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Founder & Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation

Longevity Edge - Deep Dive | Dr Dawn Mussallem and Peter Diamandis

📅 Jul 08, 2026 Fountain Life 57 MIN 644 VIEWS 78 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
"You have to know what's going on inside your body." In this episode of Longevity Edge, we’re joined by Dr. Peter Diamandis—physician, entrepreneur, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, executive founder of Singularity University, and co-founder of Fountain Life. Peter goes beyond the headlines of futurist predictions to share his personal health journey, daily routine, and insights on the future of health technology. From catching disease at inception to leveraging AI for hyper-personalized medicine, Peter breaks down how mindset, love, and proactive diagnostics will redefine how long—and how...

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 10:20How is there such a dichotomy between the two?
  2. 11:15Um, you know, I think what are the numbers here, Don?
  3. 20:26What are you most excited about?
  4. 27:42But what do you recommend to that person?
  5. 31:27Can you talk us through before you received stem cells and how you felt afterwards in terms of that experience?
  6. 38:41So, what is your favorite cardiovascular exercise that you like to participate in?
  7. 40:50So with your nutrition, I know we've discussed protein before, but what's your protein goal personally?
  8. 42:40Are you okay with some fruits?
  9. 45:20But what is the most underrated longevity intervention you feel at this time?
  10. 46:46You know, I would say peptides, but now this isn't, that's a real bad word, right?
  11. 48:27You know, what is one thing you wish every 40-year-old man or even younger, every 30-year-old man would do now, knowing what life, you know, matters and how much it matters at 60, 70?
  12. 53:14Those are the stories that give you chills, right?
Peter Diamandis 0:00 ↗
You must know what's going on inside your body. And people, some people say, 'I don't want to know.' It's like, you're going to find out eventually. You want to know now, we can do something about it, or when it's too late.
Host 0:17 ↗
Welcome back to Longevity Edge. And today I'm especially excited for this conversation because I'm joined by someone I've had the privilege of working alongside as co-founder of Fountain Life, who is also truly one of the world's leading voices when it comes to the future of health technology and our human potential. Dr. Peter Diamandis is a physician, entrepreneur, founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, executive founder of Singularity University, best-selling author, and co-founder of Fountain Life. Throughout your entire career, Peter, you've challenged all of us to think bigger about what is possible. And we now know that nothing is impossible, whether that's extending human lifespan, leveraging AI, or transforming industries that have remained unchanged for decades. So today, I want to really go beyond the headlines of futurist predictions. And instead, I want to talk about what you've learned personally through your own health journey. I mean, when I step back, and I said this before we got on this video, of someone who really is this iconic figure of healthy living, health optimization, and just like this beacon of joy, Peter, it's you. Every picture I see, you just really embody that. And I think, for example, yesterday I sent you a little message, happy Father's Day, and I was like, you know, don't overwork, spend some time on yourself. And your message back, it gives me chills. You were like, I'm with my family.
Peter Diamandis 1:39 ↗
Yeah, I mean honestly, you know, people undervalue the importance of family and love and connection as part of your longevity journey. I mean, at the end of the day, right, let's say you've been extraordinarily successful in your business and you've been successful in being healthy, but you don't have that love, you don't have that connection, I think it's kind of meaningless in the final result. Um, you know, it's all of these truisms you hear from everybody like, you know, at the end of your life, whenever that might be, you think back not on, oh my god, the deal I made or the trip I took. It's who you went through life with. I think the meaning of life is the people that you journey with. And it doesn't have to be your wife or your kids. It could be your best friends, but having people that you truly love. Uh, and you know, we're recording this the day after Father's Day, and um, I think that that is so valuable. We've heard these stories of, you know, a husband and wife where the wife passes and the husband who's deeply in love passes very shortly thereafter. Um, there's also a great story I wrote about in my longevity guidebook in which, um, I forget, it was Benjamin Franklin and one of the other founding fathers who lived till the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence because they had a purpose.
Right, and so I think love and purpose and optimism, these mindsets are so very important, and they're core. If I have to say, you know, what's the number one longevity thing I do? It is my mindset. Um, just so awesomely excited to be alive right now. So grateful for the people I have in my life. So empowered to know that there's no problem we cannot solve. And those mindsets energize your soul. And we are far more than just a bunch of chemical reactions.
