#467 I Analyzed Bryan Johnson's Biomarkers and The Results Are...

Siim Land (0:00)

You've probably heard Bryan Johnson say this.

Bryan Johnson (0:02)

I am the healthiest person on planet Earth. Yeah, I have the best comprehensive biomarkers of anybody. Anybody. Not just, not just 47 year olds. Bro, you earned it. Anybody in the world. I have the best biomarkers of anybody on the planet. So if there were an Olympic sport for health, I would be the gold medalist.

Siim Land (0:22)

Every time he says it, I'm like, yeah, that's not true. There are hundreds of people out there who have better biomarkers than Bryan Johnson. I analyzed Bryan's most recent test results and compared them to my own. 44 of them, I have better results. Nine of them, Bryan has better results. And 12 of them were equal. I think that's a very one-sided victory. In this video, I'm going to walk you through all of the biomarkers and talk about them. Because number one, you will learn a lot about analyzing your own biomarkers. Number two, you'll know what's optimal for over 65 biomarkers. Number three, you'll generally know how to improve those biomarkers. And number four, it's just good content. As a disclaimer, I'm not saying that I'm the healthiest person in the world, but I have factually better biomarkers than Bryan Johnson. Here's a quick summary of the differences between our biomarkers. Bryan has good metabolic health, but I have slightly better. Bryan has suboptimal kidney function. Mine is excellent. We have semi-equal liver values and the same liver fat percentage, but I have significantly lower visceral fat. We also have semi-equal lipids, but mine are natural without medication. Bryan's fitness, like strength and VO2 max, are good for his age, but not elite by any means. Mine is significantly better and in the elite category. We both have normal hormone levels, but I have slightly better. Bryan's phenome age, which is biological age based on blood markers, is 8.81 years lower than his chronological age, but mine is 18.5 years lower. That's a 10 plus year gap. Now, I know what you're thinking, Siim is 31, Bryan is 47, of course he has better biomarkers. Well, that's exactly the point.

Bryan says he has the best biomarkers of anyone in the world, no matter their age.

Bryan Johnson (1:54)

Not just 47 year olds. Bro, you earned it. Anybody in the world.

Siim Land (1:58)

I think it's obvious that the healthiest person in the world will always be someone who is like 16, 18 or 20 years old, with all things being equal. Of course, some 47 year olds are healthier than some 18 year olds, but there are tens of thousands of 18 year olds that have better biomarkers than Bryan Johnson. Now that this is out of the way, let's get started. So this all started a few weeks ago, a few months ago, even when Bryan Johnson says, I have the best biomarkers in the world, I'm the healthiest person in the world. And if anyone has better biomarkers, then they should post it. So here I am. And let's get started with the fitness markers. So things related to physical fitness. Viotimax. So Bryan Johnson's Viotimax is 54.2, which is good for his age. It's not elite even for 18 year olds or Viotimax peaks. When you're 18 years old, that's naturally when your Viotimax should be the highest. And that's not really an elite level for 18 year olds. Now it's good for 47 year olds, but it's not elite for 47 year olds either. I know actually some people in their early 40s who don't do any cardio, and their Viotimax is 51 or 52 or something like that. So 54 isn't that big of a concern, like a flex 54 Viotimax. It's good. It's what you would want to get at least over 50 is a good optimal range for Viotimax, but it's definitely not in the elite category. And there's a few reasons why Bryan's Viotimax is a little bit lower. I'll talk about it later, but the short story or long story short, it's because of lower iron status and some of this pseudo anemia that he might have. I'll share about that a bit later. So hemoglobin and blood oxygenation status, that plays a huge role in Viotimax, which essentially describes maximum oxygen consumption. So yeah, my Viotimax is 66 Now the test was done one and a half years ago when I got the result of 66

