The School of Greatness
Longevity Expert Reveals The Science That Could Add Decades To Your Lifespan | Peter Diamandis
Mon, 9 Dec 2024
Join me for a mind-expanding conversation with visionary entrepreneur Peter Diamandis about his new book "The Longevity Guidebook." Peter shares groundbreaking insights on extending human lifespan, reveals the science behind aging reversal, and explains why mindset is the critical first step to living longer. From his personal 75-supplement daily routine to the future of AI-powered health optimization, Peter outlines practical steps anyone can take today to add decades of healthy living. Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about aging and discover why the next 15 years could revolutionize human longevity.Pre-order The Longevity GuidebookIn this episode you will learn:Why science predicts we'll reach "longevity escape velocity" by 2030-2035, potentially extending life indefinitelyHow your mindset and belief about your potential lifespan directly impacts your longevityThe "sequence secret" for eating that can boost your body's natural GLP-1 levels by 38% without medicationWhy muscle mass is one of the strongest predictors of longevity and how to preserve it as you ageHow advanced imaging and AI diagnostics can detect diseases years before symptoms appearFor more information go to https://www.lewishowes.com/1704For more Greatness text PODCAST to +1 (614) 350-3960More SOG episodes we think you’ll love:Dr. Daniel Amen – greatness.lnk.to/1243SCAndrew Huberman – greatness.lnk.to/1455SCGlucose Goddess – greatness.lnk.to/1575SC Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy!Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX
Chapter 1: What groundbreaking insights does Peter Diamandis share about longevity?
Hey guys, Lewis Howes here, and I'm so grateful for you today for coming and taking a look at the School of Greatness episode. We've got the inspiring Peter Diamandis. He is revealing his secrets to not only living longer, but also living healthier.
You're going to learn some incredible strategies on how to optimize your health now, but also some crazy things that are happening in science and research that if you can really optimize in the next five to 10 years, you may be able to extend your life decades.
If you can do a few of these things over the next five to 10 years, he also shares how to increase your natural levels of GLP one by up to 38% just in the way you eat your foods. It's extremely powerful This man takes 75 supplements. He is doing all the rituals and routines to try to increase his health and his lifespan. And I don't want you to get overwhelmed by all the things he's talking about.
He does a ton of research on all of this stuff. I want you to find one or two things that you can implement today to feel better, to live a happier, healthier life. And he really dives into something that most of these experts don't cover. Of course, a lot of people cover environment. They cover exercise, cutting out sugar, what foods to eat, how to sleep.
But there's something about the mindset of believing you are worthy of living a healthy and long life that I don't hear anyone else talking about. And we dive into this today. towards around the middle of this interview, and I think it's the most important thing to listen to.
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Good to see you, my friend. Good to see you, brother. Very excited. You've written a new book called The Longevity Guidebook, How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging and Not Die from Something Stupid. And that part at the end is one of the most important things. As I continue my journey of trying to compete in sports at a high level, the biggest thing is preventing injury. Yes.
Because in order to play the game at a high level, you need to be healthy. And I think that's related to life as well. In order to play the game of life at a high level, we need to stay healthy. There's a few things in your book that have really stood out to me that I got to dive into, and I'm sure we'll talk about many other things. But I think a lot of people...
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Chapter 2: How can mindset influence your lifespan?
The greatest wealth is your health. I love the saying, the man or woman who has their health has a thousand dreams. The man or woman who does not has but one. Yes. And it's so true. And so I started saying, oh my God, this, I love impact. I love, how can I change lives? How can I support and uplift? And helping people see this future and see what is possible for them for me is my goal.
And in this book- Did you ever fear death though? Like around- I lost my fear of death doing DMT, dimethyltryptophan, right? Which is the active ingredients in ayahuasca. And I don't want to go down that journey too much. How old were you? This was seven, eight years ago.
Okay.
But it was a... It's a dissolution of the ego and a connection with a universe of love and God at its most epic proportion. And it was extremely powerful for me. And I lost that fear of death. One of my motivations in longevity is my why. And so coming back to this, it's like, To get people to put in the work to live a longer, healthier life, you've got to have a reason for it.
And when I work with my Abundance360 community, my fountain community, I'm like, okay, let's discuss this. If you had 10 healthy years, what would you do with it? If you had 20 healthy additional years, what would you do with it? When I ask people if you had 50 additional years, their mind breaks. It's like you can make up stuff for 10 or 20 years, but 50 years?
like it becomes really hard for people to think that far out. And I find that fascinating. But if you've got a why, and one of my whys was, you know, I've been a space cadet since I was born in 61, Apollo lands on the moon in 69, Star Trek comes out in 67, all those things influenced my life. And it's like, We're on the verge of humanity becoming a multi-planetary species.
We're just talking about the SpaceX launch, going to the moon on a recurring basis. We're going to go to Mars. It's amazing. It's like the kid in the candy store here is like, I wanna see as much of that as I can. It's one of my whys is to be here alive, to see humanity become a multi-planetary species, to be part of that. I want to set up the first town on the moon. I want to mine asteroids.
I mean, crazy, right? But at the end of the day, this is the future we have potential for, and you can dream big if you've got those extra decades.
If you don't think that you had a positive mindset, you were pessimistic, and you didn't have a why for a greater future, how old do you think you'd be able to get to?
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Chapter 3: What are the main factors affecting our longevity?
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. Wow. So those are the imaging paradigms. You have blood work in the skin. We have been, all of the blood work, it's 150 blood biomarkers that are tested. Your full microbiome, 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? That's the goal. In the what's going on right now, what's amazing are the numbers. We've had like five, 6,000 people come through, 2% have a cancer they don't know about, right? It's like, hate to tell you this and happy to tell you this, we found it, let's do something about it. 2.5% have an aneurysm.
14.4% have either a neurocognitive, cardiovascular, or metabolic disease they 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.
It'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 probably years and you wanna 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? And 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,
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's something that we should be looking for. Wow. 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. So, 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, right? So there's a functional medicine doctor, a longevity doctor, a nurse, a dietician, a health coach that work with you
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