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[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

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.

[J D @jerrickdickson]

@KevinPicchi VC

[J D @jerrickdickson]

@jack_9947 Claude

[J D @jerrickdickson]

@AlfieJCarter Claude

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

Elon Musk: “The homeless industrial complex is really dark… The network of NGOs should be called, the drug zombie farmers… The ‘charities’ get money proportionate to the number of ‘homeless’… so their incentive structure is to maximize the number…”

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Financial advisors right now

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.

[bigbang @1adimotesi]

Death rarely arrives with a grand scene. More often it comes wrapped in plainness, in the middle of unfinished plans, a message left unsent, a call postponed, a task waiting on the table, a “tomorrow” you kept as a safe hiding place. And the hardest truth to swallow is this: the world absorbs our absence and keeps moving.

Islam does not decorate that reality. It states it with a clean sentence: “Every soul shall taste death.” Not to paralyze you with fear, but to wake you up. Because death is not a shadow that cheapens life. It is the final measure that makes life serious. It exposes what you truly valued, what you owed, whose heart you bruised, which good deed you delayed, which apology you kept negotiating with your pride.

So the question is not “when death comes.” The question is what you do before it comes. Seek forgiveness. Return rights. Soften arrogance. Grow mercy. Keep the heart clean. Among all unfinished plans, the most tragic is the good you meant to do, but kept for later.

Rumi captures it in one striking line: “Death is our wedding night.” Not as denial, but as a reminder that the end is not just disappearance. It is the moment the veils fall, the accounts open, and the truth stands unhidden. The world will continue, yes. But you will meet what you became.

[Greg Berge @GregBerge]

This is a Mindset MUST-watch.
Bookmark and share. 📌

We can become exactly who we want to become.
We can control our thoughts.
We can control our mind.
We can make that 8-year version of us proud!

Having this perspective at age 22 is just awesome. 🥇

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Nobody is trying to fix the problems we have in the world.

Everyone is just trying to make enough money so the problems don't apply to them anymore.

[goma @soigomaa]

Stress shortens your DNA. But one state can repair it. And it's not sleep. At the ends of your chromosomes are protective caps called telomeres. They prevent DNA from fraying. Every time a cell divides, telomeres get shorter. When they're too short, the cell dies. Scientists discovered something shocking: stress speeds up this clock dramatically. Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize for discovering telomerase — the enzyme that repairs telomeres. For years, scientists believed it worked only in stem cells. They were wrong. Your mental and emotional state directly affects telomerase activity. Stress suppresses it. You don't age from time. You age from your state. A University of California study found that mothers caring for chronically ill children had telomeres equivalent to someone 10 years older than their peers. Stress literally cuts years off your life at the DNA level. Here's the most important part: Blackburn discovered that meditation increases telomerase activity by up to 30%. Not exercise. Not supplements.
Mental stillness.

[maro @ProofofMaro]

I was very, very young when I learned about this patent. Haven’t watched television since.

[D @_DAGYE]

Let me tell you something that they been trying so hard to keep secret from you:
It’s all about having a calm central nervous system so you can hear to your inner voice (God) and let it guide you. That’s why they work so hard to distract you and install fear into you.

[🍻 @drink2beers]

bad news twin: time is flying
good news: you the pilot twin

u the fuckin pilot

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Overconfidence will get you further in life than your skills. The illusion of superiority makes you take bold steps, not constant self criticism. You seem like you know what you’re doing. All the knowledge you hoard in your cave means nothing when the world cares about output.

[Skyler Higley @skyler_higley]

When things are feeling really bad I watch this video. I believe it is the most important video on the internet.

[Saint Zoe 🇺🇸🇭🇹 @Jupinapapi3]

Fernando Mendoza looks like he makes his animal crackers fight each other before he eats them

[J D @jerrickdickson]

They built us this way

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

Welcome to the Strength Department.

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

The fun and games are over. If you have a pulse, you’re in the fight for your life. The middle class is gone, inflation is through the roof, daycare is $2K per month, a decent house is $500K. You have to wake up ready to sprint every morning.