A young man followed Bryan Johnson’s intense anti-aging lifestyle — and the results are pretty shocking.
Andrew Boyd, 23, spent 75 days following the tech mogul’s Blueprint diet and exercise plan to test the highly regimented program.
Johnson, a 46-year-old millionaire, spends a whopping $2 million a year on his bid to reverse the aging process. He eats a strict diet of 2,250 calories per day in a six-hour period, which he combines with a one-hour exercise regimen, 111 supplements daily, a rigid bedtime routine, blood transfusions and daily health tests, among other things, in hopes of achieving the equivalent of an 18-year-old’s physique.
To figure out the efficacy of the program, Boyd attempted to follow the plan as closely as possible for an average person.
The young man from Chattanooga, Tennessee, spent about 2½ months following the strict schedule and shared the outcome on his YouTube channel.
“[I] felt incredibly focused and energized,” he admitted in the video. “I learned a lot through this experience.”
Boyd ordered from Amazon in bulk, went grocery shopping weekly and purchased the vitamins he thought worked best for his body, spending about $112.34 a week on food and supplements. He followed the meal plan using recipes from Bryan’s website and spent about three to four hours a week meal prepping.
He began his day with the “green giant” — which consists of water, chlorella powder, creatine, collagen peptides, cocoa flavanols and Ceylon cinnamon — and then ate the “super veggie,” a mix of a “massive amounts of broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, ginger, garlic and black lentils.”
For a snack, he munched on a so-called “nutty pudding,” a mix of nuts topped with fresh strawberries, and then ended his meals with a bowl of roasted sweet potatoes, chickpeas and avocado.
The YouTuber also worked out for an hour a day and went to bed from 9 p.m. to 5:15 a.m. consistently.
“Blueprint is not about the exact diet, it’s not about the exact exercise protocol. It’s not about red light therapy or a bedtime routine or about skincare,” the young man said.
“At its core project, Blueprint is about using measurement and data to back up health choices,” Boyd declared.
After 75 days, he claimed that his biological age was 19.2 — at the time of the recording — while his chronological age was 23.7.
However, he did question the validity of biological age, noting it as a very limited and reactive snapshot of time that can change drastically according to immediate circumstances — such as eating a donut versus an apple.
Boyd lost nearly 30 pounds — dropping an average of 6 pounds a week — going from 192 to 164 pounds and reducing his body fat percentage from 19 to 13.9 percent.
His heart rate variability improved, achieving a lower resting rate, and he stabilized his blood sugar levels and averaged a 95% sleep score.
Boyd shared that his “mental clarity and focus went way up” pretty quickly and that he was enticed by how “good” he felt “all the time.”
But being realistic, he admitted that although he had great results, “prioritizing your health to the level that Bryan Johnson does is extremely hard.”
