Netflix Documentary Q&A
In this live YouTube Q&A, Bryan Johnson hosts a multi‑generational family discussion with his father Richard, his sister‑in‑law Kate, and his brother‑in‑law Talmadge, joined by live chat participants. The conversation opens with technical hiccups before moving into several thematic strands: (1) the behind‑the‑scenes story of the Netflix documentary—how the filmmakers had full access to the Johnson family’s life but no creative control; (2) personal reflections on the documentary’s emotional impact, especially the tri‑generational plasma exchange and family reconciliation; (3) the "Don't Die" Blueprint health regimen, covering plasma exchange, diet, sleep, exercise, hair‑loss protocols, micro‑plastic testing, and environmental controls; (4) responses to scientific criticism of the Blueprint, framed as a philosophical mission to extend human lifespan; (5) discussion of AI’s role in their work and broader societal implications; (6) practical health tips (hearing protection, hair‑loss treatment, air‑quality monitoring); (7) the emerging "Don't Die" community, NFT citizenship, and the movement’s political framing; and (8) closing remarks encouraging viewers to adopt better sleep and check out the documentary. Throughout, the tone shifts between informal, conversational banter, earnest family storytelling, and enthusiastic advocacy for the Blueprint and the "Don't Die" mission.
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I wonder how it shows up.
Yeah.
Oh, was this scheduled before?
No.
So you can give people a heads up.
I didn't.
How did you log into it?
Oh, it does say live, and there's eight people there. Hi, people. Sorry. Is that still aligned?
Yeah.
You're good.
So maybe it just takes a second to come up.
People are saying, hey, yo. Hey, Rich.
Is this your first live stream?
It is, it is. I'm paralyzed with fear over here.
It's gonna be fun. The YouTube audience is so friendly.
Everyone, this is Richard, aka Grandpa Johnson, aka the.
The.
The main guy.
Main character.
Main character in the fountain of blood transfusion. Yeah.
Hey, can you guys hear. Is the audio okay?
Yeah.
We have to get in.
We're. We're struggling, so what we want to do is we want to look at your comments, and there's some technical loopholes we have to jump through here. I can't open it.
Maybe refresh the app.
Yeah, I'm looking. It's also.
It's not streaming.
Nick, would you mind having a quick look at that and seeing if it says that people can hear us?
Yeah.
Oh, wait. Audio is m. Oh, there we go. Buzz in the background. I think you guys are just really far away.
Oh, cool. All right, now it's up. There we are. Okay, guys, we couldn't hear you before, and you were also frozen. Hi, everyone. Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
We have a special guest today, so we wanted to do this for the documentary. And we have Richard in town.
This is dad. This is your first live stream, right?
It is.
It is.
I don't know how to act.
Do you have any. Do you have a question that you want to ask the people watching?
Yeah. Yeah, let's do a Q A with them. Yeah. Yeah.
Why are you watching me?
So, guys, we're all here to hang out and answer any of your questions. The documentary has been out for a couple days now, and we've received quite a few questions about various things. So if you have something on your mind. Do you have a feed? How much?
Yes, I do.
Yeah. If you want, I can.
Dad, you're getting some love. That's nice.
Oh, thank you, guys. You know, it's. It's so tough being with Brian. Someone's like, I just want to hide behind them. So I appreciate it. Thank you.
Yeah, someone's like. Dad's like, WTF is going on? What should I do? Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah. The. The Thing. YouTube comments are. Are always correct. They always see the situation.
I want to solve this audio issue for everyone.
What do you mean what's happening with the audio?
So it could go so far away.
And so let me try to hear it. Or if someone. If you share with someone else, that can be the audio.
No, it's. Sorry, you guys. It's going to take a second.
Oh, yeah. People are saying the audio is terrible. Shoot.
Yeah, I think we got this, though. I think we can just use the.
Audio on my phone.
Why don't we just do this?
Look.
All right, can you do a.
Voice check on my phone?
Yeah, no, just talk check.
Auto check, you guys.
Voice check. Yeah, no, just talk. Let's back up. Much better.
Let's see, guys, what do you think? Better. Better. All good. It's fine. Much better. The buzz is gone. Okay, so good enough, you guys. We'll go to do this. Yeah.
