Bryan Johnson: How to Have the Shortest Lifespan Possible @Bryan Johnson

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0:00 Hi everyone. As requested, I'm gonna be reviewing the latest video by Brian Johnson, How to Live Longer. What he recommends is exactly what I would recommend for you not to do if you would want to live longer and be more youthful, which is the same at the end of the day. He also pays people to travel to his house and to then film videos with him, all of these YouTubers, just to promote his ideas, which is fine in itself, except that all of his ideas are wrong.

[video] 0:36 Hi friends, today we're going to talk about the three power laws of health. We are going to accomplish in the next five minutes the basic health habits that are going to make you feel the best you've ever done. I'm not going to get into the scientific details, I'm just going to...

0:46 Says a guy with very visible dark eye circles, even though he clearly uses makeup. But even the makeup can't help you to cover them up. I guess that they are that severe. And he's dyed hair. The way his editing team also edits his videos. I've already talked about all of this. He would have to show himself exactly the way he looks like. Then he could be taken seriously. But when you try to cover up the way you look like, then it's just not credible.

[video] 1:21 ...tell you what to do, and you're gonna do them because you know what? You know they work. Let's start. Number one, you're going to reframe your...

1:28 How can you know if they work? You haven't been even doing it yourself for so long.

[video] 1:33 Identity, that you are a professional sleeper. That means you're not going to sleep when it's convenient or when your show is done or when you're finished playing with your friends. You are going to set a bedtime and meet that bedtime every single day and you're going to follow some health habits. So there's...

1:48 It's not necessarily such a bad idea. Obviously, sleep is very important, but of course you should do everything intuitively when you want to do it. And in the case of sleep, you should simply sleep when you want to sleep. Of course, if you would typically go to bed, at 10pm, then you would usually be tired at 10pm every day, except if something strange happens, especially something very stressful, which is why it's not as if you need to set an alarm as to when you're supposed to go to bed anyway.

[video] 2:21 five things I want you to do. Number one is eat earlier and lighter in the day. So for example, if your bedtime is at 10 PM, have your last meal of the day at 8 PM and then try seven and then six and then five and try pushing it back earlier and earlier and watch your sleep improve. Find your right timing, but you will.

2:38 Here's already the first problem. The reason he says this is because the meals that he eats are very heavy on the gut. If you drink blood, eat raw meat, fat, organs, whatever, what humans naturally eat, then they don't even feel it in their stomach. And if anything, you can sleep even better because you're very well nourished. He's talking about you following his so-called protocol and that's why, of course, you will end up having bloating, gas, digestive issues and then it would be a better idea not to eat before bed. That's only when you're eating a man-made diet, which is not natural for your human body. You can.

3:44 That's exactly my point. If you're healthy, well-nourished, I can work, if you can call it that, do whatever until the last minute and fall asleep within one minute. Never had a problem. I never understood anybody who talks about not using any devices. Not that I recommend doing that, but just saying it never had any effect on me whatsoever.

[video] 4:10 ...to adjust itself from an aroused, high-energy, ambitious state, whether you're socializing or working, to a calmed down... That's true, but that has nothing to do with it.

4:24 What would you be doing in the evening which would make you very aroused or stressed? That's what I meant before. There can be such scenarios, but they would be very rare. Somebody would have to call you and say,

4:39 somebody died, something like that, of course, yeah, but when is it gonna happen?

[video] 4:45 once every few years ready to sleep space now you can fill this hour when your one day routine is gonna be one hour from your bedtime you can fill it with a breath work meditation reading a book going for a walk but you need to be in a relaxed calm state screens off get your body ready number three is the lighting in your environment matters a lot so turn off screens i have a red light bulb in my house and a lamp we just have red light in the house

5:10 Makes no sense at all. How can you have red light in nature in the evening before you go to bed? It would make sense if you would go to bed right after the sunset, but in this case it makes zero sense. If it's, let's say, 10 p.m. there, why would there still be red light?

[video] 5:33 It's amazingly effective at calming things down and making everyone very tired. Number four is consistency matters a lot. Your body loves routine. So if your bedtime is at 10 p.m., try to be in bed every night, plus or minus 30 minutes, no more. When you deviate, the body gets confused and you're not going to have as good a sleep. Number five is avoid stimulants, for example, like caffeine. So if you go to bed at 10, be mindful, you may want to have your last cup of coffee before noon or so. So by the time your bedtime arrives, you're good to go. All right, so this is...

