Limitless: An AI Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, where athletes were allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision, including the event format, prizes, and rules. 

We also highlight a new world record swim in the men’s 50-meter freestyle, other event winners, and the mixed results for enhanced versus natural athletes. Finally, we look at the event’s business side and its connection to biotech, AI, and future enhancement and medicine.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Enhanced Games Unveiled
2:58 Can Drugs Break Records?
5:34 Rules, Stacks, Side Effects
7:59 Ethics Of Enhancement
9:47 Natural Winners
14:12 The Business
17:35 Biotech Acceleration
21:31 What It Means For Sports

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Creators and Guests

Host
Ejaaz Ahamadeen
Host
Josh Kale

What is Limitless: An AI Podcast?

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Josh:
So we have the regular Olympics, on this show we've covered the Robot Olympics,

Josh:
and now we have the Enhanced Olympics, an Olympic competition that just happened

Josh:
last weekend that offered $7 million in prizes to the top athletes in the world.

Josh:
But these are not normal athletes because the difference with the Enhanced Olympics,

Josh:
the Enhanced competition, is that you're allowed to take whatever performing

Josh:
enhancing drugs that you want.

Josh:
In fact, on screen you could see the before and after of what an Olympic swimmer

Josh:
looks like prior to the Enhanced Olympics, and currently afterwards.

Josh:
Words. He looks like a monster.

Josh:
This is a man that goes by the name The Missile. And on this episode,

Josh:
we're going to cover basically everything that went down at this new futuristic,

Josh:
pseudo dystopian Olympic event. We are fully kitted out in our athletic gear today.

Josh:
We are ready to talk all things superhuman.

Josh:
Is the ceiling actually higher because people dope? Or is there some unexpected

Josh:
outcomes that we're going to cover?

Josh:
I think the latter might be a little true, Ejaz. I know both of us were tuned into this this weekend.

Josh:
It's a really bizarre thing, but I think a really cool learning experience to

Josh:
see the impact that drugs have on super athletes.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, my social media timeline looked very different over the weekend,

Ejaaz:
and I couldn't figure out why.

Ejaaz:
This guy was plastered everywhere. His name is James the Missile Magnuson,

Ejaaz:
and he's an Australian swimmer.

Ejaaz:
He never actually won any kind of a significant medal at the Olympics, at least.

Ejaaz:
And he came back out of retirement to participate in these games. So what are these games?

Ejaaz:
Over this weekend, a bunch of billionaires got together, including Peter Thiel

Ejaaz:
and Balaji. and they said, okay, let's try and recreate the Olympics but have

Ejaaz:
no restrictions on doping.

Ejaaz:
So typically at the Olympics, we have something called the Anti-Doping Agency.

Ejaaz:
They have a set of rules of all performance-enhancing drugs and substances that

Ejaaz:
you can't use to perform at the highest level. So it's just human, no enhancement at all.

Ejaaz:
They took that and completely flipped the script, allowing pretty much anyone

Ejaaz:
and everyone to enhance themselves.

Ejaaz:
And the idea was, how far can we push the human body?

Ejaaz:
What records can be beaten when we use these different types of substances.

Ejaaz:
So it took place in Vegas.

Ejaaz:
There were around 36 events in total and a huge cash price, $7 million,

Ejaaz:
as you mentioned earlier on.

Ejaaz:
Now, the breakdown of this is pretty simple. If you break a world record being

Ejaaz:
on enhanced performance drugs, or if you just break a record in general, you win $1 million.

Ejaaz:
If you win your own embed category, you win $250K. So it really stacks up.

Ejaaz:
And I think this is like the largest payout of any sporting event in recent

Ejaaz:
history. So the way this played out was it took place in Vegas over the course

Ejaaz:
of four days, including the weekend.

Ejaaz:
And it takes place over three specific event categories.

Ejaaz:
So you've got swimming, you've got track, you've got weight lifting,

Ejaaz:
plus a strongman deadlift exhibition.

Ejaaz:
All of the athletes performing can be on performance enhancing drugs. But there's a twist.