Thumbs up in the chat. Let's say we're good or hard or broccoli.
Broccoli or melting face. That's my emoji.
Okay. Yeah.
Drop a melting face if you can hear us.
Okay. All right, you guys. The first question on influence we had on the documentary. None. So when blueprint went viral a couple years ago from the Bloomberg article, we had almost every Hollywood group reach out to us. Oh, here's the camera over here. And they, you know, they'd have these conversations. Like they'd enter the conversation, say, we are a an Emmy award winning, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, wait, what? I don't understand any of this language. And then Chris Smith pulled up and he's like a one man show. And he said, I make viral docs and I can start shooting Tuesday. And we said, that's good. So the deal was, though, that we were would be at arm's length. We would have zero creative control. He would tell whatever story he wanted, and it could be terrible, it could be okay, it could be great. And so we just said, let's do it. And so we gave him access to all the footage I had, and then he just followed us everywhere. So he had access to everything. My calendar was just made available and he could show up whenever he wanted to. So that was the context on that. And then he just, like, he didn't come in with a story about my dad and Talmadge and Kate, but he just kind of naturally found his way there. So no, we had no say in this whatsoever. Yeah.
And so for those who don't know, this is Richard, Brian's dad. Rich, how did you feel filming the documentary? Like you were so vulnerable.
It was, it was, it was terrifying because you know, I mean the, the short story is, you know, I was divorced from his mom and, and Brian was like hit with an atomic bomb. And it lasted for years through my problem, through my problems and everything. And it created such guilt on my part that I didn't see a way forward. And Brian has always been so nice that he just didn't want to confront me. So Brian and I reached that precipice in the filming of this thing and that was my gosh, you know, we start filming about, talking about incidental things and then this stuff would come up, man, it tears me apart. And luckily as a result of that, we had a really great reconciliation. At least the start where I could talk about it and take the, take the guilt on and do something with it and listen to him. So it has been so blood, sweat and tears for me, all the filming and then to be able to share with Kate and a grandson like Talmadge, holy heck, you know, it's been amazing.
How have you, like, friends back in Utah reacted?
They're amazed and basically they're not happy that I'm going to live longer. They wanted to tell Brian, look, cancel that stuff. That guy's been. Been around enough. But no, everybody, everybody back knows about Brian and his character. And I think everyone is really, really happy that I've had this chance with not only him, but like I say, Woodtown mention. Now Kate, it's all good.
Yeah, it's cool. It's like the experiences that have got us closer are like the tri generational plasma exchange. Like things that you wouldn't think would bring people closer together. It just does. So it seems like the doc did that well, it allowed for this vulnerability that may have felt difficult to achieve. You hit a state where you could finally get to it.
What a great comment. Yeah, there's, there's as much fun as everyone's made of plasma exchange. It was, it was life changing for me. You know, the idea that your son actually gives you his plasma. Yeah, I'm watching with television.
Brian.
Yeah, pretty special.
All right, Steve. What, guess what's on your mind.
We actually. So we're actually getting a blood draw tomorrow at the Red Cross for doing a donation. And I was on the phone with them and I wanted to schedule both. I wanted to schedule myself and my dad and they were like, just make sure you tell your dad to like eat healthy before. Make sure he hydrates enough. I'm like, you don't know who you're talking about. So it'll be cool if he shows up. I'm like, wait a minute. Please tell your son's blood. So that'll be fun.
