What Will it Take to Make you Look Good, Feel Good, and Think Good at 100? With Peter Diamandis

In 2014, I announced one of my boldest companies. It’s a company called Human Longevity Inc. I co-founded it with Craig Venter, the first guy to sequence the human genome, and Bob Hariri, one of the top stem cell scientists and businessmen in the world. We founded Human Longevity Incorporated as a means to extend the healthy human lifespan— to make 100 years old the new 60.

In the first year of operations, we built the largest genome sequencing facility in the world. That genome sequencing facility, besides your genome, the 3.2 billion letters from your father and the 3.2 billion letters from your mother, is also sequencing your microbiome. You are a collection of ten trillion human cells and 100 trillion bacterial cells.

But besides that, your full phenotype, your MRI, the full imaging of your body, your metabolome, the 24 chemicals in your bloodstream—all of this data is being collected. Then we’re using machine learning to mine that data for the secrets of what drives cancer, what drives heart disease, what drives neurodegenerative disease. With a mission of making sure that when you’re 100, you look good, you move good, you think good, and you feel great. I think that’s where we’re going.

Our ability to rapidly sequence a genome—taking what was 100 million dollars and nine months down to a thousand bucks and a few hours—is going to unlock the secrets. We are the product of our genome. How you look, how you sound, and the structures of your brain are all coded for in our genes.

As we unlock this, we’re going to create tremendous breakthroughs in the healthy human lifespan, inventing new drugs that are personalized to you. It’s going to reinvent health on an epic scale.