Ejaaz:
If you want to perform and you are a previous world record holder and you don't

Ejaaz:
want to engage in any of the drugs, you can also do that and see how you fare

Ejaaz:
against the enhanced versions of these athletes.

Ejaaz:
$7 million on the line in total. And this was the first sanctioned drug doping

Ejaaz:
event in modern sports history.

Josh:
So we got to start with the answering the question that everyone wants to know,

Josh:
which is, does it actually make a difference?

Josh:
And on the surface, the answer is obviously yes. The first person we're going

Josh:
to talk about is this guy named Christian, I'm not going to try to pronounce

Josh:
his last name, who raced and won the 50 meter men's freestyle in 20.81 seconds,

Josh:
which is seven tenths of a second faster than the world record.

Josh:
So that was a really strong start. In fact, this was actually the conclusion

Josh:
of it. This was the last event.

Josh:
And Christian wound up taking home $1.5 million from the bonuses and awards that he won.

Josh:
Now for better or worse that is the beginning

Josh:
and the end of the world records that were broken there was only one it was

Josh:
this one it happened at the very end of the race and it poses a series of really

Josh:
interesting questions because another example that we have is this guy half

Josh:
thor and i think a lot of people know him as just the mountain that's his nickname

Josh:
and he is one of the world record holders for deadlifting he tried to do a world

Josh:
record deadlift attempt at the

Josh:
didn't work. He got very close. This is a painful video to watch because that

Josh:
is an insane amount of weight, 515 kilograms, and unfortunately could not get it lifted.

Josh:
And there was this one interesting counter argument, which was one of the people

Josh:
that actually won an event, totally natural.

Ejaaz:
I just want to go back to this Christian guy for a second.

Ejaaz:
So he's the only PED enhanced athlete that not only broke the record,

Ejaaz:
but came away with the most money, 1.5 million dollars he performed

Ejaaz:
in four olympics previously he

Ejaaz:
performed for greece and he didn't medal

Ejaaz:
a single time so this guy this guy that like has suddenly broken a world record

Ejaaz:
that has stood the test of time 20.81 seconds um was able to kind of prove the

Ejaaz:
thesis that like if you are able to enhance yourself you can achieve a higher

Ejaaz:
fit i also want to like take a moment to laugh at this for a second, this is like a disco.

Ejaaz:
This is like a club. You just never see this in the Olympics.

Ejaaz:
I just find that hilarious.

Ejaaz:
So other kind of medal winners that we have here, there's Cody Miller. He was a Vegas local.

Ejaaz:
He won the breaststroke event. We've got Fred Curley, two-time Olympic medalist.

Ejaaz:
He won the men's 100 meters race in 9.97 seconds.

Ejaaz:
He won 250K. He won the event, but he didn't break any kind of record.

Ejaaz:
Megan Romano on the female category, women's 100 freestyle. and Tristan Evelyn

Ejaaz:
won the women's 100 meters on track and Marius Cush won the butterfly event.

Ejaaz:
Each took home 250K each. So there was a bunch of very impressive feats,

Ejaaz:
fast and quick times, but not necessarily too many records broken.

Ejaaz:
And in the case of there being event winners, they actually ended up being ones

Ejaaz:
that won on performance enhancing drugs.

Josh:
And before we get into the all natural winner, we should talk about the rules

Josh:
that feels important or perhaps the lack thereof rules. Basically anything different

Josh:
that you could put into your body so long as it is FDA approved is allowed.

Josh:
It must be taken under medical supervision and every single dose and ingredients

Josh:
must be published prior to competing. That's it.

Josh:
Other than that, it's free range. And what we saw is that 62% of athletes actually

Josh:
stacked three or more of these substances on top of each other to chain the

Josh:
effects together, with the most popular one being testosterone.

Josh:
91% of the people who compete on this were on testosterone.

Josh:
We saw it in the clip of the missile and how big he got so quickly.

Josh:
That's where a lot of that comes from. Second to that is human growth hormone.

Josh:
79% of athletes did that.

Josh:
And then the third most popular, which I found interesting, were stimulants.

