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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…”
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: Very few high-functioning people routinely use cannabis
“I don't know of many high functioning people who routinely use marijuana, maybe occasionally for enjoyment, but very few like actual regular practitioners.”
Bryan Johnson: Birthing superintelligence is the only thing that matters on Earth
“I think there's only one thing going on. We're giving birth to super intelligence. Nothing else matters besides that. We're giving birth to a form of intelligence that's going to change our existence unfathomably, and in timeframes which are hard for us to und…”
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 …”
Bryan Johnson: Do not take any supplement unless you can measure it
“I wouldn't take anything unless you can measure it.”
Bryan Johnson: Stopped rapamycin due to lipid spikes and elevated heart rate
“I mean, it's the side effect profile. It's the, it messes with lipids. It messes with blood glucose. I had small tissue infection soft tissue infections. It raised my resting heart rate. And so we knew we had these side effects, but we just wondered, like, whe…”
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: Algorithmic living streamlines decisions by systematically mitigating physical harm
“The algorithm. So like if the objective is don't die, Then it's just a systematic process of what inflicts damage upon the body. And then how do you mitigate that damage? Like how do you block it or, you know, how do you mitigate it? And so in that regard, it,…”
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: 'Don't die' is humanity's zeroth-order universal priority
“That don't die is the most played game by every, every human on this planet every second of every day. It is our zeroth order priority every second to not die. Every breath we take, all of our metabolic energy is going to not die in this moment. That's true fo…”
Bryan Johnson: AI Must Be Programmed With the Core Objective 'Don't Die'
“If you tell the AI, AI, The objective of your existence is intelligence doesn't die. Humans don't die. You don't die. Our planet does not die. That's the goal.”
Bryan Johnson: People should ignore diet philosophies and trust biomarker data
“The process that people should go about doing is not trust anyone's philosophy. They should trust the data. And so there's multiple paths to get to the same destination. Just trust the data.”
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?”
Johnson: Individuals Cannot Control Air Exposure Unlike Food and Water
“You can filter almost any water and get it to be pure. With food, you can grow your own food, but with air, you have no control. You're in a system.”
Bryan Johnson: Skin is one of the biggest indicators of health
“I mean, our skin's like the, one of the biggest reveals of health, right? Like, you can't fake skin.”
Bryan Johnson tracks his DNA methylation patterns weekly
“I've been measuring my methylation patterns every week for the past couple years, so more than anyone out there.”
Johnson: Extreme Wealth Warps Relationships by Becoming a Third Entity
“Like it warps all of your relationships. It's like every, every person in your life now has, it's like you have three people in the relationship. It's like you, your money and the person.”
Johnson: Sperm Counts, Fertility, Birth Rates, and Sexual Activity Are All Falling
“You have on one side, sperm counts going down, fertility is going down, birth rates going down, sexual activity is going down like all these indicators of like, of humans having sex and You know, like having babies, they're all going down.”
Bryan Johnson takes NR in capsules, rejecting NAD IV infusions
“No, there's not good evidence. That's a good modality. I take it via capsule form. I take NR, yeah.”
Bryan Johnson: I still take roughly 100 supplements daily, mostly in a drink
“I took majority of those and put it into a drink. I was like, I still take basically a hundred pills a day. Just now they're in part of a drink. So it's easier to take. And so then four-year pill capsule form.”
Bryan Johnson: Ultimate goal is validation from 25th-century humans
“I want something very simple. I want the, those who exist in the 25th century, I want them to say, he got it. He got it. He got that moment right. He saw it.”
Johnson: High BPA levels correlate with substantially fewer eggs in women
“So a recent study showed that women with high levels of BPA produced substantially fewer eggs and ovulation. That contaminants reduces the body's production of eggs.”
Johnson: Airborne Particulates Lodge in Tissues, Causing Systemic Damage
“These contaminants wreak havoc on the body. It can create neurological dysfunction. It can cause asthma. It can cause lung irritation. It just like its whole body damage. It gets into tissues. It lodges in. It's very hard to remove it. So it's not like somethi…”
Bryan Johnson Sold Braintree, Divorced, Left Religion, and Beat Depression at 34
“I mean, so when I was 34, so I, yeah, in one year's time, I sold my company. I got a divorce. I left my religion and I came out of depression. So all in one year's time.”
Bryan Johnson details his daily Blueprint meal routine
“For breakfast, I have broccoli, cauliflower, black lentils, garlic, ginger. For my next meal, I have macadamia nuts, walnuts, flaxseed, pomegranate juice, Berries, pea protein, and hemp protein. My final meal of the day is some kind of combination of berries, …”