Bryan Johnson, a self-described "professional rejuvenation athlete," takes 100 to 111 pills daily as part of his Blueprint protocol to slow aging. The regimen costs about $11 a day, batches supplements like rapamycin and ashwagandha by timing, and adjusts based on hundreds of biomarkers tracked over two years. Johnson stresses this is experimental and requires medical consultation, not a universal prescription.
Hi, my name is Brian Johnson and I am a professional rejuvenation athlete. Like Magellan who circumnavigated the globe, or Shackleton that tried to traverse the South Pole, I am a modern day explorer searching for the fountain of youth. Not for the purpose of living indefinitely, but so that we can each be our very best self. And as part of this journey, I take a lot of supplements. My team and I set out to ask the question, what is possible right now with slowing our speed of aging and reversing it? To do that, we've designed a protocol for sleep and exercise and diet and also 111 supplements. In this video we're going to explain to you what I take, when I take them and why. I've spent millions of dollars building this protocol and I've shared it all freely. It's important I share with you that before you do anything, you should probably speak with your doctor. Yeah, a lot of people are pretty confused that I can take this many supplements in a given day. For example, this is my morning pills. If I end up dying from taking pills, this guy is going to be the culprit. All my pills are put in these tins and my team does this once every two weeks. So we do 28 tins at a time. It's easier to batch process all this. And these tins make it very easy to transport around. The number of pills we take changes on a regular basis. Sometimes it's 111, sometimes it's 104. It depends upon what data we receive. So we have a protocol put in place, we do a whole bunch of measurements, we look at the data and we determine whether it's appropriate to continue. Just completely eliminate. Some pills I take, I take every day. Sometimes I take them twice a day, sometimes I take once every two weeks. For example, rapamycin. So each pill has a different frequency and a different protocol. So every morning upon waking I take these 60 plus pills. You can find on my website a list of all of these. I'm going to walk you through a few of them. This is Ashwagandha. It helps with anti anxiety, improve cortisol management, improve sleep and increase testosterone. 600 milligrams once a day. This is calcium alpha ketoglutarate. I'm sorry, what? Calcium alpha ketoglutarate. I take it for an improved frailty index. This is epa. It's good for liver enzymes, the arteries. We are watching and measuring for DHA production. As I'm on caloric restriction, 500 milligrams of cocoa flavanols. It's for heart and brain health. This is hyaluronic acid. 300 milligrams a day for joint health. Garlic I take for liver enzymes and cholesterol management. I also eat garlic as part of my super veggie. On a daily basis, the creature is repelled by garlic turmeric. One gram a day. I take it for inflammation joints and liver. I've yet to choke on pills, Although I think several haters are hoping that I choke on the pills. It'll be pretty ironic, but I'm going to show you how I take them. About 20 ounces of water. Typically I'll just do it about three different goes. First one down, second one. I'm not even sure what happens in my mouth. You know, just like I just put it in. It's like, all right, everyone get in line. We're gonna go down. This is it. This is not destiny. Last one. Here we go. That was 43 of the hundred I take. On a given day before bed, I take dhea and my melatonin supplement. Melatonin specifically I get a lot of questions on. So my team has looked at the evidence behind melatonin. They, they think it's relevant for me to take. So I do. So we measure things accordingly. What I have found in my efforts of trying to become a professional rejuvenation athlete is almost no anti aging scientist agrees with another anti aging scientist. They all have their different opinions. So what I take is based upon my team's analysis, the evidence and the measurements we get from my body. It's why we generate hundreds of biomarkers. We're trying to see if what we're doing is working or not. Here is our supplement supply closet. I'd say it's personally extremely satisfying where you see the structure and organization of what we're doing and then you get a test result and you see the actual effect in the body. It's really a satisfying process. The 111 pills I take daily now are around $11. That's per day. And the objective of blueprint is to be on the frontier of slowing my speed of aging and reversing aging damage. So these are not required for everyone. This is just a template of if somebody wants to be on the outer edge of the frontier, this is the best we're doing right now. If you look at the thousands of measurements we've taken over two years and ran our process from evidence to protocol to data continually, all the data is telling the same story. I'm potentially the most measured person in human history. And so that's interesting where you say there's a bunch of opinions about health and wellness, about what to eat, what not to eat, what supplements to take. And then you have this where we just have this enormous amount of data and these results. Some other criticisms people will make is they'll say, okay, he takes 100 pills, therefore that means his diet is garbage. Or they'll say, that means that a vegan diet is bad. Or it means that he needs meat, or it means that Blueprint is agnostic. And so Blueprint says nothing about plants or meat. It's simply a process to say we can look at evidence, we can design a protocol, we can look at data. And so I am a vegan by choice, not by necessity. So if somebody can achieve this without supplements, wonderful. This is not a situation where Blueprint is pro. Supplements as the only way of doing things. It's a way of doing things. Do you need to take 100 pills a day to be healthy? No. You can do so many of the basics like sleep and exercise and just having a good diet and get the majority of benefits. Hey, everyone. I hope you enjoyed this video. I really enjoyed making it. I'm happy I didn't choke on the pills on camera. That would have been really embarrassing. I hope it's helpful. I hope it pushes the conversation forward in a productive way. If you want to learn more about it, watch this next video.
