Bryan Johnson‬

  • Founder and CEO at Kernel
  • Founder at OS Fund

Education

  • B.A. in International Studies – Brigham Young University (2003)

Affiliations

  • Kernel
  • OS Fund
  • Braintree

Research Focus

  • Human intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neuroscience

Connect

Key Contributions

  • Created Braintree, a payments company acquired by eBay as a part of PayPal for $800 million in 2013.
  • Founded OS Fund, which invests in companies that aim to rewrite the operating systems of life.
This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“One night of bad sleep reduces your NK cells by 70%. Your NK cells are what's killing cancer cells.”

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“My grandfather was full of lead, my parents are full of asbestos, and I'm full of microplastic. We think they're causing very serious health problems.”

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“We looked at every organ... you can say like I'm chronologically 47 years old but that's not really a useful number. It's like a general approximation then if you measure the heart you can say okay what is the biological age of the heart and you can then dissect that and say what is the structural age of the heart and then what is the functional age of the heart.”

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“now when I'm at social events I have this app on my phone deel where like last night I was at a social event and uh the room was 105 DB so anything over 80 can cause hearing damage so just in a social environment with people talking at in a voice that's like loud enough for the other person to hear you've got sustained ear damage”

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“it's been really sad to watch because it's completely changed her personality exactly and it's completely changed her ability to connect in a conversation”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 6:36 0
“we've tried for the past few years so we take all these measurements we say like what is the biological age of blank organ and then we say all right now we reviewed all the scientific literature that's out there how do you either slow down that speed of Aging or reverse aging damage”

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“we are making progress on age related decline even before a baby's conceived so now there's embryo selection”

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“we know from the evidence that you stay up for over 24 hours you're legally drunk like you're just as intoxicated had you consumed like your 0 zero way alcohol level”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“terrible sleep terrible diet I was depressed for 10 years so I was kind of obsessed with killing myself for 10 years and it was the most awful decade of existence”

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“in the average brain there's 50% more microplastics now than there was 10 years ago so it's it's increasing really really fast”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“in the average male testicle there's 8.2 milligrams of microplastics”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“women that have higher levels of BPA have had fewer eggs retrieved”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“don't drink out of plastic water bottles”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
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“there's no safe place anywhere for microplastics”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 21:01 0
“in one study they showed that a person who consumed canned soup for one week increase their their Levels by 20 fold just in one week.”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 21:32 0
“using cookware that have the stainless steel or cast iron instead of non-stick is really helpful”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 22:26 0
“the average plastic bottle has I think 200,000 microplastic particles something like that”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 23:51 0
“one night of bad sleep can I think it's 4 hours or less reduces your NK cells by 70% Your NK cells in K cells are was killing cancer cells”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 25:10 0
“he had it on his phone and he lives outside of the city of London so he's not really in the heart of London and he said that pollution score where my friend grew up where my wife grew up is around two like I think it's on a scale of Z to 100 yeah unless I'm wrong and he did it here in LA and it was 60 yes”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 26:08 0
“measure the air quality in every single room 24/7 so you're right like La air quality is typically around the 60 Mark which is like kind of bad but my house it's perfect it's zero”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 26:46 0
“I just have one filter per room and it does a great job taking down multiple contaminants.”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 27:58 0
“I took water that was from our filter system and water tap water I put it into a humidifier in my room I turned it on and then I measured the air quality based upon humidified tap water and filtered water the tap water set off all the alarms it was like danger zone something bad is happening”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 31:35 0
“when you have a bad night's sleep it's the same level as a traumatic brain injury and so like the body is responding as though you had a traumatic brain injury from one bad night sleep”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 32:00 0
“your sleep score has been 100% for the last 8 months what does that require I mean I wanted to like Emilia arhart flew a plane across the Atlantic you know there people went to the top of Everest went to the bottom of the ocean Shackleton was trying to do pull the pole I was like what would a modern day Explorer do like what is like an epic thing I thought no one has mastered sleep in human history right like we have no Quantified there's no like a gold medalist of sleep there's no like World Rec of sleep and I thought I'm going to set a world record of sleep and so 8 months of perfect sleep and I wanted to demonstrate you can achieve high quality sleep every single night if you try it and so I rebuilt my entire life around it”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 32:42 0
“I mean really five simple things which everybody can do it's so funny I tried hundreds of things and I just landed on five so one is you have to reframe your identity that you are a professional sleeper so just like you take your professional job seriously you show up on time right you learn you grow like you have a lot of self resect on what you do the same is true for sleep right now like we sleep when it's convenient or when we're done watching our show or when we're finished like having friends over but sleep is actually a profession like you need to become really good at it and respect it”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 35:37 0
“right now we're in sleep mode so I do this self-talk like you know like oh you had this conversation today when you're with Jay you said this thing you probably offended him now he probably won't hang out with you anymore you like you have to cycle through all these all these anxious thoughts and so you have to do this self-talk and be like I hear you it's okay I've heard your concern because what you're trying to do is when your head hits a pillow you want to be somewhat reconciled with reality otherwise you're going to all night long just Loop through those thoughts all night long and you'll be in light sleep and you'll just be in the same thought space and you missing your deep and your Rim”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 36:20 0
“but then you also want to do things like read a book, go for a walk, do breath work, meditate, you know have a nice conversation with a friend like don't fight with your partner in that window like don't create an arousing situation so those five things will give you the best sleep of your life”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 38:28 0
“sometimes it's the last meal of the day so if their body is still robustly digesting then you have you basically you'll miss your deep because when you go to sleep you fall into a deep sleep window very quickly and then if you miss it you can't get it”

