{"id":55240,"date":"2025-01-02T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=55240"},"modified":"2025-01-02T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T22:36:31","slug":"dont-dies-bryan-johnson-shares-his-most-impactful-anti-aging-habit-and-its-completely-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2025\/01\/02\/dont-dies-bryan-johnson-shares-his-most-impactful-anti-aging-habit-and-its-completely-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Die\u2019s Bryan Johnson Shares His Most Impactful Anti-Aging Habit \u2014 and It&#039;s Completely Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<ul id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">\n<li><strong>Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson&#8217;s search for eternal life \u2014 through technology and science \u2014 is documented in the Netflix documentary <em>Don&#8217;t Die: The Man Who Wants to Life Forever<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnson, 47, tells PEOPLE what started his search for eternal life \u2014 and says he&#8217;s learned &#8220;you do not need to do expensive therapies to achieve good biomarkers&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He also sounds off on critics, saying in his mind, the idea of living well to which so many subscribe, is actually based on activities that &#8220;mostly cause death&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Tech entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/who-is-bryan-johnson-netflix-dont-die-8767837\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Bryan Johnson<\/a> is spending millions to achieve eternal life, but as he tells PEOPLE, &#8220;What else would I spend money on other than life?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> In the new Netflix documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/dont-die-eternal-life-bryan-johnson-netflix-exclusive-8763360\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\"><em>Don&#8217;t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever<\/em><\/a>, Johnson, 47, shares an intimate look at his rigorous daily routine of exercise, supplements, and experimental treatments \u2014 all part of what he&#8217;s called Project Blueprint. It&#8217;s where he documents his efforts to live forever through science. So far, Johnson says he&#8217;s reversed his age by more than 5 years and achieved \u201cperfect biomarkers.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_7-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Johnson spoke with PEOPLE about how his journey started, his message to detractors \u2014 and his favorite anti-aging habit.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_9-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-portrait figure-high-res\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_1-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption type--mouse figure-article-caption\"> <span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Bryan Johnson documents his search for eternal life through technology in the Netflix documentary &#8220;Don&#8217;t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\"><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_10-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Was there a catalyst to your search for eternal life, or did it happen gradually?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_12-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cIt began when I was 21 years old. I was a missionary, and I lived among extreme poverty in Ecuador. I felt really compelled to want to do something that would improve the world. I didn&#8217;t know what. So the goal became make a whole bunch of money by age 30, and then with that money, find something interesting to do.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> When Johnson sold his company, Braintree Venmo, at age 34, he says it \u201ccoincided with having to rebuild myself from a decade of depression, leave my religion [Mormonism], having divorce, like just try to rebuild myself from scratch \u2014 and then this bigger question, what do I do?\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Johnson says he invested $100 million in \u201csynthetic biology, genomics, nanotech\u201d and built a brain interface, which he calls \u201cthe world&#8217;s best way to easily and robustly measure the brain \u2026 and then I started Blueprint to measure myself. And it all kind of came together into this one simple thesis, which is, don&#8217;t die.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>Not everyone can spend thousands or even hundreds on these treatments. Is there anything the average person can do to improve their health?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cSleep is a professional activity,\u201d he says. \u201cTake sleep as seriously as you do your job. You show up on time, you respect it, you&#8217;re very rigorous about it, you&#8217;re disciplined, you take pride in it.\u201d Johnson also suggests having your last meal at least two hours before bed, saying \u201cIf I eat late or too much food, [it] will decimate my sleep.\u201d&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> Like sleep experts, he says to turn off screens and establish a \u201cwind-down routine,\u201d which he describes as a \u201c30- to 60-minute window to wind down from work, not be on your screen, not doing work, to reconcile what you&#8217;re happy about, what you&#8217;re sad about, what you&#8217;re anxious about. You need some kind of calming mechanism.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_28-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cSleep is the most powerful drug in existence for anybody,\u201d he says. \u201cThe good news behind this entire project is you do not need to do expensive therapies to achieve good biomarkers \u2026 the majority of these benefits are achieved through really basic things like mastering sleep, exercising every day, eating a nutritious diet, and avoiding bad habits and contaminants.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_2-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption type--mouse figure-article-caption\"> <span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Bryan Johnson, his son Talmage, and his father Richard.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\"><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_31-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>One of your three children, Talmage, is doing Project Blueprint with you. How has being a father impacted your search for eternal life?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_33-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s a very strong biological instinct to want the best for your children. I&#8217;m grateful that one of my three children is doing this,&#8221; Johnson says, saying that for his other two children, &#8220;I really want them to be healthy and happy. They would be more likely to be seen through a fast food drive-through than me. And that really hurts, that really breaks my heart. When I was growing up, my mom, my parents didn&#8217;t know. And I think we now know, and so the fact that we know and we still do that, it breaks my heart. I ache for my children, when society is having them do things that are really bad for them.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_35-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>When was the last time you ate something processed?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_37-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;I had a flavored tortilla chip a month or two ago,&#8221; Johnson says, explaining that a friend persuaded him to have it. &#8220;He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Just try one. Let me convert you to the to the dark side.&#8217; &#8221; Johnson ate one chip and says &#8220;it just tasted like gasoline. Just pure chemicals, and I said, &#8216;You have no idea how bad this tastes because you&#8217;re so normalized.&#8217; &#8221;\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"mntl-sc-block_41-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block people-sc-block-image mntl-sc-block-universal-image mntl-sc-block-image--no-theme no-theme mntl-sc-block-image figure-landscape figure-high-res\"><figcaption id=\"mntl-figure-caption_3-0\" class=\"comp mntl-figure-caption type--mouse figure-article-caption\"> <span class=\"figure-article-caption-text\">Bryan Johnson shares his search for eternal life in &#8220;Don&#8217;t Die: The Man Who Wants to Life Forever.&#8221;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"figure-article-caption-owner\"><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_42-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <strong>How do you respond to critics who say you\u2019re spending your time \u201cnot dying\u201d instead of living?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_44-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> &#8220;They understand joy through the process of doing activities that mostly cause death,&#8221; he explains. They think, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to drink with friends and stay up late. I can eat a lot of food.&#8217; Sleep is missed, sleep is bad, and you wake up this morning feeling miserable. But people consider that to be fun and living life,\u201d Johnson tells PEOPLE, explaining it\u2019s part of the \u201cdie culture\u201d we live in.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_46-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> \u201cThese things legitimately, scientifically accelerate aging and accelerate disease progression. But that&#8217;s what people imagine to be living a happy life.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_48-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> He continues, \u201cWhen they see someone like me, who&#8217;s not doing &#8216;die activities&#8217;, they say, &#8216;I don&#8217;t understand what he&#8217;s doing. He&#8217;s not living life.&#8217; So it just really catches them in their own cultural view that they can&#8217;t understand reality other than through these diet practices. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve never felt better in my entire life \u2014 mentally, spiritually, physically. I pattern-match people in my life who are the happiest. They&#8217;re usually people that are the healthiest. When they&#8217;re sleeping well and eating well and exercising, they typically have higher levels of happiness than anyone else.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_50-0\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"> <em>Don&#8217;t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever<\/em> is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson&#8217;s search for eternal life \u2014 through technology and science \u2014 is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55243,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55240\/revisions\/55243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}