Peter Diamandis is a futurist with degrees from MIT and Harvard University, and has spent much of the past two decades spreading a vision of a “enriching future” driven by exponential technologies that will extend our lives. Serial entrepreneurs and founders of organizations such as the Xprize Foundation and the Chiatric University have also built close ties with some of the world’s most influential business ideas, including Elon Musk.
Admirers agree with his optimistic forecasts and data-backed argument that technology has lifted billions of dollars from poverty and improved global standards of living. So are they Buy his book. Critics argue that his tech utopian vision ignores growing inequality and systemic imbalances, including in the United States where the lowest 50% of households account for less than 4% of national wealth, while the top 10% orders exceed two-thirds.
Regardless of their views on Diamandis, many have found him an interesting modern figure, and when we have had the opportunity to talk to him about richness and longevity recently, including his views on Byran Johnson, who is familiar with his former acquaintances. Reverse Aging Process – We caught it. (Diamandis, 63 years old, said he was “Biology 39. ”)
You can hear the conversation here;In the meantime, you will find the following excerpts, edited below.
Recently, you tweeted: “We are so close to the speed of longevity escape that I urge you to remember that your only responsibility now is to avoid dying from stupid things.” What inspired this?
I feel like we are in a revolution in a healthy range. This is not accidental. This is mainly AI, computing, sensors, single-cell sequencing, and the impact of cellular drugs – the entire convergence technology [that] It is helping us understand why we are old, how to slow it down, stop it, and may reverse it. There is a concept called “Long Life Escape Speed”, which is today, for every year you are still alive, the lifespan of science and medicine will be extended by a certain amount, between one-quarter of a year and one-third of a year. But, in the year you are still alive, science will extend your lifespan for more than one year. Aubrey de Gray and Ray Kurzweil took the lead in coming up with this idea, I’ve researched it, I’ve invested it. The current idea is that if your means are reasonable and you are healthy, we will achieve a longevity escape speed. If so, you don’t want to miss it. You know, you want to be healthy and want to be here.
What does “reasonable meaning” mean? Because obviously there is a lot of attention to what is happening in our society [regarding access to healthcare]Not to mention all over the world. These numbers keep moving in the wrong direction.
Does life expectancy only apply to the rich? Is that what you are asking? First of all, what you can do now is free. First of all, this is your diet. What you eat is fundamentally important, right? Our bodies have never been designed to consume as much sugar as possible. Sugar is the poison in the amount we are ingesting. We used to consume a few pounds of sugar a year 200 years ago. Today, we consume, for example, 60 pounds of sugar per year. It’s a neuroinflammation, a heart inflammation, and at the end of the day, your diet is crucial. Sleep is basic. You need to get seven to eight hours of mass sleep, which means deep sleep and rem; lack of this condition can lead to you developing a neurodegenerative disease, namely Alzheimer’s. [And] Exercise is the first thing you can do with your body. I was in the gym five days a week, lifting weights and maintaining muscle mass. This is the key. Again, none of these things cost me any money. The cheapest thing is very powerful, is your mindset… Optimists live 15% longer than pessimists… So when people say, Oh my god, longevity is only for the rich, I cry. No, this is for people who care about longevity and want to focus on it.
This is the grassroots…
The next thing that starts spending you getting money, including medications and supplements. I take ridiculous medications and supplements every day, but over time I always accumulate for it. Advanced tests were then performed to early disease; the price of the test ranged from $500 to $50,000, depending on the depth you want.
But it’s the last thing. One of the most popular areas of lifespan research is called epigenetic reprogramming. Therefore, we are all born from 3.2 billion letters from mom and 3.2 billion letters from father. This is our genome. This is our software… When you were born, 20, 50, when you were 100, you all have the same genome. So why does it look different? This is the content of the gene and what genes are off. As we age, this is a control mechanism of the control mechanism. Therefore, the hottest investment area (I also invest in some of these companies) is epigenetic reprogramming. Can I reprogram your epigenome to take you back to a younger state? …In the beginning, when risky and poorly operated, billionaires would take risks. But once it starts working well, we’re talking about units for years, it’s going to get cheap and it’s available to most people.
Do you have a company that invests in that does reflect your approach to longevity?
In the past 30 years [as the founder of the XPRIZE Foundation]We have started about $600 million in prizes and raised $10 billion in research and development. A year and a half ago, I raised $157 million and launched the HealthSpan Xprize. So, this is a $111 million bonus. The rest is to compete and do all the tests. In this Xprize, the team must demonstrate the ability to reverse cognition, immunity and muscle function aging, and in the 60-80-year-olds, if I gave you this therapy from the winning team, are you thinking as clearly as you did 20 years ago? Do you have the ability to carry out an immune response? Are you capable of building and maintaining muscles over 20 years old? And we have 620 teams entering the Xprize. It will be awarded by 2030. We will give $10 million to the first 40 teams; in May this year, they received $250,000 each. So I was very excited. There are 620 teams in the game that can imagine various ways.
How will you differentiate your thoughts about lifespan from Bryan Johnson in blueprint?
I’ve known Brian for 10 years. When he sold his brain belt, I brought him to a longevity career and he moved to Los Angeles [co-founded] A company called “Human Longevity”… In San Diego, Bryan became an investor and a member of the company’s board of directors, and we split up ways. So how should I put this? You know, what Bryan is doing is an experiment with N. I’m glad he’s doing it. He’s a little pioneer and we’ll see what’s going on there. I don’t necessarily think I talked about my erection like him at night, but I think he got a lot of attention in the media. The approach I’ve taken through the Xprize Foundation is a massive global competition and we’re trying hundreds of different approaches. All of this is precisely measured. Every competing team must statistically treat enough individuals within the appropriate age range to prove that they can do what they say. Therefore, this is a scientifically supported, experimentally normalized competition.
You can hear more from Diamandis hereincluding how he met Musk, why he started a health scanning company with Tony Robbins, and how he revolved around the appearance of outsiders who might sometimes look like conflicts of interest.
