In the same way that the sequencing of the genome determines the genetic composition of an organism, Bryan Johnson, the investor and founder behind the Do not die Movement: You want to start the “Foodome” sequence.
“We are going to sequence the ‘foodome’ of the United States, which means 20% of the foods that constitute 80% of the American diet based on things that we eat every day,” Johnson said Thursday at the SXSW Festival in Austin.
Johnson is the founder and former CEO of CoreA company of cerebral monitoring devices, the founder of OS Fund, and the founder and former CEO of the electronic commerce company Braintree.
Today, he is obsessed with finding ways to extend his useful life and preach that gospel to others. He has taken extreme measures, including the transfusion of his blood with that of his 17 -year -old son and undergoing a shock therapy treatment to obtain more nocturnal erections, which he according to him directly with health.
Most of his advice on extended habits by life are quite easy to guess: sleep better. Time with the community. Exercise. Eat healthy. But Johnson says it’s not as easy to eat healthy as you think.
“I want to be real with you. It is very, very difficult to buy clean foods, ”he said, and pointed out that most of the foods of groceries, including organic brands, could have toxins of several processing methods.
Its objective is to test as much food as possible and create a public database where people can donate money so that certain foods and brands are tested for toxins such as heavy or microplastic metals. The results, expects, will hold the brands for insecure food practices.
The idea received a round of applause from the audience full in SXSW, which participated anxiously in Johnson’s various breathing exercises, prompted to move and a longevity experiment that involved balanceing a foot with his eyes closed. (I got 30 seconds, it’s not a big deal).
Johnson has faced a lot of hate online for his eccentric philosophy that with the advent of AI, we can be the first generation that does not have to die.
“We are giving birth to Super Intelligence. It is the most important thing that happens throughout the world now, ”said Johnson, added that no existing ideology explains how to handle AI and that the survival of our species is no longer guaranteed now that AI has entered the image.
“The human race would be prudent to reuse its goals [around AI and] Far from money at any cost to “not die.”
In other words, while we discussed AI’s alignment with the human race, why not align AI with the mission of preserving human life? Why not, ask, use AI to take advantage of millions of “geniuses at the human level” to trace human progress and address the greatest challenges of aging?
It is a provocative question that has caused criticism of skeptics who argue that dying is an essential part of human being.
Dr. Andrew Steele, a longevity scientist, recognize To eat well and exercise helps to extend life, but that genetics, not extreme measures, plays a more important role in determining life expectancy.
But that perspective has not dissuaded Johnson to promote his “plans protocol”, his lifestyle formula to maintain what he says they are the best biomarkers in the world. It is also marketing its own line of supplements and food. Its olive oil brand is ironically, or rightly, called snake oil.