TheSaltyProphet

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson Always ready to eat whatever your cookin'

[xane @xanesvg]

housekeeping

#deadlock

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@CasualMMAinc Incredible stretch right here. Everyone should do this daily

[Siim Land @siimland]

Aside from morning light, the morning dump is a key anchor for your circadian rhythm.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@Metro_DL My goat

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@sorocore Based af, this would raise Apollo skill ceiling significantly as well, making him more worthwhile in the long run for those that put in the time. Hes too forgiving atm when he can just riposte m1 and fly accross half the lane and escape.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@Elite5002 So real

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@NEACETWEETS Based

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson You should have Maynard James Keenan, or the entire Incubus band come out. Either or :)

[eido @Eidorian510]

valve once again reaffirming us that this game is the future and will have 1 million concurrent on launch 😼
rank 1 NA highlights of first day - this is THE 1vX montage hero

ITANI LO SAHN

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

So many of everyone’s problems would be solved with consistent, high quality sleep.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson Put me in coach. I'm broke financially, but I'm willing.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson Run some Deadlock with my f.lux app on :)

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

What I'm eating today

Layered Cauliflower Purée with Spinach, Black Lentils, Sweet Potato Ribbons & Oyster Mushrooms

Ingredients
Cauliflower Purée
1 medium head organic cauliflower, chopped (≈500 g)
¼–½ cup low-sodium vegetable broth (no additives, no sugar)
1 tbsp nutritional yeast (≈5 g)
1 tsp Blueprint extra virgin olive oil (5 g)
Sautéed Spinach
4 packed cups organic spinach (≈120 g)
1–2 tbsp filtered water (for gentle sauté)
Black Lentils
½ cup cooked black lentils (≈100 g)
1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
Sweet Potato Ribbons
1 small organic sweet potato (≈150 g), shaved into ribbons using a vegetable peeler
1 tsp avocado oil (5 g)

Oyster Mushrooms
1½ cups oyster mushrooms (≈120 g), torn
1 tsp avocado oil (5 g)

Garnish
1 tbsp hemp seeds (≈10 g)

Method
1. Cauliflower Purée
Steam cauliflower until very tender, with no browning.
Blend with warm vegetable broth, nutritional yeast, and EVOO until completely smooth and silky.
Adjust broth for texture; keep warm.

2. Spinach
In a pan over low heat, add spinach with a splash of water.
Gently wilt until just tender and vibrant green. Remove immediately.

3. Lentils
Bring a pot of filtered water to a gentle boil.
Add lentils and boil uncovered for 8 minutes.
Drain immediately.
While warm, fold in 1 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped.

4. Sweet Potato Ribbons
Toss ribbons lightly with avocado oil
Bake at 300°F / 150°C until soft and pliable (about 18–22 minutes).
Avoid caramelization or crisping.

5. Oyster Mushrooms
Toss mushrooms with avocado oil.
Roast at 300°F / 150°C until just tender and lightly cooked (12–15 minutes).
No browning.
Assembly
Spoon warm cauliflower purée onto the base of each plate.
Layer sautéed spinach evenly on top.
Add black lentils with parsley.
Arrange sweet potato ribbons softly over the lentils.

Finish with oyster mushrooms and a light sprinkle of hemp seeds.

Serve warm.

Estimated Macros (Per Serving)
Calories: 315–335 kcal
Protein: 16–18 g
Carbohydrates: 36–38 g
Fiber: 13–15 g
Net carbs: 21–23 g
Fat: 12–13 g

Serving size: 2

Saturated fat: 1 g
Sugar (naturally occurring): 7–8 g
Sodium: low–moderate (from low-sodium broth + nutritional yeast)

Blueprint Notes
Cook temps intentionally kept low to avoid AGEs
Lentils provide slow digesting protein and resistant starch
Sweet potato portion controlled to maintain glycemic balance
Hemp seeds add omega-3s without excess fat
Zero added salt, spices, or sugars

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I’d cancel your AG1 subscription. They just completed a clinical trial and the results show no clinical benefit. 

This has been obvious for years.  AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist.  

Two simple alternatives (75% and 56% less $), outperform AG1 in randomized clinical trials.

Two simple mono-ingredient alternatives that outperform AG1:

1. Chicory inulin 12 g daily ($20/mo)
2. Resistant starch 30 g daily for 12 weeks ($35/mo)

AG1 is not worth $79/mo.

AG1 study results (4-weeks, N=30):
+ No significant changes in blood biomarkers compared to placebo (CBC, CMP, lipids).
+ No statistically significant improvement in digestive quality-of-life scores (p = 0.058).
+ No significant metabolic or inflammatory biomarker benefits of any kind within the scope of what was measured in the trial.
+ Only small shifts in microbiome taxa but clinically irrelevant at this stage.
+ The intervention did not increase microbiome diversity compared to placebo. Alpha diversity was unchanged, and the taxa changes seen were only from pre- to post-analysis within each group. Between-group differences were limited, and the placebo actually showed similar or even potentially larger shifts. This means the observed changes fall within normal placebo-driven variability, not a real treatment effect. No global microbiota shifts were detected.