One question. What's your opinion on the negative criticism that many of the scientists gave your movement? I'm a medical doctor from the UK and a proponent of your movement, but I feel they make some valid points. Yeah, I think the don't die in blueprint, it's not without. It's not immune to criticism. And the points they're making are great. I don't even actually see them as criticisms. They're making a reasonable observation that scientific progress is primarily done through these controlled studies, which I agree, like, that's. That's how we've made progress ourselves, is we scoured the scientific evidence, we isolated all the things we thought met a threshold, and that's what we've done. So we are, you know, as pure evidence practitioners as anybody in the entire world. So we come from that. I agree. And so what. What they don't understand is they don't comprehend the mission. What. What we're trying to do is so, like, hang with me for a minute on this thought process. So imagine you travel in time to the year 2500, and you're hanging out with whoever exists in that timeframe, and they're talking amongst themselves about what Homo sapiens did now in the early 2000s, what did we do that allowed intelligence to thrive in this part of the galaxy? I thought about that question for years. I was trying to let it inform me on what I do next after selling my company. And I think they make two observations. One is, they say this is the moment when Homo sapiens gave birth to super intelligence. And the second thing they say is they say that's what Homo sapiens realized. They were transitioning from death being inevitable to being able to extend their lifespans to some unknown horizon, but basically on its way to solving death. I think they say those two things. And so we know from looking back through history, time compresses reality. We look back to the third century, and even though there were humans with very rich lives, there's all kinds of political drama, economic drama, There was like kings. And whatever we think, like one or two things happen in the third century, we compress over time. The same is going to be true with our time and place. And so what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to solve for what matters in this moment as a species. I'm not trying to solve how to get a nature paper. And so I'm saying that this transition is about Moving away from death into this new era of being human. So it's just that they don't get it, they don't understand. But then also on the other side. So that's like a very high minded thought experiment. Also, very practically I'm trying to teach people very basic practices on going to sleep, going to bed on time and how you actually structure your day to get proper sleep and how to actually do a blood draw and how to exercise and how to eat nutritionally and how to understand those things. So it's like the most basic health advice that humans can have and also this thought experiment. But I don't think that the criticisms necessarily lessen the value of this endeavor. They're legitimate and it's fine. So they can both coexist. How is that?
Yeah.
Yeah. What questions do you guys have? We, we are here to answer them. So the question is, are other people doing this publicly? Talmadge is doing blueprint publicly. You've been doing blueprint for how long now?
I've been doing blueprint for three years. Yeah. Just the basics of diet, sleep and exercise, which accounts for 90% of the benefits most, most of the time for any age.
And how's it been?
Yeah, people, people often ask me if I have FOMO or like fear of missing out from being on blueprint. But the ironic part is that when you get good sleep and you get the feeling of eating well and working out well, I feel euphoric. And I think other people must have FOMO for not feeling this euphoric all the time because of health. And it's not to say that you're happy all the time, but your emotional state is much more stable and it's much harder to achieve that if you are all over the place.
Yeah. So Talmadge was here two years ago living full time and now is back. And I feel like your change across that time is like night and day. Like when you first came, I feel like you really struggled with eating healthy, not eating too much. And now it's like you're, you've like now it's like he messages in the morning, he's like screenshots, like another 100% sleep score and it's like amazing stats and I'm like trying to keep up with him. So it's been really, really impressive to see your like full evolution.
Definitely takes a lot of time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're dedicated.
Like with enough, it's like just small baby steps and you do it consistently enough. Yeah.
Kate, you're the first. You are the second person to do blueprint post. Me and the first female. What's been your experience?
It was really hard, as you know, and I had to go through like multiple existential crises where I had to like, restructure my identity in my life. And I feel like, honestly, only in the last maybe like six months have been. Have I been able to get like, true stability where it feels second nature to eat healthy and to exercise and actually like look after my sleep, for example. So, yeah, now it's like, it's kind of cool. I went shopping, I went grocery shopping with a friend the other day because they wanted to do the new journey and become like a better version of themselves. And I was walking through the aisle and I was like, no, you don't want to have that. You want to have this. And all of a sudden I'm like, who am I? Who have I become? You know, like, I used to be someone who ate McDonald's all the time, and now I'm like walking the grocery aisle and just like pointing out simple things that they don't realize that added sugars are in here or like you want to avoid, you know, foods that have been fried or here's why, like, they're kind of sneakily putting something addictive into this, like, packaging. So it's pretty cool.
I think it's also probably especially harder for Kate because Kate does so much for others and does very little for herself. So actually taking the time to care for herself is hard and doing it at the blueprint level is even harder. So the fact that you've done it is like doubly impressive.
Yeah.
Yeah. It's been like a 10 year journey on how to take better care of myself. And then blueprint has been actually like forced me to come face to face with that and really like, tackle it the last couple of years.
Yeah. And like, arguably blueprint makes you able to take care of others more or makes you able to be a better family member.
Yeah.
What's happened in the comments?
Says brand, fix your posture. Your posture is pretty good.
