Do you remember Bryan Johnson, the 47-year-old venture capitalist who wants to say as young as possible for as long as possible? The guy who uses his son’s blood in that effort? Well, he’s got a line of supplements. And he says they’re the bee’s knees.
“I spent $50,000 last month alone testing foods for heavy metals, toxins and nutritional density and can confirm what Chamath is saying: the American food supply is egregiously unhealthy,” Johnson wrote Sunday on X.
Chamath, in this case, is referring to Chamath Palihapitiya, the venture capitalist and co-host of the All-In podcast, who wrote over the weekend about how he thought food was just healthier in Italy than in the U.S. Not because he was eating anything with less fat or calories. Palihapitiya believes there’s something more insidious going on with the U.S. food supply. And Johnson took the opportunity to tout his brand of supplements, known as Blueprint.
“It took us (Blueprint) 18 months to build out an entire food supply chain, vetting every vendor and testing every ingredient,” Johnson continued. “All third party lab results are shared publicly. It’s such a relief to have knowledge of what I’m putting into my body. It’s worth noting that we’ve been testing “healthy” ingredients, not even fast food or junk food which I’m guessing is a lot worse.”
Johnson, who made his money selling his company Braintree to PayPal back in 2013, is obsessed with aging, to say the least. And it’s really no surprise when a guy with extreme wealth (Johnson is worth an estimated $400 million according to Fortune) decides that he wants to live forever. But typically those kinds of people are locked in to their own experience. Johnson, whatever you think of him, seems to be on a mission to spread his ideas far and wide, selling supplements and powders in the process, including things like “Longevity Mix” and pills containing red yeast rice with garlic.
There’s even a Donald Trump connection to Johnson’s efforts if you can believe it. On Friday, Johnson posted a photo of himself with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man who has been tasked with overseeing the incoming Trump administration’s plans for everything health-related, from the USDA to the FDA.
MAHA pic.twitter.com/WDyntKdzTB
— Bryan Johnson /dd (@bryan_johnson) November 8, 2024
Johnson wrote “MAHA,” which stands for Make America Healthy Again. And he really seems to mean it. When asked in the comments on X about the meeting, Johnson said he and Kennedy “worked out, ate Nutty Pudding, and completed biological age tests.” Nutty Pudding, of course, is a product Johnson sells on his website.
It’s unclear what impact Johnson and his ideas of eternal life might have on the federal government, especially if he’s buddies with Kennedy. Will Medicare stop paying for life-saving cancer drugs so that we can all get on brain pills and longevity powders? The idea would’ve been cartoonishly ridiculous before last week’s presidential election. But now that Trump will be returning to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, and Kennedy plans to bring his rag-tag bunch of alt-health weirdos along with him, we could be in for anything at this point.
An attempt to reach Johnson through his website didn’t immediately receive a response. Gizmodo will update this post if we hear back.
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