Bryan Johnson-I Know Why You Have Autoimmune Gastritis (and what to do about it)
In a Nutshell
The video argues Bryan Johnson's autoimmune gastritis stems from his plant-based diet and toxic plant compounds like lectins, claiming his expensive interventions failed because they ignored species-appropriate nutrition. It promotes a carnivore or animal-based diet as the solution, citing multiple cases where autoimmune diseases like MS and arthritis were reportedly reversed by eliminating plants. The core message dismisses plant-based eating and nutrition science as flawed while asserting meat and animal products are the only proper human diet for healing inflammation and chronic disease.
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The healthiest man in the world, Bryan Johnson, was just diagnosed with gastritis. Johnson is spending $2 million a year to be 18 again. He has been spending millions of dollars for the past 3 years working to slow his speed of aging. He eats 111 supplements every day and calls one of his favorite meals Super Veg. Johnson has a team of around 30 doctors tracking every biomarker known to modern medicine in real time.
The root cause that almost nobody talks about is toxic buildup of species inappropriate diet and a lack of species specific nutrition. Multiple people have reported genuine miraculous healing from autoimmune disorders using diet. People are having wondrous results using diet to get rid of their autoimmune diseases. It doesn't matter what autoimmune disease you have, it can be healed.
One individual stated: "I got my life back and then some. What's more amazing is I healed nearly 100% of my symptoms of MS. I haven't had any symptoms ever since." Another reported their MS symptoms cleared up, along with fibromyalgia and thyroid disorders. When asked where they would be without finding this way of eating, one person responded: "I'd be dead."
The speaker's name is Carrie. She has been eating a proper human diet for over three years, which has completely changed her life. She filmed a documentary called Healing Humanity, traveling around the world to interview doctors and experts. She is down 100 pounds since her heaviest. She overcame depression, arthritis, anxiety, and congestive heart failure. One doctor filmed was Dr. Anthony Chaffee.
Despite millions of dollars and a team of 30 doctors tracking biomarkers, none of this stopped Johnson's body from turning on itself. No amount of money can buy you out of hubris. Hubris means excessive pride or self-confidence, the kind that makes someone think they're above natural limits. Johnson has built his persona around being smarter than everyone else, backed by doctors and a nine-figure net worth. He is convinced he can hack his way to living forever, and his body handed him the bill.
Johnson stated: "I have an autoimmune disease and my stomach is literally eating itself." For 11 years, he had low ferritin without anemia, and none of his iron would stick. The diagnosis is autoimmune gastritis. The word gastric means stomach. The suffix itis refers to inflammation, as seen in arthritis, colitis, and appendicitis. Johnson's stomach is inflamed, suggesting what he has been putting into his stomach is causing inflammation.
Hippocrates said thousands of years ago: "All disease begins in the gut." Doctors take an oath including "Let food be thy medicine." Johnson had an autoimmune thyroid diagnosis at age 21 when he was still eating meat before going fully plant-based and getting sun exposure. Dismissing plant-based diet as the cause based on one data point from 20 years ago ignores decades of cumulative damage since then.
Johnson's daily diet consists of broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and lentils, all blended together in a slurry called super veggie. He eats the same mush every single day for years. Johnson avoids direct sunlight, wears protective clothing, puts on gloves, and has tinted windows in his house with floor-to-ceiling windows. He stated: "You can tint your windows. You can also wear gloves when driving. A lot of people don't remember their hands get a lot of sun exposure. And finally, you can use a UV protectant umbrella." His excuse for avoiding sun is taking 2,000 IU of vitamin D in pill form.
Vitamin D from a capsule is not the same as what skin produces from actual sunlight. A misconception is that sunlight equals vitamin D, therefore supplements eliminate the need for sun exposure. Sunlight has far more benefits than just vitamin D. Johnson is careful about chemicals and products on his body. What you put on your skin ends up in your bloodstream, with almost 70% absorbed.
Dr. Anthony Chaffee stated the standard autoimmune model never sat right with him. The idea of autoimmune issues, molecular mimicry, and making antibodies that cross-react with the body never made sense. The immune system is incapable of attacking itself. The body gets attacked by lectins or glyphosate, then defends itself, but cells get hit in the crossfire. Removing dangerous plant compounds through a strict meat-based diet resolves symptoms in case after case.
Multiple people have reversed autoimmune disorders by eating a proper human diet, an animal-based diet, eliminating plants. One person stated: "It doesn't matter what autoimmune disease you have, it can be healed. I should not be retired and I should not be walking with a cane." Another reported: "I got on YouTube, put in carnivore, and you came up. We started the carnivore diet and within 2 weeks, my pain was almost gone. My pain levels are almost non-existent and I was living at a nine all the time."
Johnson claims he is following the best science and data on plant-based diets. The science is built on food frequency questionnaires and observational epidemiological studies. Food frequency questionnaires are junk science. People guess what they ate weeks, months, or years ago. Researchers turn guesses into data, then find associations rather than causes. Meta-analyses mix biased studies and cherry-pick favorable ones. Media turns weak associations into headlines.
Food frequency questionnaires under-report energy intake by 30 to 45%, misclassifying diet quality and distorting disease associations. Compared with objective biomarkers, average correlation is below 0.3, meaning more than 70% noise. The majority of self-reported dietary data are so unreliable they should be expunged from the scientific record.
Since the beginning of the human species, humans have prioritized and mostly eaten meat and animal products. This was not based on questionnaires but on what was available and what kept people alive long enough to reproduce. Ancestors did not have access to green mush, seed oils, or processed grains. They had access to animals, fat, organs, muscles, meat, and bone marrow.
David Sinclair, a Harvard longevity expert, has made the case that eating less frequently like real intermittent fasting is one of the best indicators for living a long life. Data from animal studies shows it is far more important when you eat than what you eat. A study by Rafael de Cabo at the National Institutes of Health had 10,000 mice on different diets. The only ones that lived longer were the ones that only ate once a day. Fewer meals and longer gaps allow more time for cellular repair.
Salads and green mush don't keep people full. Most people eating vegetables are grazing throughout the day, hungry again within half an hour. A fatty piece of meat satiates. People on carnivore diets often naturally land on one or two meals a day without trying because the food itself creates the fasting windows Sinclair discusses.
The human body is a self-regulating machine. It would not be built to attack itself for no reason. Chronic diseases are not diseases per se but malnutrition and toxicities. This includes toxic buildup of species inappropriate diet and a lack of species specific nutrition. Too many plants contain harmful chemicals because they don't want to be eaten. There is not enough meat and not enough fat. If it ends in itis, the word means inflammation. The question is what has been put into the body that might be inflaming it.
If Bryan Johnson truly wants to live a long and healthy life, he would get rid of highly inflammatory chemical-laden foods and switch to an animal-based diet. The documentary Healing Humanity is premiering worldwide, with screenings in Chicago, Orlando, Texas, the UK, the Midwest, and the Southwest. More information is available at healinghumanity.mov under where to watch.
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