Fix my posture. It's pretty good. Yeah. What's wrong with it?
Maybe because of the phone or maybe.
The angle as well.
This is a little one. Yeah, my posture is good. Talmage people are saying you need to speak up. Thanks. Kate. What is your role with blueprint?
Who knows?
It's just say who knows.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How would you answer that, Brian?
Yeah, Kate kind of does everything. Marketing, strategy, design, like everything, like anything that needs to get done. So those of you who've had experience in a startup. You realize that you're always taking on 10 to 20 different roles depending on the day. And Kate is a really good person, really really skilled at startup like environments where any task that comes alive she is competent and can take can handle it. So everything.
Yeah.
Like adjusting the live stream right now.
That's a good example.
Yeah.
A lot of you asked why I'm plant based. It's an ethical choice and it's very simple. It's you know, when I think about artificial intelligence a lot it's primarily where my brain's at and I feel like when as we give rise to AI at some point AI may become aware to some degree and it may make observations like how do you humans take care of other forms of intelligence? And I think we want to have a clean record that I think we want to be seen as compassionate towards other forms of intelligence. And right now I don't think it reflects well on us how we treat other animals. So that is my personal opinion from a health perspective. You do you. I don't engage in the warfare. Like the moment you start talking about plant based and meat, people just kind of go crazy, lose their minds. So I just don't step into that warfare at all. So if you eat meat, great. Do you. I would encourage you to measure your biomarkers and just follow the data. So that's why. And Talmud, you're not plant based.
Yeah, yeah, same thing.
So Thomas did do, he was eating meat, some fish and chicken every once in a while and now he's plant based. Yeah.
I love reading these comments.
Yeah. What do you.
It's like a.
What's a good comment?
It's like a. An endless supply of intrusive thoughts.
Oh my God. You guys hear that? That was a banger.
What did he say?
Endless supply of intrusive thoughts.
But it's like all the things that you think or like other people think.
And then you don't say typically like you never hear this stuff irl.
Yeah.
So what's.
People are just like letting loose.
Which one is standing out to you?
Well one says can I have plasma daddy? Which is actually a valid question.
Yeah, yeah. I haven't had any of Talmage's plasma because Talmadge is my. My biomarkers are very similar so I don't get any benefit. However, I'm very willing to give dad more plasma and he his. Okay, here's a marker for you. His speed of aging which is the clock inside your body and how fast you age slowed down by the equivalent of 25 years. So he was aging at the rate of a 71 year old down to a 46 year old and that maintained for six months. And this was because he was experiencing a precipitous decline of his cognitive abilities and he has bounced back. So you know, that's got to be pretty terrifying. I mean a lot of, a lot of you are not in that state of your life, but you can imagine if you were in that situation, it'd be a pretty bad spot. So it was a pretty big deal for my dad to be able to bounce back that, that well. Yeah. So kids, take care of your parents. Yes. Thanks D. That's you. Thanks D.
Rich, what was Brian like as a kid? And like make sure you speak up because it's his little.
Yeah, like what parts about him now.
Yeah.
Would people like, what were parts of him about a kid that people don't see in him now?
Maybe. Well, he. Cute little, cute little kid, but he had a, he had a. What would you say?
Rambunctious.
A rambunctious. Rambunctious. He, he had the ability. When he got, when he got really tired, we used to encourage that to keep him up because in that like half hour hour when maybe he should have taken a nap, he would just go crazy. I mean he just so energetic and not just energy thought things. I mean I remember being on the boat and there's, there's this little five, six, seven year old trying on water skis and I mean it's just. Yeah, he's always had that gear.
He's still pretty rambunctious.
Yeah.
Just a different ways.
Yeah, yeah.
Uncontrolled Tamish. Someone asks, what are you studying right now?
The plan is to study computer science and math. I've always found it easier to understand the world through numbers and those are the only classes I ever enjoyed in high school. But at the same time, it's very hard to know what to do right now with AI and what's going to be valued. So even though I'm saying I'm studying math and computer science, I also don't know what's going to be valued. So it just seems like a valuable skill set to build right now.
Brian, what was the scene in the documentary that you remember the most?
I actually want to ask each of you that question.
You want to go first, dad?
No, you go first.
You go first.
