Tech mogul Bryan Johnson, 45, spends $2Myr to achieve 18-year-old body

https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/bryan-johnson-45-spends-2m-to-get-18-year-old-body/

by gscott • 3 years ago

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nwah13• 3 years ago

If you look at his regimen, which he documented extensively, it is actually very thorough and well-researched. There is very little to criticize in there, given his goals.

It is a refreshing contrast to all the many people in this field who are pushing a quack diet to sell books, or who have rejected the scientific method and decided that "natural" means good.

This is the opposite of that. He has all the money he needs and just wants to actually figure out how to make himself as healthy as possible, using the best science.

https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/

roundandround• 3 years ago

Certainly not the most ridiculous regiment, but far too many supplements and a team of 30 doctors, seems like the goal is a medical accident.

If he deducts all the time that goes into this how many years has he gained (or lost?)

nwah13• 3 years ago

Most of the medical stuff looks like testing. The only pharmaceutical I see is metformin.

Which part of this is extreme or likely to lead to problems?

I realize that even testing is not harmless, but the main problem would be inaccurate test results requiring more tests. And since he is a millionaire who is obsessed with this stuff, I don't think he is too troubled by the time and money spent on testing.

basch• 3 years ago

https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/Step-1-Step-2-Step-3

Disregarding the supplement regiment, lunch and dinner appear pretty sensible. Broccoli, Lentils, and Mushrooms for lunch every day sounds a little repetitive. Lunch could just as easily be a different soup or stew every day, with a lot more variety. Instead he appears to be blending it into a gazpacho.

iancmceachern3• 3 years ago

I think the thing to critique is the goal. The stated goal isn't to be as healthy and happy as possible, it's to look 18. That's a fools errand.

UniverseHacker4• 3 years ago

The -3F body temperature drop is a huge red flag to me. This is a pretty common thing you see from excessive exercise with too low a calorie intake, it suppresses liver T3 production and you get effectively a bit hypothyroid.

melling3• 3 years ago

$2 million year is a bargain for a body that’s 10 years younger.

Over a lifetime that’s way less than the price of a billionaire’s yacht.

https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/jeff-bezos-megayacht-mo...

Sign up every billionaire and let’s get more investment. The cost will drop 1000 fold over the next couple of decades, and maybe we’ll all get an extra couple decades of healthy living.

iancmceachern3• 3 years ago

But it doesn't make a body that's 10 years younger. That's impossible. It just makes a healthier 45 year old body. Time is a one way street. It's measured in time, not relative healthiness of lifestyle.

sshine• 3 years ago

Applying the Pareto principle, most of the cost is marginal improvement. If someone on median income spent thousands, it’d be more relatable.

thenerdhead• 3 years ago

I remember reading his list of supplements he takes each day. The list was easily 40+ supplements.

It is quite inspiring to see someone who trades in back to back meetings with back to back appointments.

At least he gives away this for free and doesn't have to make a best seller out of it.

therockspush• 3 years ago

My name is Patrick Bateman. I'm 27 years old.

I believe in taking care of myself, in a balanced diet, in a rigorous exercise routine.

In the morning, if my face is a little puffy, I'll put on an icepack while doing my stomach crunches.

I can do a thousand now.

After I remove the icepack, I use a deep-pore cleanser lotion. In the shower, I use a water-activated gel cleanser. Then a honey-almond bodyscrub. And on the face, an exfoliating gel-scrub. Then I apply an herb mint facial masque, which I leave on for ten minutes while I prepare the rest of my routine. I always use an aftershave lotion with little or no alcohol, because alcohol dries your face out and makes you look older. Then moisturizer, then an anti-aging eye balm, followed by a final moisturizing protective lotion.

paulryanrogers2• 3 years ago

Anyone else get "American Psycho" (2000) vibes?

legostormtroopr• 3 years ago

Yes, the direct quote from American Psycho gave me very strong American Psycho vibes.

spookybones2• 3 years ago

Ironically, I mentioned Jared Leto’s youthful appearance at age 50 and then realized he was in American Psycho. I guess he took Bateman’s regimen to heart.

danrocks2• 3 years ago

Now let's see Paul Allen's regimen

alexitosrv• 3 years ago

Yeah, he was Paul Allen!

alephnerd• 3 years ago

Minus the supplements, a lot of the macros look like a normal clean diet with consistent exercise. Looks like all those PBS Kids specials I watched as a kid were right - follow the food pyramid and exercise.

Definetly taking a page out of this though - this seems like a fun challenge

paulryanrogers2• 3 years ago

Food pyramid? Stacked with grains at the bottom? Paid for by grain growers?

hulitu2• 3 years ago

Food pyramid? Stacked with grains at the bottom? Paid for by grain growers?

No. Sugar at the bottom. Paid by the industry.

twosdai• 3 years ago

I think his point isn't so verbatim. Watch what you eat, consume more vegetables than fats, and exercise.

vananas• 3 years ago

He's still going to die within the usual human lifespan limits, just like the rest of us.

Still, nice to see he's taken on a hobby for his retirement, I guess.

melling3• 3 years ago

There’s quite a large variation in human life span and health.

