Tech entrepreneur and multimillionaire Bryan Johnson recently took the internet by storm on the release of the Netflix documentary, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Suddenly jettisoned to a health guru of sorts in pursuit of immortal life, no Lazarus pit could ready him for the latest damning expose by The New York Times.
While the documentary feels like a long-drawn advertisement for his longevity startup Blueprint to sell more healthcare equipment, diet plans, and health supplements, Johnson presented it as a gift to the world, as some sort of research for humanity to reach its “lowest possible biological age.”
His breakout moment came when 47-year-old Johnson shocked the world with extreme anti-ageing techniques, including receiving blood transfusions from his then-17-year-old son, and running tests on his penis to increase erections.
Yet, the most bizarre thing about Johnson was revealed in the latest report which stated that at least three of Johnson’s employees, including his former fiancée, filed complaints against him. The accusations? Wild confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) that violate US federal labour laws.
It is alleged that Johnson used these NDAs to silence his staff. More than 20 pages long, these confidentiality agreements covered almost everything—any non-public information regarding Johnson’s home, office, personal effects, spaces and vehicles rented or owned by Johnson, everything.
Johnson, on X, posted that the agreement just evolves along with improvements to Blueprint. But the icing on the cake was an ‘opt-in’ agreement that the report underscores employees felt coerced to sign.
In this optional NDA, employees were to be okay with Johnson wearing “little and sometimes no clothing/no underwear” and with “discussions of sexual activities, including erections”, NYT revealed.
From selling a $49 “longevity mix” supplement pack to billing $2,100 to participants of clinical testing, the information of the expose is damning despite the flowery Netflix documentary that came out in January.
According to the report citing internal documents, 60 per cent of the 1,700 participants of his study of supplements and meals called “The Blueprint Stack” developed at least one side effect. Some even saw their testosterone levels plummet and turn prediabetic, too, it stated.
Johnson hit back on X, posting: “The New York Times knowingly published false and misleading statements about Blueprint”
The New York Times tried to come for me and missed.
— Bryan Johnson (@bryan_johnson) March 21, 2025
What was meant to be a takedown ended up reading like a profile piece.
+ they spent a year digging
+ talked to 30 people, incl former fired employees
+ propped up my ex as their star witness (who tried to extract $9 million… pic.twitter.com/Q4OAM7GHPT
“There was no statistically significant change in testosterone and it remained normal throughout the study,” he said. Calling the prediabetic claim “false”, Johnson added, “The NYT made it up. There was not a statistically significant change in HbA1c, Insulin, or Glucose.”
In his documentary, Johnson in 2023 announced that he reversed his biological age by more than 5 years. He revealed that he spent $2 million each year on his bizarre routine, including popping north of 50 pills and supplements, tracking his nighttime erections, and even shock therapy.
A production still of Bryan Johnson in the Netflix documentary, 'Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever' | Netflix
Fast forward to 2025, and Johnson has already announced his own ‘AI’ religion “Don’t Die”—after his slogan for longevity.
How this former Mormon missionary-turned-health guru will respond to the expose legally is yet to be seen, but this adds to a long list of things filed under “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”.
