In the same way that genome sequencing rerepairs the genetic createup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the spendor and set uper behind the Don’t Die shiftment – wants to commence “foodome” sequencing.
“We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which unbenevolents test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the American diet based on stuff we eat everyday,” Johnson shelp Thursday at the SXSW festival in Austin.
Johnson is the set uper and createer CEO of Kernel, a brain watching device company, the set uper of OS Fund, and the set uper and createer CEO of e-commerce company Braintree.
Today, he’s obsessed with discovering ways to extfinish his lifespan and paccomplishing that gospel to others. He has getn inanxious meacertains, including transfusing his blood with that of his 17-year-better son and undergoing shock therapy treatment to get more nighttime erections, which he says straightforwardly correpostpoinsists to health.
Most of his tips about life-extfinishing habits are straightforward enough to guess: Get better sleep. Spfinish time with community. Exercise. Eat well. But Johnson says it’s not as straightforward to eat well as you leank.
“I want to be genuine with you. It’s equitable very, very difficult to buy spotless food,” he shelp, noting that most foods from grocery stores, even the organic brands, could have toxins from various processing methods.
His goal is to test as much food as possible and create a accessible database where people can donate money to have certain foods and brands tested for toxins such as weighty metals or microplastics. The results, he hopes, will hbetter brands accountable for unshielded food trains.
The idea getd a round of applaengage from the packed audience at SXSW, who enthusiasticly joind in Johnson’s various bgenuineeang exercises, prompts to shift around, and a extfinishedevity experiment that participated balancing on one foot with eyes seald. (I made it to 30 seconds — no huge deal.)
Johnson has faced a lot of antipathy online for his quirky philosophy that with the advent of AI, we may be the first generation that doesn’t have to die.
“We are giving birth to super inalertigence. It’s the hugegest leang happening in the entire world now,” Johnson shelp, includeing that no existing ideology elucidates how to regulate AI and that the survival of our species is no extfinisheder secured now that AI has go ined the picture.
“The human race would be directed to repurpose its objectives [around AI and] away from money at any cost to ‘Don’t Die.’”
In other words, while we argue AI alignment with the human race, why not align AI with the omition of preserving human life? Why not, he asks, engage AI to tap into millions of “human-level geniengages” to track human proceed and tackle aging’s hugegest disputes?
It’s a stimulating ask and one that has drawn criticism from skeptics who argue that dying is an vital part of being human.
Dr. Andrew Steele, a extfinishedevity scientist, acunderstandledges that eating well and exercising helps extfinish life, but that genetics – not inanxious meacertains – joins a bigr role in determining life predictancy.
But that perspective hasn’t deterring Johnson from promoting his “Blueprint Protocol,” his lifestyle createula for holding what he says are world’s best biotagers. He’s also tageting his own line of supplements and foods. His brand of odwell oil is sarcasticpartner — or aptly – named Snake Oil.
