Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

Health and wellness is like religion.

6 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Bryan Johnson argues that the current health‑and‑wellness landscape mirrors the fragmentation of religion: countless gurus and “denominations” each claim to have the ultimate truth, leaving the average person unable to discern which path is correct. Johnson proposes abandoning vague, word‑based claims in favor of hard data that can cut through the noise and objectively determine which approaches are more effective. He positions his Blueprint program as a concrete example of this data‑first philosophy, suggesting that such evidence‑driven methods are the reliable way to shape the future of health, wellness, and anti‑aging.

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The problem I'm trying to solve in health and wellness is similar to the problem that happens with religions. Currently there are hundreds of denominations that use the Bible as their holy writ and who claim they're God's one and true. And so an average observer would say which one is a true one? How do I know the same is true in health and wellness? There's hundreds of gurus all offering different ways of being health and well. And what I'm trying to do is say let's not use words anymore to explain this. Let's just use data and let the data speak for itself and have that conversation. So it's enabling data to punch through the noise and the confusion to say is there a more right way of doing it than other ways? And so blueprint is an example of moving the conversation towards data which is a much more reliable way to make decisions and to build the future of our health, wellness and anti aging.