Some people can run marathons at 100.

https://people.com/sports/100-year-old-runner-holds-world-re...

https://asiana.tv/top-stories/the-worlds-oldest-marathon-run...

Charlie Munger turns 100 next year but he doesn’t get around as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger

Of course, 100 is about 25 years above the average age a US male is expected to live.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263731/life-expectancy-o...

unnah• 3 years ago

Doctor Roy Walford pioneered calorie restriction diets for life extension and maintained a strict exercise regimen... and then he got ALS and died at 79.

grugagag• 3 years ago

Isn’t that largely genetic anyway? If one doesn’t have longevity in their genes no amount of self care would change the odds too much. But still, self care is warranted

MarkMc• 3 years ago

He's still going to die within the usual human lifespan limits, just like the rest of us.

I'm not so sure.

For millennia people tried and failed to fly through the air like birds. In the late nineteenth century so many people had tried and failed, it seemed like a law of nature that humans were destined to remain earth-bound. Then suddenly, miraculously, we figured it out.

I think it will be the same with the 'usual human lifespan limit' of 120 years. At some point we will figure it out, and a group of humans will have a longevity distribution whose right tail extends to 150 years. Bryan Johnson may already be in that group.

spookybones2• 3 years ago

He looks like a 45 year old who takes good care of himself. I wouldn’t mistake him for a younger person. Maybe it’s the hairline. I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50. I’m guessing it’s a decade or more of baby botox, but his face doesn’t look frozen or oddly puffy. I don’t see any neck wrinkles or hint of jowls. Of course, this doesn’t attest to the age of his organs, etc.

bruceb• 3 years ago

Jared Leto: Some of it natural, some work done, some makeup, some good lighting, some video "Photoshop".

Video lies just as still pictures have for many years.

Gordonjcp5• 3 years ago

It's hilarious that there's actually a slider in the Colour page in DaVinci Resolve, "Midtone Detail". Push it left, wrinkles get fainter, push it right, wrinkles get deeper.

trynewideas3• 3 years ago

I’m more curious what Jared Leto (acting and music skills aside) does besides his veganism. He’s 50.

Paul Rudd's 53, not a vegetarian, and his diet even for filming Marvel movies isn't particularly special: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-paul-rudd-got...

The trick is probably:

- be attractive

- be wealthy

- have enough of an incentive and motivation to prioritize basic fitness and skincare over doing literally anything else with your time

tom_• 3 years ago

Step 4, roids

VincentEvans• 3 years ago

Any news of anything that offers similar benefits that i can just sprinkle into my ice-cream shake?

hulitu2• 3 years ago

Soylent ? (from soylentnews)

Gordonjcp5• 3 years ago

Anyone else get the feeling that when this all unwinds, it'll unwind hell of a rapidly?

danrocks2• 3 years ago

He’s going to go from looking 18 to looking 78 real quick.

Gordonjcp5• 3 years ago

"He chose... poorly."

nostromo• 3 years ago

The problem of course is that he does not look 18. He looks like a healthy 45 year old.

Of all the pictures in the article, he looks healthiest and youngest before starting his health regimen, most likely because his BMI is so low which can give faces a hollowed-out look.

oulu2006• 3 years ago

Yes, I was going to say the same thing, his skin definitely is not that of a 20 year old (whatever) he looks pretty much like a late 40's year old.

I've seen many people who actually look decades younger without all that stuff he's doing - epi-genetics still rules supreme.

morpheos137• 3 years ago

I look about a decade younger than I am and do nothing. I even drink and have smoked in the past. That said multiple grandparents and great grandparents have lived to late 90s or early 100s.

I guess blame the Nephillim DNA in the distant past. I probably got some Merovingian in me.

christkv• 3 years ago

Does he have a blood boy?

xrd• 3 years ago

I'm so happy to be the first one to note that this article says he has a monitor that counts his erections each night.

This is a good reminder to read the article before commenting.

olddustytrail• 3 years ago

Top tip: those are cheaper in Thailand

freitzkriesler4• 3 years ago

Body of an 18 year old. Face of a 45 year old. To those wondering, you can achieve the same physique with TRT, peptides (hgh), and a gym membership for a few thousand a year.

And you can still enjoy fried food and meat.

kristofferR2• 3 years ago

Yeah, he is on gear. His TRT is right in the Other tab of the Supplements section.

freitzkriesler4• 3 years ago

And here's the thing with TRT, you have to jab yourself several times a week and get blood work done to make sure your hormones are in check. Managing sharps, sterility if injection sites, and all the BS with it.

It's like being a diabetic. I really want to get into trt but having to jab myself so much is what keeps me from doing it.

TechnicolorByte• 3 years ago

What do TRT and peptides do that regular exercise and a balanced diet don’t? Some quick googling makes seem like it’s for better muscle growth but not understanding the benefit in relation to having a “younger” body.

freitzkriesler4• 3 years ago

Trt gives you the hormonal profile of a teenager. Something exercise and diet will never achieve. A body like that at his age is nearly impossible without chemical assistance. Unpopular fact: most fitness people are on a combination of drugs for ascetics.

metta2uall• 3 years ago

TRT by the way comes with likely risks such as heart disease & turbocharging any existing prostate cancer

freitzkriesler4• 3 years ago

Blood panels will expose wonky cholesterol levels and a prostate exam will show early signs of cancer.

