The 2026 Immortality Protocol - Bryan Johnson - #1054

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
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Sorry to report, I have a new boner record. Three hours, 49 minutes. The fellowship of the ring is three hours, 48 minutes.

**Bryan Johnson** (0:52)
Is that a good thing? I mean, I guess, from whose perspective?

**Chris Williamson** (1:00)
Pick. Yeah, your perspective. Is it good for you?

**Bryan Johnson** (1:02)
Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's substantially better than an elite 18-year-old.

**Chris Williamson** (1:08)
What would an elite boner 18-year-old be?

**Bryan Johnson** (1:11)
Around two hours and 45 minutes-ish.

**Chris Williamson** (1:13)
What refers to elite? Like, vasodilation?

**Bryan Johnson** (1:17)
Yeah, like take an 18-year-old in peak condition. And let's say, what would their nighttime erections be? They'd probably hover somewhere around like high two to nearly three hours. That would be elite level. And so it just crushes that level. So yeah, I mean, from a pure biological capacity, yeah, it's pretty good.

**Chris Williamson** (1:38)
Okay. What were you doing with it?

**Bryan Johnson** (1:41)
Three hours and 49 minutes. So it's kind of like it's news to people, as I've been sharing this, that, I mean, people, men are generally familiar with the idea that when you are 12, 13, 14, you start having boners and they happen a lot. You know, like in class, you don't even ask for it.

**Chris Williamson** (1:59)
Gust of wind.

**Bryan Johnson** (2:00)
Yeah, literally anything and you can't do anything about it. Like, I mean, do you remember like, I would walk in between classes and it's like, you got a boner.

**Chris Williamson** (2:08)
Where's it gonna go?

**Bryan Johnson** (2:08)
Where are you gonna go?

**Chris Williamson** (2:09)
Tuck it into the waistband.

**Bryan Johnson** (2:10)
Exactly, pull it up. You exactly put a little book cover in front of it, but like, you can't control it. You can't really stop it. And then as you age, those things naturally go down. So people kind of forget about it as a phenomena. But men and women have arousal cycles every night, three to five erections every night. Men get erect, women have their clitoris engorged. And so it's this natural process. The body says, like, I want to keep my sexual function alive and vibrant and pulse it every night. And so it depends upon your quality of sleep, your metabolic health, your cardiovascular health, your physiological health and your hormone health.
And so if those things are not in place, it doesn't happen. And so if someone's bragging about four hours of sleep at night, like they feel fine, they're doing great, they have no boners.

**Chris Williamson** (2:55)
You might have survived with the sleep, but your erection wasn't there.

**Bryan Johnson** (2:57)
This is why I started talking about these things. We were like measuring a whole bunch of stuff, but I was really, right now, sleep deprivation is high status, right? If you can basically flex and say, I only sleep four hours a night, I'm amazing, I work 18 hours a day, people are like, oh my God, what an amazing person, we admire you so much. And so it has this really weird high status. So this frame of the boners makes sleep deprivation low status, right? It's like, sure, you can brag about that thing, but also your body has shut down its sexual function and you can no longer get boners. And so it's really like, that was one angle. The other one is like that erections really are one of the most representative biomarkers of overall health, that you can have big muscles and you can have great skin, but if your boners are not there, then your body is not in good shape.

**Chris Williamson** (3:50)
Are you saying that nighttime erections are like the weathervane or the canary in the coal mine that's an aggregate of a ton of other shit that's going on? Exactly right.

**Bryan Johnson** (3:59)