Josh:
62% of the athletes who competed use stimulants. That includes things like Adderall,

Josh:
which is an amphetamine. It gets you all hyped up.

Josh:
And also modafinil, which is another one on the list. I'm not super familiar

Josh:
with these, but there are a lot of risks that come with these,

Josh:
using these together, with compounding them. And the big question is,

Josh:
is like, are these worth it?

Josh:
And the answers that we received are a little questionable.

Josh:
Now we have these funny examples that I saw of people who really stacked these very hard.

Josh:
One of them, we have a clip from Brian Johnson here that we're gonna show,

Josh:
which talks about how one of the athletes, the missile, he actually took so

Josh:
many substances that he started sinking in the water because he became so dense.

Josh:
And it didn't quite work out for him that well because he came in last place, unfortunately.

Josh:
And it's funny, they were measuring these dosages and they had to start moving

Josh:
over to horse measuring tools because it set off the limit for what humans are actually allowed to do.

Josh:
And it's almost funny seeing how far these athletes will go with seemingly low returns.

Josh:
I mean, even down to the bathing suit, there's this really funny example of

Josh:
a video where one of these swimmers, it takes 27 minutes to actually get the

Josh:
bathing suit on their body fully because they have to include powder all over

Josh:
it and they need three people to help pull it up because they're very tight.

Josh:
It basically turns them into a seal. So...

Josh:
The optimizations for that final like 0.1% of edge are all in play.

Josh:
And it's just, it's really fascinating to see.

Ejaaz:
I'm not surprised to see Brian Johnson here commentating on this,

Ejaaz:
like he spends his entire life, his whole brand is just to kind of like optimize

Ejaaz:
his life for health and fitness.

Ejaaz:
And that's basically the thesis for this entire enhanced games,

Ejaaz:
like this enhanced Olympics.

Ejaaz:
It's like, how far can we push the human body and its limits to go to.

Ejaaz:
Now, it's interesting, I looked up the rulebook for these games, and there isn't one.

Ejaaz:
In fact, when you go into the official site, or any it's official Wikipedia

Ejaaz:
page, at least, it basically says it is the complete opposite to what the anti-doping

Ejaaz:
agency states for any kind of Olympic or actual sporting event.

Ejaaz:
So I found that pretty hilarious. And it brings up the question of like,

Ejaaz:
should humans be using these drugs?

Ejaaz:
Or should they not? Like, what's the moral ethic behind it?

Ejaaz:
Now, the obvious answer for many people or the majority of people will probably

Ejaaz:
be like, you know, you shouldn't be able to take a drug enhancing kind of like medication.

Ejaaz:
You should just kind of like perform in your natural fervor. But...

Ejaaz:
This has been kind of disputed a lot and it's actually changed a lot over time.

Ejaaz:
So if you look at like what the anti-doping agency kind of like positioned where

Ejaaz:
it positioned itself a decade ago versus where it positions itself now,

Ejaaz:
it's now enabled a bunch of different kinds of drugs or compounds to be used.

Ejaaz:
So it's always evolved over time.

Ejaaz:
And I guess the question that the Enhanced Games is trying to answer is,

Ejaaz:
should we have any of these rules in the first place?

Ejaaz:
Like what constitutes a safe substance? What constitutes an unsafe substance?

Ejaaz:
You'll see here like in the rulebook, they say that like, you can't use anything and everything.

Ejaaz:
And the things that are FDA approved, you need to state what substances you've taken,

Ejaaz:
what the doses dosages are so that they have a kind of like experimental lab

Ejaaz:
kind of feel like, I can't help but think that like, the sponsors for the show,

Ejaaz:
the investors for the show are biotech companies that are just doing as not

Ejaaz:
for the sporting history,

Ejaaz:
or the prominence that comes from that it's more to like, kind of like,

Ejaaz:
use them as lab rats to try and figure out, you know, what pads they should

Ejaaz:
be building themselves.

Ejaaz:
And there's a really interesting point that we want to make on the business side of things.

Ejaaz:
But before we do that, there is a narrative break.

