2023-03-23 · auto-analysis (draft)
The Mindset That Extends Your Life With Steven Kotler | EP #34 Moonshots and Mindsets
The podcast discusses the difference between lifespan and health span, challenges traditional views of aging, and highlights the significant role of lifestyle over genetics in extending health span. The podcast discusses how advancements in training and understanding of physical and cognitive skills are improving, debunking old beliefs about aging, and emphasizes the importance of maintaining muscle mass and monitoring blood glucose levels for longevity. The podcast discusses the benefits of a positive mindset towards aging, the importance of risk tolerance, and the significance of having a purpose-driven mindset. It also emphasizes that it's never too late to chase big dreams and that technology can help achieve them. The episode discusses the importance of patience, slow build, and dynamic deliberate play in finding one's passion and purpose for longevity, and the role of emotional ene
Topics
Health span vs. Lifespan Health ▶ 1:54
Aging as a Disease Health ▶ 4:00
Genetics vs. Lifestyle Health ▶ 5:31
Human Evolution and Health Span Health ▶ 6:28
Longevity Longevity ▶ 8:58
Risk Aversion Health ▶ 10:52
Muscle Mass and Longevity Health ▶ 13:00
Blood Glucose Monitoring Health ▶ 15:18
Risk Tolerance Health ▶ 18:04
Purpose-Driven Mindset Health ▶ 20:05
Big Dreams Other ▶ 23:00
Dynamic Deliberate Play Health ▶ 31:02
Moonshots and Mindsets Longevity ▶ 33:49
Neuroscience Health ▶ 34:56
Predictions made
open Peter Diamandis: Breakthroughs in stem cells and epigenetic reprogramming could add 10-30 healthy years in this decade.
“real breakthroughs in stem cells and epigenetic reprogramming could add 10 20 30 healthy years and maybe buy you enough time to get the next 10 20 30 healthy years”
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open Unknown: Older individuals can learn new skills and improve their cognitive abilities.
“old dogs as Peter just sort of pointed out are better at learning certain kinds of tricks”
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open Unknown: Within the next 4 years, we will have access to extraordinary power from AI and generative AI.
“we're going to have access to such extraordinary power that what is it you want to do you're going to have the tools and the skills what you need more than anything else is that passionate driven mind to say that's where I'm going that you know picking a Target and then reaching out finding other people want to go on that Target with you uh get access to all of the exponential Tech resources that Steve and I wrote about in the future is faster than you think”
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open Unknown: Some people will live to be 400 years old.
“if Peter's right some of you are gonna live to be 400 it's exciting”
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open Unknown: In the next five years, we will be able to regrow hair, cartilage, and stop muscle and bone loss in older adults.
“there's a bunch of uh of work going on right now uh uh by two or three different approaches to regrow cartilage right um they have shown definitive increase in cartilage uh depth uh and this is from uh wi pathway manipulations and cytic medicines right um uh now the problem is if you have a if you have a total knee replacement you can't regrow it on the metal right it's uh so there's a window I I mean I think in the next five years we are going to regrow hair we are going to regrow cartilage we are going to be to able to start you know there a a few different approaches to to solving both sarcopenia and osteopenia”
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open Unknown: By the end of this decade, we should have backup organs for you.
“by the end of this decade we should have backup organs for you right that's just an amazing thought”
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open Unknown: Once longevity escape velocity is reached, you will be in a good shape as long as you don't die from something stupid.
“once that happens you know you're in a pretty good shape as long as you don't you know die from something stupid”
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open Steven Kotler: Exosomes will get FDA approvals in the next 3-4 years.
“the next three or four years to get the science done so Tori I used exosomes for both shoulders both of my knees and my back uh and I all all pretty much super successfully”
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open Unknown: People will continue to form tribes or communities that support their health and longevity goals.
“I have an extraordinary tribe around me in my abundance Community.”
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open Unknown: Medical systems will become more advanced in 10-20 years, making advanced diagnostics and therapeutics more accessible.
“but there are Medical Systems today Fountain life is one there are others human longevity is another um that are these Advanced Diagnostics and then the Advanced Therapeutics that are there and of course all of that is secondary to what Stephen writes about in our country because you need your Basics first you need that mindset you need sleep you need exercise you need repair you need all of those things uh it's like if there's one thing you can do is exercise if there's two things you can do it's exercise and sleep if there's three things you can do it's exercise sleep and getting rid of sugar in your diet”
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open Unknown: Interventions can be effective at any age, even in late 80s and early 90s, to improve quality of life in the second half of life.
“interventions even in your late 80s and early 90s can make a big difference at any level”
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Numbers that matter
- 10%
- 88-year-old man
- 70%
- 7.5
- over 30
- 5 years
- 10 to 20,000
- 5 billion
- 10 or 20 years
- 1 year
- 8 hours
- 7.5 years
- 30%
- 17 years