For most people, success means squeezing as much as possible into 80‑odd years: a big job with a flashy title and matching salary, a swanky apartment in the city or McMansion in the suburbs, bucket‑list trips squeezed into limited vacation days, kids if they want them—and maybe an early retirement if everything goes to plan.
For Silicon Valley millionaire Bryan Johnson, that feels too small.
The entrepreneur who famously spends millions each year trying to slow his own aging now has a new target in his sights: he wants to make humans immortal by 2039.
“The search for the fountain of youth is the oldest story ever told,” Johnson wrote on X and Facebook. “For the first time in the history of life on earth, in just the past 24 months, the window has opened for a conscious being to realistically strive for this goal. It is an absolutely insane moment.”
The 48-year-old said that the 14-year goal is based on “new, promising therapies that can turn back the clock decades,” while adding that thanks to AI, it’s actually a very “reasonable target.”
First, he argued, his team just need to fix some of the “buggy” issues, like therapies that are “mistakenly causing cancer.”
Humans are currently a ‘suicidal species’—Bryan Johnson is cloning his organs to change that in less than 15 years
The Braintree, Kernel, and most recently, Blueprint, founder admitted that his team “currently do not know” how project 2039 immortality will be achieved. But he revealed the efforts they’re going to to get there, including looking into jellyfish cells and the enzymes of lobsters, which are both linked to slow ageing. “We need to port the software to humans,” Johnson added.
That, coupled with the “AI-driven rate of innovation” and using his own body as a guinea pig, is where he thinks the real acceleration will happen.
This isn’t Johnson’s first attempt to slow down time. The tech founder has previously made headlines for “the world’s first multigenerational plasma exchange” with his then‑17‑year‑old son and 70‑year‑old father. He has also spent around $2 million a year on treatments that he believes have given him the skin of a 28 year old and the lung capacity of an 18 year old.
Now, after six years of prodding and testing, he maintains that, biologically, he has not aged a day.
“To speed things up now, I’m currently having thousands of Bryan Johnson organ clones built in a dish,” Johnson said. “This will allow me to test drugs and other molecules against my biology to accelerate learning and save my body from potential mishaps.”
“Yes, we’ll make mistakes. Hopefully they won’t be fatal,” he concluded, adding that he’ll be sharing the results of his research on his platform Blueprint for free.
For the average human—what he calls a “suicidal species” that “unnecessarily kill ourselves with what we eat and how we live our lives”—he’ll provide details on how to copy his million-dollar-routine with “a fraction of the cost and effort.”
Bryan Johnson eats his final meal of the day at 11 a.m. as part of his multimillion-dollar anti-ageing routine
High-profile execs are well accustomed to 5 a.m. alarms and plunge pools. But in his quest to live forever, Johnson takes his high-performance routine to a whole other level.
He previously told Fortune that he wakes up at 4:30 each morning, and then every hour of his day is regimented by an algorithm built from rigorous bodily monitoring and the science from over 2,000 academic publications.
Johnson starts his day by working out—completing 35 different exercises—taking a list of supplements and washing it all down with a smoothie.
Then, with the help of a team of 30 specialists, he undergoes daily body fat scans, routine MRIs, and often, invasive blood and stool sample tests to see the biological age of his organs.
In between these tests, he takes 61 pills daily and eats three meals a day, within a strict five-hour time frame, usually consisting of a super veggie salad followed by a nutty pudding and lots of greens. The tech entrepreneur eats 70 pounds of vegetables every month.
Most people eat dinner a few hours before going to bed. But Johnson’s bed time is 8:30 p.m. and to ensure his food is fully digested before, he has his last meal of the day at 11 a.m.
