> Johnson, Zolman and the team are more than a year into their experiments, which they collectively call Project Blueprint. This includes strict guidelines for Johnson’s diet (1,977 vegan calories a day), exercise (an hour a day, high-intensity three times a week) and sleep (at the same time every night, after two hours wearing glasses that block blue light)<p>So you are like an 18 year old except you can't have any fun. Why would you want to live like this? You can't ever go to a party, have a drink, or go to a restaurant? Thank you, but I'll stick to eating healthy, exercising, and living my life.
It’s wonderful that someone is pushing their diet to the limit and sharing that with the world. Contrary to the other comments, life isn’t just about eating for every individual on the planet. He can derive pleasure from other sources. It doesn’t necessarily mean he fears death either, he could be maximizing time spent with loved ones. He could be passionate about experimentation.
> “What I do may sound extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable”<p>Taken literally, it seems that he is starting from the conclusion and working backwards, and may be thoroughly disappointed. The question posed in scientific terms would be more akin to "Are self-harm and decay inevitable?"<p>It's also a little bit pathetic how some of the ultrawealthy seem to have the hardest time confronting their own mortality.
Not that he wrote the headline, but: he certainly doesn't have the face of an 18 year old. I'd actually peg it > 40.<p>One of the distinct pleasures I remember from the ages of 18 - 25 is _hanging out with other people that age_. They're not going to fall for it, you'll just be a creepy old guy with a ripped body.
There are a lot of HN comments crapping all over Bryan.<p>As stated in the article and on his site, this is a personal hobby of his.<p>If it's not your thing, don't crap on him, just move onto the next story.<p>It may be hard for you to believe, but other people enjoy doing things you might <i>not</i> enjoy.<p>They <i>are</i> having fun.<p>This is <i>their</i> idea of having fun.<p>Whenever it comes up that I run really long races, I always hear "Oooh, I could never do that."<p>All I am thinking is "Yeah. That's probably why you're <i>not</i> doing that. You don't enjoy it. duh."
Whenever I hear stories like this, I can't help but think that there must be a risk of suffering liver damage from taking excessive supplements. Even obsessively getting colonoscopies as he does carries a small risk that something will go wrong such as a perforated intestine.
"The dude is way beyond ripped. His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%,"<p>Not in the photo in the article, he isn't. Pro bodybuilders get to that for a hours/days during a competition and feel like absolute shit the whole time. He looks about 10%-ish in the photo.
> Each month, he also endures dozens of medical procedures, some quite extreme and painful, then measures their results with additional blood tests, MRIs, ultrasounds and colonoscopies.<p>Ah yes, nothing keeps the body young like performing frequent invasive experimental medical procedures.
He doesn't look 18 in the photo. Also there's nothing remarkable in the article, just the usual cosmetic procedures and diet/exercise crap. It's funny, these people must think they're the first person to do whatever their preferred diet/exercise combo is, since they never seem to stop to think, if this actually worked, and someone else tried it, why didn't they live to 120 (or longer)?
There was an episode of Tales From the Crypt with this plot. To seduce a young attractive woman, an old rich man gives more and more money to trade his old features with those of a good looking bodybuilder. Of course, it ends with him being good looking and poor and her marrying the guy he swapped places with while everyone laughs at him.
Why do people put up with titles like this? This is a rich tech person doing typical diet, exercise and sleep routines combined with experimental unproven therapies like pressure chambers and supplements that tom brady endorses. No one is getting their body "rebooted", no one is 'becoming 18 again', it's just nonsense.
> His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%<p>Either the journalist hasn't a clue, or they were given false information by the person the story is about<p>Body fat at 5-6% for an extended period of time is decidedly _not_ healthy.
It all made me feel a little sad. This person’s fear of death stops them living. It’s like buying a Porsche and never driving it for fear of damaging it.
