinely tested for, right?

1:10:51And so one other test we do is a grail gallery test, which is from a blood sample, we're able to look at 40 or 50 different cancers. So when cancer is growing, those cells are growing rapidly in some rupture and they release DNA into your bloodstream. So from what's called a liquid biopsy, we can determine if there is something that we should be looking for. But what is amazing about the Fountain Life experience is it's multimodal, meaning it's not any one thing, right? It's all the imaging, it's the genetics, it's the blood biomarkers, It's a cognitive testing, all of these things that come together.

1:11:34So, I mean, full disclosure, it's not cheap, right? It's$19 ,500. But it's not just the testing. You get a medical team with you for the year. Wow. Right? So there's a functional medicine doctor, a longevity doctor, a nurse, a dietician, a health coach that work with you through the year and then repeat tests quarterly. So if you want to go deep into this, we are releasing in the start of the new year a version for$6 ,500, which is going through employers. So if a company buys 10 or more for their employees, the price comes down significantly. Wow, that's cool. Yeah. So people can go to what? Foundlife.com?

1:12:22Yeah, foundlife.com for that. There's one other part, which is the part I'm most excited about. Tell me. Okay. So one part is knowing what's going on in your body and not dying for something stupid. Like, holy, I wish I had found that earlier. The other part is this incredible world of longevity therapeutics. This is the stuff that will extend your lifespan, your healthspan. And so Fountain has created partnerships with companies that are in FDA trials right now with amazing technology. And so we're making it available to our members through these companies. Like these are the options you have that can extend, increase your muscle, reduce your immune age, reduce inflammation.

1:13:15and for me that's the most important part because i think you know knowing what's going on your body is step one and then optimizing your body yes now again clearly uh these some of these things are expensive some of them are not but the very first thing people need to do is the biggest needle is going to be moved by your sleep, your diet, your exercise, your mindset. Those will buy you a decade or two. It's crazy. So for those who are serious about it, I think Fountain of Life, make sure you guys check that out. You've offered me like a year or two of you got to go through it. I'm going to take you up on it at some point.

1:13:58I still invite you to come. I'm going to take you up on it at some point. Bring your fiancé. I'll bring Martha. Yeah, we'll do it. Our headquarters is in Orlando. Okay. We have centers in New York, Orlando, Naples, and Dallas, Texas. We're opening up in 25 here in LA. Okay. Now's the time then. Now's the time. Now's the time. What does it take, like a day to do all the testing? Yeah, under a day. Okay, cool. You know, there's some work to do to get ready there. Sure, sure. But then we're opening up in Houston as well, at the Ridge Carlton in Arizona. So we're adding four new centers now. And then we have that roadmap of 25 centers with Sam.

1:14:39It's amazing. Well, for those that are interested in that, go to fountainlife.com. If you don't have that type of money yet, there's a lot of free things that you can do right now, like you talked about. All of them in the longevity guidebook, how to slow stop and reverse aging and not die from something stupid. So make sure you guys get a copy or two and give it to a friend. And it's got a whole chapter on happiness hormones and how you can increase your happiness hormones. Because, again, most of this is about mindset and being in a gratitude happiness state because that's going to help you extend your life.

1:15:12You've got your list of supplements in here. You've got everything in here on how to optimize it. And also some of the incredible therapeutics that are coming and to be excited about what's coming, to feel empowered. right so um this book uh you can go buy it amazon uh i think it's gonna 26 27 bucks uh i'm giving it away at at cost for me which is like 15 bucks you go to longevityguidebook.com uh that will give you access to a bunch of additional things and the book is shipped at a lower price my goal is get this out is far and wide. Any profits I make through Amazon or Audible, I'm donating to the XPRIZE.

1:15:56Let me just mention the XPRIZE last year because I think it's really important. So I started the XPRIZE Foundation 30 years ago, hard for you to believe. We've launched 30 XPRIZE in 30 years. So what's an XPRIZE? It is a large pot of money that we say, I don't care who you are, where you went to school, what you've ever done. if you can build and demonstrate this technology, you win the money and the world gets the benefits, right? So our first XPRIZE was for private space flight, carry a person up to space, actually three people up, land, and within two weeks make the trip again. Wow. This is way before SpaceX and Blue Origin and all of those companies.

1:16:36And that was successful. But we launched XPRIZE's on mapping the ocean floor, cleaning up oil spills on the ocean, pulling drinkable water out of the atmosphere. And, you know, I got Elon to fund a$100 million carbon extraction prize pulling carbon out of the atmosphere and the oceans. A year ago, we launched one of our largest prizes ever. It was a$101 million prize for extending the healthy human lifespan. It's 101 million because Chip Wilson, the founder of Little Lemon, who's one of our large sponsors, said, so how big is Elon's prize again? 100 million? One more million, yeah. Yeah, I said, fine, if you fund it, we'll make it 100 million.

1:17:20So we challenge teams to add 20 healthy years, right? Wow. Actually to reverse your functional age. So we ask teams with a therapy lasting less than a year, I want you to demonstrate the ability to make my cognition 20 years younger, the clarity of my thought, my span of memory, my muscle abilities to grow muscle 20 years younger, and my immune system 20 years younger. So we have 460 teams, ho, in that team in the competition right now. This prize will be won by 2030. And again, I talked about it a little bit in the book, but this is about, I want people to realize this stuff is coming. It's a rocket ship.

1:18:07There's no bigger business on the planet and no greater motivation for people. So I want folks to know this is coming. Be excited about it. Be hopeful. Share it with your parents, your grandparents. This is powerful. I've got one final question for you, but I want people to get the book, Longevity Guidebook. Make sure you guys check it out. Share this with a friend. Let's say you, you know, I believe you're going to make it to 120 if you believe it to be true. Yeah. With everything that's coming. Let's say you are 120. Yes. And maybe you get to extend it a few more years. Yeah. Let's say you made 120.

1:18:41What's the thing you'll be most proud of looking back at 63 right now that you did for yourself to get to 120? You know, the thing I'm most proud of is hopefully, and I believe my kids, right? I mean, that's always something. It's amazing. When I go to sleep at night and I think about what are the three moments that I'm most grateful for from the day, it always comes back to them, right? It's like all the deals, nice, but it's all about my kids saying I love you, right? It's amazing in that regard. I think this XPRIZE is a big deal. This XPRIZE is giving scientists and entrepreneurs permission to dream bigger than ever before.

1:19:29It's funded out of Saudi Arabia, out of Hevolution, and Chip Wilson. I'm a multimillion-dollar donor to the prize as well. as are a number of amazing members of my Abundance community. I think the biggest thing ultimately, it goes back to where you began. I think it's helping people change their mindset because that's the first step. It really, truly is. Everything follows from a belief that you can and a belief that you should and a belief that you deserve it because the tools are going to be there. and it's not that hard. I mean, I lay them out in the book. You don't have to do everything. You pick a few things and increase, you know, next month add a few more things and add a few more things.

1:20:17But if you don't believe it, if you don't believe you're worthy, like you said, you know, you don't go past go. Peter, thanks for being here, man. Pleasure, buddy. Appreciate it. Always a pleasure. Powerful. 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 if you want weekly exclusive bonus episodes with me personally, as well as ad-free listening, then make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel exclusively on Apple Podcasts.

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