Bryan JohnsonFounder of Blueprint and Don't Die

My end goal is: become a vampire. Full video in bio.

12 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Bryan Johnson explains his unconventional approach to protecting his skin from UV damage as part of his Blueprint anti‑aging program. He describes installing heavy UV‑tint on all his house windows to block 99.9% of UV radiation, and carrying an umbrella outdoors to shade himself, even though this behavior looks odd in the United States. He frames the practice with a tongue‑in‑cheek "vampire" persona, noting that people comment on his pale skin. Johnson emphasizes that his goal is not to conform to cultural norms of tanning but to slow and reverse the biological aging caused by sun exposure, which he views as a major source of skin damage.

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Okay. Welcome to the kitchen. I have a few things that are a little unconventional in case I'm kind of unconventional. But on my windows, I have really big ones all over the house. And I get a lot of sun in the morning and night. And so to control the environment, we have a tint on here that knocks out, like, 99.9 of UV. I get a lot of comments about my pale skin. I'm a vampire. That's what I'm trying to do. Okay. But really, sun causes damage. It ages your skin. It makes you look older, so you don't want that. And what. The objective of blueprint is not to adhere to cultural norms of a tan. The objective is slowing my speed of aging and reversing aging damage. That includes sun damage. So I try to control what comes in my window. When I go outside, I will take an umbrella with me, and I'll have the umbrella above my head. That is weird. In the United States of America. In other places in the world, it's very common and very normal.