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Critique of Brian Johnson's Blueprint
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chrisyzen
hey Christian Jardinov here today I'm gonna give you my critique of b Brian Johnson's um blueprint ah if you don't know who Brian Johnson is he is a former I think Silicon Valley, I think it was like part of PayPal executives or tech tech guy that made a bunch of money and then he blew up on social media as the guy that is gonna like try to like not die his motto of his company or whatever it is is don't die and I'm gonna try to be respectful here but I'm gonna be forthcoming and say that I actually
00:00:44
chrisyzen
Do not like his blueprint this whole thing what he's doing I i actually do not approve not that anyone cares or he cares of course, but I'm gonna explain why because He is I think he had more than a million followers on YouTube the last time I checked and he is influencing a lot of people, a lot of young people, and in a very bad way, I should add. I'll explain why in a minute or two, but ah for example, last not last year, earlier this year, I was taking my kid to this ah yoga studio where the kids can play, parents can talk, and there was a lady there.
00:01:18
chrisyzen
she her kid was I don't know like still breastfeeding so she was she was like less than a year old so the lady you know um obviously just not not exactly a biohacker or like deep into health but we started talking about because I had my book I had just published it like a a couple of months a few months prior and um my how to actually live longer book and she just kind of Started talking about this guy. She didn't even know his name fully but there was one guy ah that his motto is don't die and and she was like, yeah, he knows what's up and I was like, oh you mean Brian Johnson and because I started I was talking about why low carb this and fasting that and she she basically it was just indoctrinated like anyone would be by the mainstream and
Public Misconceptions and Practicality
00:02:10
chrisyzen
It was going against some of the stuff that he, she heard that he does, you know, and I then told her, do you know that this Brian Johnson guy is on testosterone replacement therapy to maintain his testosterone levels?
00:02:24
chrisyzen
And at one point his ah body temperature was like five degrees Fahrenheit lower than like it should be. And she's like, no, I didn't know that. And that's the thing. The people that see him, they see kind of a very well um made up sort of facade. And underneath it is really a house of cards. And that's the blueprint that it's so amazing allegedly that is a house of cards that is really not doesn't have a very solid foundation now i should say it may have a very solid scientific foundation foundation quote unquote but when you when you don't allow yourself to be sort of someone to throw some studies at you and and oh my god if if it's if if it's evidence-based then
00:03:17
chrisyzen
What do I know? Let me just trust it trust the science so So if you have a little bit of an ability to discern what the hell's going on you and you you start in investigating aspects of this blueprint so-called you kind of see that it is it's kind of it's not really very good in fact a lot of it is harmful and the the difference is that Brian Johnson is can afford a lot of stuff and treatments and procedures that could ameliorate or mitigate some of the harmful effects of the regular PLEB blueprint that he is you know given for free to everybody out of the goodness of his heart. um And the the regular person will not actually be able to
00:04:06
chrisyzen
get that stuff. For example, most people are not going to get testosterone replacement therapy to compensate for their low testosterone level because they're on a freaking low fat plant based diet and are doing all this exercise and are not actually getting some decent nutrition to offset this stress on the body.
Daily Routine and Diet Details
00:04:27
chrisyzen
And actually, um a couple of months ago, I if if
00:04:46
chrisyzen
his channel is all about him following b Brian Johnson's blueprint and I just perused it he made a website about it and I just looked at some of the logs and so he had started out plant-based and he had then started eating some animal products I think like fish and maybe eggs and dairy because he just didn't feel good he like he was deteriorating and he was training hard at the same time and And then at one point, he had reduced the intermittent fasting window because he wasn't able to get enough nutrition in that short feeding window. ah That is apparently part of the blueprint, right? So I'm just seeing like, and the dude was bald, like he, um like I'm only like speculating here, but he may have lost his hair because he was, he looked very athletic. So he was probably putting his body under a lot of torturous stress and exercise and running and whatever else.
00:05:44
chrisyzen
increasing vl2 max for because and the number is so important that's what we should be you know looking to increase the number of your vl2 max that's that means you're healthy yeah um so and then i just i was like oh my god this this is like really bad and this irks me when folks like that are influencing a lot of younger people because they're going to destroy their health following these methods and i'm going to explain why i believe some of this is really suboptimal in terms of a longevity of of all the things this to call this a longevity blueprint i think it's preposterous right so where to start so let me just explain in case you don't know so what what he does so rigorous daily routine he follows the highly structured daily routine that includes a carefully calibrated diet
00:06:38
chrisyzen
exercise and sleep schedule. Every aspect of his life is meticulously planned and tracked to ensure he's doing everything possible to slow down or even reverse aging. He uses advanced biometric tracking to monitor various health markers, including heart rate variability, sleep quality, blood glucose levels, etc. nutritional protocol, so it's a plant-based diet.
