I've PROVEN This Food Keeps You Young & This Oil Reduces Inflammation by 85%! Bryan Johnson

I've PROVEN This Food Keeps You Young & This Oil Reduces Inflammation by 85%! Bryan Johnson

The Diary of a CEONov 9, 20231h 43m

Steven Bartlett (host), Bryan Johnson (guest), Narrator, Kate Dollo (guest)

The Blueprint protocol and measured results (sleep, aging, fitness)Sleep as foundational health and the mythology of grind cultureBiomarkers, gene therapy, and high‑polyphenol extra virgin olive oilBrain measurement, psychedelics, and Kernel’s ketamine studySexual health metrics: nighttime erections and shockwave therapyKate Tollo’s 90‑day Blueprint experience and psychological shiftsPhilosophy of death, superintelligence, and the future of humanity

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Steven Bartlett and Bryan Johnson, I've PROVEN This Food Keeps You Young & This Oil Reduces Inflammation by 85%! Bryan Johnson explores bryan Johnson’s Data-Driven Blueprint To Rebuild Body, Brain, And Future Bryan Johnson returns to detail the results of his Blueprint anti-aging protocol, claiming a 30% increase in projected lifespan, a 12‑year biological age reduction, maximal sleep metrics, and major gains in strength and cognition. He argues that modern humans are ‘half drunk’ on poor sleep, processed food, and cultural myths like grind culture, and that algorithmic, data-driven living can dramatically improve health and emotional stability.

Bryan Johnson’s Data-Driven Blueprint To Rebuild Body, Brain, And Future

Bryan Johnson returns to detail the results of his Blueprint anti-aging protocol, claiming a 30% increase in projected lifespan, a 12‑year biological age reduction, maximal sleep metrics, and major gains in strength and cognition. He argues that modern humans are ‘half drunk’ on poor sleep, processed food, and cultural myths like grind culture, and that algorithmic, data-driven living can dramatically improve health and emotional stability.

Central to his current stack are perfect sleep, rigorous measurement of thousands of biomarkers, targeted supplements (including sustained NAD support), and what he calls a ‘super of superfoods’: high‑polyphenol extra virgin olive oil. He also discusses cutting‑edge interventions like gene therapy, brain measurement via Kernel, psychedelic studies, and shockwave therapy for sexual function.

Kate Tollo, his chief marketing officer and the first woman to follow Blueprint, shares how 90 days on the protocol transformed her fitness, blood markers, and sleep, while forcing her to confront deep‑seated people-pleasing and ‘priority Kate’ issues. The conversation repeatedly returns to the philosophical stakes: Johnson believes we are on the cusp of superintelligence and that aggressive life‑extension now may be the only way to experience that future.

Throughout, they present Blueprint as both a personal discipline system and a species‑level experiment, making large parts of the protocol and recipes free while preparing a commercial stack intended to be “the most nutritious product in history.”

Key Takeaways

Prioritize sleep as the single highest-leverage behavior change.

Johnson frames sleep as “the single most important thing any human does on any given day,” arguing that sleep deprivation is physiologically equivalent to alcohol intoxication. ...

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Use measurement to replace stories and self-deception with data.

Johnson sees humans as “self-deception machines” who over-trust narratives about themselves. ...

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High‑polyphenol extra virgin olive oil is a deeply evidence-backed ‘superfood’—but quality is critical.

Johnson allocates ~15% of his daily calories to verified high‑polyphenol EVOO, calling it “the super of superfoods. ...

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Sustained intracellular NAD support appears beneficial; one‑off IV drips are likely wasted effort.

Johnson criticizes NAD+ drips as a classic example of wellness theater: expensive, impressive‑looking, but not matched to pharmacokinetics or measured outcomes. ...

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Sexual function and nighttime erections are powerful, underused health metrics.

He uses a ring‑style device to quantify nighttime erections—frequency, duration, and rigidity—linking them to cardiovascular, psychological, and sexual health. ...

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Extreme consistency exposes hidden psychological patterns and forces identity-level change.

Both Bryan and Kate emphasize that committing to a non‑negotiable protocol (no cheating on sleep, food, pills, or training) rapidly surfaces invisible scripts. ...

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We may be on the cusp of lifespans that reach into a radically different, AI-shaped future.

Johnson’s philosophical justification for going to such extremes is temporal: he argues that only in this historical moment—on the verge of artificial superintelligence and programmable biology—does “don’t die” make sense as a maximal goal. ...

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Notable Quotes

Sleep is the single most important thing any human does on any given day.

Bryan Johnson

The people who don’t sleep are literally half dead. They’re actually intoxicated.

Bryan Johnson

The one game every human on the planet is playing is ‘don’t die.’

Bryan Johnson

Extra virgin olive oil is like the super of superfoods.

Bryan Johnson

I want to have the opportunity to live.

Kate Tollo

Questions Answered in This Episode

Your six months of 100% sleep scores relied on an 8:30 pm bedtime and 11 am final meal—if someone can’t realistically adopt that schedule, which two or three levers (timing, light, food, etc.) proved most causally important in your data for improving sleep quality?