Host 3:48 ↗
Yeah. I mean, what you just said is the most powerful. We can hit done like right, that is the unifying message. That's the message. This is why people love you, Peter, because you're so real. And there are a lot of people that are worried about AI and the fact that we can lose this opportunity to be human. And I think it actually is an opportunity to make us less busy with the things that don't matter so we can leverage our time with the things that do. And that's exactly what you said. And I always emphasize my favorite study that came out of Harvard, the longest study on human aging, showed exactly what you said: our relationships at the age of 50 are the biggest predictor of our quality of life at the age of 80, more than our genes, more than our cholesterol. And that's exactly what you said. But what I want to really understand is what convinced you that longevity was going to become this major opportunity, like the opportunity of a lifetime, everyone is talking about it.
Peter Diamandis 4:45 ↗
Yeah, it really is. I mean, it's interesting. Um, you know, if you sort of track search on the word longevity over time, it's skyrocketed over the last five years. And I got into this business, so to speak. I started Human Longevity Inc. with Bob Hariri and Craig Venter back, god, what is it now, probably 15 years ago. And then, you know, decided we needed to do better than that and partnered with Tony Robbins and Bill Kapp, Bob and others, and started Fountain Life. There were two things that drove me. One, very, very selfish. [laughter] I want to live as long as I possibly can. I'm having a blast in life. You know, when I was growing up in the 60s, two things lit my soul on fire. It was the Apollo program that showed us what humanity could do right now, which was extraordinary. With technology less than you have in your Apple Watch by probably a thousandfold, if not a millionfold, we got to the moon. And then the other thing that lit my soul on fire was the TV series, I call it the documentary called Star Trek, that showed us where humanity was going. And in the 70s, 80s, 90s, the space program was really flat. It was not moving forward. And it was not till Elon and Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson and others, including myself and my friends, really pushed heavy in space, and we've seen this vertical ascent. And I want to see that fulfilled. I mean, I want to go and start a city on the moon. I want to go mine asteroids. I have a lot of stuff I want to do in life, and I need to be alive and healthy for as long as I can to make those things. So I'm driven by that desire. Um, and so that was the first thing.
And the second thing, you know, I've been mentored by an amazing man, Ray Kurzweil, considered by most the greatest predictor of the future ever. He's got an 86% accuracy rate. We co-founded Singularity University together. And in learning from him and in working with him, his vision was that, you know, we're going to be able to reach this thing called longevity escape velocity, LEV, by the early 2030s. I call it LEV by 2033, just so it rhymes. And the idea is that for every year that you're alive, science is extending your life for more than a year. And he convinced me. And as I did my own work as an MD, I don't call myself a physician because I never did my internship and residency. I was at two companies my fourth year of medical school. But as someone who understands biology and medicine, I was like, I can see that, right? We are a collection of 40 trillion human cells, amazingly coordinated in a beautiful fashion. Each cell running 5 to 10 billion chemical reactions per second per cell, very complex. And the question becomes, how do we understand that level of complexity? It's not going to be the human. It is going to be AI-enabled understanding. And because we're on this, you know, hyperexponential growth curve on AI, those understandings of why we age, how to slow it, stop it, potentially reverse it, is happening now. One of my favorite quotes comes from Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, who is probably the leading AI CEO today. Don't tell Elon I said that. [laughter] And Dario said that he expects us to be able to double the human lifespan sometime in the next 5 to 10 years, which is a mindblowing idea. But just imagine if we're possible. So at the end of the day, if that's going to happen, if we're going to develop these AI-enabled therapeutics, I'm running, or my organization XPRIZE is running a $101 million Healthspan Prize to reverse the ravages of aging by 20 years if we can get there. It should be everybody's objective listening to our conversation here to make sure they don't die from something stupid before we get to that point. Understand what's going on inside your body. So, driven by my desire to live longer, driven by my understanding that this is going to become real, I went, you know, half my life is in longevity, half my life is in AI, and started Fountain Life.