00:07:00
chrisyzen
that is specifically designed to minimize inflammation, oxidative stress and other factors that contribute to aging. His diet is high in nutrient-dense foods and carefully controlled for caloric intake to support longevity and um exercise but regimen that is highly tailored, focusing on the balance of strength, cardiovascular fitness flexibility, and that that helps maintain muscle mass, cardiovascular health, and blah, blah, blah.
00:07:25
chrisyzen
takes a wide variety of supplements daily, it's chosen for its specific benefits related to aging, cognitive function, immune support and overall health. Sleep optimization, so he sleeps alone, ah alone but a massive emphasis on sleep, recognizing its critical role in recovery, cognitive function.
Skepticism About Scientific Evidence
00:07:43
chrisyzen
And he makes sure that he tracks his nighttime erections, and he's in the top 1% for nighttime erections, um not just for his age bracket of 46, but also, I think, among 18-year-olds, which
00:08:01
chrisyzen
Incidentally is probably The the part of his stuff that I agree with the most that you need to that is a really good sort of barometer on the man's health Does he wake up with erections and stuff like that? That is that is kind of interesting But what's interesting to me is so Brian Johnson because he's so filthy rich. He has a team which is Made up of doctors medical professionals and PhD scientists stuff like that, right? So I heard at like a two minute clip, I think Dave Aspe had posted it on his um YouTube channel. And it was just a two minute clip of um Dave Aspe saying something like, so tell me a lot like you you like the olive oil so much, but aren't you worried that, you know, it's gonna like activate SCD one or like he said something like that, you know, and Brian Johnson just kind of paused for a second. He's like, look,
00:08:57
chrisyzen
I can just I can say a bunch of words but the thing is I will always be able to find studies that support my thing and you will always find studies that support your thing so I have a team and I have outsourced this thing to the team so clearly and I'm not trying to like be insulting anything he doesn't have a clue right so he is he thinks he has like the best team And the the here's the problem, I'm sure they're very intelligent people and very well credentialed, probably the best in the world. But if they hear this, is this is just straight up fact, most folks that are that go through like an MD training or a PhD training, most of those folks are heavily indoctrinated into that stuff. And So they if they only follow the evidence base, it becomes you go from evidence-based to evidence-limited because then nothing that is outside of this evidence base then it can be considered until it becomes fucking evidence-based, until there's evidence to support it.
00:09:57
chrisyzen
right So that actually can be extremely limiting because you might not try some things, you might do things that are actually, the evidence shows benefit in like lab animals or cell culture studies and you might extrapolate that to humans, right stuff like that. right So stuff like that and a lot of when it's super clinical and evidence-based, a lot of ah Common sense goes out of the window. So that is actually dangerous, right? For example, just as an example, plant-based diet, right? The plant-based diet, where where is the evidence that any culture in the history of humanity that we have recorded has survived even because we don't have any or thrived
00:10:47
chrisyzen
only on plant ah ah-based diets. No culture has been found that doesn't eat animal products. okay So what is the evidence base? It must be in like animals, in laboratory animals or whatever.