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“you have a few sleep types you've got Rim, you have deep, you have light and deep so many restorative processes are happening in Rim, you've got a bunch of memory reconciliation whatnot but deep you just have this restorative building process so you basically miss out on all those restorative processes if you miss it which is why like the brain hurts when you don't get it you can't do like garbage collection like you miss a garbage truck”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 42:50 0
“if you're not sleeping well your other markers are going to be off like your s sp00 uh like all these different all these markers are going to be off”

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This Man Discovered How To REVERSE AGING & Make Himself 31 Years Younger (Data-Proven) @BryanJohnson
Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 45:24 0
“that's why your whole idea becoming a professional sleeper like I think we do think about I want to be a professional Runner I could be a professional bodybuilder like these are parts of our health that becoming good at seems aspirational exactly but becoming a good sleeper or even becoming a good meditator to some degree aren't seen as professional accomplishments or Pursuits because they don't have this competition”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 47:44 0
“I wanted to talk to you a bit about food because you you brought up a few interesting things there about eating that much earlier before bed but I wanted to start with the low protein so I'm vegan too so that's why I was I was listening to you so I was like I'm vegan to measure caloric intake but hearing you talk about being low protein that's something I'm always told to do the opposite for so walk me through that”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 48:17 0
“as I tried to increase my protein intake I found that it was harder and heavier on my gut if I'm honest right now I'm probably doing like 80 gram of protein a day uh and that's good if I get there like realistically and my gut can handle that whereas I saw my gut health struggling as I tried to get to 120 grams of protein 140”

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“we've tried to construct a perfect diet so every single calorie I consume has a specific objective”

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“I eat a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, lentils, hemp protein, berries, nuts, seeds”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 52:03 0
“I do 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil with each meal so I do three tablespoons a day drizzled on top.”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 52:24 0
“no diet there no vegan diet no carnivore diet can satisfy the body's entire needs so you have to supplement if you want to be ideal.”

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“the food is terrifyingly toxic like we know the food system's dirty but I had this general idea that there must be some system in place in America they're like watching out for us not true.”

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“6:00 a.m. is my first meal okay and then I finish by 11”

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“the idea of eating a piece of pizza or a whole pizza or like a doughnut or something just makes me sick”

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“I ate a potato chip my friend was like just have one and it tasted like gasoline”

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“how quick it takes to rewire your taste buds because I feel like that is such a interesting feeling because now it's not like you're even fighting it”

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“I've just ruined my sleep I feel awful about myself”

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“last week when being with friends I wanted to try a new thing go to bed early get your deep sleep stay up and have fun if you go back to bed like it's okay”

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“I just found it I had to come up with a mental model to like try to fully explore this without that tethering.”

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“I'm trying to anticipate where we want to be uh and not be a lagging indicator of status quo.”

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“I try to be very sober minded to say like I don't know and no human knows therefore the thing I value most is that existence is the highest virtue.”

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“We might be able to do something about this that we never could before and therefore uh we can have a reimagination and what existence truly is.”

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“What we have in common is sleep works great for men and women right.”

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“has barely levels of any detectable inflammation it's almost entirely uh Gone”

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“it has to do with diet a lot”

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“sleep is a superpower to manage stress”

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“if you're exercising and feel well also lowers uh like stress response”

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“if you design if you say like I go to bed at this time of day every single day you build your life around it”

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“the system makes you better at dealing with any emotion that then comes up”

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“it's not that you don't have emotions and you don't have feelings and you don't experience stress or anxiety but the system being in place actually just gave you all of this willpower”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 1:22:26 0
“why are cheat days bad for us they teach you bad habits they are they inflict damage upon the body they set unrealistic expectations”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 1:27:19 0
“acknowledge that there is surprisingly little known about the relationship between nutrition and health and people are going to be shock to hear that cuz I think most people think the exact opposite”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 1:23:10 0
“my emotions and intellect now are so steady from high quality sleep and a good diet and routine exercise”

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Unlocking Secrets to Health and Longevity: Lifestyle Choices Revealed 1:23:19 0
“I don't do caffeine I don't do nicotine no stimulants and my mood is just stable all day long”

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