6:03 That's good. Of course, you shouldn't consume any drugs in the first place.

[video] 6:07 The first one, this is the most important one. Sleep is your number one life priority. When you feel well, you're going to want to also exercise, which you also know from life experience.

6:18 When do you want to exercise? Humans like to sleep, we like to rest and regenerate. I've never heard of anybody who doesn't like to sleep. You could say that some people would say that they would rather do something else, but I've never heard anybody actually say that because when you want to sleep, you just want to sleep. Because you want to do it, you need it, you like it. Nobody on Earth likes to exercise. Nobody wakes up after a good night's sleep and says, now I want to exercise. You push yourself to do it because you're brainwashed to do it, I get that, but nobody actually wants to go for a run now or do anything exertive, stressful, because humans are naturally programmed to avoid stress at all costs. There's literally nobody on this Earth who wants to have stress.

[video] 7:11 Did he say that you feel great during exercise?

7:18 Is that his point? Because nobody does. If anybody on the surf would feel great during exercise, then you could find tons of photos and videos of people smiling, enjoying themselves, running for 30 minutes, lifting weights. Oh wow, this feels really good! Now, what kind of face expressions do you actually see? I hate this, please, when can I stop, oh my god, 10 more minutes, no, I don't want to, but I need to, it's healthy, yes, I need to push myself. And that's what you get out of exercise. And you're completely in denial and delusional if you believe anything else. And the reason it's like that is because of how unhealthy it is. If anything feels bad for you, and especially when you can see that in face expressions, then it's unhealthy. No exceptions, 100% of the time, that is the case.

[video] 8:13 If you haven't already, and you're going to do two simple things every day, do 30 minutes of exercise. And that can be something like swimming, running, biking, hiking. It can be strength training. That's a basic starting point. Now, of course, we'll jump into more advanced things in other videos, but it's really establishing the basics.

8:28 also makes zero sense. I will link some studies such as a meta-analysis. You can take it seriously or not. I wouldn't blame you if you don't. But it does show you that if you work out for sure for more than 40 minutes a week, but he was recommending you to workout for 30 minutes a day, which would be a crazy amount, then your lifespan will decrease. It's one of the many studies that shows you that exercise decreases your lifespan, that you will have a shorter life.

[video] 9:06 And then two is you wanna be moving throughout the day. So for example, every 20, 30 minutes or so, I get up from my desk, whether I'm standing or sitting, I'll stretch or I'll do a little exercise, I'll go for a little walk.

9:19 Walking is fine if you feel like it. Stretching is also fine if you feel like it. None of it is stressful.

[video] 9:25 But moving throughout the day, there's an infinite rabbit hole on what to do for exercise, and that's great, and we're going to cover it, yes. Also, the daily practice of being active in both an activity and throughout the day is the power law of activity. All right, number three is diet. Now, this is the most complicated of them all...

9:44 It's not complicated whatsoever. He used to take like 50 or 100 pills a day while eating a vegan diet because his diet is so horrible. Plants don't have over 15 micronutrients. Obviously, you will be deficient if you follow his blueprint protocol. I've broken this down in the past in detail. I'm not going to go over that again. I went over all of his supplements, the whole list.

[video] 10:11 Because I guess I speak from personal experience is food is a place we go to self-soothe and it's also a source of addiction and all sorts of emotional problems.

10:24 Natural food is not the source of addiction. You're talking about unnatural garbage, such as grains full of flavorings, drugs, sugar. Yes, of course, because that's not food. Only natural food can be called food. Humans in nature, as I said before, drink blood, they eat the organs of the animals, the fat, everything, and also the muscle meat, of course. If they have an abundance of meat, then they give the muscle meat to the dogs or the lower ranked people, the kings, the leaders. They drink the blood and eat the organs, because those are the healthiest parts of the animal and generally the healthiest food for a human being.

