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Is Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint for a 150-Year Life Worth It?
video
Interesting
Times with Ross Douthat 13 August 2026
For my final episode as host of “Interesting Times,”
I wanted a fitting finale
— a conversation that encapsulates the ambition of this show:
examining how seemingly radical ideas are steadily entering
the mainstream of American politics, technology and culture.
Few ideas are as radical as the hope of significant life
extension
and the quest to live forever.
My guest today thinks he can outrun death.
After selling his tech company for hundreds of millions of
dollars
and experiencing a profound religious crisis,
Bryan Johnson turned his own body into the ultimate science
project,
centered on an explicit mission: Don’t die.
But why does Johnson want to live forever,
and what lessons can his algorithmically driven lifestyle
bring to the rest of us?
It’s been an honor hosting this podcast
nd navigating these strange waters with you.
“Interesting Times” will be back with new episodes and new
hosts
in the fall.
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoPJ5cJBhoo
Hayley Okines at 14.
Photograph: Martin Argles
Guardian
Progeria campaigner Hayley Okines dies at 17
Teenager from Bexhill, East Sussex,
worked to raise awareness of condition
that causes those
affected to age eight times faster
The Guardian
Friday 3 April
2015 10.59 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/03/
progeria-campaigner-hayley-okines-die
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2010
http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/epi/docs/
Life%20Expectancy%20Final_web.pdf
- July 2010
life expectancy
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USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/
upshot/rich-people-are-living-longer-
thats-tilting-social-security-in-their-favor.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/
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http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/11/
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span UK
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a-life-in-pictures-john-hurt - Guardian picture gallery
life span
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/
magazine/global-life-span.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/03/
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longevity
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/
magazine/
cell-rejuventation-biotech-longevity-research-altos-labs.html
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magazine/eternal-life-longevity-world-leaders.html
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opinion/cohen-when-im-sixty-four.html
life extension
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/
opinion/cohen-when-im-sixty-four.html
a 150-year life USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/
opinion/interesting-times-bryan-johnson.html - NYT video
eternal life USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/
magazine/
eternal-life-longevity-world-leaders.html
live longer
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/
opinion/age-life-expectancy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/11/
upshot/for-the-poor-geography-is-life-and-death.html
live
forever UK
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/21/
scientists-harness-ai-to-reverse-ageing-
in-billion-dollar-industry
live forever
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/
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the-coming-of-age-wellcome-collection.html
mortality
rate USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/
opinion/sunday/the-dying-of-the-whites.html
immortality
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/25/
opinion/cohen-when-im-sixty-four.html
progeria,
a condition
that causes those affected
to age eight times faster
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/apr/03/
progeria-campaigner-hayley-okines-dies
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