DON'T DIE: Dialogues

by Bryan Zero Johnson

Blueprint: “It is not. If you eat all of it—the nutty pudding, the super veggie, the olive oil, and dark chocolate—just as I do, at the exact time I do, it’s exactly 2,250 calories spread out over optimal times during the day to increase autophagy, reduce inflammation, and to induce all kinds of anti-inflammatory mechanisms. The perfect amount of high-octane fuel. Probably it’ll do you all wonders, too. We don’t have to listen to folk mythologies about what does and doesn’t work. Many people could likely get away with doing this, all in moderation, and see orders of magnitude gains in quality of life without dialing it up to eleven like I do. The benefit is the customization. Nobody’s individual health gets lost in population averages. It’s also vegan, if you can handle that. Pounds of vegetables and nuts and oils, all designed to be anti-inflammatory. It’s not the only way, of course.” Everyone was speechless. It might as well have been the sixteenth century and Blueprint was Galileo trying to convince the room that the Earth revolved around the Sun. A lot more still needed to be done to persuade them.