Oh man.
I'll go first.
I'll go first.
I want to go first.
I want to go first. I want to go first.
We can go like down the line. That works.
Yep. It was rock, paper, scissors.
No, can you go first?
It was after the crying scene in Target. That whole scene in Target. And then when you walk outside and you're standing there with a trolley and you're in like an all black outfit, I think you maybe are too. And Talmadge goes off into the distance or both of you go off into the distance on the trolley. And it felt like. It was. Felt like two kids walking up into their future after such an emotional rollercoaster as well. Yeah, that whole scene.
Okay. I actually don't want to go second. I mean.
Okay.
It's a false function.
Yep, yep, yep. There's one that keeps coming to mind. And it was the. The interview with you actually.
Yeah.
When they were asking you about your specific relationship with him. And I. I guess I haven't seen, like, I understand the relationship that he and I have, but sometimes it's very difficult to understand what his role would feel like in a father's term relationship. And it felt like you talking about it shed some light on that subject. Because I'm always around him. I always ask him questions. And there are also some questions that I haven't asked him. And so it felt like your answer definitely probed that part that I haven't seen on him before. So I got to see a new side of him, which I've never seen.
Yeah, for me, it was that moment when you were talking about jail and you said that no one else had come seen you. And I had just so much empathy for you, like what. What it's like to be you, what it must have felt like to be in that circumstance and to feel like, where is everybody? So I had very deep empathy.
Yeah, I'd have to say the same thing. It was a great summary of, like, the whole thing. Brian's always known better than anyone all my problems. And yet even as a kid, a teenager, and as an adult, he never took shots. It was never like, dad, clean up your act or what the hey. You know, it was always these subtle messages of I love you and you can do it, you know, and trying to reintroduce me into normal life, you know, it said it all. I mean, it's just been a constant for me in my life.
So.
Yeah. And it also showed that pivotal time we were able to turn it. I was able to man up a little bit and get the thing back on the road.
And now you're on blueprint. Never been as energetic in your life.
Like people.
Yeah, people don't even recognize you.
Yeah, yeah. It's. It's like I'm. That. I'm that story. I don't think Brian will say it with all kinds of disclaimers, but, you know, I. I don't have any aches or pains at all. I. You know, I work out six days a week. I am losing weight, weights, weighs the thing, but I've never. I've never scored better with regard to what I'm lifting and my endurance and anything than I am right now. And I'm.
I've.
I'm genuinely happy.
So happy.
I don't know what to do.
Real. Yeah.
Well, it's cool you're doing it even at your age. Like, most people, I think when they get to a certain point, they're like, oh, what's the point? But it's cool that you're basically saying, no.
Yeah, that's a great point. I'm just saying that. I keep telling you guys, you're missing the mark going for, you know, young people. I mean, nothing's more important to us.
Right.
If there's anyone out there in my age group than living today without pain, not being stuck on the couch or in the chair, it's more important I have that day than him. You know, he can have a bad day. Never has them. So, yeah, if it. If it tabulates and I get another year, six months or whatever, but I'm having a heck of a day today, and if I can have that day tomorrow, pretty good.
I have a question for you. Is there anything that you felt like was missing in the documentary that was not covered, that you wish were was?
Yeah, I mean, the. The larger objective of this, like, why I'm doing this, it. It did get over a little bit in terms of health and wellness. It did touch also on the idea of an algorithm. Runs me better than I can myself. So it did touch on these philosophical principles, but it probably could have done a lot more. But like the doc, you have to keep the message very simple. You can only hit so many topics. So I thought it really did a fantastic job getting what it did. But, yeah, the. Like, I think a lot of. A lot of us humans, we want to go work on epic things. We want to feel energized and, like, just go. And I think don't die does that. It's not just about going to bed on time. It really is, like, the most epic thing we can do as a species. Yeah. So, like, just a bit more firepower so that people, like, felt that visceral burn that it hits that, like, if you want to. If you want to go to war, you know, like, this is the. Like, we're building an army to go to war with death and its causes. So that kind of fiery spirit, which is what I feel.
