True or false? You, Brian Johnson, the

man sitting across from me, one day, at

some point, as of yet undefined in the

future, you will die.

False.

>> Sold Venmo for $800 million. Has spent a

fortune on a quest to stay young

forever.

>> Don't die is the general theme of what

we're trying to do. It's humanity's only

objective. None of us live forever

except Brian Johnson.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

Brian Johnson.

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Hi guys. Okay, everybody stand up. Okay,

what you're going to do is you're going

to choose your left or your right foot.

I'm going to count down from three and

you're going to stay standing on your

selected foot as long as you can with

your eyes closed. Okay? Hands by your

side. You can't be out. It's got to be

close by. Your foot's got to be

somewhere close by. You can't be clear

out. Okay? So, just choose right or left

foot.

And those of you on the balcony, be

careful.

If somebody fell off, that'd be a bad

situation. Okay. Foot selected. Let me

pull out my timer. And I'm going to

count the number of seconds that pass.

Okay.

Ready? 3 2 one. Close your eyes.

5 seconds.

10 seconds.

And your foot can't move. Stationary.

15.

20. Okay, we'll stop there. Who's Who's

still up?

Okay, good. Okay, good. We'll do it one

more time. All right, you got No, no,

stay up. This is a biological age test.

As you age, part of your brain that

keeps you well balanced atrophies and

you can't maintain a balance very well.

So, kids are very good at this. As you

age, you get worse. Okay. So if you are

uh between 15 and 30 seconds, that's

roughly age 20 to 40. 7 to 15 seconds,

you're between 40 and 60. And 0 to 7,

you're 60 plus

>> as an age category. Okay.

Yep. All right. Ready? Okay. You can

choose again. Right or left foot? Your

foot's got to be stationary. You can't

move it around. Arms close by. Okay.

Three,

two, one, go.

Five.

10.

15.

20. Make it to 30, you guys. 10 more

seconds.

30. Okay, cool. Good job, you guys. All

right, you can take a seat. This is the

neat thing about biological age testing

is you of course know when you were born

and therefore you know how many years

you've lived. You can look at yourself

in the mirror and say, you know, I have

a few wrinkles or a few spots. But

actually in your body, your organs have

different ages. So, your lungs are a

certain age, your brain, your eyes, your

ears, your gums, your pancreas, your

liver, they're all different biological

ages. And it's really important to know,

for example, my left, so I'm 47. My left

ear is 64 years old.

It's because I shot a lot of guns as a

kid. I was right-handed like this with a

lot of exposure in my ear. And I also

listen to a lot of loud music. And so

that's really important for me to know

because when you have hearing loss and

you don't correct for it with a hearing

aid, it can affect it can result in

cognitive decline. So this applies to

all things about the heart. And so a

couple years ago, I posed this question.

Are we really the first generation who

won't die?

It's kind of the coolest question in

existence. What matters more than our

experience, our ability to live? And so

to do this, I wanted to do an

experiment. So, I measured the

biological age of every organ in my body

as much as we could. We then went

through the scientific evidence and we

tried to reverse and or slow down my

speed of aging. And what I've been

trying to do is create a sport or a new

genre of what it means to be healthy.

And so, I put my biomarkers out and

said, basically, I have the best

biomarkers of anybody in the world.

Anyone's willing, anyone's, you know,

capable of competing with me. But try to

make it like a quantified thing where

it's just like I'm healthy or not. And

so it's been a really fun journey. And

so today I'm going to tell you guys in

just a few minutes time everything I've

learned about health. I'm going to

compress it into some very simple

lessons for you because health is really

complicated. It's very confusing. It's

all consuming. It's overwhelming. Cool.

>> Okay.

So first uh who got eight hours of sleep

last night?

Uh, 7

6 5 4 3

Thank you for your honesty. Two. There.

Thank you, sir. One. Yeah, I appreciate

that. Okay. Who has a confession to

make? Who recently polished off a bag of

chips, ate some ice cream, and then

jammed some Twizzlers? What did you do,

sir?