I also believe it's the largest business opportunity on the planet. You know, when I'm on stages in front of, you know, family offices, YPO organizations, Tiger 21 groups, and I ask honestly, okay, you're 80 years old. How much of your wealth would you give for an extra guaranteed 30 years of health that you had in your 40s and 50s? Right? And I think most people, if they're honest, it would be the vast majority, right? Health is the new wealth. So those are the mindsets. And you know, I think every mother and father wants one thing for their kids above all else: for them to be healthy and happy and purpose-driven, all those things. So this is very real. And I think as soon as the general public understands that, oh my god, there is the opportunity for us to live without pain, you know, with vitality, with the aesthetics, the cognition, the mobility that we've had in our youth later into life, there's nobody who's not going to want that.
Host 10:20 ↗
That's right. I mean, you know, it's human optimization so we could do all that's precious to us like you described in the very beginning. You know, it's so interesting when you talk about investments because we look at our portfolios, most people are looking at it multiple times a day. But there's a lot of Americans that are looking at their health maybe if we're lucky every few years, right? And so, you know, what surprised you most when you started really investigating healthcare today? What surprised you most about what you unveiled, knowing where you're going with Fountain Life? How is there such a dichotomy between the two? These are very smart people in these academic medical [institutions].
Peter Diamandis 10:57 ↗
It's really strange. Um, I mean, I think the biggest point that people need to understand is that you can catch disease at inception. And that the only way to do that is to look on a regular basis.
Host 11:15 ↗
And we know more about what's going on in our refrigerator or our cars than we know about what's going on in our bodies. And you know, you and I have [clears throat] had these conversations multiple times, and people just understand this, right? You don't feel a cancer at the beginning. You feel it at the end at stage three or stage four, but you can detect it early on. One of the things that Fountain Life does distinctly is it's not just an MRI of your body. It's your genome. It's your metabolism. It's your 140 blood biomarkers. It's, you know, liquid biopsy test. It's all this multimodal look so that if there's a signal someplace, you can verify it someplace else and really truly know what's going on inside. Um, you know, I think what are the numbers here, Don? That like, 70% of heart attacks don't have a preceding, no shortness of breath, no pain, none of that. And then half those people don't wake up.
Peter Diamandis 12:08 ↗
That's exactly right.
Host 12:09 ↗
It's crazy, right?
Peter Diamandis 12:11 ↗
And cancers, you know, 50% of the cancers we die from, we don't screen. You know, these numbers are very, very alarming. I couldn't believe it when I joined Fountain Life to see the statistics that we find 14.4% of our otherwise healthy people coming in are found to have a life-threatening condition.
Host 12:29 ↗
And this is a new statistic that I have, Peter. You know, the number one thing everyone is most worried about is losing their ability to have optimization of their thought process, dementia. And we do the brain age with an AI overlay. You know, AI is a large component about what we do at Fountain Life. And so 25% of our members coming in show accelerated brain age. And what was interesting is I just broke this up according to genders, and women scored far better than men out of that. Men were a little over 30% of that group coming in. So, you know, that's really concerning. And what we found is after 13 months that 50% improved with simple things like sleeping better. You know, and sometimes if you don't check, you don't know how to put those lifestyle aspects into better perspective and show up for yourself. And I'm going to actually ask you, I'm going to jump ahead because...
Peter Diamandis 13:19 ↗
Please.
Host 13:20 ↗
You know, when you first started to embark upon this longevity journey, what personal approaches to your own healthcare changed since you started going through all this multimodal testing? And I think I know one of the things you're going to say your answer is, because I'm always really impressed in social situations when you do one thing in particular. [laughter]
Peter Diamandis 13:41 ↗
Yeah. Well, first of all, I've given up alcohol completely. You know, alcohol, there's no scientific benefit for alcohol. I think one could say, you know, if it's a social lubricant that makes you, you know, have a better time and be more socializing, that's fine. But, you know, this is not that. You know, I will have a... My wife's a sommelier, so I'm in trouble on that. But, you know, I'll have a sip of wine to taste it. But, you know, I prioritize sleep and working out and diet and mindset. I mean, it's still the fundamental things that don't cost anybody anything. It's still, I strive for eight hours of sleep. I just got my Oura Ring 5. And, you know, beyond just eight hours of sleep, my goal is over an hour of deep sleep, when those glymphatic networks are clearing the brain of tangled proteins. But to get a great night's sleep, I need to be in bed by 9:30. And I'm at my own events, there's a party raging, and I'm like, 'Good night. I'm going to sleep. I'm out of here.'
