Bryan Johnson has been on an unbelievable health journey he hopes will make him ‘live forever’
A self-proclaimed biohacker who wants to ‘live forever’ has claimed on a new podcast how men are ‘70% more likely to die’ if they aren’t having a specific type of erection.
Bryan Johnson is taking part in a lengthy and intense experimental medical program in the hope of ‘reversing aging’, and it’s safe to say it’s been a resounding success so far.
Whether it be following a strict diet, or using his son’s blood, Johnson is doing anything possible to remain as young as possible.
While he may be in his late 40s, the biohacker has previously said his crazy experiment helped him achieve the ‘heart of 37-year-old’ and the ‘lung capacity of an 18-year-old’.
And speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, the biohacker discussed a whole bunch of topics, including erections – because of course he did.
Bryan Johnson has been speaking about erections on a recent podcast (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Making a remarkable claim, Johnson said: “If you’re not having nighttime boners, you’re 70 percent more likely to die.”
Speaking further about how erections while you are sleeping can be monitored, the biohacker added: “You need some kind of measurement as they happen during sleep cycles so you’re oblivious to a lot of it.
“You need technology, so you need a little cube and you put it on the penis, it sits at the base, and as your penis gorges throughout the night, it measures the duration and the strength of the eruption.”
Speaking further on The Ranveer Show podcast earlier this year, Johnson added: “Men who do not have nighttime erections are 70 percent more likely to die prematurely. It predicts death.
“On average, a 20-year-old male should have between 3 and 5 erection episodes per night, yeah, like, 145 minutes of erections, and that’s healthy. By the time you’re 75, that reduces to about 50 minutes, so dramatically declines with age. Nighttime erections are, like, a really important health marker.”
Bryan Johnson is planning to ‘live forever’ (Instagram/@bryanjohnson__)
Dr Srikanth V, a specialized urologist, discussed the potential link between nighttime erections and premature death.
“While the absence of nighttime erections is associated with certain health risks, the claim that it directly predicts premature death is an oversimplification,” the doctor told the Indian Express.
“Several studies suggest that erectile dysfunction — particularly when caused by vascular or metabolic issues — is linked to a higher risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality.
“Since nighttime erections are largely driven by healthy vascular function and neural pathways, their absence may be a red flag for conditions such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, and hormonal imbalances, which themselves are associated with increased mortality risk.”Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/Bloomberg
Topics: Bryan Johnson, Health
Published 15:10 6 Apr 2025 GMT+1
Biohacker who wants to ‘live forever’ shares the side effects he suffered while making huge mistake in attempt to slow down ageing
Bryan Johnson has documented his journey to reverse ageing online in recent times
Self-proclaimed biohacker Bryan Johnson has shared the side effects he endured after making a huge mistake in his bid to slow down ageing.
Johnson is taking part in a lengthy and intense experimental medical program in the hope of ‘reversing ageing’, and it’s safe to say it’s been a resounding success so far.
Whether it be following a strict diet, or using his son’s blood, Johnson is doing anything possible to remain as young as possible.
While he may be in his late 40s, the biohacker has previously said his crazy experiment helped him achieve the ‘heart of 37-year-old’ and the ‘lung capacity of an 18-year-old’.
The biohacker has spent a fortune on the process so far (Instagram/@bryanjohnson__)
Most of Johnson’s methods in reversing ageing have worked so far, but a recent development saw something go rather wrong for the biohacker.
Johnson spoke in a recent YouTube video titled ‘I Made Myself Older By Mistake’ how he had taken a drug called rapamycin and how it may have been slowing doing his progress.
The drug is typically used to treat conditions such as cancer or lung diseases, while it’s also been studied for how it can influence anti-ageing.
Johnson stated in the video that he had been taking the drug for five years and ultimately experienced a lot of side effects.
Bryan Johnson is attempting to reverse ageing (YouTube/Bryan Johnson)
The biohacker said he experienced some drawbacks that included ‘canker’s in his mouth, a wound wouldn’t heal fast enough, [his] blood report showed he had cholesterol disruptions and his blood glucose levels spiked a little bit’.
“Then perhaps the thing that was most painful for me, it increased my resting heart rate, which as you know, is the most important biomarker I track every single day because it is the most influential thing determining my sleep quality,” Johnson added.
A 2009 study found that when the drug was given to mice, it seemingly increased the lifespan by 14 percent for females and nine percent for males.
