Bryan Johnson lost facial fat from getting lean, and people online hated how it made him look older. His team learned that once that fat is gone, it's nearly impossible to get back. He sees it as a trade-off of pursuing extreme health optimization.
Getting that lean, I lost a lot of fat in my face. And it turns out when you lose a lot of fat in your face, you look older. And so this is, in part why, when I shared a bunch of images of my face on the Internet, a war broke out, because people were like, hey, you had so much more fat on your face before. You have much less fat. I want more fat. There's really a big trade off when you're working on health and wellness. There's not one thing you do that's universally good. And so we're really trying to explore the frontiers of science, and we're just following the data, but. But learning a lot as we go. That face fat is important. If you eliminate it, it's very hard to get it back.