00:11:02
chrisyzen
So I don't see where the evidence, where they can get this evidence over like a hundred years. What study has been done over a hundred, like a lifespan of a human that's potentially even randomized. It's impossible to do this, right? To randomize it between meat or or animal um omnni omnivorous diet and plant-based diet. So clearly there's no human research that's been done for a long enough time. So what is the evidence-based? Where is the science base for the plant-based diet alone? right So already here I have a massive problem with this. right Because yeah, okay, if you can afford
00:11:43
chrisyzen
all these other treatments and ah the the highest quality food, maybe you can get away with it with all the extra supplementation and stuff like that. And God knows what what you're not telling us you're doing if you know stem cells and God you know god knows god knows what you can you what's available to you when you're at that level financially, right? And then he's making it look like the plant-based diet is optimal for longevity and a lot of people are swallowing it hook line and sinker out there and um it it must be ten tens of thousands hundreds of thousands or even millions if he has a million youtube subscribers that's a lot of people right so that's a big to me that's a massive problem and then he was doing the calic caloric restriction and look i've had a
Supplement Analysis
00:12:32
chrisyzen
I've had some in my book i talk about why the the the caloric restriction for lifespan extension is bogus it's bs because it's done in animals first of all where they eat toxic slop called a diet that the laboratory child for a rat or or monkey monkey or whatever soybean oil ah alfalfa meal what Jesus fish oil fish meal it's just a disgusting concoction of glorified toxic slop and then they put those animals on fasting or caloric restriction or intermittent fasting regimes and then those animals
00:13:11
chrisyzen
do better than the ones that are eating less of this poison right and so that is where the whole caloric restriction stuff is based so if that's your evidence base you're freaking screwed if you follow that for your for a human for a mammal yeah yeah You know what I mean? So from what I heard, his temperature was lowered, his testosterone was tanked, and he they I think they they raised they reduced his caloric restriction because of that, right? Because Jesus Christ, imagine you go severely hypothyroid on a 20, even like a 20% calorie restriction,
00:13:51
chrisyzen
You're going to go severely hypothyroid. You'll be cold all the time. Just your your whole body starts to ah disintegrate. You're eating yourself up. You're disintegrating yourself to turn yourself into glucose to meet the energy deficit. Right. And then that that.
00:14:09
chrisyzen
they did that for a while and until they copped on and they tweaked it like is this your stellar team dude you could have paid me like 20k i would have given you a decent protocol and you would be doing a lot better You know what I mean? ah if that If that's your science base. And so they tanked all of his sort of like his testosterone. So of course he was taking testosterone. So he a lot of this stuff, again, can be masked if you can afford the testosterone, the peptides, you know, if you're on thyroid hormone, whatever else, right? But the regular Joe and Jane that are going to do this, they're going to tank their health.
00:14:51
chrisyzen
But here's the thing. What he now does is he offers his blueprint supplements, his line of supplements, right? So let's look at some of them. Let me see how 15 minutes. Okay, not too bad. So we're gonna look at some of these blueprint supplements and just give you my thoughts. They're not all bad. For example, the essential soft gel daily longevity antioxidants for women and men.
00:15:19
chrisyzen
That one, it has vitamin K1, K2, MK4 and MK7. It has astaxanthin, 12 milligrams, lycopene and lutein, 15 milligrams. And the vitamin K is 5 milligrams, quite a decent dose. And then there's the MK7 is 600 micrograms of the vitamin K2. So this um this is actually a decent one.
00:15:40
chrisyzen
ah they haven't actually looked at the price but you also have to factor in the price but let's just look at ingredients and and composition and stuff like that so that one is good then his essential capsules so that's vitamin D vitamin E ah so B the B vitamins you know your folates your methylcobalamin you know you have some So you have some ah zinc, a little bit of tiny bit of selenium, tiny bit of manganese, iodine, um potassium iodide. And then, OK, so that, you know, acceptable, acceptable, right?
00:16:26
chrisyzen
uh not optimal but acceptable but here's the thing in the rest of it there's a bunch of other stuff there's some nico nicotinamide riboside sure whatever um there he is a little bit of ubiquino there's three milligrams of boron one milligram of li lithium okay not not too bad but in that section the first ingredient is 300 milligrams of genistein now genistein is an isoflavone and basically that is a phytoestrogen okay it's a phytoestrogen so one of 300 milligrams one of the main ingredients basically in there
00:17:15
chrisyzen
is a friggin phytoestrogen as a guy I would never want to any phytoestrogens as a woman you don't need any phytoestrogens nobody needs any phytoestrogens why the hell are you putting 300 milligrams of a friggin phytoestrogen in this thing okay then the longevity mix this is just um something you just mix with water it's like a powder and then so that comes with ascorbic acid magnesium citrate 150 milligrams two and a half grams of creatine um alpha ketoglutarate glucosamine sulfate taurine glycine lysine ashwagandha and a bit of glutathione and l-theanine so
00:18:06
chrisyzen
i like so i like the theanine i like the glycine and the taurine the creatine but the thing is so the creatine is half of what i would take like most people know that five grams is what you want to get taurine is not really a great dose 1500 milligrams glycine is a tiny dose 1200 milligrams so okay the L-theanine is good 200 milligrams that's kind of the regular dose so it's under dosed for things that can make a dent and then there's a bunch of stuff added that is gonna bump up the price it's gonna look like it's gonna good look on paper like ashwagandha 600 milligrams uh kks and ksm66 so the the root extract and so is it necessary does do you need the ashwagandha to live a long time
00:18:59
chrisyzen
I don't think so. I think you could do better with the amino acids and the creatine. And the thing is, again, I haven't checked the price yet, but you could probably get the creatine, the taurine, the glycine, the theanine. You could get those in pure powder form, like I do, and just make your own concoctions every day. It will take a little bit more effort. And that's what I've been doing for the past six years, right? And not only will it be cheaper,
00:19:27
chrisyzen
it will be purer and it will last you longer and you can actually get like proper amounts of the stuff and then there will be no need for citric acid and monk food fruit extracts and natural flavors to make that stuff palatable it's not super palatable when i make it myself but you know it's it's a second on the lips a minute on the lips forever on the hips that kind of thing So, you know, and then he has the NAC ginger plus curcumin.
