This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.
From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.
0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.
Bonus points if you get your blood checked.
Start here, it will change your life.
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”
one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.
we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get
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Advice I'd give to myself as a first-time father:
+ teach them to question everything
+ see my beliefs as trappings of my time
+ avoid the enslavement of societal norms
+ agency is the prize
+ existence is the highest virtue
Reframe how you think about weekends: not as the time to binge and take a break from health. That will weaken you.
Use weekends to reset and rebuild strength.
The Time Has Come for Robots.
I build AI Agents to replace office workers, but these demos convince me! All physical labor will be gone to robots, too. (even the world's oldest profession).
Just watch it if you disagree. The biggest robot thread ever (50 demos):
@Dr_Singularity@bryan_johnson I really hope so. The thing is we said the same in 2023 about 2025. But I guess we really live in a different world compared to 2023 but not in the way we expected
Science Corp. has created its own line of neurons that it's fusing with an animal's existing neurons via an implant, and we may end up with monkeys playing poker. How's your Thursday? https://t.co/IrkzreRUBd
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says their AlphaFold AI system has performed a billion years of PhD work and they will have their first drugs in the clinic by the end of the year, with cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative diseases on the list of targets
@bryan_johnson@bryan_johnson My sister is 5 years old and in case my parents wont make it to LEV she will be my only family member left so I have the question at what age should I introduce her to Don't die and what would be the best strategy to motivate her to follow this ideology long term?