Agree. More power to him and I do stuff to my outsides too, but in a perfect world, it would be great for us to see his untouched outsides in order to observe how much becoming healthy on the inside translates to appearance. I am a fan of his and love what he is doing, but for the reasons you’ve mentioned, how he looks is meaningless to me. I’m not throwing shade because I wouldn’t be willing to do that either!
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I agree with your observations. I also think that all superficial alterations to his face/body are wrong on his part and deceiving for those who follow him bc ppl want to see how his anti-aging protocol makes their appearance youthful from within. And if it did it could be a proof that what he’s doing works. Unfortunately we’ll never know that. We have to take his word for it. This is what I don’t like about him.
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To be fair to Bryan, he’s trying to be and look as young as possible, and there isn’t a treatment out there that can materially reverse facial aging. But, it stands to reason he’s had multiple treatments. He’s said quite a few times that skin is really hard, and it’s definitely harder if you don’t look after yourself. You only have to look at the difference between men and women. Most men don’t care about skincare, but lots of women do, and look younger for longer. For some reason, I think we get fixated on appearance, but it’s just not feasible to expect Bryan to physically age backwards without help or that he should leave his face just so few can see 'How he looks". He wants to be as young on the inside as he does on the outside, it’s just really hard. In his defense, he’s logged every treatment he’s done, it’s all on his website. Personally, I think he looks great all things considered. He’s never really going to look 18 again, but he is showing what’s possible.
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Skin is only hard because you have to actually improve the functioning of the cells in the skin.
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I thought this was particularly interesting. I’ve noticed that people who have severe infections tend to rapidly lose collagen, I assume there’s a link between immune dysregulation and skin aging.
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I think the Extra Cellular Matrix is probably quite sensitive to cellular power levels (the amounts of acetyl-CoA in the cytosol/nucleus).
Hence when cells go senescent the ECM also is not built properly.
I have updated my poster web page following my blood test on Wednesday
https://citrate.science/2024poster/poster.html
Where it shows the effect of varying levels of acetyl-CoA on the speed of repair of a venepuncture (because I have a venepuncture each week I can compare different exogenous cellular environments).
Interestingly you have a venepuncture on 26/7, 31/7 and 7/8. The later two had reasonably high citrate dosing before the venepuncture and that of 26/7 only had citrate after the venepuncture.
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The lady pictured looks like she’s doing great for 55 but me thinks our own @LaraPo blows her out of the water on appearances. I’m fairly new to the longevity space but basically look the same as her at 54 fwiw. Excuse the ignorant question but are the Rejuvenation Olympics ongoing?
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Think so
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Yes and I expect that will continue for quite a while. It’s a great marketing tool for Trudgnostic / Blueprint and any of the participants that list a “clinic”.
Unfortunately those of us doing this on our own are lumped into the “TruDiagnostic House Clinic” category.
We entered just over a month ago, there were about 500 participants. Yesterday I checked and there are now over 1,100 participants. I expect the “kardashian effect” will add significantly to the growth.
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This just came up on my Facebook as an ad feed.
I’ll be honest, I don’t want to look like Bryan Johnson. He doesn’t look healthy… energized… or happy. I’m pretty sure I’m gonna outlive the dude.
If this is the poster child, I think we can do better. Hahaha.
My pic from the gym last night. Rocking 66 .5 years on Rapamycin and TRT.
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I agree that Bryan doesn’t look healthy. He has a gaunt sunken face in this picture.
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That’s because he is on caloric restriction and has lost body fat - facial fat. Whether he should optimize appearance or longevity is a question. If he doesn’t do anything at all with no further advancements he will live maybe 40 years longer. It’s going to be very difficult to be able to live longer the older he gets.
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Ironic that he did this video two days ago… but doesn’t look bad here:
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The ad might be an older image when he was on a higher CR.
I say he should ignore the longevity mafia and go full on longevity vampire schizo skeleton if needed. But I doubt such a low body fat is healthy regardless.
If you lose body fat on CR doesn’t that mean something is wrong?
No - you become quite skinny on CR. Reduce your caloric intake by 30% to 40% and see what happens to your body.
Well, so it’s useless because the body is using fat and protein stores for energy. The point I thought was to slow metabolism. Not via lowering body mass and thus expenditure.
You lose most of your fat, then your weight hits a plateau. It does slow metabolism then. Weather all this is desirable is an individual’s choice. Its the rare person that can persistently implement CR over the long term.
I don’t understand what the difference is between someone who was obese and on a 30% CR and someone normal weight and 30% CR, do they both slow their metabolism once they’ve hit the plateau? Same benefits of CR, if not, why?
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A person who is obese is just on a diet, if they’re doing “CR”. I think by definition you can’t be obese and doing CR.
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Yes here he looks younger and healthier.
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