Cost and Efficacy Concerns
00:19:54
chrisyzen
Really, I don't see a need to be adding ginger and curcumin on a daily basis to your longevity regime. Like I've mentioned it before, the herbs, they're way overblown and you don't need these things on a daily basis. Then he's got this blueberry nut mix, dried blueberries, roasted macadamia nuts and walnut mix. So not the worst thing in the world.
00:20:20
chrisyzen
not too crazy about the the nuts and the walnuts especially um then what else so the nutty pudding listen to this okay this is where you you're you're starting to lose me so the nutty pudding is basically the slop like like the thing they kind of eat on the matrix you know in the in the real world and this is like ah first ingredient is pea protein then it's hemp seed protein sunflower lecithin flax seed alulose sugar substitute cocoa powder and then natural natural chocolate flavor
00:21:02
chrisyzen
and other natural flavors, Ceylon cinnamon, grape seed extract, pomegranate fruit, monk fruit extract. right So you're paying a bunch of money for pea protein and hemp seed protein and a bunch of crap like flax seed and whatever else with a bunch of again phytoestrogens in the flax seed.
00:21:20
chrisyzen
and Omega 3s that are gonna be rancid by the time you get it and because it's ground up in a powder right so don't you know a lot of that crap is already rancid oxidized peroxidized and it's gonna cause damage in you know on its on its way to in in your body and then towards towards the the liver once it gets digested Somewhere along the line is gonna be causing some kind of damage or depleting antioxidants and then red yeast rice and older free garlic Like what the hell are you putting red yeast rice in a longevity program? We know that red yeast rice it kind of has a similar effect to the statin so it can lower cholesterol so
00:22:06
chrisyzen
like your amazing team are still stuck in the indoctrination that cholesterol has to be kept low for longevity and it causes heart disease and like this is the pinnacle the cutting edge is it you know and ah i'm sorry if i'm being overly critical but again when people like this are um influencing millions of people out there to go plant-based, eat plant-based, and then these powdered slops to spend this whole whole thing I just explained, um this whole thing I went through. If you get it on the subscribe and save 5%, that whole thing I just listed will cost you 400 euro. So because it has my location, they know my location here.
00:22:57
chrisyzen
so about 400 euro or about 13 euro per day okay oh and sorry i forgot there was an extra virgin olive oil premium high polyphenol in a uv resistant bottle oh my god don't tell me it's also glass oh wow that is so amazing i think in the states like olive oil is revered like this incredible elixir of the gods because dr gondry's statements like um what does he say the purpose of food is to get olive oil into you like just really just super super cringy nonsense so you know this this this snake and by the way here's the funny thing it here's olive oil it's called snake oil that's that's the the branding on the on the bottle and this is such a sort of hilarious thing because
00:23:51
chrisyzen
you know the the sort of hidden in plain sight type stuff they are selling snake oil here as as as this amazing and longevity increasing thing snake oil hilarious right let me see how much it costs I need to see how much it actually cost oh my god oh my god oh my god so two bottles of the snake oil the blueprint snake oil or the extra virgin olive oil costs 69 euro if you get another subscribe and save or if you buy it once it's 72 euro for two bottles of this olive oil and i can get like a really premium olive oil here
00:24:42
chrisyzen
in Portugal it's I guess 10 bucks 10 bucks eight eight ten bucks for for a bottle in a UV resistant bottle you know and this is saved like for olive oil oh my god and then they tell you there's all of this um to call it like these polyphenols and whatever and this is based in science in like Petri dishes and and and test tubes and then maybe some rodents and stuff like that you know that's a lot of ah look there there is there's been some interventional studies with all of all don't get me wrong they're just I I don't even want to waste mental bandwidth looking at that stuff right you're testing olive oil for longevity how did we ever
00:25:30
chrisyzen
get by without olive oil, you know what I mean? It's ridiculous. So this is the blueprint. So you're you're getting a bunch of powders, soft gels. The soft gel is actually probably the best thing on there with the with the vitamin K and stuff. And you know some vitamins, minerals, and a few her different various herbs and and fruit and plant extracts. And this is apparently the blueprint for longevity.