Are you guys using AI? I feel like even the last couple days, I am. The more and more I use it, the more and more I am blown away at how much it can do with the same level of competence as a fantastic human in a job. And I think what we're working on is we're walking into a very intense, potentially scary future. What do we do as a species? There's nothing that galvanizes us as one big community. And so don't die is our attempt to say in the face of all this uncertainty, here's one philosophy that we think might be able to kind of get us to, like, scrape by and stay alive as a species, individually, collectively, on the planet and with AI. And so, yeah, like, have you guys been using AI? It's. It's pretty amazing how capable it is.
Yeah.
It just constantly keeps surprising at how much it can do.
Yeah. Someone asked if I want my don't die shirt on on me when I die.
Oh, I mean, that's pretty good.
That's a question I want to ask you.
I mean. Yes. Because at this point, at this, at this point, Brian Johnson is an idea. I'm no longer a person. I'm just an idea. So, yeah, also, like, what a cool.
Headstone that would be. Don't die. Just a headstone.
But there's death.
Yeah, Yeah. I mean, like my entire existence is basically now two words. Yeah.
Yep.
Yeah, Right.
Like, it doesn't really matter. Like in with my life, it does not matter. Whatever I do, it's happened. It's insignificant. Yeah. Like my obituary is written.
Yeah.
Two words, basically, like, yeah, yeah.
I wonder if you will be able to one up die. It's possible. Like, give yourself, you know, another 80 years, there might be another zero. You can find another genius idea.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
Yeah.
You know, I love the idea when Brian says, the only thing we can all agree on is don't die. And I've challenged him several times. Is there one more thing we all can agree to? We don't die. And then, like, don't do this. Don't jump off a cliff. Go to that next level. No, there's nothing we can all agree on other than don't die. Wouldn't it be amazing if we found that one thing? So now that we haven't died. Now let's do this as a species. That would be.
And it's like right now when you first said, don't die, like, barely anyone could understand what it was. And now we're trying to think of the next thing. Even that is if don't die is hard to understand, then whatever's after is even harder.
You guys, I'm drinking water for those of you who are asking.
Yeah, we should live in the comment section for a bit.
Yeah, yeah. On hearing, hearing loss. No. We've tried everything to fix hearing loss with zero success. Maybe others have. We have looked at a few gene therapies. They're too early. So sadly. So, you guys, here's a tip for you. When you go to any kind of social environment, have an app on your phone which measures the decibels. And if it's above 80, put earplugs in. So above 80, you're going to have hearing damage. So I was at an event, like, a week ago inside a room. It was 105 decibels. You know, people like, you're screaming to talk to each other. Yeah. You have to get next to the person and scream in their ear. So don't do that. So always know sound levels, because once you lose your hearing, you can't get it back. And that really stinks, huh? Yeah. Yeah. Someone's saying Voldemort. What are they saying? You guys, man. So much. If Talmage dies, everyone dies.
Should we test that theory?
Okay. For hearing loss. Talmage, can you fix my broken heart?
Yes.
What's your advice?
Oh.
Someone just went through a breakup.
Someone did break up.
Thinking about it. Okay. Yeah. Wild town. We just think about this. A few tips for you guys on hair loss. So first, don't. I actually have.
I actually have an answer.
Oh, you do? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Are you getting enough sleep?
That's.
That's a good idea.
Yeah.
Oftentimes, like, when people have issues in life or they're just, like, emotionally all over the place, the first line of defense is, oh, I need a medication, or I need to soothe it through some pleasurable lice.
Ice cream in a tub.
Yep, exactly. And so now that. But oftentimes sleep is the beginning. Like, that's after sleep. Like, once you get a good night of sleep, it's very hard to look at the world. That's a dim view.
Okay.
Your hair question.
