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Bryan Johnson: Gerber IP-blocks heavy metal test results outside California
“Yeah, I think the four, four big. And so it's like, okay, so go to Gerber's website, I can't find heavy metals results anywhere. And then I realized my VPN's on, and I'm coming from a server outside of California, they've IP blocked.”
Bryan Johnson says organic products typically test worse than non-organic foods
“When we test organic, It typically performs worse than non-organic on many, many variables.”
Bryan Johnson predicts 'Don't Die' will become the world's dominant ideology
“Our primary hypothesis is as this evolves, the major shift is humans are going to want life. Like, you know, if AI takes our jobs and they take what we do and we want to find new identity, there's going to be a major shift towards don't die. And it's going to …”
Bryan Johnson predicts Blueprint's platform will exceed the FDA in value
“I think that we will exceed them in value in many core areas. Because they, you, they can take, you know, well-structured, well-funded clinical trials. But then other things like peptides that are very promising. They're not going to have the clinical work.”
Johnson: 2026 Will Be the Year YOLO Dies
“Ok, my prediction for twenty-twenty-six is it will be the year that YOLO dies. We will begin transforming ourselves from a you only live once to don't die.”
Bryan Johnson: Most All-In Summit attendees have mental health issues
“And if we're honest, the majority of you in this room have some moderate to serious mental health problem.”
Bryan Johnson compares his 'Don't Die' movement to major world religions
“Don't die is the next major ideology on par with democracy, capitalism, Christianity, Islam.”
Bryan Johnson: Don't Die Certified found high glyphosate levels in diapers
“We looked at diapers. There was a dangerously high level of glyphosate in diapers.”
Bryan Johnson: AG1 costs under $10 to make and pays 20% influencer commissions
“So the cost of their goods to source their actual ingredients is less than 10 dollars, probably seven dollars. They sell it for one time, 99 dollars and subscription for 79. They pay influencers
20% of that. So every time a health influencer plugs AG one, they…”
Johnson: Humans will eventually no longer be the architects of intelligence
“I can't imagine a situation where we humans are still the architects of intelligence in some duration of time.”
Bryan Johnson: Applying superintelligence to existing human conflicts increases extinction risk
“Right now we're bringing super intelligence into the world and we're doing it in the games we play now, which is go to war. Become more effective at killing people. Acquire more wealth. Like, we're playing games of violence and death, and if we do that, we're …”
Bryan Johnson: Autonomous computational networks will inevitably govern human intelligence and decisions
“These systems are going to run faster than our minds, the more efficient than our minds, they'll have more data than our minds, so the future is us in this autonomous network Of computational goal alignment among all intelligence. Now, that sounds unfathomable…”
Bryan Johnson: Giving plasma to my father slowed his aging by 25 years
“When I gave my father plasma, my father's speed of aging slowed by the equivalent of 25 years. So from a 71 year old to a 46 year old, and those results remained the stable for six months, which is the last measurement we did.”
Bryan Johnson says psilocybin triggered a metabolic reset and microbiome shift
“What we found in psilocybin though, is it had, we found a first in human observation. It had this metabolic reset in the brain where my blood glucose before this was in the top. 99.5 percentile of all the population. Okay. After it went to the top 99.9 percent…”
Bryan Johnson: 5-MeO-DMT annihilates the default mode network compared to psilocybin
“Five MEO DMT compared to psilocybin, like just absolutely like blasted clean. My default mode network. It felt like psilocybin dampens it, like it softens it, but this thing just annihilated my default mode network.”
Bryan Johnson: VCs put anti-psychedelic clauses in founder deal documents
“One investor told me that he even put it in the deal docs that, you know, if we invest, you're not going to do these psychedelics because they wanted to minimize the risk profile.”
Bryan Johnson: Humanity Is Giving Birth to Superintelligence
“We are giving birth to some kind of super intelligence. We don't know what it is. We don't know what kind of scale, but it's big. It's important.”
Johnson: Blueprint aims to become a multi-trillion-dollar longevity market winner
“Basically, somebody's gonna set up shop in longevity and ride a multi-trillion dollar ride. So that's what we're trying to do, is we're trying to just be home base, win the early innings of longevity, and then ride for the multi-trillion dollar market.”
Johnson: Competitors are very unlikely to successfully unseat Stripe
“It's very unlikely. They've done such a great job executing. I sold Braintree in 2013, so they've been building 12 years since. They've done such a good job making that airtight.”
Bryan Johnson claims he has the best health biomarkers in the world
“Basically, I have the best biomarkers of anybody in the world.”
Polymarket Is Launching a Prediction Market on Bryan Johnson's Nighttime Erections
“So actually next week there's going to be, do you know Polymarket? Yeah. They're launching a market on my nighttime erections.”
Bryan Johnson: AI agents will match top AI researchers by 2027
“By 20, 27, the same time when we think that These AI agents will be as good as our best AI researchers, that there's a billion of us around the world that are practicing, don't die, economically, politically, religiously, morally, socially, ethically, all the …”
Johnson: AI may deliver a century of health progress in 5 years
“And specifically I think that AI may produce in the next five years, you know, decades, if not a century worth of progress.”
Bryan Johnson: Cardiovascular Capacity Ranks in Top 1.5% of 18-Year-Olds
“My cardiovascular capacity is in the top 1.5% of 18 year olds.”
