A Californian strives to live forever by Terry Carroll Bryan Johnson is working hard at not dying. He and his California team at “Project Blueprint: The Anti-Aging Protocol” have developed (and regularly
For one thing, in the film, he’s bare-chested for an inordinate amount of time. I get it. If you’re 47, slim, muscular and feeling good after being overweight and depressed for 10 years, who wouldn’t want to display their naked torso? Ten minutes would have been plenty. In another oddity, he regularly eats his last meal of the day at 11 am. And he takes about 50 pills and supplements daily. (In this, he’s in good company with many seniors). He reports aging at the rate of .064 of a year for every year he lives. Great! I’m with him so far. I believe he is slowing his aging process. As to eventually bringing it to a halt? This one-man guinea pig is a tad young to know what he’s talking about. A case in point: my brother-in-law, aged 71, who lives in Vancouver, BC, never smoked, drank moderately if at all, ate little meat, hiked and tap-danced regularly. He was in terrific shape by any metric until January of 2025 when he told his wife one morning he had no memory of an important Zoom call the previous evening. ‘Stroke, maybe?’ his wife wondered. She hustled him to an urgent care unit where they tested him thoroughly and decided it was a case of transient global amnesia. Nothing to worry about. Happens to lots of people. What doesn’t happen to everyone is the shadow that medical professionals noticed, almost by accident, at the bottom of one image they’d taken. Further tests ensued. He who checked every box (except a strict Mediterranean diet) had stage 3 lung cancer. He has completed the first round of radiation and chemo. Initial reports look promising, but living by the five habits didn’t stop Canada’s top killer from showing up. Maybe a team like Johnson’s would have spotted The Big C earlier and warded it off. Maybe not. To those of us who’ve lived 30+ years longer than Johnson, it makes sense that Project Blueprint can slow, but not stop, the aging process; eventually, we’ll all walk, hobble or crawl through the valley of the shadow. Terry can be argued with via terry@carrollgroup.ca.
monitor) a regimen to slow Johnson’s biological aging through supplements, diet, exercise, the right amount of sleep, rejuvenating 70 organs and, well, de-aging his own ‘johnson’. Bryan Johnson is both the funder of this research, to the tune of $2 million a year, and the guinea pig being tested. As Freud was to psychotherapy, Johnson is to longevity. So, what are Johnson’s top habits for living longer?
1. Adopt a Mediterranean Diet 2. Limit Alcohol Consumption 3. Engage in Regular Exercise 4. Avoid Smoking 5. Maintain a Healthy Body Mass Index (BMI) Nothing too startling there.
However, in a Netflix doc “ Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever ,” Johnson comes across as quirkier than he does on the podcast where I first encountered him. Geoffrey Rae Managing Editor / Sales Geoff@villagerpublications.com 519-495-7177 Copy Editor: Peter Bloch-Hansen Publisher: Barb Botten barb@villagerpublications.com Graphic Artist – Cathy Wood Photos, community events and article suggestions welcome. Please email hometown@villagerpublications.com. We look forward to hearing from you. oomers oomers B and EYOND B
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