Inside the Secret 5-Hour Daily Ritual of a Biohacker Obsessed with Immortality

Ever wondered what it takes to fight Father Time and still brag about having better… ahem, “performance stats” than your own teenage son? Meet Bryan Johnson, the biohacker who clocks in five hours every single morning on a ‘longevity protocol’ that sounds more like a sci-fi workout than your average breakfast routine. This guy drops a cool $2 million a year trying to stay forever young, even going viral for injecting himself with his son’s blood—yep, you read that right. But it’s not just about the whole “who’s got the better stamina” showdown; Johnson’s daily grind involves saunas, hyperbaric oxygen chambers, and enough veggie power to make a rabbit jealous. He’s dubbed himself a ‘professional rejuvenation athlete’ and compares his regimen to training for the anti-aging Olympics. Up at 4:30 a.m., armed with light therapy and a thermometer (not exactly my jam, honestly), this is a peek into the weird, wonderful world of one man’s quest to beat death at its own game. Curious how one turns anti-aging into an extreme sport? LEARN MORE.

Enter the new ‘morning routine’ of the month: Bryan Johnson’s.

The biohacker, who wants to ‘live forever’, has broken down his ‘longevity protocol’ that he spends five hours doing every day.

Johnson spends about $2 million (£1.46 million) every year on his attempts to ‘stay young’ and previously went viral for injecting himself with son, Talmage’s blood.

Currently 47 years old, the American claims to have erections better than those of an 18-year-old and even made public comparisons between his and Talmage’s.

But it’s not all just about d*ck swinging and performance, Johnson does a number of things to keep himself young and opened up about his routine on British telly.

The entrepreneur was appearing on This Morning when he explained he ‘really enjoys’ having his daily ‘longevity protocol’.

His methods are certainly unique (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Who is Bryan Johnson?

The American is well-known for his anti-aging attempt, referred to as ‘Project Blueprint’. He was the founder, chairman and CEO of Braintree which acquired Venmo before all being acquired by PayPal for $800 million in 2013.

Johnson is also the founder and former CEO of Kernel, which creates devices that monitor and record brain activity. He was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church) but left when he was 34.

The man says he is a ‘professional rejuvenation athlete’ and so compares himself to ‘your favourite athlete’.

“Look at their training protocol,” he said. “I’m doing something similar but for anti-ageing.”

What is his mission?

Johnson announced his Project Blueprint back in 2021, and follows a very strict and lifestyle regimen in the hopes of extending his life.

“It began when I was 21 years old. I was a missionary, and I lived among extreme poverty in Ecuador,” he told People.

“I felt really compelled to want to do something that would improve the world. I didn’t know what.

“So the goal became make a whole bunch of money by age 30, and then with that money, find something interesting to do.”

He put a whopping $100 million (£73 million) in ‘synthetic biology, genomics, nanotech’ and built a brain interface, which he calls ‘the world’s best way to easily and robustly measure the brain … and then I started Blueprint to measure myself. And it all kind of came together into this one simple thesis, which is, don’t die’.

And a big part of doing this ‘anti-aging’ is his daily routine.

‘Longevity protocol’ timeline

Bryan Johnson does the same routine each day (ITV)

Johnson says it’s ‘probably pretty alarming’ to plenty of people, but he spends ‘five hours every day’ going through his ‘longevity protocol’.

“It begins at 4:30 in the morning where I get light in my eyes, I take my temperature,” Johnson said.

Then, at 5:30am he ‘does an hour of exercise’.

From 6:45am, it’s time for breakfast and more lights. Johnson continued: “I do 20 minutes of sauna, I do 90 minutes of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and six minutes of red and near light.

“And then I have a lot of vegetables, berries, nuts, seeds, extra virgin olive oil. I have become the most measured person in human history. So we do this entire process but a lot of people get confused.”

It’s lunch time by 9am, with his last meal of the day (and supplements) at 11am. But that’s not the end of the day, as he doesn’t go to bed until 8:30pm when he gets eight hours and 34 minutes of sleep.

He recently discussed his routine during an appearance on This Morning (ITV)

And he never seems to get bored of it either, as the biohacker added: “I feel like I found a passion, a hobby, a pursuit. I love it, I love the process of training, I love measurement, I love learning the science and then feeding it back in. I love when we find insights that I can take to other people.”

Well, good for you Bry, think I’ll stick to still being asleep at 4:30am rather than getting up to take my temperature.