 Our healthcare system is downright dangerous. Why? Because it's built on a reactive model that's akin to waiting for a bomb to explode before attempting to diffuse it. This isn't healthcare, it's disaster control. Peter Diamandis founded a company to change that, employing modern technology, scans, tests, and AI capable of finding and preventing many diseases long before symptoms appear. But the current healthcare landscape in the U.S. is the biggest roadblock for this type of medical care. In this video, I'll show you the vision, the obstacle, and the potential solution for upending the status quo and challenging the constraints of our current healthcare system and creating a future where the focus is on extending our health span, our lifespan, and where aging is treated as a preventable disease rather than an inevitable decline. Let's create a vision for reshaping the healthcare system and more than that, how we live our lives. Let's start with the exciting and potentially controversial stuff, rich people investing in immortality. This is the killer app. Maximize your physical potential. Live, well, not forever. Why not forever? Well, sure. If not forever, live more forever. Pitchbot, is it dope? It's kinda dope. It's kinda dope. Like a robot, please. Pitchbot. It's kind of dope. Okay, I get it. It's easy to be suspicious of rich people and criticize their longevity startups as somehow selfish or unfair or immoral even, but I'm not gonna talk about any of that because mostly I just think it's bullshit, okay? I mean, who are these critics and who would they rather have trying to solve aging people with no money? How's that gonna work? Whatever your opinion is of Jeff Bezos, Sergei Brin, Craig Venter, David Koch, or Peter Thiel, you may one day have them to thank for your actual life. I'll probably do a video at some point on why billionaires are an essential ingredient in the cure for aging, but in the meantime, if you wanna check out a few videos we've already done on that topic, they'll be linked in the description. And by the way, Living Plus did actually sound pretty great. Anyway, ex-prize founder and CEO, futurist and best-selling author Peter Diamandis is putting his investor's money where his mouth is and he was recently on Impact Theory with Tom Bill Yu talking about how he's using AI to find patterns in complex health data. This is where this gets really interesting. So I know you have another company, Fountain Life, you guys are using AI, are you open to talking about this? Yeah, I'm sure. So longevity, I couldn't be more obsessed with the idea and so as you were talking about it, my first question is, how are you guys going to start getting the patterns down? Because to me, this is the big thing. You talk to somebody like Peter Atia and he's like, look, it is just next to impossible to do really good studies on diet and nutrition, what works, what doesn't work, there's just too many confounding variables. And I was like, AI is gonna answer that. Like it can pull a pattern, anything that can be reduced to a pattern, they can figure it out. Regardless of like amount of variables, if there is a pattern to be had, it will suss it out. And given that we have some people that live to 120 and some that don't, there is a pattern. Yeah, yeah, and I'll put it this way. You, there's a lot of interesting things, not only are there some people who live to 120 and some people who make it to just 65, there are large species on this planet, like the bowhead whale that lives to 200 years or the Greenland shark that lives to 500 years. And my question is, if they can live that long, why can't we? And I said it's either a hardware problem or a software problem, all right? And we're gonna understand that. This decade is the decade we're gonna understand that. It's gonna be AI and quantum technologies that give us that insight. So Fountain Life, just fountainlife.com, we have these 10,000 square foot facilities. We have four of them right now. We have a waiting list of like 50 that we'll build out globally. And you come and we digitize you. It's a full body, 150 gigabyte upload of you. Full body MRI, brain, brain vasculature, brain function, coronary CT, all of this with AI overlay, 80 blood biomarkers, genomics, metabolomics, you know, your gut. And then we do this year on year. This is not a one and done, right? So the first time you do it, we're gonna see is there anything going on that you should worry about? Most of us are optimists about our health and we don't actually know what's going on inside our body. Yeah, fuck. And by the way, the body's really amazing at hiding disease. Yeah, I'm gonna put myself back, can I go right? It's like you are, you think you're fine, but you know, 70% of all heart attacks have no precedence. Dude, that one freaks me out that what the first symptom of heart disease in most men is death. What? Is that true? Excuse me, I have to go shotgun a bottle of baby aspirin. We screen people first and then every year upload you every year. And it's looking for the patterns and what medicines and we have a large corpus of data and the AI ability to analyze that to say with your genome, with your microbiome, with these meds, with this, there's gonna be huge learnings out of this. A clinic that focuses on preventative care and uses AI to find patterns no human can see. This is a good time to mention a video we made recently on how generative AI is already being used to make the healthcare system better, faster, cheaper. Check that video out right here or in the description. I assume most people that are watching this video are like me and they'd love to get all the preemptive scans and tests that they can afford, but I mean, barring a colonoscopy. I'm looking forward to these pill-sized cameras going mainstream. Can we get some billionaires on the pill-sized camera situation? Membership at Fountain Life ranges from 11,700 for the Precision Diagnostics membership to 19,500 for the Apex-Cossierge option which includes unlimited access to a team to optimize your health on an ongoing basis. It's kind of like what Brian Johnson is doing for himself with Blueprint and he's apparently spending 2 million a year, so compared to that, Fountain Life is a steal. Fountain Life is one of a handful of other companies popping up in the space like Forward Health, Prenuvo, and Next Health, which are all sort of boutique, concierge health clinics whose service is very quite a lot, but the running theme is they're quite expensive which is why I actually got even more excited when I heard Peter talking about the development of a health insurance plan to go along with Fountain Life. This is a fun part about Fountain Life. We're building a brand new health insurance company on top of it. So if you get Fountain Life Insurance which is available today, your employees, insurance is a perverse business. Fire insurance pays you after your house burns down, life insurance pays your Mexican after they're dead, health insurance pays you after you're sick. What we've done instead is when you sign up, your employees go through a set of pre-testing for us to discover any kind of disease and prevent it from a big payout later down the stream. So it's keeping your employees healthy. And what we wanna do- Wait, wait, wait, wait, how does that model work though? So is the employee paying roughly what they would pay well? They're paying exactly the same or less. The numbers are the