How Not to Die in 2025
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From the Free Press, this is Honestly, and I'm Barry Weiss. I've never quite had a conversation like the one I had today. Do you think that you're going to die?
No.
Really?
Yeah.
You think you're going to live forever?
Forever is not a concept the human mind can contemplate. But will we be able to radically extend life beyond our preconceived imaginations? Yes.
And that's with tech founder, centimillionaire, and the king of longevity, Brian Johnson.
Brian Johnson is a multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur and probably the world's most famous biohacker.
I'm Brian Johnson, that crazy tech guy who's asking if we could be the first generation to not die.
Brian Johnson is a tech entrepreneur. He once owned Venmo and sold it for nearly a billion dollars. Now he's spending that money to stay young.
Often called a vampire for doing the first multi-generational plasma transfusion with his father and son, he spends $2 million a year attempting to reverse the aging process.
I have been spending millions of dollars for the past three years working to slow my speed of aging. Today I'm going to show you one of my favorite meals called Super Veggie. It's a delicious- I take around 30 pills for breakfast and around 20 pills for lunch. My diaphragm is 18, my heart's 37, my cardiovascular capacity is in the top 1.5% in 18 year olds. As a species, we accept our inevitable decay, decline, and death. I want to argue that the opposite should be true.
Now, going into it, I knew it was going to be an unusual conversation. If you haven't heard of Brian or watched the new Netflix documentary about him, it's called Don't Die, The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Brian is a person who has given over his whole life and his body to the science of longevity. It means he's essentially turned himself into a human lab rat. undergoing hundreds of tests and studies on every human biomarker imaginable to discover the best ways to stop the process of human aging, or maybe even to age in reverse. What he does is unconventional, to say the least. He eats dinner at 11 a.m. He has swapped blood with his 17-year-old son, just to name two of the hundreds of things that I had never heard of a person doing before.
So I knew it was going to be one of the weirder conversations I've ever had on this show. What I didn't anticipate was that it was going to be challenging in a deeper way. What do you think I think the idea of being human is?
So this is a very common disposition where most people respond to these questions and say, if I don't have my autonomy and authority and free will, I don't know if I want to exist. That's a very common reaction.
Brian, do you think being human is a social construct?
I think our ideas of being human and consciousness are going to change beyond our ability to comprehend in just a very short period of time. I think it will change so dramatically, we will be unrecognizable from our current state. So I am unattached to any conceptions of what I have right now as a conscious being.
That we'd get to talking about the fundamental meaning and purpose of life. And that I'd feel challenged about what I know and believe to be true. Because it's not just that Brian wants to live forever. It's that he believes, agree with it or not, that we're at the bleeding edge of a new kind of reality. He thinks he's akin to Amelia Earhart or Ernest Shackleton, and that he's on the frontier of something big, something that will change everything about humanity as we know it. Today on Honestly, Brian Johnson tells us about why he's not going to die. Stay with us. Are you ready to make better sleep your New Year's resolution? Cozy Earth can help you do that.
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