Multimillionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist and longevity experimentalist Bryan Johnson claims to have devised a diet plan that makes him age at 0.64x speed, meaning he ages about 7.6 months per year.
Following this logic, he ages 1 year about every 19 months. He got there by building a diet in the same way he used to build software, with multiple iterations. “Remove the bad stuff and add more good stuff,” he says.
Braintree founder claims to have slowed his rate of aging
In a video he posted to YouTube on June 11, 2024, tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Bryan Johnson explains what his anti-aging project, Blueprint, has been working on.
He describes building his diet in the same way he used to build software at Braintree. It involves multiple iterations of trial and error. After each experiment, he says, he and his team would “remove the bad stuff and add more good stuff”.
“Every calorie has to fight for its life.”
They reached a stage where he was taking “over 100 pills a day” and became, he claims, the “most measured person in history”. As a result of his efforts to slow his speed of metabolic aging, he says he achieved a “personal best” of 0.64.
If his calculations are correct – to the extent that they can be – in theory, this means his body is in a position to celebrate a birthday every 19 months.
“That means for every 12 months that pass, I only age 7.6 months,” he says. Watch the video below.
What is Blueprint?
He and his team have spent three years developing Blueprint, according to its website. The site describes it as an “algorithm that takes better care of me [Johnson] than I can myself”.
He claims to have attained a “speed of aging” that is slower than 99% of an average 20-year-old, and a degree of body inflammation 85% below the average 18-year-old.
There are numerous other percentages and percentiles listed on the website that relate to his health as a result of experimenting with Blueprint.
The driving force behind the project was Bryan Johnson’s “decision”, in 2023 to “not die”. It is his rallying cry for the 21st century.
From $25K-per-go gene therapy to ‘zeroism’
In December 2023, Fortune wrote that Bryan Johnson was using himself as a human guinea pig for an unproven gene therapy involving injections that cost $25,000 a pop.
That particular therapy worked, supposedly, by “turbocharging” the body’s production of follistatin. It’s a protein that helps manage the production of other proteins, and hormones.
But his latest venture with Blueprint costs as little as $16 per day, according to Johnson. “We built this so that everyone, regardless of gender and age, could consume this safely,” he says.
And the philosophy that underpins it is zerosim: “Don’t die because we don’t know how long and well we can live”. Find more on his website, linked above.