A TRT service will require blood panels before, during (quarterly as we), and after (if stopped). Something men in their 40s should be getting anyway.

smallmouth• 3 years ago

Impressive, but what is his ultimate goal? To live longer? I don't know if this will help him, but to each his own. I don't have his kind of cash, but if I can keep doing 10 pull-ups, benching my weight 10 times and play a couple games of men's league hockey a week, then I think I'll be good!

kbcool• 3 years ago

The wig costs $2m a year? I need to get into this business.

The vegan diet probably saves a few bucks but I doubt he's any fitter than any other guy who spends that many hours a day on exercise.

kristofferR2• 3 years ago

He just released a long video about his protocol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXdEPiFlqH8

tablespoon2• 3 years ago

That doctor must feel lucky he found such a cash cow.

I wonder if he uses a "youth" filter on his webcam to make himself look like he's succeeding.

UniverseHacker4• 3 years ago

This is orthorexia, a mental illness. When health becomes an obsession like this, it ironically leads people to try tons of high risk experimental methods, which eventually come back to bite you. I'm a researcher in a related field, and have a lot of friends into this stuff- several of whom have died from it.

You can get all of the real results he's gotten by eating healthy and exercising regularly, for the cost of a gym membership. Your average 45 year old crossfitter is in better shape than this guy, and there are more effective programs than crossfit.

The rest of it have substantial risk and likely no reward.

nwah13• 3 years ago

How have they died, specifically? The specifics matter.

This protocol doesn't involve risky surgeries, for instance.

I agree that venturing into exotic pharmaceuticals or experimental drugs would be unwise, for instance.

But if he were truly rational about an ascetic commitment to health, then he would factor in such risks and avoid experimental therapies.

UniverseHacker4• 3 years ago

One died of a sudden heart attack, a few seemingly from cocktails of black/grey market health supplements (not steroids). Another close friend his family hid the cause of death so I suspect suicide, despite the fact that he was obsessed with longevity. Another nearly died but didn't from aplastic anemia, unknown cause... was very young and fit. I can't prove cause and effect with any of these, but they were all young fit people constantly experimenting on their own bodies with poorly understood longevity and health 'hacks.'

arubania2• 3 years ago

there are more effective programs than crossfit

Could you give some examples please?

UniverseHacker4• 3 years ago

Crossfit is really excellent for all around 'functional fitness' but in my opinion has too much injury risk, and doesn't focus enough on building strength and muscle, which are functionally useful, and are also key for looking fit.

I would recommend most people start with an introductory strength training program that does heavy compound lifts like Starting Strength, and having a professional coach spend a few hours at the start to make sure you're doing it safely. Heavy compound lifts have a lot of specific hormonal advantages, and can be used in addition to bodybuilding type (high rep/low weight) lifts.

This, coupled with a pretty standard high protein 'recomposition' diet will transform most peoples physique pretty rapidly. Look up the article "To Be A Beast" by Jordan Feigenbaum. Other more advanced 'powerbuilding' diet programs like LOOK STRONG NAKED, The Deep Water diet, the Vince Gironda diet, LeanGains, etc. require more effort but can get you both very lean and very strong.

ninethirty• 3 years ago

orangetheory is just as good as crossfit

iancmceachern3• 3 years ago

Exactly, I think the thing to critique is the goal. The stated goal isn't to be as healthy and happy as possible, it's to look 18. That's a fools errand.

elzbardico• 3 years ago

He looks 50, really.

KingMachiavelli• 3 years ago

The most important measurement will be how these effects persist over time. Will the ageing actually slow or will it stay a constant number of years? It may take 5-10 years to see if the biomarkers suddenly catch up to his chronological age.

That said it's very impressive and very useful to have so much documentation of his regime.

glonq• 3 years ago

Definitely some diminishing returns here. I'm pretty sure he could have acheived 90% of these results for a tiny fraction of the $2M cost. That last 10% just makes him look uncanny and freakish.

tablespoon2• 3 years ago

While sleeping, Johnson is hooked up to a machine that counts the number of nighttime erections.

WTF, why? Quantify first, ask questions later?

sinuhe692• 3 years ago

I guess because your night erections say much about how young you are? (average over time, of course)

adam_arthur2• 3 years ago

Doesn't look like it worked.

But more seriously, a very interesting idea. Hopefully they can gather some useful data about techniques that work/don't work and possibly generalize the advice for others.

A lot of best practices around fitness/health evolves gradually over time through trial and error. Not a lot of actually well formed and repeatable studies

sinuhe692• 3 years ago

The 2 millions a year part seems to sour the mood for many people. But it reminds me that all the results are controlled and verified by a lot of independent doctors using strict protocols. I have no reason to doubt his claim. Even better, he open sourced his regiment for everyone to see.

Tech mogul Bryan Johnson, 45, spends $2Myr to achieve 18-year-old body

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