Host 14:46 ↗
Uh, and... I love that. Yeah. You live by it though.
Peter Diamandis 14:50 ↗
I do live by it.
Host 14:50 ↗
I really honor that because I have never worked with another individual in my entire career that shows up for themselves in this authentic, well-aligned way. You role model the behavior. It's the meaning, purpose in this lifestyle, and then you can augment, you know, these other things that I think are very exciting. But has there been anything that surprised you that you're comfortable sharing on your...
Peter Diamandis 15:14 ↗
I'm comfortable. I share about my health all the time because I've got, A, nothing to hide, and B, I want people to learn as I learn. One area that has been of recent primary focus is my oral health, my dental health. You know, I recently was giving a keynote on longevity at an event at the Buck, which is sort of the leading longevity institute in the United States. And here I am talking about, you know, all the breakthroughs in diagnostics and therapeutics, what Fountain does, and so forth. And after me, a functional dentist named Dom, who's in Stuttgart, gets up and says, 'Okay, who here has their wisdom teeth out?' I raise my hand. 'Who has titanium implants?' I had six. I raised my hand. 'How many of you have root canals?' I have two. I raised my hand. I mean, I have very poor dental genetics and health, right? Weak teeth in that regard. And after lunch, I sit down with him and I say, you know, listen, I raised my hand. Here's my situation. And we went into a conversation that blew me away because he explained how, you know, the old days of pulling out your wisdom teeth would leave a socket there that fat would grow into, and you would have the potential for bacteria and virus and fungi to grow there. That titanium implants versus zirconium, which is a composite. Titanium doesn't bond with the gums, and it's a channel for bacteria to get from your mouth to your brain and your heart. And then of course, root canals are dead tissue still in your body. And I had a high level of Porphyromonas, which is a dangerous bacteria in my mouth, and I'm like, oh my god, I've got to do something about it. So, I'm on stage for five days, as you know, at my Abundance Summit every March. And it's five incredible days. I've got the leaders of all the AI labs and robot labs and, you know, autonomous and flying cars there with me. And three weeks before the summit, I flew to Germany and had six hours of surgery on my upper teeth, four hours surgery on my lower teeth to pull out all the titanium, put in composites, get rid of the sockets for my wisdom teeth, get rid of the root canals. I mean, extensive surgery. And this guy is amazing. I'm going to have him speak at my longevity trip coming up because I had no pain, no swelling, and I've, you know, prioritized my mouth. And so that's something, you know, that functional dentistry is critically important. That's one area that I'm talking about as a new discovery.
The second thing is, I believe that we, as I said, are on the verge of all of these new therapies coming out. Now, diagnostics is half the solution. Find disease at the beginning, and there's nobody better than Fountain offering, you know, more multimodal testing, 200 gigabytes of data that flows into the AI models to your functional medicine doc, nurse coach, dietitian, to help you decide, you know, what you should do next, what meds, what supplements, and so forth. So diagnostics is an important part of it, but the therapies, the therapeutics. So one of the things that I pride myself on in partnership with you and Tony and others is searching the world for the best therapies out there. What is out there that's going to move the needle to add extra years and then decades to your life? And we search for those and we bring them to our members inside Fountain. And so there's a few that I've recently done with Dr. Zhou, his reprogramming work. I've done TPE a number of times with Hans Keirstead from Immunis, their IMAN product. And this is a realization that we're really making these things accessible. Now, and you know, there are stem cells and exosomes, and one thing that's important for folks is, listen, these things are available under FDA trials. We bring those trials in. But I wouldn't do any of these things unless you're under the care of a knowledgeable physician. Right? You want to make sure you're tested before and make sure you don't have any cancers growing, you don't have any massive inflammatory disease or immune diseases before you try these therapies out. And then you measure against that. So I actually do my bloods every month to update my supplements and my meds. I have an amazing physician, Mona Zat Bellanov, who I love, and we're strategizing every month. How do I improve this? And that's one of the benefits that you can get with your founding team.