Ejaaz:
So you would expect the people that use these different kinds of drugs to perform

Ejaaz:
better than the people that don't.

Ejaaz:
But that ended up not being the case, not just in one event,

Ejaaz:
but in many different cases. But let's just take this one example.

Ejaaz:
Hunter Armstrong shows up. He's a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a former

Ejaaz:
world record holder. And he performs in the 50-meter backstroke,

Ejaaz:
right? This is a very, you know, highly competitive event.

Ejaaz:
And he ends up winning it. He didn't take a single PED, performance enhancing

Ejaaz:
drug, and he beat all the guys, including, I believe, James the Missile Magnuson,

Ejaaz:
who is that beefed up guy that we showed earlier.

Ejaaz:
So it just goes to show that like, one of two things.

Ejaaz:
One, maybe the performance enhancing drugs don't actually enhance you for the

Ejaaz:
particular sport that you're trying to do. Maybe bigger muscle doesn't actually

Ejaaz:
help. It's more technique.

Ejaaz:
But then the other question that comes to my mind is, were the non-enhanced athletes

Ejaaz:
already on the drugs beforehand and maybe like they've just kind of like increased

Ejaaz:
it to a level that's kind of close to what is legal or illegal and they were

Ejaaz:
able to still win anyhow it's a it's an interesting question.

Josh:
There's like these two outstanding questions right one is that one that the

Josh:
actual games posed which is are olympic athletes already doping and they're

Josh:
just hiding it very well their assumption is yes their assumption is that 44

Josh:
of olympic athletes are actually doping as we speak and they're doing this on

Josh:
the regular basis and that's how they're getting exceptional results.

Josh:
Other side of this is that enhanced athletes

Josh:
don't even perform at an olympic level because it

Josh:
would effectively mean based on the results of this event

Josh:
that the physical ceiling of a lot of athletes is baked into more their genetics

Josh:
versus their ability to stack it on using growth enhancers because most of these

Josh:
races that we talked about they didn't even break olympic world records or they

Josh:
didn't even break olympic records let alone world records so a lot of the records weren't broken,

Josh:
even given the sheer amount of perceived advantage they would have from taking these drugs.

Josh:
And I think that's really noteworthy is the idea that possibly like humans,

Josh:
maybe you just need to be born as an elite level athlete and you could train

Josh:
to get to the maximum of your own potential, but taking a certain amount of

Josh:
drugs will not get you somewhere that you are not biologically able to do yet.

Josh:
And I think that's probably the takeaway from the first Olympic games is that

Josh:
you can maybe improve yourself a little bit, but based on the results we're

Josh:
seeing, I mean, people who didn't take any performance enhancing drugs were winning these events.

Josh:
And the only world record that was broken was one. And it was by seven tenths

Josh:
of a second. So it's very small margins here. We're right on the frontier.

Josh:
And there isn't a clear signal that taking all these drugs actually makes a

Josh:
meaningful difference.

Josh:
Now, granted, these are the FDA approved drugs. These are not the experimental

Josh:
peptides that we see a lot of people talking about.

Josh:
This is not that next generation of drugs. So we'll see how these games evolve

Josh:
over the years. But right now, the data is a little questionable.

Ejaaz:
There's this amazing quote from Fred Curley, who's a guy or athlete that competed

Ejaaz:
in the 100-meter sprint, and he refused to take any of these drugs,

Ejaaz:
and he ended up winning the event, despite not taking any of the drugs,

Ejaaz:
with a 9.97-second beat.

Ejaaz:
But he goes, he goes,

Ejaaz:
Everyone needs to train harder and use the drugs better too.

Ejaaz:
So the point he's making is like, essentially like drugs aren't everything to

Ejaaz:
win this kind of like type of an event or sporting competition at least.

Ejaaz:
And a lot goes into kind of like training and prepping yourself.

Ejaaz:
And we kind of see this with the people that like are very open and transparent,

Ejaaz:
but using steroids to kind of like enhance their physique, they do still put in a lot of work.

