Bryan Johnson discovered bilateral jugular vein stenosis, a narrowing of veins draining blood from his brain caused by his posture. MRI scans showed his brain had aged to that of a 60-year-old, putting him at immediate risk of stroke or death. His team pivoted to reverse the blockage.
I didn't know if I was going to have a stroke. I didn't know if I was going to have a seizure. I didn't know if I was going to die. Last year, I found out about something that was nearly going to kill me. I had bilateral jugular vein stenosis. These pipes on the side of my neck which drain blood from my brain were blocked. My posture was blocking almost all the blood flow like this. What was happening is because it was. It wasn't straight. I have some indications in my brain that showed that bad things were happening. My white matter hyper intensities were very high for my age. They aged my brain in my mid to late 60s. And then we looked at the posture and you could see that I had blockage. And so I didn't know if I was going to have a stroke. I didn't know if I was going to have a seizure. I didn't know if I was going to die. But it was very serious that we found this thing. And so we, the entire blueprint team reoriented the focus and we said, we're going to solve this thing.
