#168

Hello,
I watched the Bryan Johnson movie. It focused a lot on Bryan and his story. I would have liked to hear more health tips. He spent time discussing the bonding experience with his father and son and sharing plasma. On a higher level, I really think it’s fantastic that Bryan is getting so many people to think about health and longevity. I kind of wish he wasn’t selling supplements and was instead just sharing data and information. He could have become a trustworthy source of consumer information. Nonetheless, it’s great that more people are thinking about longevity.

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#169

yes, agree. After wondering for years if the stuff I buy off of Amazon is the real deal or worse full of heavy metals, it is refreshing to not worry about the quality. He recently stated that he brought all his own products to India to eat because he trusts them more than any other food for safety.

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#170

Would love to hear a debate between these two. Somebody make this happen

#171

https://www.twitter.com/bryan_johnson/status/1879272499877417357

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Sadly quite a few of the units seem to be wrong (HbA1c, CRP), but I thought it would add to any discussions.

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#172

Since he stops sirolimus his lipid profile and FBG are way better.
Even ASAT ALAT are down a few points.
Pretty sure his dosage was too high for his lifestyle (already crushing mTor

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#173

Some people will do anything for a little publicity… :upside_down_face:

Don’t Die Tech Mogul Bryan Johnson Is in an Actual Penis-Measuring Contest—With His Teenage Son. “Bryan Johnson shared a pair of charts on X Wednesday comparing the duration and ‘quality’ of his nighttime erections compared to his son’s.”

I guess Johnson really is redefining “longevity”…

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And, for the humor thread of our website:

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#174

Should’ve added “no homo” to that.

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#175

Definitely. Bryan has done an excellent job making sure everyone has an opinion about him that they need to share. I’m quite sure that’s the intension and I’ll give him credit for it.

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#176

Oops, looks like Bryan is discordant between LDL-C and apoB.

In biomarker spreadsheet:

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I don’t think it’s possible to get low enough level (30 mg/dl?) without pharmaceuticals.

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#177

It’s not entirely clear to me why he doesn’t list all of his biomarkers. Feels like cherry picking the best ones. And many are fitness related, which is great, but arguably fairly easy for anyone to optimize (it’s just a time commitment) vs other markers that often require small molecule interventions. Put another way, many/most of the markers are not related at all to his supplement line or medication interventions.

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#178

Bryan Johnson and the Birth of the Blueprint Religion

Sometimes a story goes hard

During my fact-checking process for an upcoming magazine feature on him, Bryan Johnson had some concerns. They centered on his nighttime erections.

I’d spent years following and reporting on Johnson’s exploits in the brain computer interface and health fields. On this occasion in January 2023, though, my focus had zeroed in on Johnson’s Blueprint program. This consisted of him pursuing an ultra-healthy lifestyle and measuring his body and its biomarkers on an unprecedented level. As far as I could tell, Johnson was spending more on his body and health than any other human and was doing something quite original among health gurus by putting actual metrics behind his program and progress.

Through my reporting, Johnson and I had gotten to know each other well. He’d been very open about his past attempts to deal with depression and suicidal thoughts through a variety of measures. These included but were not limited to ketamine sessions, shaman-guided drug journeys in Mexico and snorting stem cells. When it came to Blueprint, though, Johnson had some reservations about what he wanted to share. How much the program cost him each year, for example, and some of the particulars around what he did to his body.

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#179

Bryan walks out of a podcast citing poor air quality. He claimed the air was giving him a rash.

According to the article, it seems the air in India is equivalent to second hand smoke from 3-4 cigarettes. Just imagine if you had to live in that?

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#180

That’s pretty strange. Why is his body so reactive to presumably rather minor air quality changes? Would the healthiest man alive really have a rash from temporarily entering an environment with worse air quality?

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#181

It must have been pretty bad. I say that because he was a great sport and stayed for the Bill Maher interview while Bill was smoking pot. I was impressed with how graciously he handled Bill’s rudeness. (It was obvious he would have preferred not to inhale his smoke)

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#182

Does it mean that his protocol is good only for living in an artificial environment he created for himself? What about surviving in the real world with its pesticides, air pollution, not filtered water and without 100 pills a day? How long would he last? Just curious.

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#183

I would absolutely take zinc and charcoal pills with me if I ever went to India.

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#184

Good idea, but most likely not enough. A wide spectrum antibiotic is what I would be packing.

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#185

When my daughter was in Delhi… she said she would blow her nose at night and all this black krud came out… she said outside of that city it wasn’t too bad. She was there one month… said the vegetarian meals were amazing.

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#186

I think I found the missing puzzle piece in why Bryan’s message isn’t registering.

The problem he has is making people uncomfortable with agency and freedom. He suggest giving up power to the algorithm, and having it run his life, and him letting his organs speak and such.

The problem is, the DON’T DIE message, is for people with agency, it is a message to be delivered to agents with a suggested objective function. It’s contradictory to send it to those without agency as they couldn’t do anything about it in the first place. Since it goes to those with agency it takes care of the healthspan part, if your goal is to NOT DIE, then you must enjoy your life as well.

What people don’t want is a low quality of life, we want healthspan more than anything. So agency and freedom is important, and required for the message to make sense, and will make it even more potent. Am I right?

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#187

There are many who believe he is either having a mid-life crisis or trying to start a new business or both. No one is giving Bezos shit for Altos Lab because that seems like legitimate research.

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