Ejaaz:
I kind of think of, I don't know if you know this guy, Josh, Chris Bumstead. he's

Ejaaz:
like this guy that's competed in a lot of like male um uh

Ejaaz:
olympics when it comes to like you know muscle mass and like those types of

Ejaaz:
competitions he's been very open about this kind of stuff and he puts in so

Ejaaz:
much work i've spent like so much time watching his youtube videos and stuff

Ejaaz:
and it's the same thing happening uh in these events like just because you take

Ejaaz:
these drugs doesn't mean you're automatically going to win you need to put in

Ejaaz:
the effort and you can get out competed by people who put in more effort than you yeah.

Josh:
They're freaks of nature and it's it's interesting to see. I wonder what would

Josh:
happen if we took those Olympic athletes and we gave them doping access,

Josh:
like the gold medalists of all these events.

Josh:
What would it look like if they were given a little extra edge?

Josh:
Would it make a material difference?

Josh:
I don't know. Maybe one day we'll see as this frontier gets pushed even forward.

Ejaaz:
Also, I want someone to come in that isn't retired for 20 years,

Ejaaz:
which is what a lot of these guys were.

Ejaaz:
I want to see them come out of their prime and use some of these drugs and see whether that works.

Ejaaz:
I guess a lot of that is dependent on like future versions of this competition.

Josh:
Yeah. And then there's this whole second part of this competition too,

Josh:
which is getting down to the kind of reason why this even exists in the first

Josh:
place. We mentioned Peter Thiel is one of the elite investors.

Josh:
This took place in Vegas. This also, one thing that's noteworthy that we haven't

Josh:
mentioned yet is the fact that it took place in Vegas outside in the end of May.

Josh:
It was hot, so hot that they had to cover the barbells because they were getting too hot to even hold.

Josh:
A lot of athletes, they train and very controlled indoor environments.

Josh:
So having to compete outdoor in the very, very high heat, fully exposed to the sun

Josh:
is a disadvantage. But the business that put this on is, I think,

Josh:
part of the story that a lot of people are glazing over.

Josh:
Because this very much is a business. This is not just a for-fun philanthropic

Josh:
venture. This is a company with a goal.

Josh:
And that is clearly based on their website to sell you supplements or to actually

Josh:
trade at a higher valuation because it's public.

Josh:
But Ejaz, you were scrolling through the website earlier to just get a little bit more information.

Josh:
And it's funny, the first thing that you see when you visit the website is a

Josh:
button that says get enhanced and they're selling a series of performance enhancing

Josh:
drugs that you can go and buy based on this brand.

Josh:
So it's interesting to note the economic incentives as well for holding an event like this.

Ejaaz:
Yeah, you would think that when you go to a sporting athletic associations website

Ejaaz:
that they would probably talk something about the competition and like explain

Ejaaz:
kind of like the philosophy, the thesis, the vision behind this entire thing.

Ejaaz:
It's one of the greatest competitive traits of history. And over here,

Ejaaz:
they're just trying to sell your product.

Ejaaz:
I don't even know what these products do, by the way, but they're trying to

Ejaaz:
sell you the products that these athletes are taking you as a regular individual

Ejaaz:
that may not be competing at the highest level or have any interest in competing

Ejaaz:
at the highest level, you're immediately hit with a get enhanced button.

Ejaaz:
And you can view this menu of these random compounds, which most of these compounds,

Ejaaz:
I don't know how to pronounce, I don't know what they will do.

Ejaaz:
And you can buy it in the same way that I buy my protein powder,

Ejaaz:
and I have it on subscription, and you can take it.

Ejaaz:
I don't know what effects these will have. But the point is,

Ejaaz:
this seems like a biotech company advertising their product disguised as a sporting event.

Ejaaz:
And that kind of takes away from the authenticity and the excitement that comes

Ejaaz:
from this and reinforces the point that I made earlier, which is this seems

Ejaaz:
like a worldwide kind of lab experiment

Ejaaz:
to try and see whether their drugs actually do do well and if not,

Ejaaz:
what went wrong and how they can improve it. Maybe they do genetic testing and

Ejaaz:
all those kinds of things.