00:25:57
chrisyzen
know Of course the protocol on protocol dot Brian Johnson calm calm. There's a lot of it's much deeper than that. That was just his His products that he's now selling out of the goodness of his heart but um, you know, you can see you can see that let's see what Brian Johnson takes in in terms of his own supplementation because he He doesn't just take his own stuff, right? He apparently he also takes resveratrol which it's kind of been debunked it's not really a longevity promoting herb or extract it's actually it's another sort of estrogenic still bean okay so resveratrol i did a i did a personal experiment with resveratrol when i was taking NMN
00:26:51
chrisyzen
Because one of my friends is like, oh dude, anime, anime. Like, okay, let me get on this. Let me see. Okay. Oh, you're supposed to take it with resveratrol to activate the sirtuins. Um, okay. So I did that. And then I had, I bought this big bottle of resveratrol. It also had grape seed extract, I remember. And ah I hadn't used it for ages because I know with these things, you're not supposed to take it all the time. Anyway, even if it is beneficial, you don't want to take it every day.
00:27:19
chrisyzen
like you're coming Like people taking that every day, that's that's not a good idea. So I i did that and I noticed, ah and sorry if it's TMI here, but I noticed a lack of nocturnal penile tumescence aka morning wood or nocturnal boners excuse my french so i did that once i did that twice and then i was like okay this definitely correlates when i take that there is a lack of nocturnal penile tumescence so then i would intentionally take it as an experiment you know for a day and then absolutely corroborate it no no nocturnal penile tumescence
00:28:02
chrisyzen
And then when I wouldn't take it nocturnal pinata messes, so it's an estrogenic thing at least that's how my My personal experiment, but you can actually see see online So let me just in fact as I as I'm speaking I can just type in resveratrol in the duck duck go It's a stilbenoid a type of natural phenol or polyphenol and It is it is estrogenic in nature right so
00:28:32
chrisyzen
So Brian Johnson's team is is um boning him to to to to use that turn of phrase. Then the metformin, that's kind of also like, I was taking metformin back in 2018. That's another thing that's actually not good for you. It's another thing that i don't have to get I don't have time to get into why metformin is not good for you, but it's another one of those things.
00:28:57
chrisyzen
if it's super out there in the biohacking sort of mainstream. it can't be good for you that's kind of that's that's been my experience so far with things with keto with fasting etc etc then he's taken a lot of apparently omega-3 is fatty acids epa and dha omega-3s are taken to reduce inflammation and as i've explained before the the way omega-3s reduce inflammation is by suppressing the immune system to so that is not an optimal way to suppress inflammation or to rather to reduce inflammation okay and then he takes curcumin okay super overblown melatonin carnitine lion's mane mushroom and here's the thing so a lot of the things he's taking
00:29:50
chrisyzen
they actually would be found in animal products collagen so he takes collagen where does collagen exist in collagenous tissue of animals right so he's taking that and look don't get me wrong it's a great supplement to take extra but he's also taking zinc ah meat is the best sort of source of zinc but he doesn't eat any so he needs extra coenzyme q10 that's found in animal products. You don't find that in plants. What else?
