The Man That’s Ageing Backwards: “I Use My Son’s Blood To Reverse My Age! I’m Now 18!” Bryan Johnson

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Education, Business

4.5 • 17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 123 minutes

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In this new episode Steven sits down with entrepreneur and anti-aging pioneer Bryan Johnson. In 2007, Bryan founded the payment processing company ‘Braintree’, and was soon 47th on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest growing companies in America. Bryan sold Braintree in 2013 for $800 million. Since then he founded ‘Kernel’ in 2016, which creates hardware to measure brain activity, and most recently ‘Project Blueprint’ in 2021. ‘Blueprint’ is an algorithmic and automative approach to optimal health and ageing, Bryan is their first test subject. In this conversation Bryan and Steven discuss topics, such as: His early life in the Mormon church Why he chose to be an entrepreneur and how it fit his skillset His business failures and what he learned from them How he rapidly scaled his business His struggle with depression Why he is investing $2 million a year into his health His mentality for being remembered by history and meaningful work The daily schedule of his anti-aging process The future of the human race working alongside AI Why he thinks ageing isn’t inevitable You can learn more about Blueprint here: https://bit.ly/3DDtyN1 You can learn more about Kernel here: https://bit.ly/3DEFq1n Follow Bryan: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rTLMaF Twitter: https://bit.ly/47hUDDi YouTube: https://bit.ly/3qbO9oP Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Those are all the pills you take in one day.
0:03.5	111 because that's where the data led me.
0:05.5	This is how you don't die.
0:07.5	Brian Johnson.
0:08.5	The man spends $2 million a year to slow down as age.
0:11.5	He's managed to reverse his biological age already to an 18 year old.
0:15.6	Project it to lives to 200. The only objective we have is don't die. I've opted into an algorithm that takes better care of me than I can myself.
0:25.0	It sounds overwhelming in the beginning, but trust me on this. So my bedtime is at 830.
0:29.2	And you had 100% sleep. Four months straight now.
0:32.6	What about hanky-panky?
0:33.6	Not after 830.
0:34.8	Alcohol.
0:35.4	Three ounces every morning with breakfast.
0:37.1	For breakfast.
0:38.1	For breakfast.
0:38.7	My last mill the day is at 11 a.m.
0:40.5	And every calorie has to fight for its life. You are very kind in bringing me some food.
0:44.6	Presumably this is what you eat. That's right. If you ask the body what do you want to eat to be
0:48.9	an ideal health? This is the answer but a gin mood. That is a mushroom covered in chocolate. How fun.
0:56.3	Why is Brian doing this? I was thinking about what your father went through and I was
0:59.9	wondering if there's some kind of link there. It was always on my mind.
1:03.5	I mean, he's in pain and he's stuck and he can't overcome this terrible thing that's ruining his life. You know like...
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