The hour-long morning rave, which began promptly at a. In just a few years, Johnson has become the subject of numerous gawking magazine profiles and mainstream internet obsession by posting his extreme health regimens no sugar or alcohol , no food after noon , bedtime at p. At the very least, Johnson is transparent, sharing both his anti-aging victories and mishaps. I first encountered Johnson on social media when an algorithm shoved him down my feed. In , he launched Blueprint, a longevity-focused brand that now offers supplements, meal delivery, and biological test kits.
The music softens, marking the end of the rave. Johnson takes the stage, sweaty and shirtless, showcasing his hard-earned, shredded physique. When I initially saw Johnson in person, I realised these labels were cruel and inaccurate.
But describing his appearance as healthy , as far as the word is commonly understood, also feels like a stretch. Before dismissing the crowd, Johnson asks if people know where they are going. An hour later, at 1 p. My tall and broad-shouldered partner, Mark, is a year-old active member of the Coast Guard. He struggles with a test requiring us to stand up from the floor in a cross-legged position without using our hands.
And I completely bomb the seated sit-and-reach, unable to touch my toes. However, we soon discover that our reaction time test, which had us catch a falling classroom ruler, used a different metric centimetres from the bottom of the ruler than the app requests fractions of a second. We try to ask one of the event staffers about it, but he just shrugs. So we resort to inputting a finger-in-the-air conversion.
It would later turn out that the summit administered an entirely different test than the one listed in the app. He feels the military lacks a preventative approach to health care and would like to see more non-mainstream modalities like stem cells injections for bodies worn down from years of service, toxicity testing for those deployed to unhealthy areas, and psychedelics for mental health.