00:30:24
chrisyzen
ah alpha lipoic acid that's again it's found in it's used in the kind of the mitochondria and or there about so muscle for meat will be very high in mitochondria therefore decent source of alpha lipoic acid then acetyl alcarnitine carnitine is found in meat kar carney carne carnay carnay carnitine yeah so he's supplying things with his supplementation program that he would be getting from from um animal products right the the vitamin k you can get that from dairy and stuff like that so you know that's the the it's similar with
Sun Exposure and Longevity Debate
00:31:07
chrisyzen
dr. ganji like if i i peruse his book um what's the name of it the longevity paradox and in there he had
00:31:20
chrisyzen
his supplement routine and maybe i should do an episode on that and it was huge. It was so long. And Dr. Gundry is pretty indoctrinated by the Loma Linda sort of, you know, it's like they're heavily plant based there. It's a longevity sort of it's a blue zone, and they're plant based. So for a lot of them are plant based there. So therefore, you know, the science shows that you have to be plant based to live a very long time. maybe I should do an episode on that
00:31:50
chrisyzen
even though reality doesn't show that, the evidence is there, okay? And so Dr. Gundry is the same, he's got a bunch of bunch of things in his supplement routine that he's making up for ah Not eating the the animal products, so they would be in there like the vitamin K and you know the various ah derivatives of Cholesterol which is what the steroid hormones would be turned into and stuff like that you know so I really I really sort of I
00:32:33
chrisyzen
that's all I have to say really on ah b Brian Johnson's blueprint the other thing the other thing I also noticed is that he is extremely pale so he's afraid of the Sun he doesn't go out into the Sun and someone that
00:32:56
chrisyzen
tells you that they're going to live a super long time without being without exposing themselves to the thing which humans have been living, basking in the glory of for our entire history. That is very extreme, very, very divorced from reality, right?
00:33:23
chrisyzen
um So he's he's doing a bunch of treatments on the skin so we can't really we can't really gauge his rate of aging as per the protocol because he's also getting cosmetic treatments, right? So that's another excuse me but's another area where we we We're gonna be hoodwinked because of the facade that they're able to create his team and wherever he's getting these treatments so that they there can always create a facade to make him look young and all that good stuff, right?
00:33:58
chrisyzen
but we don't know how much of that is actually the thing that is keeping his skin supple and young and whatever the heck right so and then i'm just i'm actually i i can see the supplements here in front of me of what Brian Johnson takes not not the blueprint stuff they sell so here we have also he takes so look at this here we go he takes 111 micrograms of level thyroxine and 60 milligrams of armor thyroid thyroid so he was diagnosed with hypothyroidism at the age of 21 so without i absolutely i absolutely guarantee you
00:34:49
chrisyzen
If he wasn't taking this thyroid and the desiccated thyroid, the armored thyroid, he would be disintegrating before your very eyes because,
00:35:02
chrisyzen
ah you know, this caloric restriction, all the stress he puts on his body with his um workouts daily and stuff like that, that would, you know, that would destroy you. So the the thyroid is keeping him sort of functioning. And what's interesting, he's also taken an 17 alpha estradiol, which is a, it's an estrogen. So he's taken us an estrogen. Listen, anyone that is voluntarily, voluntarily taking estrogenic compounds like genistein, genistein, sorry, and this 17 alpha,
00:35:40
chrisyzen
What is it? Estradio? Estradio. Yeah, 17A for Estradio. um That is not very well informed, right? do not need any extra estrogen than your body creates on its own. In fact, for many people, many included, there's too much estrogen, right? Because every cell in your body expresses the enzyme aromatase that can make estrogen. So that you will never become deficient in this thing because it can also interconvert.
00:36:16
chrisyzen
and Therefore, why in the hell are you adding more of a thing that has been implicated in so much um dysfunction in the body, up to and including the C word, the big C, right? Then I also noticed he's taking 25 milligrams of DHEA, dehydroapion drostron,
00:36:41
chrisyzen
That's another way you can mask your hypogonadism, your exercise and diet induced hypogonadism, right? Low testosterone and low androgens.
00:36:53
chrisyzen
because of the this very severely deficient diet. And then, of course, he's adding the K2, the iodine. ah Well, iodine is in a lot of plant foods as well, but the taurine and the zinc and all these other things that make up some of those deficits. But here's the thing. When you take meat, we there's stuff that is classified as essential to the body like vitamins and minerals that meat has but there's hundreds maybe thousands of things compounds in there that are not maybe not known or maybe not um classified as essential but they're still be very beneficial to ingest right because at the end of the day you you are a mammal when you eat like a beef steak
00:37:43
chrisyzen
The stuff in that can become incorporated in in your tissues and you have a constant turnover, like at the cellular level, that there's kind a constant need for raw materials and energy to build, repair, regenerate, ah you know, fix damage and stuff like that. So what better source than meat to repair your meat. You know what I mean? It's, it's really, again, when you look at it from it, I know it looks overly simplistic, but this is what happens with highly intellectual types. They, they start all this reductionism and then over fixating on minutia. And then they lose the forest for the trees. Like, dude, you're not even going out in the sun. You are so pale. It's that cannot be healthy.
