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there you go there you go good job good job Brian Johnson the tech entrepreneur who sold venmo for $800 million has spent a fortune on a quest to stay young forever don't die is the general theme of what we're trying to do it's Humanity's only objective he's been open about spending an average of $2 million a year on some of the world's most exclusive health treatments we definitely have rejected modern society's approach on food so yeah like it is a pharmacy in here some scientists have called his goals unachievable and his methods risky they didn't

know what to call me like a tech bro or a biohacker they would be like that's a crazy eccentric billionaire and I wanted to say just like you view LeBron James who spends a lot of money on his body when he performs well in the court we say good job LeBron when someone else spends money on their health and wellness you want to dunk on them and I wanted to change CH the perception that I am a professional Rejuvenation athlete we wanted to understand what's it really like and why is he doing it so come

with us now we're going to go take a look oh my God I feel like a bug now I want to know like what's in Brian Johnson's fridge yeah let's do it okay so what do we have in here these are plasmalogens this is a prescription these are prescriptions this is a microbiome product these are my meals so I have a chef that comes to the house once a week nice and she prepares food for 3 or 4 days so this is my nutty pudding so I ate a lot of broccoli a lot of cauliflower

actually my fridge is like 50% therapies yeah and the other is like 50% vegetables and fruits Johnson's diet includes 70 lbs of vegetables each month he says he takes in about 1,977 calories a day and every calorie must serve a purpose for his longevity goals a lot of people perceive my Endeavor to be like this crazy rich guy doing weird things actually what we're doing is very practical I was trying to become the healthiest person on planet Earth and I couldn't do that unless I started testing all my Foods today we're going to test 10

Supermarket chocolates and determine how good or bad they are For You in September Johnson said blueprint his longevity company that sells supplements powdered drink mixes and meals spent $50,000 testing its foods for things like microplastics and heavy metals we both know that in society it's very hard to be healthy you go to work you have to pass by 20 fast food places there's snacks that are not good for you we wanted to try to create a food protocol that made healthy decisions easy we basically like we've taken the ingredients that have the highest potential for

robustness on aging and made it in some easy Pleasant to consume format and so now with this dish this is like a superfood superfood food superfood cuz now you've got nuts berries proteins chocolate extra olive oil all sourced from like some of the best in the entire world in one dish Johnson sells the pudding for $94 a pack or about 331 per serving I'm excited for you to taste it it's almost like um almost like a oatmeal or something yeah and then one final thing is now add the 100% pure cocoa okay this is like

a generous amount of cocoa yeah so that's 6 g a day I like it isn't that great mhm this like your dinner yeah so at the dinners I serve this because it usually is a crowd favorite in an effort to reduce his biological age and get better sleep Johnson abides by a rather unconventional eating schedule his last meal of the day is around 11:00 a.m. this is a morning drink this is blueprint longevity mix and it has 20 capsules into one drink this is what you drink before you eat anything else first thing in the

morning smells kind of like Tang okay it's not very sweet but it's like kind of fruity mhm what's the fruity flavor like Berry uh blood orange it's designed to function kind of like a daily multivitamin it contains more than 275% of the recommended daily vitamin C allowance for adults plus magnesium and ashwagandha all this to supposedly give you more energy support a healthy metabolism and Aid recovery from daily stressors like sports it costs 163 per serving I feel like I'm still getting used to the taste but it's not unpleasant I personally love this drink it's

like one of my favorite moments every day we're here in Brian Johnson's Pantry there's some snake oil in here that's right snake oil is the tongue and cheek branding for Johnson's very first product which he debuted in 2020 3 it's actually just extra virgin olive oil a single bottle costs $35 roughly three times the price of similar options you'd find at the grocery store we're curious to know you obviously are very famous for taking so many different supplements um do you have like a favorite that you feel is like the best bang for the buck

or is that not really how the system works it's really a bunch of things yeah it's really everything in its proper amount mhm is the right way and so that's what we've tried to do we just simply said what has the best evidence and what will do the most good and then we just put it together these are my exact pills Johnson says he takes more than 100 pills a day he says this cost him around $1 each day or more than 4,000 a year but experts say when it comes to supplements more isn't necessarily

better most longevity doctors recommend adding supplements to a person's routine one at a time and then carefully measuring the effect keeping a close eye on how each compound interacts with a person's diet lifestyle and medication and whether it's actually showing some benefit now before we go up the stairs the risk of falling on stairs is so significant and if you fall it can be the most detrimental thing to your to your lifespan a nice test of biological age is how many steps you can take in any given moment and still maintain your balance so typically

we take one step you can extend a two extend a three but if you try three then you have to basically extend a certain amount you have to Main main balance and then avoiding using the the guardrail and so it gives people like just a general intuition like how is their body doing pretty impressive I'm not going to lie let's try okay I guess I have to go for three even though I feel like two is the safe yeah so if if you want to be safe and do two that's also just fine I got

long legs though oh my gosh this is not happening yeah two is good I'm so tempted by the three there you go there you go good job good job thank you um I feel my heart racing do you feel like your heart pound a little after that no not at all all right before you come into the clinic yeah you need to read a warning sign may cause loss of age that's right so just be aware that that is a risk so we try to be like a full medical grade Clinic we just want to