same. And the insurance company is actually saying we're gonna do preventative scanning. We're doing preventative testing. Yes, preventative testing. And so here's what we're doing. One of the interesting things is there's a number of expensive tests we can do and a number of cheap tests we can do. And one of the things we're doing with AI is correlating which of these lower end tests correlate highly to the expensive tests. So you'll do the lower end cost test to find a signal in the noise and then you'll verify with the expensive test. So here is the Fountain Health website. If you're an employer, you can apparently get this for your employees today. If you'd like more information about Fountain Health, maybe a video that does a deep dive into everything Fountain Health offers and how it stacks up to present day insurance plans. Let us know down in the comments and we'll see what we can do. Maybe we can talk to Peter and give you a walkthrough. No promises, but let's just see how much interest there is down in the comments. The big question I have when I see this chart though is yeah, I see how for a time perhaps while extending lifespan, the money savings would seem to work out. But until we actually have a cure for death, I mean, eventually the procedures are going to get more and more extreme and desperate and therefore expensive near the end of life. So I'm still curious if there is in fact, cost savings over a person's entire life. Not because it wouldn't still be worth it to extend health span, but how do we incentivize insurance companies to do the right thing? Peter Atia, he's a medical doctor. He founded Early Medical. It's another prevention focused clinic with the goal of lengthening lifespan and improving health span. He's also the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Outlive, The Science and Art of Longevity. Peter was recently on the Rich Role podcast talking about the problem facing preventative care in the US. There's almost nothing about Canada's healthcare that I think is better than the US's as broken as the US's is because the Canadian system has got more problems. But there are two things that Canada or a single payer system does better. The first is it actually provides healthcare for all. And we don't need to get into that discussion here, but it's a tragedy that the number one driver of personal bankruptcy in the United States is healthcare related cost. That's unacceptable. So nobody should be without healthcare. But the second thing that a single payer system does very well, and this gets to the heart of what you're asking about, Rich, is the payer owns the risk for life. So there is an incentive to prevent. Right now, my health insurance is Aetna. Two years ago, it was Blue Cross. Three years from now, it's gonna be united. What incentive does Aetna have today to care about spending a dollar on me when they are pretty much positive, they will not own my risk in 20 years when the chickens come to roost, right? Like that's the fundamental problem. It's the portability of risk. And I don't, I mean, I've thought about this problem so much, but until you fix that problem, until there is true risk ownership between the patient and the payer and the provider, and that is carried out over the course of your life, there is no incentive for them to carry any of that risk. Okay, great. So a single payer system would shift the incentive, but we'll need to watch out for other problems Canada's single payer system has that we'll save for another video. But what about stopping age related diseases by attacking the root cause? Aging, how do we get insurance companies in the US and our government to incentivize this without nationalizing healthcare? Here's bioethicist and author of Hacking Darwin, Jamie Metzl, with one idea. And would it help to classify aging as a disease? We just right now, we have the reimbursement codes and this whole mechanism that when you have a disease or you get some kind of procedure, then we have, we open the floodgates of money, but if there's something that will enhance individual health or public health, we're very stingy. Should aging be considered a disease? So, you know, my effort is to go to the FDA and get indication. Neither me representing the scientists, not the FDA wants to call aging a disease. First of all, not everybody who's aged has disease. And there's ageism, you don't wanna, and so what we're trying to do is to say, oh, we wanna prevent the diseases of aging, right? And that will be a target. I don't think we need to call aging a disease in order to make progress. That's what I feel, that's what the FDA is telling me. Yeah, yeah. It's not to make progress, it's just to get money. Unfortunately. Money is required to make progress and money from insurance companies to pay for age-related preventative care could be unlocked if aging was classified as a disease. So, I do feel like we should push harder on that issue. And by the way, links to the full videos I've referenced will be in the show notes. Lifespan has a few articles on the subject of classifying age as a disease, so please go check those out as well. But just think about what it would mean if the FDA classified aging as a disease. This reclassification would potentially revolutionize research and create significant commercial opportunities. It would inspire scientists to explore solutions, accelerate the approval process for age-targeted treatments. And crucially, with more money flowing in, you'd have larger pharmaceutical and biotech companies setting their sights on it. I mean, an entire new field of age-related disease would present quite an appealing opportunity, especially given the potential market size of everybody. Can we get there without classifying age as a disease? Yeah, probably. And over at lifespan.io, we have an article on that very topic. But in your host's humble opinion, this change could democratize access to preventative care and treatments to millions, extending the benefits of scientific advancement to all corners of society. And I have personally created a change.org petition so you can urge the FDA to take this transformative step to reclassify aging, not as an unchangeable fact of life, but as a disease. So if you're interested in adding your name to that, the link is in the description. And there is hope even for the aged, yours truly included, because maybe if we can hold on for another decade, that could be enough. When will a set of treatments exist that might allow age reversal and be accessible to some segment of the general public? All right, 10 years. 10 years, beautiful. Would you pay extra to potentially save yourself a lot of money and prolong your life? Are you dedicated to what Peter Atia calls the most effective longevity treatment exercise? Would you like us to do a more in-depth video on Fountain Life or any of the companies mentioned in this video? Let us know in the comments. And if you'd like to hear about another billionaire spending his money on curing aging, you're gonna definitely wanna check out this video right here. And if you enjoyed this video, please tap that thumbs up for the algorithm and share this on Twitter or Reddit or maybe on the new one. What's the threads or something? Yeah, hook it up with a thread. And they need content over there. That's it for this video. Have a great day. Do something healthy, live long and prosper. And I'll see you back here for the next one.