00:38:34
chrisyzen
Because the sun isn't just about popping a d three vitamin D3 pill every day or every other day. There's a ton of other things that the sun does when we are out in it in terms of not just circadian rhythms, but just hormona sort of um activating ah hormonal cascades.
Complexity of Human Health
00:38:55
chrisyzen
We have no idea. like really like it's the the The environment we're in and the body is so complex. we've ah We've only isolated one thing, in old vitamin D, blah, blah, blah. And then, oh yeah, but we can supplement that, therefore you don't need the sun. Come on. like this is Imagine um influencing people to be so divorced from reality. i mean This is straight up out of like a dystopian freaking sci-fi book or movie.
00:39:25
chrisyzen
and then yeah he takes a lot of stuff but a lot of the stuff is like okay garlic not the worst thing lycopene antioxidant quote unquote turmeric again zeaxanthin so a lot of stuff that's found in plants or from plants like coco flavanols that is not necessarily um it's not necessarily essential in the not just in the nutritional sense but in the physiological sense so you you will not die if you don't eat garlic or brocco broccoli sprouts or brocco max whatever the hell brocco max is you know or these cocoa flavanols
00:40:13
chrisyzen
you won't die because they're neither nutritionally nor physiologically essential. So these things are maybe again in this in this basic research, maybe they're found to have an antioxidant effect or they might kill cancer cells in vitro in a test tube and stuff like that. So really, this is if this is your science base, I'm going to add this because of a few studies, maybe some rat studies or maybe one one study where their cardio metabolic markers improved after supplementing something for eight weeks or six weeks or whatever if that's your scientific base but then you're not even going out in the sun and you're reading plant-based powdered slop every day and the same thing every day it's like dude i'm sorry but this is people that follow this i genuinely
00:41:07
chrisyzen
and ah um I'm sympathetic because they are being led astray. This is nowhere near an optimal longevity diet.
00:41:18
chrisyzen
this is there's there's It's complex, it it looks like it's there's a lot of stuff going on and the all the tracking and stuff you can do yourself, you can follow along, whatever else. but
00:41:31
chrisyzen
No, this at least the diet side of things, I strongly would not um ever, ever, in my life at least, consider doing. And I would never recommend a client of mine doing any of these things. And there's pictures here of like broccoli and um cauliflower and stuff stuff like that. It's like, dude,
00:42:01
chrisyzen
eating, okay, radishes and ah sweet potato and broccoli on lentils with cauliflower and a few mushrooms. Is this a nutrient-dense diet? It's a phytochemical-rich diet, sure.
00:42:21
chrisyzen
But is this a nutrient? What nutrients? Somebody please, please tell me what nutrients exist in cauliflower that are so essential to to a human that we can't find elsewhere orloc or broccoli or lentils or shiitake mushrooms or the ginger root, you know, or the hemp seeds. You know, what's what's in there that's so super essential that we have to have these foods on a daily basis. What's so healthy about these foods? are really doubt anyone can actually come up come up with like properly laid out argument for why these foods are superior to like eating steak and drinking milk and having cheese and you know some decent stuff some like honey or whatever else like why would you eat why would you ever eat cauliflower broccoli and black lentils
00:43:17
chrisyzen
as your base of your meal like that is I hate to say it but that is what poor people are forced now broccoli is expensive and stuff like that but like lentils people eat lentils out of poverty people eat grains out of poverty and seeds They don't eat them because they're so healthful. This garbage has been basically marketed as such. A lot of it is just indigestible fiber, right? So this is, and he spent 2 million creating this blue blueprint. And look, again, he has a and ah bunch of cool stuff in terms of like,
00:43:58
chrisyzen
I like therapy and his whole gym and all the ah bio the the the tracking stuff they do and the gene therapy and there's a bunch of cool stuff going on, right?
00:44:14
chrisyzen
But the diet, which is the number one thing is the most important thing e and the supplementation a regime regimen is friggin
Critique of Popular Diets
00:44:24
chrisyzen
pathetic. It's friggin pathetic. And this is this breaks my heart that so many people are going to be duped. That's why i I just wanted to like spew this out. Apologize if I'm getting a little bit ranty here, I'm going to wrap it up now. But I since since I've gotten into the health stuff,
00:44:45
chrisyzen
ive I've been duped so many times with the plant-based nonsense, within with the keto nonsense, with the low-carb stuff, just the resveratrol stuff, you know the fish oil scam. I've been duped so many times.
