Man spends millions chasing immortality and publishes everything he learned. The internet is not sure whether to laugh or tell him to ask for a refund

Bryan Johnson, the entrepreneur who sold his payment processing startup for around $800 million in 2013, has published a list of 41 things he learned after spending millions trying to reverse aging. The list, which he titled “everything learned spending millions on longevity,” covers sleep, diet, exercise, and mental health. Though reposts say he has spent up to $400 million on his mission, the shared advice feels something you would find in a health magazine.

Johnson says sleep is the most important factor, calling it “the world’s most powerful drug.” He recommends going to bed before midnight, avoiding screens an hour before sleep, and keeping the bedroom cold. His diet advice focuses on whole foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, while telling people to stay away from added sugar, fried foods, and items commonly found in American convenience stores.

According to Brobible, he also covers physical health, recommending lifting heavy objects, stretching daily, and keeping up with dental hygiene using tools like a Waterpik and tongue scraper. Other tips include standing up straight, keeping air circulating in rooms, and protecting your ears from loud noise. The list ends with advice on mental well-being, such as turning off notifications, limiting social media, and sticking to a daily schedule.

Johnson’s expensive conclusions mostly line up with advice doctors have been giving for decades

Johnson has been very active on X lately, drawing millions of impressions with posts about his personal life and experiments, including testing for microplastics in his body. He has also been exploring the use of magic mushrooms as part of his longevity research. This more experimental side of his public profile stands in sharp contrast to the surprisingly basic nature of the list he just published.

Many people online have pointed out that this advice, such as drinking water, getting morning sunlight, and avoiding alcohol, has been around for a very long time. It does raise a fair question about whether millions of dollars in spending was needed to arrive at these conclusions.

The internet’s reaction has been a mix of amusement and genuine curiosity about what, if anything, the money actually unlocked that common sense could not. One person replied on X, “spent millions to tell me to sleep 8 hours and eat vegetables lmaooo.” This kind of public skepticism is not new, consumers have also been questioning the accuracy of store-brand product labels in recent viral moments.

To be fair to Johnson, his project is not just about finding new advice. It is also about testing these habits on himself in a rigorous and measurable way, tracking biomarkers and biological age over time. That kind of self-experimentation, while extreme, does produce data that goes beyond what most people are willing or able to collect about their own bodies.

Still, for the average person reading his list, the takeaway is mostly familiar. Eat real food, sleep consistently, move your body, and stay off your phone before bed. These are not new ideas, and you do not need a massive budget to start putting them into practice today.

What Johnson’s project may actually be doing is giving old advice a new kind of credibility by attaching hard numbers and biological testing to it. Whether that justifies the cost is a separate debate, but the core message of his list is clear: the basics work, and most people already know what they are. In fact, people seem just as creative when it comes to avoiding large financial penalties entirely as they are at spending money on self-improvement.