Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson• about 1 year ago

Ppl dunk on me by comparing me to some of the most beautiful people in the world. It's all good and I welcome it. Here is the context they may not have: 1. I had poor health habits for the first 43 years of my life, including grinding as an entrepreneur for 20 years and 10 years of chronic depression. This caused a lot of aging damage in me. 2. I was never taught basic self care around sleep, diet or exercise. In fact, I was taught the opposite: that I wasn't working hard enough if I wasn't sacrificing my health. This resulted in my health being very bad. 3. Yet despite this, three years into developing my health protocol, my health biomarkers are perhaps best in world. Top 1% in slowing my speed of aging, cardiovascular ability, bone health, sleep, inflammation, etc. That's a stunning turnaround that should give everyone hope. I've open sourced it all for everyone's benefit. 4. Some people are genetically gifted; have maintained good health practices their whole life; have always focused on their aesthetics. Good for them and they're lucky to have people in their life who encouraged this. 5. My message is for people to prioritize sleep, maintain a healthy diet, exercise daily and to stop unhealthy behaviors. This makes people feel uncomfortable because it challenges their world view that self-destructive behaviors are "living life" and virtuous. They're also addicted to this slow boil suicide and can't stop. I understand, I've been there. Instead of introspection though and in order to soothe themselves, they try to discredit health endeavors being a worthy pursuit. One of the empowering mental models for everyone is focusing on earning the respect of those who exist in the 25th century. A read of history will show that in any time and place, 99.9% of those alive lived in accordance to ideas of dead people. They're living in the past. The future is always present. It's only a question of who can see it. This is the moment that we dare ask the unthinkable, will we be the first generation to not die? Only a small number of us need to believe this to flip the zeitgeist. Then, once it's the norm, others will do it because that's what everyone else is doing.