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Topics: News, US News, Bryan Johnson, Health, Weird
Kit Roberts
Topics: News, US News, Bryan Johnson, Health, Weird
A self-described 'biohacker' has described the morning routine that he hopes will help him live forever.
When it comes to morning routines, there's a spectrum from the extremely healthy to, well, the other end.
Some might rise at 5am, do yoga, have a healthy breakfast, go for jogs, meditations and swims, while others crawl out of bed five minutes before work and blearily wash down a paracetamol with some cheap instant coffee and a cigarette before loping to their laptop.
Most of us probably fall somewhere in the middle of this morning spectrum, but 'biohacker' Bryan Johnson's morning routine exists outside of it entirely.
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The social media influencer and tech entrepreneur shared the way he starts his mornings every day, in the hope that he will live forever.
Though one look at those mornings might make you wonder if eternal life would be worth it.
Johnson starts his day with a nice lie-in, getting up at the crack of noon.
Just joking, obviously it's a 4.30am start with absolutely NO snoozing of that alarm - we have an eternity to prepare for here and that requires an early rise.
His first step in the morning is to get onto a scale and measure the 'ratios of fat, muscle, bone, and water in my body', then it's time for the custom hair serum, scalp scrub, and red light cap to keep an eye on his hairline.
Next up, we have 'light therapy' which 'helps mimic natural sunlight and signal to my body that it’s daytime', before Johnson takes the temperature of his inner ear, of all places, as a 'daily health indicator'.
The entrepreneur then heads to have a glass of water that's been 'purified and remineralised using an under-counter reverse osmosis system.'
He said: "I drink it with additional morning supplements, including essential capsules, advanced antioxidants, and ashwagandha and rhodiola."
Don't even talk to me until I've had my morning ashwagandha and rhodiola.
It's time for breakfast, consisting of berries, protein, olive oil, and collagen. Yummy.
After breakfast, it's coffee right? Wrong. It's checking the air quality of course.
Johnson explained: "I have systems that track carbon dioxide, temperature, humidity, and even airborne particles and chemicals, making sure the air I breathe is as clean as possible."
Then it's time for the morning blood test. Yes, you read that right, to check for any signs of ageing.
At 5.35am Johnson begins his morning workout, which he calls his 'favourite part of the morning', before heading into his sauna with some ice packs, followed by more light therapy, this time infra-red, and 'shockwave therapy' to monitor his joints, then a 'super veggie' meal.
Then, Johnson says, is where it gets 'a little strange' with 90 minutes of 'hyperbaric oxygen therapy'.
Johnson said: "This therapy saturates my body with 100% oxygen under high pressure. This accelerates healing, rebuilds the microbiome, is good for brain health, and increases my vascularisation across my entire body."
Finally, at 11.30am, it's time for the 'final meal', this time with veggies, legumes, nuts, seeds, berries, and more extra virgin olive oil, and he's ready to start the day.
Now please, someone get me a flat white and a pain au chocolat.