Further evidence was added to the mix after a 2023 study reported that of 333 people taking it under a doctor’s supervision, 65.5 percent believed it had effective anti-ageing properties.Play
On top of that, 44 percent said the drug improved their overall health, which can only really be a good thing.
Johnson has documented a lot of his successes with his monumental and expensive mission to reverse ageing, but he noted at the end of his recent video that it’s important to talk about his failures during the process.
I mean, we’re all human at the end of the day.Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Bryan Johnson
Topics: Bryan Johnson, Health
Updated 13:37 5 May 2025 GMT+1Published 13:36 5 May 2025 GMT+1
Biohacker who spends $2,000,000 a year to ‘live forever’ makes surprising prediction on how he will die
Bryan Johnson has been trying to live for as long as possible, but now he’s thinking about death
A self-proclaimed biohacker has made a chilling prediction on how he is going to die.
Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year on treatments as part of his Project Blueprint and has been in the news for some time over his efforts to ‘live forever’.
Since he revealed that he was taking part in an intense experimental medical program so that he could begin ‘reversing aging’, we have all been watching as he updates his fans on his health.
He has already shared his uber strict diet, that he also uses his son’s blood, and more, so it’s understandable why so many people are hooked on his unique journey.
Anyway, the 47-year-old, who has been allegedly able to achieve the ‘heart of 37-year-old’ and the ‘lung capacity of an 18-year-old’, made a shocking admission about how he believes he will end up dying.
Bryan Johnson has been trying to ‘live forever’ (X/@bryan_johnson)
Of course, it’s not exactly something that we’re all surprised about him stating, as he practically shares every aspect of his life, even going as far as to start sharing his and his son’s ‘erection data’, but death is probably the last thing anyone expected him to muse about.
Obviously, with a healthy heart and lungs, those two things can probably be ruled out as causes.
But for other unusual causes, they’re still up in the air.
Taking to Twitter, Johnson wrote: “I guarantee I’m going to die in the most ironic way possible. I hope you all enjoy.”
Fans very much enjoyed this prospect (as he hoped) and gave some strange ways that he could expect to die from.
One person shared: “You’ve mentioned choking on a broccoli but seems like it has to be something even more ridiculous.”
Another wrote: “Or achieving immortality but getting trapped in a crashed submarine at the bottom of the ocean alone or something, and living for five thousand years.”
Someone else said: “The most ironic would be the second coming and you’re left behind to live forever.”
In his bid to ‘live forever’, Johnson did actually admit to making an error.
He gave fans a prediction about his death (X/@bryan_johnson)
In a video posted to his YouTube channel earlier this year, he spoke about how he had taken a drug called rapamycin which might have slowed his progress.
The drug can be used to treat cancer or lung diseases, but has also been studied for its anti-ageing properties, something that Johnson is a fan of.
However, the biohacker said he had taken the drug for five years and saw no improvements.
Instead, he developed ‘canker’s in his mouth, [a] wound that wouldn’t heal fast enough, [and his] blood report showed he had cholesterol disruptions and his blood glucose levels spiked a little bit’.
Johnson added: “Then perhaps the thing that was most painful for me, it increased my resting heart rate, which as you know, is the most important biomarker I track every single day because it is the most influential thing determining my sleep quality.”
So, it’s not all fun doing this expensive program.Featured Image Credit: Bryan Johnson/YouTube
Topics: Bryan Johnson, Health, Twitter, Money
Published 10:32 15 Jan 2025 GMT
Biohacker who spends $2,000,000 a year to ‘live forever’ reveals concerning reason he has stopped taking longevity drug
Bryan Johnson and his team found the drug did ‘not justify’ what was happening to him
Biohacker Bryan Johnson has explained why he’s ditched a purported anti-ageing drug despite his ongoing efforts to try and ‘live forever’.
Johnson, who is 47 years old but claims to have the heart health of a 37-year-old, spends as much as $2 million a year on research and trials to try and reduce his biological age.
His efforts have included ‘editing’ his DNA and sharing blood with his family members, and he’s also described taking a cocktail of supplements and drugs to ward off ageing.
Bryan Johnson says his organs are younger than his actual age (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Among those drugs was rapamycin; a drug typically used to treat conditions such as cancer or lung diseases, but which has also been studied for its anti-ageing properties.
