Tech mogul Bryan Johnson, 45, spends $2Myr to achieve 18-year-old body
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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.
If he deducts all the time that goes into this how many years has he gained (or lost?)
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've seen many people who actually look decades younger without all that stuff he's doing - epi-genetics still rules supreme.
I guess blame the Nephillim DNA in the distant past. I probably got some Merovingian in me.
Video lies just as still pictures have for many years.
In visuals, midtones are most often associated with the boundaries of shadows and highlights. If you have clearly defined shadows, midtones are what's around their edges. But they also represent a lot of the image that's neither especially dark nor light — like many skin tones.
So what Midtone Detail does is adjust the contrast in areas with lots of midtones — places where there are peaks in the midtone third of the histogram. It just so happens that wrinkles on faces are midtone goldmines, so tweaking Midtone Detail on an image of a face makes wrinkles more or less apparent.
If you crank the slider positive, you perceptibly "sharpen" midtone regions by increasing the contrast between shadow and highlight, which emphasizes both the depth of the wrinkle and the non-wrinkled skin. If you crank it negative, you "blur" midtone regions by reducing that contrast, effectively blurring the wrinkles (and pores, and facial hairs, and small blemishes, etc.) out.
On skin that reads as "erasing wrinkles", but it can also reduce fidelity of other skin textures. Sometimes that's desired, for that uncanny valley-esque "commercial-style" smoothness, but it might not be what a filmmaker necessarily wants — that's where masking out parts of the skin, or using the Beauty OFX tool, comes in.
(Midtone Detail has uses beyond faces and skin, especially for manipulating things like outdoor detail — landscape shots with shade have lots of midtones, and you might want to reduce them to emphasize a subject or increase them for a more dramatic visual. Or adjusting transitions when a camera goes from a shot where you want to emphasize midtones, like a close-up, to a shot where you don't, like an outdoor shot.)
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
This is a good reminder to read the article before commenting.
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.
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.
Could you give some examples please?
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.
Still, nice to see he's taken on a hobby for his retirement, I guess.
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...
Maybe a proper balance involves not going too far into obsessions or give too far into addictions
“People that don’t smoke get cancer too”
That’s what people used to tell me 40 years ago.
Yes, bad things can still happen to you even if you take care of yourself. On average though, people will be much healthier.
Now, if we could only convince the “we’re all going to die anyway” crowd that we can actually cure ALS, cancers, heart disease, etc.
Most people will be convinced if you actually cure these illnesses, and not very much before that point.
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.
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.
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.
And you can still enjoy fried food and meat.
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.
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.
WTF, why? Quantify first, ask questions later?
That said it's very impressive and very useful to have so much documentation of his regime.
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.
I wonder if he uses a "youth" filter on his webcam to make himself look like he's succeeding.
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
Definetly taking a page out of this though - this seems like a fun challenge
No. Sugar at the bottom. Paid by the industry.