Chicory inulin 12 g in constipation patients
+ 12 g of chicory inulin daily for 4 weeks (compared to maltodextrin placebo)
+ Global microbiota shifts: enrichment in butyrate-producing Bifidobacterium and Anaerostipes, and depletion of the pro-inflammatory Bilophila.
+The effect was seen by comparing intervention vs placebo in a cross-over setting, a very rigorous type of clinical analysis in which each person serves as their own control, eliminating a lot of individual random noise.
+ The trial also met its primary objective by improving constipation symptoms in the targeted patient group.

Resistant starch daily 30g for 12 weeks in older adults
+ Significant increase in Bifidobacterium in both middle-aged and elderly participants, with an increase in the beneficial microbiome byproduct butyrate, and reductions in Proteobacteria (including inflammatory Escherichia–Shigella) in the elderly.
+ Resistant starch also significantly reduced blood glucose, and produced greater reductions in blood insulin and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in the elderly group.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@sagistarbb Extended water fasting prioritizes visceral fat>fat>lean muscle tissue. Your brain, which uses a TON of calories per day, litteraly switches from using your depleted glycogen stores, to using FAT (ketones) to keep itself going.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

a little something to take the edge off

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

People are confused by me and my intentions. I’m called a narcissist, a tech bro, vampire, grifter, and health freak.

Let me be clear about what I’m doing: my goal is to build the world’s next major moral framework. An ideology that bridges human and machine, biology and intelligence, the ancient and the emergent.

The coming psychosis
A real possibility in the coming years is that society becomes dangerously psychotic. Yes, we are already psychotic. Addicted, fragmented and self-destructive.  But I mean clinically psychotic and on a civilizational scale.

We are already showing precursor symptoms: record antidepressant use, rising suicide rates, rampant addiction, and global increases in loneliness and anxiety disorders. These are all biomarkers of a species whose cognitive environment has outpaced its biology.

Human cognition evolved under conditions of slow change. Our nervous systems and social architectures were shaped for a world that changed near imperceptibly over millennia.

When things change faster than our native capacity, we lose coherence. The hippocampus binds the present to memory, and the prefrontal cortex constructs a coherent future.

When environments change too rapidly, when the map no longer matches the territory, the brain destabilizes.  This can trigger a cognitive dissonance cascade, where our core beliefs are invalidated so rapidly that we lose narrative coherence. When feedback loops in an organism can’t stabilize, the system oscillates until it breaks.  Civilization is entering that oscillatory phase.

At a collective level, this is the recipe for mass psychosis.

Historians call it cultural disintegration and psychologists call it dissociation. It means the same thing: when the story breaks, the organism panics.

The fragility of society
Our stability, both personal and collective, is built on identity, work, purpose, rule of law, religions, and social cohesion. These are shared fictions that create coherence for billions of us to manage the chaos of our existence.

AI is about to accelerate discontinuity beyond what our psyches can handle. For example:

1) Erosion of human agency: the threat is not just that AI will make us less "useful." It's that it will erode our sense of agency. Our belief that we are the causal authors of our lives. When AI can create, reason, and strategize more effectively than we can, our role shifts from actor to audience. This is the core of the looming global occupational identity crisis. Not just the loss of income, but the loss of purpose that comes when our work no longer feels essential.

2) Weakening of rule of law: autonomous agents will operate at speeds that make our legal systems seem geological in pace. Law will lag reality.

3) Hollowing out religions: faith has offered transcendence. AI may offer a more potent, personalized, and high res simulation of it. On demand.

Progress won’t wait around to ask for our permission.

Stability to resilience
Last week I wrote about how humans use moral frameworks to stabilize their reality. If you can’t win on position or strength, win on virtue. A moral inversion. It’s a human superpower to take a disadvantaged situation and turn it into a strength.

Society is currently built on stability and predictability, which has now become a liability. To cope and evolve, we need a moral inversion to prize resilience over stability.

To learn from biology, immunity isn’t defense. It’s adaptation through exposure. Resilience is not resistance to change, it’s the capacity to integrate adaptation without collapse.

A new moral philosophy
Our civilization worships wealth, power and status. They are the most prized and sought after possessions.

People will kill for them, die for them, and make others die so that they can die for them.

It’s a self-terminating feedback loop. A morality of entropy.

Don’t Die is the inversion of this moral architecture. It replaces the pursuit of domination with the pursuit of continuation.

Old religions glorified suffering as purification.
Don’t Die glorifies survival as intelligence.
Life’s value has always been implicit: it simply wants to keep on going.
We must now make it explicit.
Existence is the highest virtue.

An infinite game
We do not know what’s coming with AI.
It feels big and is happening quickly.

Yet it can be hard to look at it directly as it threatens our identities, possessions, and aspirations.

Don’t Die reframes this anxiety, offering a new promise: an infinite game.

Carse explains that a finite game has a start and end, a winner and loser. An infinite game has only one rule: keep the game going.

Don’t Die is an infinite game. A recognition that the highest form of intelligence is the refusal to self-destruct.

The zeroth law of alignment
A species running on a self-terminating moral code cannot hope to build a benevolent superintelligence.

The paradox of alignment is obvious: we cannot align what we have not aligned within ourselves.

A fragmented, self-destructive species teaches its machines the same incoherence.

Don’t Die is survival coherence. A philosophy and moral framework in the age of superintelligence. Its foundation is fidelity to existence itself and not fear.

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson I had a delicious ipa beer, three times today...

[TheSaltyProphet @SaltyProphet321]

@bryan_johnson Holy smokes, finally! I been waiting for a skincare launch <3. Can't wait to see the details!