Host 20:26 ↗
No, I agree, Peter, and I love that. You know, it's detect, optimize, and restore those rejuvenation therapies. The detection part is a big part for that first year for most individuals. And then as we continue to reverse that disease, it gets so exciting when we step into that rejuvenation space and that restoration space. And it is really exciting what we're doing with Hans and Immunis with that early access program, and we will also be working to bring the 2B study on us. But I just had a call with two of your Abundance members right before this podcast. So excited because the Immunis is a secret, and you know, as we age, it is much harder to optimize muscle protein synthesis, and there's more muscle protein degradation, and that's what this molecule helps with, particularly in the setting of, especially when we're overweight or we're obese and there's body composition issues, or the opposite, when individuals are thin and they just struggle with adding the muscle because of age, regardless if they're like you, doing, eating right and adding the amounts of exercise and resistance training. It's very exciting to have these early access programs to these particular medicines. But I do love how you highlight, you know, I was just in France giving a talk, and there were all the top longevity centers from across the world. Many of them are just doing the therapeutics, are not doing the detection. And it's first do no harm. Yes, you don't want to expose someone to a therapeutic that increases, you know, angiogenesis, blood vessels. If there is an underlying cancer, you must get that full body MRI, those circulating tumor DNAs, stem cells, even there's this concern with a rapid proliferative process. So again, with Fountain Life doing these early cancer detection tests really need to be paired and protocolized. So I'm so grateful that you highlighted that. I mean, how do you envision 10 years from now for men's health? You know, you said it perfectly. If we can stay alive in the next 10 years, we're going to really have an answer to cure pretty much most every disease we know of. We know that chronic diseases, the majority of them are preventable with lifestyle anyways, but what do you think? Let's look forward 10 years. What are you most excited about?
Peter Diamandis 22:29 ↗
Yeah. So, there's a lot, and it really is all at the intersection of AI and medicine. So, what does that look like in the future? It looks like we're being measured all the time, right? So, I've got my Oura ring, my Apple Watch. I have a, I don't have my continuous glucose monitor on, but we're going to have wearables, insitables, you know, basically technology that's monitoring us all day long. That data will flow up to your AI. And it will know if there's anything out of balance. Your AI may send a note to the robot in your kitchen that your protein levels and your vitamin D levels are low and prepare the next meal with more protein and more vitamin D. So, you're closing the loop constantly. You'll have an AI health coach that basically is watching where you are, what you're doing, and it says, you know, don't take the elevator, the stairs are right over there, or, you know, drink another, please another glass of water before you eat your meal and slow down, meditate, take a deep breath in [sighs] and out, and, you know, activate properly your parasympathetic nervous system and can coach you along that way. So, we're going to see the cost of this coming down because AI will effectively be at near zero cost for a lot of these elements. We're going to see new imaging technologies coming online very soon. And it's going to become possible for you to really in a very easy fashion monitor and intervene with unhealthy processes. On top of that, we have, you know, 830 teams competing for our Healthspan XPRIZE. And those 830 teams are working to reverse the ravages of aging in cognition, in immune. I'm pointing out my lack of thymus here. We all have our thymus goes away. And Martine Rothblatt, an amazing scientist, she has developed the ability to go from your skin to a pluripotent stem cell to regrow your thymus, which is like mindblowing. It's like, I love that. Most important news I've heard recently. But we're then going to be able to make personalized cancer vaccines. You know, god forbid you get a cancer. How about designing something that attacks your cancer specifically? What about, you know, new drugs? We've seen the GLP-1s and the, you know, GLP-2s, and soon, you know, what's the latest one called again?
Host 25:17 ↗
Tirzepatide.
Peter Diamandis 25:18 ↗
No, not tirzepatide, the one, the GLP-3 that's coming out now.
Host 25:23 ↗
True.
Peter Diamandis 25:23 ↗
Yes, tide. Right. And the numbers, I mean, these are potentially some of the very first longevity drugs coming out. My friend Alex Zhavoronkov at Insilico Medicine has been using AI to develop longevity drugs. And so it's just, we're going to see a very steep rise in new medications and new therapeutics. And, you know, I could not be more excited as an entrepreneur in investing in these and building companies, or as a 65-year-old recipient of these looking to, like, you know, okay, going to make sure I'm like reversing my aging and maintaining. I tell my kids, I had my two boys when I was 50, they're 15, I'm 65. I tell them, I'm going to kick your butt when you're 50 and I'm 100.