use data and Science and so everything you see in here is either measuring something or doing a therapy this measures the biological age of skin this is skin Rejuvenation this is whole body measurement with ultrasound this is cold air which is like an anesthesia when we do things on the face that are very painful this is electromagnetic therapy to basically do 20,000 sit-ups in 30 minutes that's red light therapy and then the closet over there we have all the supplies to do blood draw blood spinach a whole bunch of other therapies these are all medical

devices some are used to diagnose health conditions others treat sports injuries and Aid with rehab or use postpartum but they're not generally used as preventative care tools the way Brian is using them here so for example this is medical grade ultrasound yeah a lot of people are familiar with that looking at babies in the womb you can also use ultrasound looking at the entire body all your joints the pancreas the hips the bladder the brain the lungs the heart so we routinely measure my body with ultrasound this is a portable sound machine and generally costs

anywhere from $15,000 to $40,000 Physicians say this is a great basic tool but it's not something people need to use all the time and not necessarily that useful for improving longevity this device is a Skin Therapy okay so it helps increase elastin and collagen so as you age you lose collagen and you lose elastin which means the skin sags and wrinkles so you're trying to combat those effects with this therapy experts say this kind of radio frequency Skin Therapy is kind of like a facelift without the surgery firming and lifting sagging skin by triggering production

of new skin cells through heat because the device makes your skin hot there is a risk of redness swelling and even burning do you like put this wand on your face so yeah this one is for the body so this actually gets rid of excess fat oh wow whereas this one is a face applicator where you have a much a smaller f focal point oh interesting it's called ultrasonic cavitation and the Machine is supposed to break apart fat deposits Under the Skin using ultrasound frequencies it's supposed to be like a non-invasive lipo section but studies

on how well it actually works are still mixed and then this is a professional hearing grade system so I have hearing loss in my left ear equal to a 64y old so from 4,000 Hertz to 12,000 Hertz I'm basically deaf and so I miss out on so much of life's experiences because I can't hear in that range not can hear conversation I can hear music but there are specific sounds in those ranges so we've been trying very hard to restore hearing with no success yeah so some success in doing some things in the body other

things we just have not succeeded at we bought these panels uh for $600 per panel okay so very affordable so if you want to try this yeah okay so you can just step in here watch your feet as you step in and just want to be equal distance from both okay how often do you do this daily it's it's wonderful it's soothing all right I'm going to put on these glasses oh my God I feel like a bug I can't see a thing okay so I'm now going to turn the lights on okay and so

I'm going to do four one wow two 3 four oh it's super warm and how long do you spend in here rough ly 3 to 6 minutes a day okay and so I'll do frontal facing and then I'll turn and do side facing yeah and it helps with um recovery it helps with energy there's even clinical studies to show it helps on mood so it's really multifaceted and just generally a good health practice and I've heard it's good for wound healing that's correct yeah doing it daily uh is a really nice compliment after working out

yeah almost feels like a sauna Yes red light therapy is a real technique that's used for wound healing but Brian's machine here probably isn't very effective experts say your skin should not heat up the objective is whole body wellness and so now you I think you're starting to get a an idea like if you were to spend a day with me and we were to um eat all the foods we have and exercise and these therapies you could see how it would be possible you'd feel better so this is why you know I've never felt

better better in my entire life I've never felt more stable I've never been less affected by stress or by insult I'm just good with everything and that wasn't the case before you know it was like it was a very emotionally Rocky and turbulent life Johnson has also invested in upgrades to a $6.8 million home to achieve his longevity goals he installed UV filters on his windows put an air purification device in every room and he has the filtered water tested on a routine basis this is my happy place so 1 hour every day I spend

in the gym doing uh you know a variety of exercises maybe over over 40 so a lot of people focus in the gym like building big muscles yeah and I'm trying to be fast I'm trying to be flexible I'm trying to be able to do everything I can in life so get up the stairs exactly so just like if if you if my kids want to play a game of basketball I can play it if we want to race I can race if I want to jump high jump high so I'm really trying to maintain

ability and so I'll give you a couple of examples yeah like if you want to come over here okay and you want to put your feet here so you have toes at the end and then just come down and do a deep squat all the way down yep and then come back up so try to keep your your hips y straight and then you go all the way down and try to get your knees sit down as far as you can okay that's as far as I think that's as far as I can yeah then

come back up and then push the pelvis forward there you go and then go down again all the way down as far as you can let me watch you do it one more time have your hamstrings touching so you go down like just fully sit so these are like there's no space between the hamstrings you're just fully seated down okay so a deep deep squat oh yeah I see I'm like I got to work on my uh yeah which is like totally expected because like you're doing things you don't do on a daily basis so

totally natural I just do a lot of things that focus on my flexibility my range of motion throughout the gym so I'm showing you things that are hard okay just to highlight so we spend the majority of our time in a seated position you know we're at our desks and so this muscle our muscles here get pretty tight yeah and so if you were to stretch these muscles this is called a couch stretch you have this leg here and this leg back and you have this leg up against the wall mhm so straight 90 you

can go forward and stretch it and just straight up here but you feel this stretch through here oh yeah and so if you want to try that okay so like that oh my gosh yeah so just you make it look so easy yeah just slow step your way into this so in time what you'd want to do is push this all the way back to the wall but don't push it too hard then as you get more flexible you can go back even further straighten it and then go all the way back yeah I I

mean I don't even need to move I feel it already I understand is that why you beat me on the stairs 100% 100% I think a lot of people are maybe confused or curious about what I do so don't die is like the general theme of what we're trying to do what I'm proposing is the next major ideology of the world