• Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive, said he prefers working out to playing video games.
• He is a longevity buff, deep into fitness and anti-aging habits.
• In a candid conversation with Business Insider, he said skip the peptides, and try these 7 things instead.

Media mogul Strauss Zelnick spends his days hyper-focused on making the most creative, innovative, best video games in the world.

As the CEO and Chairman of video game-maker Take-Two Interactive, he's readying to release Grand Theft Auto 6 next month.

At home though, he doesn't play games. He prefers to spend his time working out and staying healthy for a long time.

At Business Insider's "The Long Play" event on Thursday, Zelnick said his formula for healthy aging is both simple and effective.

While he calls biohacker Bryan Johnson, the man behind the "Don't Die" movement, a friend, he said trying to live forever is a pretty silly strategy.

"There's almost no evidence that anything anyone is doing will increase your lifespan," he told Business Insider's Senior Leadership & Workplace Correspondent, Sarah Needleman. "How many of us really want to increase our lifespan from like 96 to 101? Look, that is not on my bucket list, thank you very much."

Instead, Zelnick, who wrote a book on "Becoming Ageless" in 2018, focuses on the same core behaviors for "taking care of yourself" that longevity experts around the world swear by for maintaining health and happiness for the long haul.

1: Do not smoke

"Smoking is the factor most highly correlated with a short, unhealthy, and frankly, unhappy life," Zelnick said. "Don't smoke."

2: Don't abuse alcohol and drugs

These lead to "a bad old age, or no old age," he said.

3: Get some exercise

Zelnick said: "You don't have to do what I do," with 6 a.m. wakeup calls for group training sessions, or twice-a-day workouts.

"I do what I do because I love it, it's my passion," he said. "If you walk 30 minutes a day, four or five days a week — just walk — you're like 80% of the way there."

4: Eat a "responsible" diet

Zelnick says he doesn't have an "insanely healthy diet," but he tries to maintain some balance. "I eat a lot of vegetables and salads and protein — I also like sweets, and I do eat carbs."

5: Sleep at least 7 hours a day

Zelnick says he treats this as a non-negotiable for his business.

"If you're getting less than six hours, you're making bad decisions," he said.

6: Have "some kind of emotional or spiritual life"

Longevity experts stress this is key for mental health, and establishing a sense of purpose in the world.

7: Find community

Zelnick said it's critical to get support from "people who love you."

8: Skip overhyped health hacks

Zelnick says don't waste your time with all the overhyped, unproven health hacks.

"All the other stuff, like, peptides? A: No," he said. "We have an FDA for a reason. Don't take something that is not double-blind tested."

And, he said, be careful with some of the internet's most famous longevity gurus. He name-checked controversial Harvard professor David Sinclair, who has made bold promises about the anti-aging effects of unproven supplements, including resveratrol, a plant polyphenol found in grapes and red wine, and NMN, which is a precursor to NAD, the vital coenzyme that's in every cell of our body.

"A medical doctor actually is a degree: M-D, an MD degree," Zelnick said. "Not a David Sinclair degree, he is not actually a doctor."

• Telehealth company Ro is launching an AI agent trained on customer data.
• The agent can recommend prescription changes, schedule deliveries, or write memos to a doctor.
• Eventually, Ro hopes to make it a "quarterback" for care. Will it improve outcomes?

Wouldn't it be great if we all had a little, digital minion handling all the small back-and forth chores of our medical care?

On Thursday, Ro is officially announcing the launch of its new AI health agent, designed to do more than a health inquiry on ChatGPT. It's the latest in a long lineup of healthcare agents — from insurers, telehealth providers, electronic health record systems, and regular chatbots — promising to cut down patient wait times, increase access to care, and improve personalized health recommendations with AI.

Ro CEO and co-founder Zach Reitano gave Business Insider an exclusive preview of Ro's new agent, called Robin, showing us how the tool could be used to perform routine tasks like managing side effects, meal planning, or making medication changes.

A founder's mission: disrupt healthcare delivery with AI agents

Reitano said this isn't just about making life more convenient for Ro's current subscribers, though that is the starting point. His long-term goal is to identify pain points where Ro customers need to seek out specialists for common conditions or prescriptions, then start offering more and more of that care in-house, becoming your go-to "quarterback" for the entire American healthcare system.

"I think it's very unlikely to me that one provider or one system handles 100% of someone's care, but I do think it is quite likely that there is one place in someone's life that serves as that quarterback and helps them navigate the rest of the healthcare system," he said. "We hope to be able to just continue to increase those concentric circles, where instead of saying you might be better suited outside of the Ro ecosystem, we would want you to be better suited in it."

When I asked him if his "ultimate goal" is to become a full-service virtual clinic, he said yeah, that's the hope.

For now, Ro's AI agent uses information that's already stored in the app, including notes from doctors, patient feedback, prescriptions, and Apple Health data to try to personalize recommendations for medication changes, dosing tweaks, or habits that might improve side effects.

It's meant to be more instinctively knowledgeable about your health than ChatGPT — requiring less prompting or uploading health data, since it already has information about patients on file. It can suggest a change in medication, and then go ahead and write a first draft of a note to your doctor, if you want it to.

"The underlying premise is: If I have your underlying health information, I can provide more informed and better things, better recommendations," telehealth researcher Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, chair of the health policy department at Brown University, said.

Only issue is, we don't yet know if that's true.

"People are giving up a lot of data for this, and so you really have to say that it truly is going to give you something," Mehrota added. "It sounds cool in theory, I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I would love some evidence before millions of Americans start doing this."

Personally, Mehrotra says he'd be much more likely to try out one of the AI agents embedded into an official electronic health record system, which has access to everything he's told his regular doctors and specialists within a specific hospital system and which — critically — has to abide by strict privacy rules. (Business Insider did not see Ro's privacy policy for Robin.)

"My health system doesn't have the weird financial incentives that we're worried about with Ro," he said. "More data, less financial incentives, I might use that."

Reitano says ultimately, it's not in his company's interests to go after short-term profits at the expense of a good patient experience.

"We fight for patients, and we serve you, and if we don't, then we go out of business," he said.