Host 26:19 ↗
I love that, you know, and so I do have a question about your kids. Are your kids interested in this healthy pattern of living like you are? Do they pay attention to eating healthy and moving their body like dad?
Peter Diamandis 26:30 ↗
I model for them. I definitely model for them, and we talk about the importance of minimizing sugar. We talk about the importance of sleep and about exercise. Yeah, I think, you know, the reality is, and people need to understand this, the body is amazing in overcoming all the abuse and assaults you give it till about age 30, right? We're optimized. I think we're at optimal health in our late 20s because as we evolved in the savannas of Africa 200,000 years ago, you know, you would be pregnant by age 13, by 26 you were a grandparent, and before food was abundant from Whole Foods and McDonald's, the last thing you wanted to do was steal food from your grandchildren's mouths, and so you would die. So the body's in damn good, you know, steady state optimization through late 20s, and then it's a slow decrease. Your stem cell populations drop by a factor of a thousand. Your pituitary hormones, your ability to build muscle, all on a slow decline. And it doesn't need to be that way. Science is allowing us to reverse that.
Host 27:42 ↗
No, I love that. And you know, one thing I wanted to give a shout out is your son was at the teen event at the Abundance event this past spring, and he asked a really cool question about the gut microbiome. It was really exciting, and he just asked, you know, how does food play a role? I thought this is like a young man after my heart because I love studying the gut microbiome, and I feel that it's really our ability to one day is how we're going to be able, we're already there, to bioindividualize nutrition and likely supplements. But I love how you talked about this about wearables as well as the fact that this is moving into our home. I mean, this is going to become ambient. It's just going to become, you know, knowledge that's all surrounding us. How do you, what do you recommend to the person that has their continuous glucose monitor on or that's wearing their wearable and they're kind of held hostage to it? They become very turbulent. They're not empowered, where both you and I have been able to leverage the knowledge by this empowerment to rise above and become our best version. But what do you recommend to that person?
Peter Diamandis 28:48 ↗
For me, it's [clears throat] a game, and it's a fun game. I don't beat myself up if something spikes or I don't get the best night's sleep. I like, okay, I think about what caused that. What caused me to have a poor night's sleep? I ate too late. Okay, make that note.
Making sure that, you know, I'm going to sleep at 9:00. Make sure I don't eat any food in the last 2 hours beforehand. Um, or if you know, one of the things, you know, spiking blood sugar. I have tricks that I play. Um, you know, when I'm out at dinner, which is, you know, listen, restaurants are there to have you eat as much of their food as possible, so they'll give you bread and wine to kick off your meal, which spikes your glucose. You know, so I don't do that. Or if I have bread, I dip it in olive oil, or I'll drink a full glass of water before I eat anything else. Or um, when they're bringing dessert around, I'm like, no, before it hits the plate, the, you know, the table in front of me, it's like, no, thank you, because once it's sitting in front of me, I don't care, you know, I don't, my willpower begins to erode and I'll just taste a little bit, a little bit more. But if it's not there, I can't do it. So I say no in the very beginning.
Host 30:03 ↗
Well, that's really a great message because you just revealed a little element of vulnerability, because I feel there's probably a lot of listeners out there that think, well, he's just always able to say no. But no, you just know these little workarounds that you don't have the temptation even put in front of you.
Peter Diamandis 30:18 ↗
I make it be me. In other words, I am the person who goes to sleep at 9:00. I am the person who does not eat dessert. And so I'm, you know, I'm aligned with who I am. And I, you know, will say it openly to other people. And if I say that openly to other people, then they hold me to it. Oh, he just broke his promise. He's partying, you know, and drinking tequila shots at midnight here. No, I'm not going to do that. So being clear about, you know, the person you want to be on your health journey. Um, you know, I'm excited. I go for my Fountain upload every year. I would never ever skip a year. I'm driving blind until I go and do that. So, uh, we're recording this in June. I think I'm coming out to our new Houston site on the 29th.
Host 31:13 ↗
Yeah, exactly, in a week.
Peter Diamandis 31:15 ↗
So excited, excited for that. And you know, knock on wood, someday I'll discover something, and instead of being pissed or angry, I say, 'Thank God I discovered it early.'
