How to slow or reverse ageing? New longevity trends, according to 2 experts

We can’t all spend millions a year on longevity like Bryan Johnson. Specialists explain how they help people live longer, healthier lives

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Advanced equipment can detect early markers of cardiovascular risk and measure a person’s physical capabilities. Understanding a person’s physical abilities and limitations allows a doctor to target areas for improvement. Photo: Chi Longevity

Published: 6:15pm, 1 Feb 2025Updated: 10:24am, 2 Feb 2025

In the new Netflix documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, tech multimillionaire Bryan Johnson gives viewers a glimpse of his regimen that he and his team have designed to try to defeat the ageing process.

His Blueprint initiative involves waking up at 5am and going to bed by 8.30pm; consuming a mostly vegan diet while taking 90 supplements a day; “bathing” in LED light; exercising for up to 60 minutes a day, six days a week; and undergoing routine MRI scans and tests.

He has had blood transfusions from his son and shockwave therapy on his penis.

Johnson, founder of the Don’t Die movement, is determined to live to 150, if not forever. His age-defying plan costs him upwards of US$2 million a year and he has so far reversed his biological age – how old his cells and tissues are – by more than five years from his chronological age of 47 years.

Longevity has been a trending topic for a long time. More than 20 years ago, Blue Zones author Dan Buettner began researching longevity hotspots around the world. His work spawned several books and a documentary about how people in places including Okinawa, in Japan, and Sardinia, in Italy, live healthily and happily in their 80s, 90s and beyond.

Life expectancy is increasing globally, with the number of people aged 80 years or older estimated to reach 426 million by 2050. But more of us are also looking to live more healthily as we age.