Bryan Johnson's 70-year-old father followed Blueprint for months and realized his mind had been declining without him noticing. Once his sharpness returned, he understood what he'd lost and became determined to pursue aggressive interventions like plasma exchange to preserve his consciousness.
You know, I had such a cool conversation with my dad because he'd been on Blueprint for several months, and he said, hey, Brian, just a heads up, when you experience cognitive decline, you don't know it. He said, I always imagined that I would be like, oh, I'm slipping, or I can't. Like, I would have some awareness. He said, it happens invisibly, which makes sense. And since I've been doing Blueprint, I'm back, so I realize what I've lost. And so now he's like, give me everything you can for my. Like, he's holding on to his existence. That's incredible. That was really what precipitated the plasma exchange is he's like, I want every possible therapy that helps me maintain my conscious existence.
