#542

So we should embrace the “Warren Buffet Longevity Diet” of McDonalds and Coke? When is the Berkshire Hatheway Wellness clinic opening so I can sign up!

(No need to respond: I’m obviously kidding, and I, too, occasionally eat at McD’s, although feel like crap afterwards but crave it for weeks…something’s not right there. Also, when I was at my fattest and under tremendous multi-dimensional stress I’d sneak a lunch at a McD’s near my office and although I don’t think this was the “cause” of my “prosperous form”, I’m sure it was indicative of bad eating habits in general).

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#543

“I always tell people: I found everything I like to eat by the time I was six,” Buffett said Wednesday in an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in Tokyo. “I mean, why should I fool around with all these other foods?”
“I know all these people eat all these green things and everything,” he said. “But if somebody told me I would live an extra year if I ate nothing but broccoli and a few other things all my life instead of eating what I like to eat, I would say take the year off the end of my life and … let me eat what I like to eat.”

Buffett said he’s gotten to his age with the habits of a six-year-old and has been lucky to mostly be in good health.

“I think happiness makes an enormous amount of difference … in terms of longevity,” he said. “I’m happier when I’m eating hot fudge sundaes or drinking Coke.”

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#544

I think Peter Attia said in his recent book that when you look for solid evidence that shows a profound effect in nutrition, it’s really hard to say that we know anything about anything beyond:

  • don’t overconsume calories
  • don’t underconsume protein
  • avoid excess saturated fat
  • don’t limit your diet so much that you end up with a specific deficiency

Otherwise, it’s really hard to prove that who follows those rules and eats at mcdonalds vs someone who has organic homemade chia bowls every day is going to have a different specific measurable impact on their longevity.

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#545

I’m pretty sure most scientists and doctors regardless of diet/“tribe” would add “eat whole, fresh foods with as few pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, and other extraneous chemicals”. Which would likely exclude McDonalds.

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#546

I am embarassingly looking into trying Bryan Johnson’s protocol again.
My best experiences has not been about food, the long tail of positive valence. Prolonging health and longevity will aid in getting keep having those experiences, and better. He also kind of looks rejuvenated.

It’s optimizing only one part and it might make us peasants live in good health and long enough until longevity therapies become more affordable, using healthspan/longevity drugs etc at the same time of course as if on McDonald’s diet.

I’m going to try to go cold turkey. Just have to buy a new blender since I gave mine away lol. I appreciate his striving for greatness, like Lustgarten. The McDonald’s + drugs protocol is kind of boring.

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#547

Bryan Johnson attracting enough backlash and attention that a parody of him on Instagram has 14k likes:

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#548

Blueprint foods

Meat can be added to any dish

  1. Almond milk

  2. Apple cider vinegar

  3. Arugula

  4. Asparagus

  5. Avocado

  6. Baby romaine

  7. Beets

  8. Berries

  9. Black lentils

  10. Blood orange

  11. Bok choy

  12. Brazil nuts

  13. Broccoli

  14. Bulb fennel

  15. Butter lettuce

  16. Carrots

  17. Cauliflower

  18. Cherries

  19. Chipotle powder

  20. Chia seeds

  21. Coco amino

  22. Cremini mushroom

  23. Cucumber

  24. Cumin

  25. Curry powder

  26. Dark chocolate

  27. Dill

  28. Dried nori

  29. Extra virgin olive oil

  30. Garlic

  31. Garbanzo beans

  32. Ginger

  33. Green lentils

  34. Green onions

  35. Ground flaxseed

  36. Hemp seeds

  37. Italian seasoning

  38. Jalapeno

  39. Kale

  40. Lime

  41. Macadamia milk

  42. Maitake mushrooms

  43. Mango

  44. Mint leaves

  45. Mixed greens

  46. Nutmeg

  47. Onion powder

  48. Orange juice

  49. Orange zest

  50. Oregano

  51. Oyster mushrooms

  52. Parley

  53. Pea shoots

  54. Pecans

  55. Pepper

  56. Pomegranate juice

  57. Pomegranate seeds

  58. Pumpkin seeds

  59. Purple cabbage

  60. Purple radish

  61. Radish

  62. Rainbow chard

  63. Red onion

  64. Red pepper

  65. Romaine

  66. Rosemary

  67. Shiitake mushrooms

  68. Smoked paprika

  69. Spinach

  70. Sprouts

  71. Sunflower lecithin

  72. Sweet potato

  73. Swiss chard

  74. Tahini

  75. Thyme

  76. Toast almonds

  77. Toast pumpkin seeds

  78. Toast sesame seeds

  79. Walnuts

  80. Watermelon radish

  81. White beans

  82. White sweet onion

  83. Almond slivers

  84. Shallot

  85. Balsamic vinegar

  86. Dijon mustard

  87. Mustard seeds

  88. Cara Cara orange

  89. Fennel

  90. Goji berries

  91. Fig Balsamic vinegar

  92. Chili powder

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#549

What about McDonalds? :wink:

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#550

It’s there… somewhere… in another universe. :wink:

Next I will be sorting by calories per 100 gram excluding spices so it’s easier to make recipes. Also calories per $. Hardest part with this type of diet is probably getting enough calories.

I read “blood boy” for a second rather than blood orange when skimming the list :rofl:. Bryan is living rent free in my head.

Food list is from Recipe Guide by Zero — blueprint

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#551

I hope he is telling you that sleep is as or more important. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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#552

What Bryan does for Bone Health:

Genistein
K2 mk4
K2 mk7
K1
Vitamin D blood level 75-125 nM
Magnesium
High g force exercise

Since his BMD (Bone Mineral Density) is top 0.02% of 30 year olds, I am suspecting this is genuine age reversal and not only that an improvement as that seems like an impossible achievement due to random chance.

@AlexKChen what are your thoughts?

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#553

Bryan Johnson has removed The Green Giant from his protocol, mostly reorganizing and simplifying the protocol, which is good.

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Here’s the ready-made food he’s developing under the brand name 0th principle nutrition, that’s going to be good for a lot of people (picture in black and white).

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#554

I tried a blueprint lite protocol and I had almost immediate physical benefits (and cognitive), my nostrils opened up too and I could breathe again. I think it’s either the low sodium diet somehow improving my hydration, or caloric restriction, or some food I am reacting to that I excluded. Investigating what it is. Only negative seems to be a decreased BV (blood volume) from low sodium leading to decreased fitness, which mine already was low in the first place. If I can repeat this and sustain it and it’s going to be great.

Bryan Johnson…

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#555

which parts did you include in the lite version?

#556

I only did black lentils + olive oil, lime. And some spices.

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#557

I haven’t tried this, but I really like nutty pudding.
I like the idea of this meal prep and not thinking about food, but IDK if I could eat the same everyday. How do you find this?

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#558

I don’t think I could meal prep in a way so I eat everything different every meal. But the plan is at least having the black lentils every day, and the nutty pudding if it works for me, then meal prep different meals for the third meal. In the video above they seem to meal prep the beet salad from his protocol, for example.

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#559

I find black lentils as well as black beans hard to digest. Lentils are great, but I like them French style - green. Wondering why BJ chose black vs green lentils.

#560

Black lentils have a very high antioxidant content compared to other beans, whatever that means.
You have to cook them so they are almost so soft they will turn into mush, likewise with other lentils if you cook them from dry. I used to eat a lot of lentils long ago so my microbiome might’ve adapted as well.

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#561

Maybe I didn’t cook them long enough. Mine was not like mush, but rather each piece separate.