A Longevity Tactic That Actually Works

The science is clear: It works (and it won't drive you nuts in the process).

Bryan Johnson is a rich guy who spends millions a year looking for The Secret to living forever—tracking his overnight erections, taking hundreds of daily supplements, and swapping blood with his son¹.

He avoids going outside—“sunlight causes accelerated skin aging,” he says—and mostly sits at home with his team, who run him through his all-consuming daily protocols.

Johnson just opened applications for a program he calls “Immortals.” More than 1,500 people applied for three spots, for which they’ll pay Johnson $1,000,000 annually for access to his advice.

Imagine paying seven figures for a guy to tell you to measure your boners at night, eat a buffet of pills for dinner, and find yourself a blood boy.

Johnson is an extreme example. But he’s not that far from the mainstream. Longevity culture has tipped into neurosis—all sorts of biological tests and tracking, 47-step routines, chemical stacks, and protocols that require a spreadsheet to manage.

The problem: The whole enterprise happens indoors, in the comfort of home, with a lot of thinking and not much living—a life of screens and spreadsheets and data points that give the illusion of control. And maybe in trying to avoid death, people forget to actually live.

There is a better path.

Longevity is complex. There’s no silver bullet: genes and all sorts of habits factor in.

But if you were to load a silver bullet into a gun, put it against my temple, and ask “what’s one thing you’d do to live longer,” I have an answer.

That’s what we’re covering today. It has no waiting list. It costs zero figures rather than seven. It doesn’t require a lab, prescription, or measuring tape.

And it actively strips away the framework of comfort, control, and optimization that defines modern longevity culture.

It helps you live better, and—as you’ll see in all the research below—probably longer than the longevity-obsessed people with their hearts and minds hypnotized by spreadsheets.

Let’s roll …

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Today you’ll learn:

• My number one longevity practices: I can’t promise that it’ll be comfortable. But I can tell you it will likely add time to your life and life to your time.

• Six researched-backed reasons it works: A dive into the new science.

• Why it helps prevent the most common diseases of aging: heart disease, Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, etc.

• Why it teaches you that you can “just do stuff”: One of the most valuable lessons to maintain agency and healthspan into old age.