The 3 things Bryan Johnson is missing from his longevity routine.

Bryan Johnson’s goal is to use the research of his team on promising published anti-aging strategies to incorporate them into his own stack, test them on himself, and use the vast resources at his disposal to bring the best anti-aging hacks to the masses.

He has gone to some crazy lengths to find longevity secrets: he injected himself with one liter of his son’s blood six times before determining it had no discernible benefit (though he still donates his own blood to his dad), he’s committed to sleeping alone, and his diet is extremely regimented.

He spends millions of dollars on his self-experimentation, but he is well aware of and empathetic to the fact that others do not have these resources, and his hope is he can use them on himself to find strategies that will benefit all of humanity as we move into a future where death can be transcended through science.

I love that Johnson is open-minded, data-driven, action-oriented, and responsive to criticism.

I love his philosophy of automating the little things in life to achieve bigger things. Let the data tell me what to eat so I can spend my time building businesses, expanding philosophy, or creating art. Let’s do the dirty work in our generation so that our children can dream bigger dreams.

But, does living a long and healthy life require to lose our life trying to save it? Do we have to commit most of our time and resources toward finding a way to age incrementally more slowly?

Many people may ask, how can I get the 80/20 of this? What are the small number of high-impact things that can give me the most important results?

You may want to lengthen your lifespan and healthspan without losing the opportunity to eat freely of enjoyable foods, sleep with your partner, or spend most of your money or your day managing your health.

Understanding this is actually critical, because harmful processes that occur with aging accelerate over time. It is quite possible that each day we go without optimizing what is accessible to us gets us closer to the point of damage becoming irreversible.

So, let’s start this discussion right now before the opportunity to live better escapes us.

In this analysis, I look for things Johnson is doing that may be holding his results back, blind spots in the data he is collecting, and accessible ways to simplify his approach.

Read the rest in my twitter thread.