Go for it now. Yeah. So you guys, do not wait to begin losing your hair. Start early because your hair follicles begin diminishing in your early 20s, if not sooner. So there's a few things you can do. One, start 5% minoxidil and do it one time per day. I was doing it twice per day and my DHT levels got very high. So just if you're doing it twice a day, just measure your blood levels, make sure it doesn't get too high. So one time today per day for 5% minoxidil. And then we have now a blueprint hair serum coming out. We've been working on this for the past 18 months. We've been using growth factors that we get out of South Korea. So it's eight growth factors. You apply it on your head. Then you put a red light, red light therapy hat on your head so with 312 laser diodes for six minutes. And I do those two things every day. And yeah, my hair is thicker now than I think it was in my early 20s so it's grown back substantially and I was, I was like almost bald. So we've tried a lot of things over the past couple years. PRP did not work very well, which is, that's true with what the literature says is it has mixed results. But don't get behind. Start now. Do those two things. So blueprint stuff will be out in like two months. But it's been my, my favorite thing. I think it's worked the best. On pollution. You guys just be very mindful. So look up iqair.com and find the air quality in your area and be aware of PM2.5. That is a contaminant that lodges in the body very hard to get out. So the WHO standard is 5. If it's above 5, be wary and potentially wear a mask. When I was in India it was really, really bad. Like the PM 2.5 was like 130. And the thing is nobody wore a mask. Everyone was so normalized to it. So be very mindful of your environment. LA has very bad air quality. So we monitor air quality in every room in the house and have filters everywhere. So we try to maintain like an absolutely perfect environment. Is this helpful you guys, or do you want other stuff? Dad, what do you think about this.
Deer in the headlights? I mean this is so new to me.
I.
I don't know.
Yeah, I. With enhanced games, I am an investor and I work very closely. I just signed their declaration. So yes, I'm a big supporter of enhanced games.
Can you see my comment?
You made a comment.
It goes so quickly. There's so many comments. There's no way to Keep up.
Yeah, it's on microplastics. So we have a test at Blueprint you can do at home. Finger prick and see where your microplastic levels are. Our colleague recently, he did a microplastics test for baseline. He went and gave blood at Red Cross and his microplastic levels reduced by 93%. So we're building the world's best database, I guess the biggest database in the world of microplastics. And we're also learning which things lower microplastics. So we are going to try to take the chart, going to try to lead the world in microplastic works and we are going to announce something in the next week or two which I think will be exciting. So we're on it.
Stem cell therapy, Someone asked about that.
Yeah.
What about information like what's the, what's been the results?
Yeah.
Oh. So so far no results from the stem cell therapy. I measured my joints with a six month MRI and no detectable results. So inconclusive. Next measurement protocol is 12 months. So it wasn't immediate and it wasn't drastic. If the changes are happening, it's very subtle. So tbd. How do politics intersect with don't die? Do you want to take a few.
Don'T die says yes to it or don't die? It's don't die is like an underlying framework for everything. So politics is an afterthought of don't die. So you first have don't die and then after that you can build on top of it. But if you start with anything more than don't die, we're going to branch out into 8 billion different directions. So don't die like we were talking about earlier is the proposal for how we can band together as a species to get some level of cooperation to get us through this incredibly unpredictable and intense time. There's also a reality where like politics, like there are certain politicians who want to have regions or districts that are more don't die. Like you could assign a score to that district and then people would vote based upon how don't die that district is. So it's really cool how you can.
Build off of it. Kate, Brian, what's on your mind in life?
Would you prefer a different kind of question?
No. If you have one, I'm down to answer it. I mean Brian and I are pretty hands on building blueprint and I think scaling that business is pretty much a thing that's like constantly in my mind. Like we've got so much to do all the time. We're both kind of doing multiple jobs, so that's. That takes up a lot of my mental energy.
Yeah.
Oh, man. It would be. So I was thinking about as I was going to sleep last night, when we have the capacity to truly push forward on, like, don't die as a philosophy. Like, people think that we, we're in this to like, make money and do this business and that kind of stuff. We're genuinely trying to make high quality foods available for everyone. Like, we have this problem where we test what's out there in the market. Like, even if you go to Whole Foods and you think it's gonna be healthy, which has to. It comes back unhealthy, we're left with this deficit. We want healthy food too. And so getting Blueprint up and running, like, it's probably the first food company on market that is actually trustworthy, where you can just like pick up something from it and know that you're getting nutrition and not the bad stuff. And so for us, it's like, we genuinely want people out there to have that. At the same time, it takes up so much of our time and energy that it takes us away from talking about the philosophy and building this in society, which is actually what both of us are passionate about. And how this whole project started to begin with, it was there's one big social experiment, one big scientific experiment, and we're kind of like in the day to day trying to build a business. And so I'm very eager to, like, push that forward so that we can go out and like, spread them.
