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Longevity: Your Practical Playbook on Sleep, Diet, Exercise, Mindset, Medications, and Not Dying from Something Stupid
Life is short—until you extend it! We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution. In this practical playbook, I share my own longevity practices—what I’m personally doing to extend my healthspan—which have been garnered from synthesizing well over three hundred interviews during my Abundance Platinum Longevity Trips, my Moonshots podcast, and in consultation with the medical team at Fountain Life.
Experts predict that breakthroughs within the next ten years will enable us to add decades onto our healthspan. This refers to the period of life spent in good health, free from the chronic diseases and disabilities of aging. It emphasizes the quality of life lived rather than just the duration. In contrast, lifespan is the total duration of an individual’s life, regardless of their health condition. While lifespan denotes the years lived, healthspan underscores the years lived healthily and actively.
Your mission is therefore to maximize your health and vitality by using the most advanced diagnostics to catch disease early, enabling you to stay healthy long enough to intercept the additional breakthroughs racing toward us.
Can we extend the healthy human lifespan past today’s record of 122? Can humans live past 200 years? Or even indefinitely? What if advancements in AI can significantly shorten the regular cycles of clinical trials? And what if we learn to prevent and eventually eradicate cancers, heart diseases, and Alzheimer’s?
Most people imagine that longevity is mostly inherited, and that the genetic cards you are dealt have predetermined your lifespan.
You may be surprised by the truth.
In 2018, after the analysis of a 54-million-person ancestry database, scientists announced that lifespan has little to do with genes. In fact, heritability is accountable for roughly 7% of your longevity. The highest estimates for heritability verge around 30%—which still means at a minimum, you’re 70% in control of how you age.
The power of shaping your healthspan is much more in your hands than you might have imagined. Extending the healthy human lifespan will increase global abundance and uplift humanity. The equation is simple; longer healthier lives mean more time spent at our productive best which means more innovation.
Start extending your life—today.
Experts predict that breakthroughs within the next ten years will enable us to add decades onto our healthspan. This refers to the period of life spent in good health, free from the chronic diseases and disabilities of aging. It emphasizes the quality of life lived rather than just the duration. In contrast, lifespan is the total duration of an individual’s life, regardless of their health condition. While lifespan denotes the years lived, healthspan underscores the years lived healthily and actively.
Your mission is therefore to maximize your health and vitality by using the most advanced diagnostics to catch disease early, enabling you to stay healthy long enough to intercept the additional breakthroughs racing toward us.
Can we extend the healthy human lifespan past today’s record of 122? Can humans live past 200 years? Or even indefinitely? What if advancements in AI can significantly shorten the regular cycles of clinical trials? And what if we learn to prevent and eventually eradicate cancers, heart diseases, and Alzheimer’s?
Most people imagine that longevity is mostly inherited, and that the genetic cards you are dealt have predetermined your lifespan.
You may be surprised by the truth.
In 2018, after the analysis of a 54-million-person ancestry database, scientists announced that lifespan has little to do with genes. In fact, heritability is accountable for roughly 7% of your longevity. The highest estimates for heritability verge around 30%—which still means at a minimum, you’re 70% in control of how you age.
The power of shaping your healthspan is much more in your hands than you might have imagined. Extending the healthy human lifespan will increase global abundance and uplift humanity. The equation is simple; longer healthier lives mean more time spent at our productive best which means more innovation.
Start extending your life—today.
122 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2023
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About the author
Peter H. Diamandis
29 books753 followersDr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of "The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders" – by Fortune Magazine.
In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight.
Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges.
In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for precious materials. He is also the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation.
Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World.
He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."
In 2016, the Greek Government honored him by issuing a 1.2 Euro stamp into circulation. Also in 2016, the book How To Make A Spaceship – A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, Peter’s biography and the story of the XPRIZE was written by Julian Guthrie with a Foreword by Richard Branson and an Afterword by Prof. Stephen Hawking.
In the field of Innovation, Diamandis is Founder and Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight.
Diamandis is also the Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Human Longevity Inc. (HLI), a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan. He is also the Executive Founder of Singularity University, a graduate-level Silicon Valley institution that studies exponentially growing technologies, their ability to transform industries and solve humanity’s grand challenges.
In the field of commercial space, Diamandis is Co-Founder/Co-Chairman of Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroid for precious materials. He is also the Co-Founder of Space Adventures and Zero-Gravity Corporation.
Diamandis is the New York Times Bestselling author of Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think and BOLD – How to go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World.
He earned an undergraduate degree in Molecular Genetics and a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from MIT, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Diamandis’ mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. His personal motto is: "The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself."
In 2016, the Greek Government honored him by issuing a 1.2 Euro stamp into circulation. Also in 2016, the book How To Make A Spaceship – A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight, Peter’s biography and the story of the XPRIZE was written by Julian Guthrie with a Foreword by Richard Branson and an Afterword by Prof. Stephen Hawking.
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May 7, 2024
Mixed feelings... I certainly admire Peter H. Diamandis for the way he conducts his life and what he's accomplishing at several endeavours, but this book felt a bit empty and leaving room for more. He's one of those invidividuals that certainly will leave a better world than the one they found. If the intent of the book was to stimulate interest and motivate the reader to pick up Lifeforce, the author he coauthored along with Tony Robbins, in my case he failed. If somebody reading this review has interest in books about healthspan and longevity, I would point this person towards "Outlive" by Peter Attia, or anything published by David Sinclair.
August 27, 2024
Interesting ideas and a very good introduction to the idea of health span over life span. The author talks about a number of ways to increase your overall life, while also making those extra years better. You can do this by prioritizing health and wellness to avoid diseases and natural processes that ravage the aged. Many, if not most of these tools however, are only accessable to the ultra-wealthy. A point the author himself makes.
It is useful, however, to anyone who wants to make the best decisions you can make for free such as prioritizing a healthy diet, exercising, and sleeping better as well as things that cost some money like regular doctor's check-ups and cancer screenings. So even those of us in much lower tax brackets may be able to gain at least a few extra healthy years.
It is useful, however, to anyone who wants to make the best decisions you can make for free such as prioritizing a healthy diet, exercising, and sleeping better as well as things that cost some money like regular doctor's check-ups and cancer screenings. So even those of us in much lower tax brackets may be able to gain at least a few extra healthy years.
December 16, 2023
This book provided a practical, proven map for how to make health and longevity an everyday experience. I highly recommend.
May 16, 2024
interesting take on attaining longevity
Excellent ideas for increasing longevity. Benefits of doable diets and exercise plans and adequate rest goals. Easily adaptable to lifestyle.
Excellent ideas for increasing longevity. Benefits of doable diets and exercise plans and adequate rest goals. Easily adaptable to lifestyle.
December 13, 2023
Well worth adding to your library
Diamandis provides an easy to digest set of resources that are all very well worth considering to improve your health and longevity.
Diamandis provides an easy to digest set of resources that are all very well worth considering to improve your health and longevity.
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