[video] 11:11 I have been there and I know how complicated food is. I was trapped. And so the reason why it's number three is because if you get, if you're well rested and you exercise, we all know the feeling we have of wanting to eat well. So it's nice to have those two pillars in place versus if you're not well rested and you're not exercised, it's so much easier to be naughty.

11:31 If you exercise, then you need to repair your body from the damage and the stress and that's why you will crave more meat. Everybody craves raw meat after exercising, but they are brainwashed. to eat something else. Vegans would even eat beyond meat because of how severely brainwashed they are. And that's why they have these food cravings, they create a million recipes and so on. But his overall point is that diet is something complicated even though you literally just need to follow your intuition and eat what you're naturally supposed to eat.

[video] 12:08 Number one is try to never rely upon your willpower. So if you have a particular risk zone, let's just say at 7 PM, you that's exposed to let's just call it cookies. You decide you are a person that does not eat cookies at 7 PM, because if you wait to make the decision at that moment, you will certainly eat the cookie. Now that was true for me. So never put yourself in a situation where you're relying upon your willpower, build systems and make commitments ahead of time. Okay. Now, number two is,

12:36 That's exactly what I meant. All of these cravings for junk, some kind of grain sludge with sugar and drugs in it, will only come if you're malnourished. If you're well nourished and you eat natural food, the cravings go away.

[video] 12:53 Trying to avoid overeating. Now, I'll tell you from my personal experience, this is impossibly hard to do. Of course, any one of us can say it, but we all know that we just can't control ourselves in those moments.

13:07 Again, literally the same reason and he just doesn't get it.

[video] 13:12 I did something where I fired Evening Brian. This is the version of me from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Back when you used to look way healthier. Who would unquestionably overeat no matter what every single day. I had to fire him. I had to basically make a rule of my existence that I, as a human, do not consume food between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. no matter what I say. That's the kind of extreme I had to go to to control my overeating habits. Now, I think a lot of...

13:44 Yeah, that's because you essentially have an ED. That's what veganism is. Of course, who knows if his supplements are fully vegan? Probably not. But the food that he eats seems to be. And he also... got the blood of his son injected into him I don't know how many times at least once on video probably more often because he deep down knows what he's actually supposed to do and probably because he feels so bad he knows that it's not working and so on point being it's just overall not working for this guy whatsoever that's why he has to fight with himself

[video] 14:30 us probably share similar behavioral profiles so this solution may not work for you but the point is we this is a struggle it's real and so the invitation is for each one of us to try to find a system for me it was just saying I never trust myself to make the right decision in that moment and so systems far exceed willpower in addition to avoiding bad foods oh that's crazy

14:58 he's gonna put people on his own plan most likely as to how you're supposed to eat instead of teaching people that you don't need any plants you don't need any people who tell you what to eat how to eat and when to eat And you will just have to rely on your own willpower and discipline, go against your own senses to know how you're supposed to eat and how to be healthy. And that's crazy. That actually is being crazy by definition.

[video] 15:34 Also, I want you to avoid smoking and excessive alcohol. Okay, number three is a Mediterranean-like diet. You want to...

15:43 Mediterranean style diet is one based on 80% animal foods mostly meat that's what all of the meat yet he will probably tell you that you should eat olives with olive oil the very little cheese if even that and Bread. We'll see. Some nonsense like this, because this is what the media pushes, when in reality, if you look into what they eat, you just have to travel to one of these places, ask what your grandma, great-grandma ate, you will always get the same answer. Mostly fish, a lot of raw fish, meat, partly cooked, partly raw, just because Of religions and everything, that's a long story as to how we started cooking meat.

16:38 But they still ate a lot of raw meat, also cheese with maggots, raw dairy in general. There's a lot of that consumed in Mediterranean countries. It's just very clear.

[video] 16:52 Try to have, you know, healthy fats, healthy protein.

16:56 Yeah, and there you go, he shows the olive oil, which he also sells himself, which are just some kind of plant oils pressed out of a toxic fruit. Olives are toxic, that's why you can't eat them raw.