Bryan Johnson returns to detail the results of his Blueprint anti-aging protocol, claiming a 30% increase in projected lifespan, a 12‑year biological age reduction, maximal sleep metrics, and major gains in strength and cognition. ...

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You’ve been openly critical of NAD IV drips; can you walk through the exact intracellular NAD data (before/after, dosing schedule, and half-life considerations) that led you to conclude that oral NMN/NR twice daily is superior?

Central to his current stack are perfect sleep, rigorous measurement of thousands of biomarkers, targeted supplements (including sustained NAD support), and what he calls a ‘super of superfoods’: high‑polyphenol extra virgin olive oil. ...

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The shockwave therapy for penile rejuvenation sounds both promising and extreme—what specific longitudinal metrics (nighttime erection duration, Doppler flow, tissue imaging) would convince you this is safe and effective enough to recommend beyond people with diagnosed ED?

Kate Tollo, his chief marketing officer and the first woman to follow Blueprint, shares how 90 days on the protocol transformed her fitness, blood markers, and sleep, while forcing her to confront deep‑seated people-pleasing and ‘priority Kate’ issues. ...

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Kate’s oxidized LDL was high at 27, and EVOO is central to your protocol: based on her follow-up labs, how much of her improvement do you attribute to olive oil versus other Blueprint components like exercise, sleep, and micronutrient correction?

Throughout, they present Blueprint as both a personal discipline system and a species‑level experiment, making large parts of the protocol and recipes free while preparing a commercial stack intended to be “the most nutritious product in history.”

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You argue future superintelligence will render most of our intuitions about death and meaning obsolete; practically, how should an average person today balance your ‘don’t die’ imperative with the psychological value they currently derive from finite-time urgency and everyday pleasures you’ve largely sacrificed?

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Transcript Preview

Steven Bartlett

What on Earth have you given me?

Bryan Johnson

That is how you can measure your nighttime erections. It's unbelievable in ways it improves health and wellness.

Steven Bartlett

Bryan Johnson is back.

Bryan Johnson

The billionaire who's spending $2 million a year to-

Steven Bartlett

To stay young forever.

Bryan Johnson

Through algorithmic precision. This is the most impactful humanitarian project ever. I'm trying to find the very best science in the world for how you can extend your life.

Steven Bartlett

So how has it been going?

Bryan Johnson

Honestly, I'm in the absolute peak performance of my entire life. I've extended my lifespan over 30%, reduced my age by 12 years, increased muscle and strength, and now six months of perfect sleep. I've accomplished the best sleep score in history. A demonstration of human ability 'cause if I can do it, everyone else can do it too. Every second of every day, we're all trying not to die. That's what we're doing as a society right now. It's not working very well, but if an algorithm could manage your health and wellness for you and achieve near perfect health, would you opt into that? Because we found it.

Steven Bartlett

But what can the average person do?

Bryan Johnson

One thing that works is (censored) .

Steven Bartlett

Really?

Bryan Johnson

Yeah. I- it's like the super of super foods. There you go.

Steven Bartlett

That is not how you're meant to have that. And what comes next?

Bryan Johnson

The best is yet to come. Kate Dollo.

Steven Bartlett

Kate, will you come on out?

Bryan Johnson

(laughs)

Steven Bartlett

So you're the first woman on Earth to follow Bryan's lifestyle? That's right. What's been the biggest sacrifice? (laughs) Quick one. This is really, really fascinating to me. On the back end of our YouTube channel, it says that 69.9% of you that watch this channel frequently over the lifetime of this channel haven't yet hit the subscribe button. I just wanted to ask you a favor. It helps this channel so much if you choose to su- subscribe. Helps us scale the guests, helps us scale the production, and it makes the show bigger. So if I could ask you for one favor, if you've watched the show before and you've enjoyed it and you like this episode that you're currently watching, could you please hit the subscribe button? Thank you so much, and I will repay that gesture by making sure that everything we do here gets better and better and better and better. That is a promise I'm willing to make you. Do we have a deal? Bryan, you're now coming up on th- almost three years since you started Blueprint, which is your sort of anti-aging, life extending, longevity protocol. Is that accurate?

Bryan Johnson

That's accurate.

Steven Bartlett

Give me a overview of the benefits you've been able to achieve in those three years.

Bryan Johnson

Hmm. I legitimately have never been happier in my entire life.

Steven Bartlett

Why?

Bryan Johnson

It, it's like when you have a, a series of bad nights of sleep and you, like, you're eating poorly and you sleep poorly, in a week or two, you just normalize to that new norm. You don't realize what you've lost, it just becomes invisible to you. And then when you bounce back after a really great night's sleep and you take care of yourself, you make the observation, "This is the most remarkable thing ever. I wish I could exist like this all the time." And I've hit that state where I'm in the absolute peak performance of my entire life. I've never been as well rested, I've never been as clear, with, uh, greater clarity of mind. I've never, uh, been more calm emotionally. Uh, you know, I'm, I'm not provoked. I'm not irritable. Things are that I struggled with before.

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