Ejaaz:
And so another thing I discovered is if you go to the investor tab of this website,

Ejaaz:
you'll notice a stock ticker.

Ejaaz:
On the left over here. And so I was like, what is this? What is this stock?

Ejaaz:
Why is this company public?

Ejaaz:
And it turns out it is the enhanced games is basically part of a SPAC.

Ejaaz:
So they were like acquired under the ticker, E N H A.

Ejaaz:
And they basically started effectively trading about a couple of months ago.

Ejaaz:
And in the last month, it has taken an absolute beating.

Ejaaz:
The complete value of this entire corporation is down almost 50%.

Ejaaz:
So it signals a few things.

Ejaaz:
One, that the general public's confidence in this type of competition isn't

Ejaaz:
too high, isn't too favorable, which I guess makes sense.

Ejaaz:
The majority of people are used to the Olympics. They care about ethics and

Ejaaz:
they care about the fact that like these humans are performing in their natural form.

Ejaaz:
People aren't really open to PEDs or they're not really, they have a bad taste

Ejaaz:
in their mouth about like what these things actually do. They see it as a bad thing.

Ejaaz:
But just interesting to see the financial incentives that are put in by these

Ejaaz:
full billionaires, Balaji, Peter Thiel, and a number of others that are trying

Ejaaz:
to kind of boost this mainly as a sales narrative versus a sporting achievement.

Josh:
Yeah, and I wish the stock was actually the other direction because I think

Josh:
it's very admirable trying new things, shifting the Overton window in ways that

Josh:
a lot of people don't expect, making it acceptable to test and experiment on yourself.

Josh:
And this is very much, I mean, we talk a lot about AI on the show.

Josh:
This is very much a world that gets empowered and accelerated by AI.

Josh:
I think when we think about a lot of the largest investments that are coming,

Josh:
right now, even from within OpenAI and Anthropic and other large companies like

Josh:
Eli Lilly and Andreessen Horowitz,

Josh:
they're all spending a lot of time figuring out the best ways to contribute

Josh:
to the world of biotech, to understanding genome sequencing,

Josh:
to investing in biotech accelerators, anything that can really move the needle forward.

Josh:
In fact, Eli Lilly and Andreessen Horowitz launched a half a billion dollar

Josh:
fund just for AI biotech to help accelerate the rate at which we discover these

Josh:
new breakthroughs. And one of the things that we're gonna be seeing

Josh:
as we progress through this, is the increased cadence of trials that not only

Josh:
go to trial, but then pass trial, because we're able to do so much of the testing

Josh:
through these large language models versus having to wait for human trials that take many, many years.

Josh:
So the rate of acceleration that we're going to see these types of improvements,

Josh:
maybe now just for sport, because it's fun to watch, but then also for just

Josh:
general well-being of humans, it's probably going to accelerate fairly quickly.

Josh:
And all of these initiatives are all pushing the same direction.

Ejaaz:
And I think you're right. And I don't think it's just going to surface in the form of athletics.

Ejaaz:
It's going to surface in the form of self-care and even like prevention of diseases

Ejaaz:
forming or even just treating diseases directly.

Ejaaz:
I think immediately of isomorphic labs, which is basically Google's AI-powered

Ejaaz:
drug lab, which just spun out and raised, I think, $2.1 billion from Thrive.

Ejaaz:
Their whole thing is they attach

Ejaaz:
Google's like leading protein sequencing model to a drug design module.

Ejaaz:
And it basically spits out, it evaluates your genome, it sequences it,

Ejaaz:
and then it spits out a perfected cure design of a drug that could prevent major

Ejaaz:
diseases from occurring.

Ejaaz:
Now, the one major kind of like feat that it's achieved so far is the drugs

Ejaaz:
that it's designed, that has been tested and built in a lab,

Ejaaz:
have already passed a number of the different obstacles, way more than an average

Ejaaz:
drug does, for testing to go to human trials.

Ejaaz:
So the technology is already proving itself.

