2023-11-30 · auto-analysis (draft)
Myth vs. Reality - The Science of Longevity Explained With Jamie Justice | EP #75
The conversation covers the potential for therapeutic opportunities in aging, the launch of the $101 million X Prize Healthspan competition, and the debate on aging as a disease and its regulation by the FDA. The conversation revolves around the importance of longevity and healthspan in therapeutics, the role of the X Prize in incentivizing innovation, and the current state of aging research and biotechnology. The podcast discusses the history and future of longevity, introducing Fountain Life and the $101 million X Prize for extending healthspan through therapeutic treatments. The discussion centers on the Healthspan X Prize, focusing on the three critical pillars of aging (physical, cognitive, and immune functions) and the economic benefits of improving healthspan. The podcast discusses the importance of longevity for the global economy, demographic shifts, and the X Prize competition
Topics
Longevity Longevity ▶ 0:00
X Prize Healthspan Other ▶ 0:51
Aging as a Disease Health ▶ 7:00
Academic vs. Industry Other ▶ 5:00
X Prize Other ▶ 10:01
Aging Research Health ▶ 13:02
Biotechnology Biotech ▶ 14:08
Healthspan Health|Longevity ▶ 21:52
Fountain Life Tech|Health ▶ 22:05
Economic Impact Economy ▶ 36:21
Demographic Shift Geopolitics ▶ 40:49
Exponential Growth in Biotech Biotech ▶ 55:36
Longevity Prize Competition Longevity ▶ 46:52
Quantum Technologies Tech ▶ 55:40
Predictions made
open Jamie Justice: The X Prize Healthspan will bring significant change to aging research and treatment.
“about uh for those of you who haven't been following X prise I'll take a second to give a little bit of background and then I want to jump into the details of what this competition means how it's going to impact individuals what 20 years of additional Health means”
Your call:
open Jamie Justice: A $101 million prize will be launched for the healthspan competition.
“just launched a $101 million prize and we going to be launching another $120 Million worth of prizes uh very shortly”
Your call:
open Unknown: Demonstration of a therapeutic treatment that restores muscle, cognitive, and immune function for at least 10 years in people aged 65 to 80.
“you have to show that your therapeutic treatment restores muscle, cognitive and immune function and this is a minimum of 10 years but a goal of 20 years”
Your call:
open Unknown: Improvement in healthspan will lead to increased economic productivity and reduced dependency on caregivers.
“This is really critically important is that these are the things that will improve function and keep people engaged, active, healthy, participating that's the goal absolutely you know”
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open Unknown: The X Prize will launch a commercial health span extension industry, similar to how it did for commercial space flight.
“there's 100 well you know uh I'm very proud to have raised $141 million for this competition it's the largest amount of capital Ever Raised for an X prize yay wow Peter that's incredible I and I believe enough in this that I've you know put in uh millions personally into this competition the first X prize I've backed um and uh as I men”
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open Peter Diamandis: Exponential growth in biotech, including quantum chemistry and gene therapies, by 2030.
“before the end of this competition before before 2030 is we'll see you know quantum chemistry and Quantum computation coming online uh Gene therapies chrisberg Technologies Gene writing all kinds of things coming on um at exponential rates and uh and I think the biggest opportunity for impact on the planet is going to be for adding Health onto people's uh life”
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open Peter Diamandis: Societal checks and balances against evil will be in place.
“we are going to have the societal checks and balances against um you know evil”
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open Unknown: The Healthspan X Prize will stimulate moonshot entrepreneurs.
“stimulate uh moonshot entrepreneurs”
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open Unknown: The Healthspan X Prize will democratize science and encourage people to rethink their relationship to aging.
“democratizing science we're encouraging people to rethink about your relationship to aging”
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open Unknown: By 2030, the healthy human lifespan will be extended by decades.
“by the end of this decade 2030 we will be extending the healthy human lifespan by decades”
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Numbers that matter
- $101 million
- $300 million
- $3-4 billion
- 48 years
- 78 years
- 10 years
- 20 years
- 10%
- more than 10%
- 6%
- 1 year
- $38 trillion
- 5.4
- 2.1
- 2.3