00:45:03
chrisyzen
And every time I uncovered that I've been duped, I'm like, ah, geez, they got me again, you know? So i I hate to see other people have to follow that path and of pain and suffering.
00:45:19
chrisyzen
That's why I do the work I do. So I, I've made a bunch of mistakes so that you don't have to make those mistakes. You know what I mean? And this is just, I, unfortunately I understand that he's, he's appealing to a lot of folks like in their twenties and probably the early thirties. And at least in their twenties, there are people are very impressionable and and a lot more.
00:45:43
chrisyzen
What's the word? money Manipulatable? I don't want to use that so strong of a word, but they're a lot easier it's a lot easier to sort of ah convince them that this science-based stuff is is the bee's knees, you know? And it's freaking pathetic. Like this diet is absolutely freaking pathetic, you know? ah really like and i I don't even know. The supplementation regime There is a lot of stuff in there that's good that I like and I take, obviously. It can't all be terrible because if it feels all terrible. Too many people would have seen through it by now, obviously.
00:46:25
chrisyzen
but um Yeah, yeah, good luck to anyone that has to endure this. I doubt that they're going to be able to because again, if they're not on the level, if they're not on the thyroid medication and the desiccated thyroid and the testosterone and all the other sort of God knows peptides, treatments, gene therapies and whatever else, they're going to suffer. theyre At some point, this is this is going to it's going to break them. And that's the other thing that really pisses me off is a lot of people when you get into this sort of stuff like whatever keto plant-based you're if you're still in your early 30s or 20s you have so much vital reserve still left in the tank that you can endure a lot of this nonsense and it takes a long time to deteriorate to the point where you like i can't do this anymore this and and by that time because you felt so good let's say for a
00:47:22
chrisyzen
a year you cleaned up your diet switched over to this thing or plant-based or whatever keto carnivore so you feel okay for a year or great and as the dysfunction starts to accumulate you You would never think to pin it on that intervention, let's say the plant-based diet or the keto or this plant-based blueprint, whatever. So you would never pin it on that. You'd pin it on something new, maybe where you were exposed to mold or maybe um you know you have parasites or whatever the case may be, right? Or toxins and stuff like that, right? So this is kind of why these things are so insidious.
Discernment in Health Information
00:48:00
chrisyzen
And that's why you need to be a discerning consumer of health information so that you you don't get duped. And I gotta be honest, it is easy to get duped out there because you know you you throw a few, you wave a few studies and mechanisms and delivery systems and whatever and these things sound magical.
00:48:24
chrisyzen
And ah very often, especially if it gets out to the mainstream, it turns out that it was a dud or worse. It was it was just a genuine sort of not fraud, but like not a scam. But you know what I mean, like ah snake oil that that was being pushed, like there was virtual thing. You know, that's that stuff is like unbelievable how how big that became and what garbage the stuff is, you know,
00:48:53
chrisyzen
Anyway, ah that's my review and critique of Brian Johnson's blueprint would never would never do at least that diet.
Natural Foods vs. Processed Supplements
00:49:02
chrisyzen
So like I said, some of these supplements that he's taking great, I like them. But I would never, ever consider that and the P protein 29 grams a day of P protein. Why for the love of God, you know, like one once ah seven ounce to 200 grams steak. Okay, maybe slightly more, maybe like 250. So eight ounce steak will cover that 29 grams of pea protein. And actually the steak will be a lot more bioavailable. The bioavailability of pea protein is a hell of a lot lower than meat. So you know, why would you, why in the, who in the hell, who in their right mind would drink a pea protein shake?
00:49:48
chrisyzen
to get the 29 grams of protein where you could eat some cheese or have a steak or some yogurt. ah cool How indoctrinated into this stuff would you have to be b to believe that pea protein isolate or whatever is superior to ah not a more natural food that your ancestors have lived with for eons right so kind of funny but also sad that so many people are gonna be duped by this kind of stuff so anyway
00:50:25
chrisyzen
um that Those are my thoughts. So hope you found this informative. That's my viewpoint. And yeah, I hope that find you found some of the the stuff I discussed useful that you could potentially even apply to how you discern whether something is good for longevity or potentially bad for longevity. So thanks for listening and I'll see you on the next episode.