Kit Roberts
A self-described 'biohacker' has sparked debate after describing the morning routine he hopes will help prolong his life.
When it comes to the start of the day there are morning people, and there are not morning people.
Someone's morning routine might range from waking up at 6am to go for a jog, yoga, and meditation, to reluctantly rolling out of bed and blearily gulping down a black coffee while resenting that the world has the audacity to exist before 10am.
While most of us are probably somewhere in between these two extremes, the morning routine of biohacker Bryan Johnson makes the most egregious 'rise and grind' start look like staying in bed until midday by comparison.
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The 48-year-old tech millionaire described his routine in an episode of The Burnouts podcast.
You probably won't be surprised to discover that Johnson falls into the 'getting up almost before you go to bed' camp of morning routine, rising at 4.30am every day.
After measuring his ratios of muscle and fat on the scale he undergoes his first 'light therapy' of the morning, yes I did say 'first', followed by a glass of specially purified water and some supplements.
Then on to breakfast, which is made up of berries, protein, olive oil, and collagen, before he checks the air quality in his house.
All this is within the first hour, with Johnson starting his morning workout, which he calls his 'favorite part of the morning', at 5.35am after taking his temperature.
After exercising it's off into his own sauna with ice packs, as well as the second round of light therapy for the morning, as well as 'shockwave therapy', a 'super veggie' meal, altitude training, and 90 minutes of 'hyperbaric oxygen therapy'.
To be fair, I'm also useless in the morning until I've had my hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Johnson's gruelling morning routine has sparked debate online, and while some have praised the biohacker, many people have pointed out the same thing.
This is that for all the time Johnson spends on trying to actually prolong his life, he seems to do very little of anything that might be considered 'living'.
Taking to social media, one person wrote: "So he basically spends 25 percent of his life trying to extend his life instead of actually enjoying his youth?"
Another said: "Guy is trying to live forever but wasting one fourth of his day instead of going out and living."
A third commented: "Bro is spending more time not dying than he is living."
The 48-year-old previously claimed his experiment helped him achieve the 'heart of a 37-year-old' and the 'lung capacity of an 18-year-old'.