My thoughts on his protocol:
Vegan diet: A++. What is the point of extending your lifespan if your life choices are trashing the planet and causing untold torture? Frankly, I’m surprised that more people are not deciding to base their diets around plants. If he can make this more acceptable to the masses, more power to him!
Choices within the diet: I’m not impressed. I don’t think the same legume every day with huge quantities of crucifers is ideal. I aim for a variety and I think he’s really missing the mark here by fixating on a few isolated crops. I also don’t believe that massive quantities of extra virgin high phenolic olive oil is the answer. I went to Greece as a child in 1972 where all the post-menopausal women in the Peloponnese had massive quantities of extra virgin high phenolic olive oil and lots of vegetables daily, mostly plants, nothing processed or refined, and they got fat, they got old, they died right on schedule. They had a lower risk of CHD, but that’s not saying much.
Supplement Protocol: Way over the top. I’d be worried about heavy metals and other contamination. Also, I suspect the estradiol is doing a number on his brain, if his attire and fingernails are any indication.
Testing Protocol: Way over the top, way too frequent, he is probably doing this for publicity reasons.
Skin Regimen: Good for him that he uses sunscreen (albeit a junky one but better than nothing) and tretinoin. I think his BBL routine is far too frequent and probably will make his skin worse in the long run. He doesn’t give himself enough time to recover. At age 45 he probably needs more than a month to recover from each session.
Exercise: A++ can’t find fault with it.
Overall, I think he is not doing this for the betterment of mankind. He wants to sell something. Also, I suspect that he’s going to be pretty embarrassed in 15-20 years as he obviously ages no better than other reasonably healthy people who aren’t doing or spending a fraction as much. Over the last two decades, I’ve seen a lot of the extreme CR society practitioners who take it too far getting older, grayer, more wrinkled, looking geriatric, developing health problems, etc… It’s not the panacea that we’d hoped.
I’m not sure what we can expect at best–maybe lessening our risks of certain types of cancers/CHD/dementia, maybe adding a few years in relative good health but with undeniable decline as the years pass. I don’t think that being OCD about it helps, and I think having money helps, but having too much money and the personality that goes along with that, enabling these extremes, is probably a detriment.