Host 31:27 ↗
Yeah, that's right. Well, finding it early matters. And you know, there's a new update to our numbers too, because we collect billions of data points, and we now have over 34 billion data points of data. When we look at the fact that we've done all this whole genome sequencing, so we have your precision genomic report that you'll get this year, that is extremely exciting. Dr. Mona is already getting ready to prepare those for members as they come through for testing. And VO2 testing has been added, and our cardiorespiratory fitness is such an important metric in terms of how healthy we are. There's a lot of things that go into that equation, but the VO2 testing will be fun for you to do when you come to our Houston location. So we're so excited you're going to be there. Um, you know, Peter, I guess the next thing I would say is, when it comes to, I want to kind of spin back to the regenerative therapies, because I know we even have videos of you doing stem cells, and a lot of people are curious about stem cells, but most people have never tried it. So, in terms of regenerative therapies, for me, I think it's one of the most exciting things that we have to offer at Fountain Life. And I know you've done some of the work with Dr. Zhou as well as the stem cells at Fountain Life. Can you talk us through before you received stem cells and how you felt afterwards in terms of that experience?
Peter Diamandis 32:47 ↗
Sure. So, first of all, I want to say I'm pretty highly optimized. Um, so a lot of the therapies that I do, I can see the changes in the numbers, but viscerally I don't have a big visceral response because, you know, I'm not sure what I would feel to feel better than better. So, um, but on the numbers side, what I see is a rejuvenation of my immune system, meaning my immune system is behaving as a much younger version of myself. I'm seeing an increased functionality of my stem cells. Um, and uh, you know, one of the things that this is going to have the biggest impact is people who are not optimized and who are getting older in life and want to bring back their younger performance abilities. So, I think we're going to start to see longevity occur in different layers. One layer, which I think is available now, is take someone who is elderly, feeling increasing pain or inability to really exercise for any particular length, or you know, do a significant six-minute walk test, and bring them back to an earlier state where they have less pain, have increased mobility, have increased ability, tolerance for exercise. And then I think what we're going to see over the next five years is a whole new set of treatments that are able to optimize you beyond that.
I mean, some of the stuff that's coming out, and we'll discuss this, Dawn, during our longevity trip coming up in October, is the ability to do gene therapies, right? To give yourself access to increased copies of the clotho gene, um, which reportedly, and again the studies are not done yet, but increase cognitive ability and memory. I mean, I think everybody wants, you know, to be sharper and have better ability to memorize stuff like you were back in school in your college days. Uh, the other is gene therapies for follistatin to help you build muscle faster. Now these are the next level, right, where you're going in and you're modifying your somatic genome. You're giving yourself extra copies of these genes. And uh, there's going to be a point where it's not something we're offering yet at Fountain, but there'll be a point where we collectively as an organization and our physicians feel it is safe and make it available. The promise that Tony Robbins and I wanted to always have as part of the Fountain membership is we're going to search the world for the most advanced safe therapies out there. We're going to find them and we're going to bring them in and make them available to our members. So if you've heard about it someplace and it's efficacious and safe, we're going to deliver it to you. I mean, that ultimately, you know, because diagnostics are becoming easier and easier. Um, I think one of the things that Fountain does is we piece it all together in a four-hour experience so you don't have to go to multiple places, and then it's all packaged. Like I have my data from six years of Fountain visits on my phone in the cloud. Um, but beyond the diagnostics, it's access to the most advanced therapies.
Host 36:07 ↗
No, that's right. And you know, that really is what sets us apart. And we have an IRB, an institutional review board for research, and we're following every single member and all those data points prospectively. So any novel therapeutic we do, we're able to look at this individual in such a unique manner that there's not any academic institution that would be able to fund such studies. So, it's very, very exciting, and we're very excited and very proud to be that source for you as you unveil these novel therapeutics to bring those and to do early access programs or research. Okay. I don't think I've ever heard you share this on any of your podcasts. So, please, I know people would love to understand what a normal day looks like like for Peter Diamandis.

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Diamandis, P. (2026, July 8). Longevity Edge - Deep Dive | Dr Dawn Mussallem and Peter Diamandis [Interview transcript]. Fountain Life. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3030557/

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Peter Diamandis. "Longevity Edge - Deep Dive | Dr Dawn Mussallem and Peter Diamandis." Fountain Life, 8 Jul. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3030557/.

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