It was this latter use that Johnson was interested in as he took part in ‘almost 5 years of experimentation with this molecule for its longevity potential’.
However, in a post on Twitter shared in recent weeks, Johnson announced that he stopped taking rapamycin in September 2024.
The biohacker told his followers he’d been testing the drug in various different ways, switching up dosages and schedules to ‘optimize rejuvenation and limit side effects’.
But while pre-clinical trials revealed ‘immense potential’, Johnson revealed a concerning finding: the drug could actually have been speeding up the ageing process due to its side-effects.
Johnson listed the symptoms he’d experienced from taking the drug, including ‘intermittent skin/soft tissue infections, lipid abnormalities, glucose elevations, and increased resting heart rate’.
Johnson said the drug was not worth the side-effects (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Research cited by the National Library of Medicine has indicated a link between a higher resting heart rate and increased risk of cardiovascular disease, meaning the symptom experienced by Johnson could have detrimental effects in the long term.
He went on to site research published in October that indicated rapamycin was ‘one of a handful of supposed longevity interventions to cause an increase/acceleration of aging in humans across 16 epigenetic aging clocks’.
With that in mind, Johnson explained: “My team and I came to the conclusion that the benefits of lifelong dosing of Rapamycin do not justify the hefty side-effects.
“With no other underlying causes identified, we suspected Rapamycin, and since dosage adjustments had no effect, we decided to discontinue it entirely.”
“Longevity research around these experimental compounds is constantly evolving, necessitating ongoing, close observation of the research and my biomarkers which my team and I do constantly,” he added.
Though Johnson has decided to stop using rapamycin, his mission to reverse ageing is ongoing, and he continues to shares insights and updates with his followers.Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Bryan Johnson
Topics: Health, Science, Bryan Johnson
Updated 21:04 23 Apr 2025 GMT+1Published 21:00 23 Apr 2025 GMT+1
Biohacker who spends $2,000,000 a year to ‘live forever’ claimed this common pantry item was ‘better than Ozempic’
Bryan Johnson detailed why he believed the shopping staple is ‘one of the most powerful whole body foods’ that anyone can eat
Biohacker Bryan Johnson has claimed that one item that is staple in your kitchen can help shed weight.
Johnson is on a mission to slow down his aging and reportedly spends $2 million a year in a bid to ‘live forever’. He has claimed that one common pantry item is ‘better than Ozempic’ for losing weight.
As many of us know, Ozempic was approved in the US back in 2017 for use in adults with type 2 diabetes, but it hasn’t been approved for weight loss. Despite this, many celebrities have confessed to using it to shed pounds.
But Johnson thinks he’s found a much more readily available alternative that he claims is more effective.
Bryan Johnson detailed why he believed one particular common pantry item is ‘one of the most powerful whole body foods’ (Instagram/@bryanjohnson_)
While appearing as a guest on Derek Munro’s podcast, More Plates, More Dates, Johnson detailed how he believes extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is one of the ‘most powerful whole body foods’ you can eat.
Munro called up an interview that Johnson had with Steven Bartlett on The Diary Of A CEO podcast to flag that he previously has claimed extra virgin olive oil is ‘better than Ozempic‘ for weight-loss.
Explaining why he made that statement, Johnson said: “I said extra virgin olive oil is better then NR [Nicotinamide Riboside], cold plunge, heat therapy, your favorite podcast and something else… so I was being cheeky.”
Johnson previously highlighted a study on Twitter which found that people that regularly consumed olive oil for nine weeks lost on average 2.4lbs more than people who didn’t, while it also seemed to help lower blood pressure.Play
Johnson isn’t the only person to have started incorporating olive oil into their diet, with TV presenter Ryan Seacrest having also revealed that he takes a shot of olive oil every day to help with weight loss.
Abigail Roberts, a sports nutritionist at Bulk.com, explained why extra virgin olive oil is so good for our bodies – even telling GloucestershireLive that it is ‘one of the biggest superfoods’.
She explained: “This is because olive oil helps you lose weight because it is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids.
“These are known to help with weight loss by increasing your metabolism, reducing your appetite, and reducing your body fat.
“Studies have revealed a treatment group who were given extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) lost 80 percent more body fat than the control group who didn’t consume EVOO.
“In the long-term, olive oil continues to have positive effects on the body and keep the weight off or stable.”Featured Image Credit: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Topics: Bryan Johnson, Ozempic, Health
