Biohacker Bryan Johnson, who spends millions of dollars a year trying to live forever, has revealed why he is backing one of Robert F Kennedy Junior’s controversial plans.
In an exclusive sit down interview with DailyMail.com, Mr Johnson said Kennedy’s plan to strip fluoride from America’s water stands up to scientific evidence and it is ‘a good decision to remove it from the water supply.’
He cited several studies that suggest drinking fluoride-infused water – which is mildly toxic and was added to tap water to prevent cavities – may be lowering the IQs of Americans.
Mr Johnson told this website: ‘My team and I have been looking at RFK’s proposals and we’ve been checking them against the scientific literature, and fluoride was one that actually stood up to the evidence.
‘It seems to be an evidence-based decision to remove fluoride. It’s a good decision to remove it from the water supply.’
Mr Johnson, who is 47 but has the biological age of a man in his 30s, also revealed he would be open to an advisory role in the new administration or any future government.
He said: ‘I’m happy to serve my country. I think health is a universal desire. It transcends borders. It transcends ethnicities. It transcends ideologies.
‘It is the one thing we all share in common. And so if I can help my fellow humans be healthy in any part of the world, the US, or any part of the world, I’m eagerly willing to do so.’
Mr Johnson was the subject of a recent Netflix documentary that focused on his premise of ‘Don’t die.’ The centimillionaire is on a mission to break the 120-year ceiling of human life expectancy.
To cheat death, Mr Johnson has a rigid routine and undergoes hundreds of medical tests and treatments a year, reportedly spending $2million annually on his endeavors.
To measure his health, the entrepreneur tracks the nighttime erections of him and his son and undergoes full body scans.
To up his life expectancy and improve his health he receives transfusions of his son’s blood, takes about 50 supplements a day, follows a vegan diet and has even traveled to an island to undergo gene therapy.
And now, he is taking on fluoride.
RFK Jr has made removing fluoride from US public water systems a core tenet of his Make America Healthy Again campaign.
About 63 percent of Americans receive fluoridated water, but the new secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) claims the mineral, first added to water in 1944, causes bone cancer, lower IQ and neurodevelopmental disorders.
However, experts are split, as adding fluoride to water is listed as one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century, staving off cavities and illnesses.
A 2019 study analyzing the IQs of Canadians found boys born to women in areas with fluoridated water had a lower IQ by the time they reached four years old.
A 2023 study analyzing the results of 33 other research papers found water fluoride consumption of the limit recommended in the US was associated with a 2.15-IQ point decline.
Additionally, a US government report concluded that consuming high levels of fluoride can harm brain development in children as it easily enters the blood and can then travel to the brain.
Fluoride isn’t the only thing Mr Johnson agrees with RFK Jr on. He called the state of America’s food ‘a very very serious problem.’
Mr Johnson told DailyMail.com that since 1950, more than 300,000 chemicals have been produced, most of these unstudied and unchecked.
In 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency added 300,000 new substances to its Chemical Dashboard, a database that currently contains more than 1.2million searchable chemicals in use in everything from food, medications and cosmetics.
Now, the California millionaire would like to see the US create a ‘food-ome,’ sequencing the country’s food supply like scientists sequence the human genome to find out what chemicals millions of Americans are eating on a daily basis.
He said: ‘The enforcement really hasn’t been there, and so the US probably has more chemicals in its food supply than any other country. And when you look at the data, children have lost almost four points in IQ from the toxins.
‘And so it has a very serious negative effect on the intelligence of our children. And that’s not even just the chemicals, but the combination of multiple chemicals.’
He continued: ‘I think what would be cool is if we could actually measure the chemicals and toxins in our food, almost like we’re going to sequence the US food in the same way we sequence the genome.
‘I think, a good idea for a baseline measurement to say, what are we dealing with? On a daily basis when a child eats a standard American diet, what levels of mercury and lead and arsenic are they consuming on a daily basis?’
It is estimated that 70 percent of Americans live on a diet of ultra-processed foods (UPFs)- or those with more than five ingredients in them, including dangerous preservatives and additives.
This, experts say, could be behind the recent surge in cancer cases in the US, especially in younger people, who are developing more aggressive cancers that aren’t detected until late stages.
And when it comes to the rise and popularity of UPFs, as well as the prohibitive costs of healthy foods, Mr Johnson said he believes the country can get back on track.
He said: ‘I don’t think there’s inherent limitations, according to the laws of biology, that healthy foods are inherently more expensive than cheap unhealthy foods.
‘I think it’s the way we’ve industrialized it to make it cheaper. So the unhealthy foods benefit from decades of subsidies, of making certain foods, of helping out certain segments of the economy.
‘And so they just have an entrenched economic advantage, but that doesn’t necessarily need to be the case always. And so I think that we definitely can prioritize healthy food.
‘I think it can achieve the same economies of scale and that we can put it back on par. But right now, unhealthy foods have an advantage from decades of being preferred and also just because of their their dominance in society.’
