Bryan Johnson argues that health debates need rigorous, shareable data instead of endless argument. He proposes the Rejuvenation Olympics to benchmark health interventions and introduces DANUT and PACE algorithms that reduce complex biomarkers to a single number measuring biological aging speed.
There's always going to be infinite depth of debate about given things. So no matter what a person does, no matter how much data they have, there's still going to be dozens and dozens of different opinions. It's not going to settle anything anytime soon that's productive. So people that take this thing into debate, it's meant to initiate a conversation about rigor of measurement. Hopefully that rigor can be transformed into a competition. So that's why we've launched the Rejuvenation Olympics. It's very easy for a critic to jump on the scene, use words to try to persuade people of the pros and cons of a given thing. It's much more difficult to share data that is equally value in its contribution. The DANUT and PACE algorithm is arguably good enough to be an approximate measure of how someone's doing. If you want to say, how am I doing in my entirety of my health, instead of looking at 50 different biomarkers and doing a blood draw and all that kind of stuff, just a single number, what is the speed of aging in my body? A conversation starter with self and with others of how you're doing.
