Extend Your Life: Peter Diamandis, MD On The Future of Health & Longevity Science

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Rich sits down with Peter Diamandis for a conversation about the science and philosophy of lifespan extension, education, AI, space exploration, and the importance of mindset. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders,” Peter is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation and executive founder of Singularity University. He has degrees in molecular genetics and aerospace engineering from MIT and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, and over the course of his career, has started over 20 companies in the areas of longevity, space travel, venture capitalism, and education. A multiple NYT bestseller, Peter’s latest book, which he co-authored with Tony Robbins, is entitled “Life Force”. To read more about Peter and to peruse the show notes, click here. You can also watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Enjoy! Peace + Plants, Rich

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0:32.0	Certain species of sea life like the Bohead Whale, large mammal, can live for 200 years.
0:38.3	And Greenland sharks can live for 500 years, sea turtles, similar multi-hundred year lifespan.
0:44.6	And so the question is if they can live that long, why can't we?
0:48.2	And I remember thinking, it's either going to be a hardware problem or a software problem,
0:52.4	and we're going to have the tools to fix that.
0:54.9	And I think we're on the precipice of that.
0:58.2	One of the things I did was I built over the last year an AI engine that searches the
1:04.1	global news, journals, tweets, magazines, newspapers, and it finds longevity and health tech breakthroughs.
1:13.1	And at the end of the day, I get this news that gives me tremendous hope.
1:20.3	And I'm seeing what's going on in all of these different fields.
1:24.2	And I, this is your old question about reaching longevity, escape velocity.
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