[video] 17:07 ...teens, trying to generally be on the right track is good enough. You don't need to wrestle over every calorie and every macro, it's just there's diminishing return. We live in a society where health is impossibly hard. Controlling our own personal behaviors is impossibly hard. Now, I know I have felt hopeless and helpless my entire life in this regard, just until the past few years where I actually have the systems. Now, in this video, I don't expect this to solve things for you. In fact, you know what? Tonight, or maybe right now during this video, maybe you're eating junk food. That's okay. I understand. The point is we're building a community. We're trying to change the norms where being healthy is the right way to live. You're not going to...

17:48 Again, as I said at the beginning, his intentions

17:57 the way it sounds like on the outside, may be good. He's just very ignorant and has no idea as to what he's doing, what he's talking about. He has some kind of expert team behind him, probably a bunch of vegans, dieticians, who simply learned what the government teaches you, that you should be eating mostly plants, and if you eat animal products, then with no fat, just the typical guidelines. That's basically what he fell for. The idea of creating a community full of people who want to live long and be healthy is great, but almost everything that you promote is wrong.

[video] 18:35 I feel pressure to do these self-destructive behaviors and there's power in you and me making these very small decisions. So if it helps you in your moment of torment, when you're sitting there deciding, do you do it or do you not, do it for the team, do it for all of us, because if you do it, others will do it. And we know this when we cave we weaken the entire system wherever you're at no matter what your circumstances are We can do this these health habits will make you the happiest healthiest person you've ever been That's also another thing.

19:05 He doesn't seem happy. That's a very good way to tell if somebody is healthy That's something that people usually ignore. They just look at the way you look like which is for sure valid and um Maybe something else, but really when it comes down to the way you feel, the emotions that you express, it's almost always ignored. He seems like he has no joy and for sure no happiness in his life. Just nothing. You just see nothing. You can see if somebody is happy in their eyes and you just don't see it. You see this emptiness, this unfulfillment, especially because he is malnourished.

[video] 19:53 Let's first master the basics and then we get to play with all the cool new things we'll discover together.

[video] 20:01 Don't do it.

[video] 20:04 Don't do it. I'm telling you, don't do it.

20:19 Don't die also in the end.

20:24 The biggest problem with his channel is that he may not necessarily have an agenda, but he does believe that you should follow these morals which align with veganism.

20:37 Maybe he believes that you should not harm the animals. Maybe something happened in his life that changed his mindset. Maybe it's from his childhood, who knows? I don't believe that he has ever actually talked about why. Clearly, even he must know that this is not a healthy way to eat. Eating a diet which doesn't have over 15 micronutrients and then taking a bunch of pills and powders to try to get these nutrients, which can only be found in animals, a lot of his supplements are synthetic he has no idea if he can actually absorb any of those nutrients and even if can his cells actually use them that's something that hasn't been studied seeing as supplements in general are not studied usually they can simply be released into the consumption of the slaves.

21:34 That's really what it is, because if you need supplements, then it means that you're not eating the food that you're naturally supposed to eat. And if you're not, then it can only go wrong. It may take months or years. Eventually, you will end up looking like him. You will have to cover up the way you look like. In his case, it's even worse, because he has to make videos. But seeing as he got the blood transfusion and who knows what else, he has all of these machines, he for sure knows that it's not working, because you also know that if a human being would want to live long and look youthful, that they would only need to live a stress-free life, and he promotes more or less the opposite of that, and eat healthy, natural food. That's it, and you know that. You know that if you do that,

22:30 You will not necessarily age backwards, not that that's really possible, but you can heal yourself to a point where it may appear like that, and you will age very slowly. The less stress you have, the less you're gonna damage your cells, your telomere length is not going to decrease, which is exactly what exercise does. It's a good way to measure somebody's longevity, youthfulness.

23:00 And of course, generally if you're gonna be nourished, if you eat a diet which does have those 50 nutrients missing in plants, then you're also gonna be a lot happier, just nicer to be around. You don't have to put on a fake act when you go outside or make videos, smile for the camera, you will just naturally feel like that and actually you will feel euphoric most of the time and this is something that you don't see in his videos whatsoever. When you watch people who eat raw meat or even an animal-based diet, people who don't restrict themselves but only stick to natural food, you can just tell that they are completely different. They don't need to put anything on their face or cover anything up because they are nourished on the inside and it shows on the outside. Whereas these people are messed up on the inside and they try to cover themselves up on the outside. And that says everything. Thanks for watching.