Do you want to die? How Bryan Johnson plans to cheat death

ZOE Science & Nutrition

ZOE

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Education, Science

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🗓️ 20 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Could optimizing your sleep significantly extend your lifespan? In this episode, we dive deep into the science of longevity with Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur spending millions to reverse aging, and Professor Tim Spector, one of the world’s top 100 most-cited scientists and an expert in nutrition and the microbiome. Bryan has dedicated his life—and his body—to testing cutting-edge health interventions to slow down aging. His meticulous approach to sleep, diet, and exercise has sparked global debate. But how much of it is backed by science? Tim Spector joins the conversation to separate fact from fiction, revealing what actually works when it comes to sleep, longevity, and optimizing health. 🥑 Make smarter food choices. Become a member at zoe.com - 10% off with code PODCAST 🌱 Try our new plant based wholefood supplement - Daily 30+ Follow ZOE on Instagram. Timecodes 00:00 No.1 anti aging hack 02:05 Quickfire questions 04:01 Bryan’s longevity protocol 06:20 Biological age markers 08:16 How to measure aging 13:40 Can AI help stop aging? 18:50 What science can we trust? 21:40 Bryan’s self-experiments 25:40 The most surprising sleep discovery 31:20 The McDonald’s diet 34:10 How to self experiment 37:15 Transfusing his son’s blood 39:50 Fecal transplants 41:26 Is Bryan’s daily diet healthy? 46:30 Truth about vitamin supplements 📚Books by our ZOE Scientists The Food For Life Cookbook Every Body Should Know This by Dr Federica Amati Food For Life by Prof. Tim Spector Free resources from ZOE Live Healthier: Top 10 Tips From ZOE Science & Nutrition Gut Guide - For a Healthier Microbiome in Weeks Mentioned in today's episode Reviewing the cardiovascular and other health effects of olive oil: Limitations and future directions of current supplement formulations, 2023, published in Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Associated with Short Sleep Duration: The Evidence, The Possible Mechanisms, and The Future, 2011, published in Sleep Medicine Reviews Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study, 2024, published in Sleep https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/47/1/zsad253/7280269 Objectively Assessed Cardiorespiratory Fitness and All-Cause Mortality Risk, 2022, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings Have feedback or a topic you'd like us to cover? Let us know here. Episode transcripts are available here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zoe Science and Nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health.
0:07.0	Here on the Soi podcast, we show you how to make the best health choices every single day.
0:20.0	But let's be real, consistency is hard.
0:24.3	You might eat the odd pizza, fail to go to the gym,
0:27.7	or stay out dancing and get a bad night's sleep.
0:30.9	You're human, so that's okay.
0:33.5	But have you ever dreamed of what would happen if you followed the perfect lifestyle?
0:38.2	Every moment of the day, meticulously designed to achieve peak health.
0:42.7	No slip-ups, no off days, and definitely no processed pizza.
0:48.9	Do you think you could avoid illness, halt aging, or even cheat death?
0:58.0	Well, Brian Johnson is putting this to the test. He's been spending $2 million every year in the relentless pursuit of perfect health.
1:05.0	Brian and his team of 30 doctors have one goal.
1:08.0	Don't let Brian die. So is it working? Joining me to find out is Tim Spector.
1:17.1	Tim is one of the world's top 100 most cited scientists, a professor of epidemiology and my scientific
1:22.7	co-founder at Zoe. By the end of this episode, you'll know the most valuable health insights that money can
1:29.2	buy and learn practical ways to integrate them into your lifestyle.
1:35.6	And if you listen to this podcast a lot, you probably know all too well that if you type a
1:40.0	nutrition question into YouTube, you'll get dozens of conflicting answers.
1:46.5	Forget all that. We all deserve science-led food recommendations, which is why our scientists created Zoe's personalized nutrition
1:51.7	program. Zoe runs the world's largest nutrition science study. When you become a Zoe member,
1:57.7	we send you an at-home test kit that measures a number of
2:01.3	biomarkers, which we then analyze and combine with our world-leading science, all to guide you
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