Ejaaz:
Just a bunch of these drugs haven't hit the public market yet because they're

Ejaaz:
going through human trials right now.

Ejaaz:
So I expect there to be a shift in the future where people go from like not

Ejaaz:
having certainty around how to treat a particular disease or problem or cure

Ejaaz:
to having full confidence in doing that. And in fact, leaning into it.

Ejaaz:
If you could have a personalized drug for yourself versus for me,

Ejaaz:
for some particular ailment that we're feeling, that is something that will

Ejaaz:
not just permeate the drug and disease side of things, but also performance

Ejaaz:
enhancing as well. It's easy to kind of like make that jump in your head to go from,

Ejaaz:
well, if I can prevent this disease, how can I make myself better?

Ejaaz:
I'm like, I don't have a disease right now, but can I improve my hair growth

Ejaaz:
or whatever that might be?

Ejaaz:
And so you can see something like the Enhanced Games becoming a lot popular

Ejaaz:
down the line, thanks to AI.

Josh:
Yeah, and fun stats in terms of AI acceleration. We're about halfway through

Josh:
the year of 2026, and so far, 173 AI drug discovered programs are in clinical trials right now.

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94 are in phase one, 56 are in phase two, 15 are in phase three,

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all enabled by AI. This is a huge rate of acceleration.

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In fact, Anthropic, they acquired Coefficient Bio, if you remember a little

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while ago, for $400 million of stock.

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So Frontier Labs are trying to solve this problem, which is mostly now a large

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numbers problem because I think the estimate is 10 to the 60th power possible

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chemical compounds exist, which is more than the stars in the observable universe.

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And now it's these companies' jobs to seek out that problem space,

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figure out where the best solutions lie, and actually bring those into a form

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factor that humans can ingest to make their lives better.

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And if these enhanced games can accelerate the rate that that happens or the

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attention that gets placed on it, I think that's a huge win for everyone,

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even if the records were not really broken this one.

Ejaaz:
I think it's a good start. I actually do want to see more of this happen.

Ejaaz:
I have a bio background, so I kind of like dug into the weeds of a lot of this

Ejaaz:
genetic stuff in the past and I'm like massively pro, like trying to figure

Ejaaz:
out new ways and new cures or novel ways to kind of enhance the human body.

Ejaaz:
When it comes to sporting i i expect this trend to

Ejaaz:
flip um i was kind of surprised that the drug enhancements didn't work

Ejaaz:
but it may also make sense like they have never had like

Ejaaz:
a wide test bucket to kind of see how humans actually perform at the highest

Ejaaz:
level and it was just a great spectacle to watch over the weekend um it definitely

Ejaaz:
kept me super entertained i sent a bunch of these to my friends who were like

Ejaaz:
that you know these kind of records being broken are crazy um and it was just

Ejaaz:
a fun discussion overall for for i think like uh

Ejaaz:
people who are kind of obsessed with sports or athletics or like even kind of

Ejaaz:
interested and wanted to see, you know, how far can we actually push this?

Ejaaz:
It's been great entertainment all round. And I'm looking forward to the next

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one. I'm excited to see like what some of these products actually do for regular people as well.

Ejaaz:
If you are someone that is listening to this and you go onto their website and

Ejaaz:
you're seeing some of these comments and you're interested in it,

Ejaaz:
like, let us know what your thought process is behind it.

Ejaaz:
Because I look at this and I'm kind of like scared, but maybe you guys know

Ejaaz:
something better than me.

Ejaaz:
I know peptides and amino acids are becoming like a big thing now.

Ejaaz:
So maybe I'm just a boomer and missing something.

Ejaaz:
But that is it for today's episode.

Ejaaz:
We have a bunch more coming up this week. Josh, any final words?

Josh:
No, that's it. I mean, it was a fun weekend. If you haven't seen some of these

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clips, I would recommend going back, checking them out, watching them.

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If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to share it with your friends.

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Your support really helps. We have been having record weeks the last two weeks in terms of you.

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So thank you so much for the support. As always, we really appreciate it.

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And we will be back again tomorrow for another episode.

Ejaaz:
See you guys.