That is very true, you guys. And I would add on what Kate said, this is going to be a little unnerving, but I think I should probably share it the. When I go to the grocery store now because, you know, we spent last year in 2024, a few hundred thousand dollars testing foods. We've tested everything. Raw ingredients, like off the shelf ingredients, packaging. And the food system is terrifyingly toxic. There's so many, like, heavy metals and other things in the food. So now when I go to the store, I. I only want to eat Blueprint. I literally only trust the stuff we source, test, and manufacture ourselves. The same issue with Talmage, like, we, we just don't trust anything out there in the world. Kate, I think you're probably the same now.
Yeah.
Like, we've all seen the data.
Yeah. Or like, I know that when I'm eating something, it's gonna be toxic. And that's like the hard part. It's kind of like my relationship with the sun has changed also because it's like now I know when I go out in the sun I'm getting sun damage. So I'm just very careful about my relationship with sun and now I'm very careful about my relationship with food. So.
So, guys, don't worry. We've got you. Yeah, we are trying to. Because we're trying to get every calorie ourselves from our own sources, our own manufacturing, own testing. So we're trying to make it available to you. So like K said, we are doing this because we feel like it's important, but honestly, we'd much rather be doing don't die and building that movement. So hopefully we get there soon. But just so you know, you have.
Context, are pizza rolls okay?
So, yeah, if you buy pizza rolls at the store, it's probably like five layers of problems.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I probably wouldn't do pizza rolls.
Yeah, if you're, if you're starting with pizza rolls, the best next place to go would be try to avoid foods heavy in oils, if you can manage that. So no fried foods, no things cooked in oils. Like even things like sweet potato, if it's been drenched in oil and then put in the oven, it's not as great. So if you can avoid oils, then the next step after that would be avoid added sugars. So check the back of the package. Usually most foods it's like the second ingredient is cane sugar. And so if you can avoid those two things, you're off to a really good start and you can start to increase in complexity.
Should we wrap?
That sounds good.
You guys, I'm sorry, there's so many questions here that we didn't get to. And I'm sorry, Kate, there's a lot of comments about you.
It's a lot, a lot.
People like, who is that? Is that Talmadge's girlfriend? Brian's girlfriend, Rich's girlfriend In another world.
Well, it's nice to meet you all. Appreciate it being here.
This is like the first like family stream.
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thanks for hanging out, you guys. And if you haven't seen the documentary, go check it out. It's on Netflix.
It's global.
We filmed for a year and then we had to patiently wait for another year for it to finally get released and we didn't have any creative control. And so for us it was a really nerve wracking experience to put ourselves, our hearts on the line and then to just sit and be like, okay, what story is going to get out there? And so I think we're all really happy with how it turned out. And, you know, it's. It's about relationships and it's really beautiful and a lot of people are very touched by it because I think a lot of us can relate to the experience of having loved ones, the aging process, and then how that trend intersects with looking after yourselves and looking after your loved ones. So, yeah, it's pretty heartwarming.
Dad. Thanks for hanging out.
Thank you. Thank you. Great being here with everyone today. It's really special for me.
Yeah.
Yeah. I was gonna say it's like the trigenerational plasma exchange or the. The documentary or the live stream. Like, they're all just not typical ways to get closer.
Yeah.
And does it.
Yeah.
New experience unlocked.
Yes.
Yes.
You guys go to don't die.com and become a don't die citizen. Pledge that you're going to go to war with death with us. So be a part of this movement. Go get your citizenship. It's a permissionless nft. We built it on Solana. So do that. We're going to do more things as a community, but join. Download the don't die apple. Yeah. So it's a great way to. Your body posts data via wearables. So join the app. Join the community. Hang out there. I'm there. Talma's there, Kate's there. Dad, are you on the don? Not yet.
Also, you guys, you're hearing the don't die.com citizenship before anyone else. And the cool thing about that is that you get a sequential number. And so as OGs of our community, you'll get the early numbers in citizensh. So if you go to jointi.com, you'll be able to claim that and claim your spot as well.
All right, thanks, guys.
Bye, everybody.
Bye.
Go to bed on time.
Yeah, that should be the one takeaway from this. Go to bed on time. Good night.
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