But right now, it's probably still around low 60s. My last test was low 60s. So it's still significantly higher than Bryan Johnson. And 60, a Viotimax of 60 can be considered an elite category for 18 year olds. Grip strength. So this is just a dynamometer where you squeeze it. And grip strength is a good general biomarker for overall health and overall muscle mass and muscle strength, especially for upper body strength. Now the thing is that it's not going to be, okay, I'm just going to train my grip and I'm going to live longer. It's more about, yeah, just having good grip means that you're generally healthier and you have a better diet and you just have slightly more muscle mass. His result, 132 pounds in his graph that he shared, I'm not sure if it reflects the sum total of both arms. Usually you do this test where you measure both arms and then you sum it up and then you get a result. I don't know if it was one arm or both arms. If this was both arms together, 132 pounds, then it would be pretty low. But I think it's just one arm. He's the best arm, maybe right arm or left arm, I'm sure. So yeah, we'll just presume it's just one arm. My grip strength from the dynamometer highest is 150 pounds. That's around 68 kilograms. And my combined arms is 298 pounds, or 67, 68 kilograms for both arms. Bench press, Bryan's bench press, 240 pounds, which is around 110 kilograms. It's not, let's say, elite category again. Someone who is 18 year old, if they bench 240 pounds, then that's impressive for an 18 year old. But the problem here is that muscle strength doesn't peak when you're 18 years old. Someone who is in the 30s and 40s will always be muscly stronger than an 18 year old. That's because of muscle maturity and just the age. In men, muscle mass peaks meet 30s, early 40s. So comparing your bench press to an 18 year old is not impressive because 18 year olds don't have high bench or high squat or something like that. But let's say for a 47 year old, a bench of 240, 110 kilos, it's well above average. It's much higher than an average person, but it's not some power lifting level strength. Of course, that's not his goal. But yeah, still, my best result 300 pounds. So that's 135 kilograms. And that's considered not elite either. So it's not something that would be super impressive. It's significantly well above average. It's, I guess you could call it in the more advanced tier, lower level of advanced tier, but it's not elite category for, let's say, advanced strength trainees. Leg press. So this test. Now, this refers to this kind of a quarter depth leg press. That is, you know, it's a medical test where you do the leg press, but you don't go all the way to the depth. You just do like some of even before the knees are parallel. So it's kind of a quarter leg press. And Bryan's result for that is 850 pounds, which is something like 380 kilograms or something. Now, these numbers are big, 850 pounds. For the average person, it sounds a lot, but if you've ever gone to the gym, then you can bench press or you can leg press 200 kilograms even in your first week at the gym. So a leg press of 850 isn't super significant. And the leg press isn't the best. I guess it's a useful test for just measuring leg press or leg strength in isolation. But yeah, most gym goers actually don't consider the leg press to be some gold standard strength metric. But yeah, that's what he used, 850 pounds. If I were to guesstimate, then 850 pound leg press, quarter leg press, would be the equivalent of maybe 115 kilogram squat. So that's again, above average, especially for a 47 year old. It's not useful to compare it to an 18 year old, but for an average 30 year old male, who is, let's say, decently fit, they can squat 120 kilos maybe. So this is kind of an average result for a general fitness enthusiast in their 30s. My leg press result for this would be over 1000 pounds. And I've done parallel squats with the barbell, 160 kilograms. So my leg strength is significantly higher. My squat is actually one of my best lifts. My all-time best squat, it wasn't below parallel, but it was, let's say, almost the parallel was 180 kilograms, as I did that a few years ago. But right now, I can do 160 kilograms with a parallel squat. Lung strength. So this is measuring with this device that you just exhale as hard as possible. It just measures your lung strength. And if you, by the way, if you wanna see the receipts, the actual test results, then you can just head over to my Twitter. I'll put the link in the description. I have all the test results as well down there. So yeah, you don't have to take my word for any of this. Body composition markers. So these are just the muscle mass and fat mass. So visceral fat. Bryan's visceral fat mass, which is the fat around the organs, is around 0.56 liters, whereas mine is 0.25 liters. And the interesting thing about that is this was after I was bulking. So I was actually two kilograms heavier than I am right now and what I'm normally. So plausibly my visceral fat right now, as I've lost some of that extra weight after the mini-bulk, could be even lower. So my visceral fat on a DEXA scan was 54 grams. And on the MRI, it could be something like, let's say, 100 grams, 150 grams, 100, let's say 100 milliliters. So that's twice, two to three times lower than Bryan Johnson's, which is quite interesting.