In a slickly made Youtube video documenting the whole “epic” journey, Johnson called the whole blood-swapping experience with his son and dad one of the sweetest and most beautiful experiences of his life. “We were divided by the mind, and we were united by biology,” he said.Image: Will My Son’s Blood Make Me Younger? Bryan Johnson/Youtube
Instead of listening to what he wants at any given moment, Johnson says he only listens to what his 70+ organs tell him. Any tweaks to his routine are made in response to data. He uses every analytical test under the sun to consistently measure the health of his bodily functions.
In early 2023, Johnson is eating precisely 1,977 calories daily and is totally vegan. He eats over 70 pounds of veggies, berries, and nuts per month. His diet, however, is being constantly tweaked according to blood and other tests. For example, back in 2021 (pictured), he only ate one meal per day.
Johnson starts every day at around 5 am. According to a video on his website, he weighs himself and meditates. Then, has the same green drink each day made of water, spermidine, amino complex, creatine, collagen peptides, cocoa flavanols, and Ceylon cinnamon, according to his website, which breaks everything down in detail. The drink also helps him swallow around 25 pills.
Supplements and medicines play a big role. Alongside his morning drink, Johnson also takes two dozen pills first thing. “There’s lycopene for artery and skin health; metformin to prevent bowel polyps; turmeric, black pepper, and ginger root for liver enzymes and to reduce inflammation; zinc to supplement his vegan diet; and a microdose of lithium for, he says, brain health,” writes Bloomberg.
After the drink, he embarks on an hour-long workout that includes 25 different exercises that range from stretching to squats and weights. Three times per week, he does 10 minutes of high-intensity interval training. On the weekends, he goes hiking.
The skin is just one of the many organs he is obsessed with making happy. The team is trying to formulate the perfect skin cream, though one attempt turned his skin orange. For his hair (judged by greyness and volume), he uses a custom formulation, a laser cap, injections, and micro-needling.
His daily dental protocol isn’t casual, either. It involves brushing, using a waterpik and flossing twice per day, using a tongue scraper, tea tree oil rinse and coq10 gel for his gums. His dentist told him he has the gums of a healthy teenager, according to his website.
First, he eats breakfast — always a concoction of lentils, broccoli, and other veggies blended to create a greenish pudding. Before noon, he also eats lunch, which seems to vary daily. Examples include a stuffed sweet potato, orange fennel salad, or asparagus almond beet salad.
In a blog post from 2018, he explained his night-time routine: in bed between 8:45 and 9:30 pm, after a 1-hour wind down from work, a 5-10 minute meditation, and wearing “blue light blocking glasses” from 7 pm. He also uses a deep wave sound machine and a “chilipad” to keep his mattress at the perfect temperature.
In 2022, he said he reversed his aging biomarkers from 47 to 42.5 in seven months. He says he’s now aging more slowly than the average ten-year-old, has ideal muscle and fat, more than 50 optimal biomarkers and his body runs 3F cooler than it did when he started.
On a parallel track with Elon Musk’s Neuralink is Johnson’s Kernel. It’s a portable hat device (pictured) that measures brain activity. Johnson has suffered from clinical depression and hopes this can help doctors and individuals use real brain data to better personalize mental health protocols too.