Johnson: Eating dinner at 5 PM halves deep and REM sleep
“When I eat my last meal of the day, I have all my digestion finished. So when I go to bed, my resting heart rate is around 46 beats per minute. And if it's a 46, I'm going to have a perfect night's sleep. If I eat at five PM or six PM, then my resting heart ra…”
Johnson: Superintelligence growth renders human future predictions impossible
“I think they say, you're In the eve before the creation of super intelligence, and the intelligence you're creating is growing at a speed faster than you can comprehend. That renders your ability to predict the future to zero.”
Johnson: Project Blueprint costs $1,500 monthly, not $2 million annually
“The headline with Blueprint is that it's two million dollars a year. It's not. It's, you know, like, 1500 dollars a month, which includes your groceries.”
Bryan Johnson built an algorithm that manages his health better than himself
“I made an algorithm that takes better care of me than I can myself.”
Bryan Johnson: Humanity possesses all core technologies needed for continued existence
“So we actually have every primary piece of technology required to continue existence.”
Bryan Johnson claims he is the most measured person in human history
“It's definitely steered me away from self-destructive behaviors and tuned my body where I've become the most measured person in history.”
Johnson: Five core health habits yield an average life expectancy of 92
“By doing these five things, you could achieve a life expectancy of 92. So one don't smoke. Two is exercise six hours a week. And that's a combination of strength and flexibility and cardiovascular. Three is eat a blueprint like diet or like Mediterranean diet.…”
Johnson: My 17-year-old son follows my exact identical biological health protocol
“My 17 year old is, he does the identical things I do.”
Johnson: I age 277 days per year, giving me three months free
“I'm currently aging at .76. So I, for every 365 days a year, I age 277. So I basically get like October, November, December for free.”
Bryan Johnson: Blueprint rejuvenated heart and lungs, but brain is harder
“We've had a lot of success rejuvenating my heart and my lungs and muscle and body fat, but rejuvenating the brain is very hard.”
Bryan Johnson: FOXL-III stem cell therapy showed over 50% tissue rejuvenation
“So the mesenchymal stem cells, you know, packaged up with the FOXL-III delivery you know, that showed that over 50% of tissue is getting that rejuvenation.”
Bryan Johnson: New Limit computationally solved cellular reprogramming factor discovery
“They've done, I mean, they've made remarkable progress. They figured out how to computationally Solve the discovery process. And so they they're much faster than they initially thought.”
Bryan Johnson: GLP-1s and plasmid therapies will drive major longevity shifts
“In the future, like, I think we'll look back and we'll see GLP ones as the first big drop. Like what I can just inject myself and like it solves hunger and totally. Yeah. And then the second will probably be something like new limit or one of these Fox, one of…”
Johnson: Human health management will be run autonomously in the future
“Our health will be run on our behalf. So right now we have to chase down all our food, we have to chase down protocols, we have to chase down evidence, but it's not going to be that in the future. It will be that it will just be run for us.”
Bryan Johnson: Blueprint will surpass $100M revenue in under 12 months
“We'll beat a hundred million dollars in less than 12 months”
Johnson: RFK Jr. will challenge status quo power and force reconfiguration
“I think he is going to challenge status quo power. And I think that's going to create a lot of conflict and a lot of reconfiguration.”
Bryan Johnson: Emergent evidence shows psychedelics are alternatives to pharma drugs
“There's a lot of interesting trials for veterans working on PTSD. You know, also psilocybin is very promising. So I'd say, yeah, psychedelics are having a resurgence in the US of interest where they got pretty buried by the government in the seventies, eightie…”
Bryan Johnson: Breathing Mumbai air equals smoking over 10 cigarettes daily
“In this air quality here in Mumbai, it's equal to smoking over 10 cigarettes a day. If you're out in the, every day, like the entire city is smoking, you know, 10 plus cigarettes a day, breathing this air, right?”
Bryan Johnson: Logged Eight Consecutive Months of Perfect Sleep
“I recently logged eight months of perfect sleep using my wearable, which no human in history had ever done.”
Johnson: Male peak weight-to-rep ratio and VO2 max occur at age 18
“You max out your weight to rep ratio at age 18. So even though you can lift more in your twenties and maybe even your thirties, your ratio peaks at 18. The same is true with your VO two max, your cardiovascular fitness.”
Bryan Johnson: Computational tools have exceeded native human intelligence
“We have the computational tools that have exceeded our native intelligence and abilities.”
Bryan Johnson: 25th-century humans will view modern people like cavemen
“They're going to look at us like cavemen. It's going to be so ridiculous that we would do that, that we would take this precious consciousness we have and be so flippant with it.”
Bryan Johnson: Most people will reject algorithmic governance as dystopian
“So these ideas, a lot of people listening to this their knee-jerk reactions are going to be something like, this guy's nuts. This is dystopic. You know, the majority of people listening will have those thoughts because they're gonna, they, even though we've ta…”
Bryan Johnson: Algorithmic living rendered me the best version of myself
“I think my children and my friends and family would say, this is the best version of me I've ever achieved. I'm more sober minded. I have better clarity of thought. My emotions are much more stable. I, I'm just, I've never been a better human than I am right n…”