>> Chips. A whole bag. One sitting. All

right. Great. Who else? Yeah. What did

you do? Gelato.

>> Gelato. Yeah, I get it. Okay, cool.

Okay, so you guys, the single best thing

I've learned out of everything I've ever

done is your resting heart rate before

sleep is the best thing you can do for

your health. Hands down. Okay, so here's

what you're going to do tonight. Before

you go to bed, you're going to get a

baseline read. You're either with a

wearable or just on your fingers on the

neck. You're going to lay down on your

bed, take a few deep breaths. You're

going to find your resting heart rate.

Let's say it's 60 beats per minute.

Okay, your goal over the next month is

to lower your heart rate by 10% or so.

So, if you're 60, be down to 54. And

here's how you're going to do it. If

your bedtime's at 10 p.m., eat your

final meal of the day at 6 p.m. After 6,

no more food, no more snacks. Okay? By

doing that, you have you allow your body

to digest your food. And you're going to

see that as you do that, your heart rate

is going to go down. And the reason why

heart rate is so important is the lower

your heart rate is, the better your

sleep. The better your sleep, the better

your willpower. Did you know if you

don't sleep, your prefrontal cortex goes

offline and you lose your willpower. So

when you're trying to not eat the

cookie, you're powerless. You can't do

it. It's gone. So sleep is the best

performance-enhancing drug in the whole

world. It's the thing you want to do

every night. So first thing is eat your

final meal 4 hours before bed. Number

two is you need to turn your screens off

an hour before bed. Okay? Okay, now I

realize that's hard. We are all addicted

to our phones, but that 1 hour is so

important because you have to give your

body ability to wind down. And if you're

scrolling or working, you're going to be

in a roused state, which boost your

heart rate. Anything that boosts your

heart rate before bed is going to be bad

for you. Okay. Three is you want to have

uh amber and red lights in your house.

No blues like these are very blue. Uh

you want to have u be mindful of your

stimulants. So noon thereabouts is when

you want to stop your caffeine intake

because caffeine has roughly a 6-hour

halflife. So if you have a cup of coffee

at 4 p.m. at bedtime a half a cup of

coffee is in your system. And then

finally you want to have some kind of

windown routine where you read a book,

go for a walk, do breath work, meditate,

but something to calm yourself down.

Okay, now just be sober with me for a

minute.

I promise you

this is the single best thing you can do

for your health. And if we're honest,

the majority of you in this room have

some moderate to serious mental health

problem.

Tell me I'm wrong.

Waiting. It's true. Like you sample your

friends. Like it is a pretty tough

environment right now. We are on our

phones all the time. We don't sleep

well. We eat junk food. It's very hard

to take a moment to ourel to be healthy.

I promise you, optimize your resting

heart rate and it's going to be the very

best thing you do for your mood. If

you're experiencing anxiety or

depression or you're having some other

kind of difficulty, I'm telling you,

high quality sleep is the thing. And

culture that tells us right now that you

have to grind and not sleep is a lie.

It's a bad deal for you. You can be

ambitious. You can have unhinged

ideas about the world and still sleep.

Okay. So, I've got 20 seconds left.

Who's going to commit to this?

>> Yep.

Who's not?

So, I can shame you. Okay. Why? Why are

you not going to commit?

>> I'm a startup founder.

>> Okay. There we go. This is Okay. This is

it, you guys. Here's it. Yes, you're a

startup founder. Okay. The narrative is

you have to martyr yourself, literally

martyr yourself to achieve success.

That is not true. You will be a better

founder slashparent/partner

slash whatever if you prioritize your

sleep. I'm telling you, it is a false

idea. Don't fall for it.

Don't die. Yes, it's about health. It's

also the next major ideology for the

human race. We are giving birth to super

intelligence.

Our ideas about reality are going to

shift. Existence itself will be the

highest virtue.

Don't die is the next major ideology on

par with democracy, capitalism,

Christianity, Islam. It is the next

thing we do as a species. So friends,

be well. Go to bed on time. Am I seeing

this? You committed? All right, guys. Be

well.

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