Tina Woods is a longevity strategist, systems thinker, and pioneer of the Human Exposome Project, a bold scientific and societal initiative redefining health as a collective endeavor. Pete Ward is a serial tech entrepreneur & co-founder of Humanity, a healthtech company using AI to help people extend their healthspan at scale. Together, they bring a powerful dual lens to the future of human health: systems change and individual action.
In this wide-ranging episode, we explore why the future of longevity will not be won through biohacking aloneβbut through radically reimagining the environments we live in. From air quality and loneliness to digital infrastructure, biomarkers, and government policy, Tina and Pete unpack the systemic drivers of healthy aging, and what it will take to change the odds for everyone, not just the 1%.
Timestamps
00:00 Introducing the Human Exposome Project
04:52 What really drives longevity: environment vs. genetics
09:53 The economic case for prevention
13:19 What Singapore and the Middle East are doing right
18:03 Building cities for healthspan and human flourishing
22:07 Private sector vs. public sector: who leads change?
25:17 Incentives, missions, and shifting mindsets
29:42 The risk of over-supplementation and longevity clinics
34:06 Why testing, tracking, and N=1 still matter
39:27 Can AI make personalized prevention equitable?
44:35 Predictive models and the next biological clocks
49:03 Are we waiting too long for consensus in science?
52:28 Individual action vs. collective environment
54:41 Data philanthropy and new public health models