The particularly interesting take-away for this audience is probably Bryan's Blueprint website at <a href="https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/" rel="nofollow">https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.co/</a>
Im thinking about my health and lifestyle and how i really really want to live too.<p>For me its more like a mix of my sourrundings and a sustainable life style with more work (physical) and also complementary sport to simulate more like a japanese lifestyle of working for a long time but 'work' will be formed by myself.<p>Basically having enough money to actually spend my life on myself and not for someone else and this life then should be sustainable.<p>Extending my skillset through playing (games, lego etc.), art (drawing, sculptering etc.), learning (math, refining english etc.), music & playing an instrument.<p>And the work part will be a peace of land which allows me to always have a project which has a physical representation. Like it makes a mental difference if i create a 3d character or a game or a program vs. i'm planting a plant and enjoying the fruit.<p>I'm pretty sure for him and his money is easy to do it like he does and i'm pretty sure the project is unique enough to keep him busy, i'm just not sure though how he is earthing himself and if he doesn't just throw money at something which might not give him the mental enlightment he might search.<p>Fortunate for me, as soon as i have enough money together to buy a broken down castle/chateue/farm and starting my journey, i will already be at a very natural and hopefully mental positive environment.
So he's dieting, exercising regularly and getting a full night's sleep.<p>This, they measure, is beneficial.<p>Not exactly shocking here. The only big change in "biological age" is the lung capacity, but obviously anyone who exercises daily and does high intensity workouts is going to have drastically better lung capacity than the average joe on which "biological age" is based.<p>They seem to have no real results beyond the obvious healthy living techniques humans have known for millennia.
Lindyman on twitter has covered this topic - the Payoff space (people whose income is decoupled from time) want to live forever and the 4HL (salaried people) want to go into retirement and sunset.<p>Any man with $10 million in the bank is looking for ways to extend their life and if possible experience youth while at it.<p>This is where the money is folks.. the tech era has formally ended it will walk a decade but slowly.. the life extension era is in full swing.<p>Welcome to Elysium!
One thing I've wondered about if someone were to actually succeed at making themselves look and feel 18 is how our legal system would react.<p>Imagine trying to buy a house when your face says 18 and your ID says 78.<p>Getting a drink at a bar? Showing ID to vote? Withdraw money from that 78 year old's account? Collect social security?<p>You're going to get denied at best, and likely accused of identity theft/fraud.
Zolman's website really makes the whole thing feel like the beginning of a multilevel marketing scam. With the "get certified" training school pop-up, the random leaderboards, and the sketchy random supplement.<p>Oh, and that supplement is dried French red wine. I love that they specify it's French.
Let's see, I could have a tremendous amount of fun spending 2 million dollars a year with my friends because YOLO or I could spend all my waking hours obsessing about my body so I can live a few more years obsessing about my body. I know what I would choose.
> There are some obvious signs that Johnson is at least healthier than most 45-year-olds. The dude is way beyond ripped. His body fat hovers between 5% and 6%, which leaves his muscles and veins on full display. But it’s what has happened inside his body that most excites his doctors. They say his tests show that he’s reduced his overall biological age by at least five years. Their results suggest he has the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old. “All of the markers we are tracking have been improving remarkably,” says Toll.
One day you wake up, put on your glasses, and they don't work. Most people will get used to the idea it'll sometimes take their eyes a few minutes to boot. Even with glasses. Even with eye drops. They won't like it, because it's completely absurd, but they'll learn to live with it.<p>I'm not sure sure about this guy.<p>But maybe his absurd ideas will counteract just enough of the absurdity of reality, at least in his own mind. Nevertheless, I think his income taxes are too low.
nandrolone decanoate for joint when I will be older maybe but steroids is the old way to hide senecence…<p>testosterone make your body burn to death faster, also grow hormone… imho the only proper way to stay young is genetic engineering
People's obsession with diet is very strange. There are other things that are important for health. like sleep and work-life balance. And I think these are more important than eating vegetables.
> Novak Djokovic, age 35 .. gives pep talks to glasses of water, hoping to purify them with positive thinking before he drinks them.<p>Is this real? Then again he's anti-vaccine so that makes sense.