Folks You guys ever think about how every passing second brings us just a little bit closer to death? Yeah, me neither. I feel like I say this all the time, but I just turned 30 and I'll be honest, I'm feeling it. I remember being a kid and hearing my dad complain about his back pain, and then in my head I was like, 'damn, that must suck. Good thing it's never gonna happen to me though!' But alas! Here I am! If I sleep incorrectly, I have to take an Advil. Last summer I rode a roller coaster and I had a headache for a week. I'm being slowly dragged to hell and I can feel it. But aging is a part of life, ok? It's inevitable. We're all aging all the time, that's quite literally how the human body works. But for as long as us humans have been around, we have been trying to fight this natural decay that we all experience. And anti-aging content has been around for a while, but lately I've seen an increase in popularity of anti- aging products and techniques on TikTok specifically and I thought it'd be fun if we took a look at them today. I should say I haven't seen a lot personally because my For You page is all the way cooked. It's fuckin' burnt to a crisp. But my wife has seen a lot of these videos she's actually the one who gave me this video idea. So everybody say thank you Jenna on three. One two three Thank you, Jenna! So first off, I think that it's important that we talk about the history of anti-aging products and techniques because the concept of anti-aging in itself is very old and wrinkly, gross, yuck. Even dating all the way back to 69 BCE, hilarious year by the way. In the year 69 BCE, Cleopatra apparently took daily baths in donkey milk in order to maintain a youthful look. Now I know why the dragon from Shrek looks so young. It's all that donkey milk. And in the year 1513, Juan Ponce de Léon risked his life and set off on a journey to find the fabled fountain of youth. A spring that was said to provide eternal life. He never actually found the fountain of youth, but what he found was even better. Florida. And that is real. He went out to find the fountain of youth and he found the fucking opposite. Florida. That is the opposite of the fountain of youth. Because most people down there look like an old leather couch. People from Florida, their skin looks like a black metal band's logo. And there's tons of stories like this throughout history. Apparently Elizabethan women placed thin slices of raw meat directly on their face. I'm sure their husbands were pretty stoked on that. But one of the first anti-aging products ever was released to the public in 1889 and they were called Frownies. These were like little adhesive patches that hold your skin tight so you don't develop wrinkles. And the origin story of this product is pretty interesting. So the inventor of Frownies apparently noticed some frown lines on her daughter and she immediately got to work on a product that could fix her daughter's wrinkly fucked up face. Gosh I wonder why her daughter was frowning so much in the first place, you know? Guess we'll never know. And since the release of Frownies in 1889, the anti-aging world has grown exponentially. There's anti-aging creams, lotions, pillows, supplements, diets, procedures, you can pretty much sell anything you want to people if you just tell them it will make them look younger. That being said, buying tickets to my shows, and also buying my merch will actually make you look 10 years younger. It's crazy. It's also not lost on me that like 99% of anti-aging products and procedures are marketed directly towards women. You know, in this patriarchal society we live in, cause we do live in a society. From an early age the pressure and, like, proposed importance of maintaining a youthful image is absolutely drilled into girls' brains through various forms of media and marketing. There's this fucked up idea that, like, women's most valuable asset is their youth which is, number one, incorrect and two, weird as fuck. It's like when you hear people talk about an older celebrity and they're like, 'wow she looks so nice for her age!' And it's like, yeah I don't know if you needed those last three words. You could just say someone looks good, you know? It's crazy cause it's kind of the opposite for dudes. We've kind of, like, tricked the world into thinking that men get more attractive as they age. And don't get me wrong, that is true for some dudes, but most old guys? Uhhh? Woof. If you think dudes get hotter with age, you take a trip down to the fountain of death. AKA Florida. And you'll see what most old men look like. But I've never personally felt the, like, societal pressure to hold onto my youth as a man. "I'm a man." But it happens all the time with girls and it's still happening today. "Here's some things that I do to slow down the aging process as a 14 year old. I started doing most of these things at 12. Number one, I take two apple cider vinegar pills, I do this twice a day. Number two, I use a retinol twice a day. Next is, I love Korean skincare and I do two face masks a day." Call me crazy but I think a literal child having an anti-aging routine is a little dystopian. Because it's like you're already young. Why are you doing an anti-aging video? That's like if you saw a TikTok of Jeff Bezos and he was like, 'This is how I have fun on a budget.' It's like, dude, you don't need to worry about that, man. And look, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you what procedures not to get or what products not to use. It's your body, your decision. But I just hope with people who are doing these anti-aging procedures and stuff, I just hope they're doing it for the right reason. And again, I'm not smart. If you want a deep, insightful commentary on this topic, or fucking any topic, you're at the wrong- you're watching the wrong guy. You got the wrong guy. But I guess anti-aging, you know, it's not inherently bad, but with every other fucking thing on this planet, some people are taking it a little too far. And I thought it'd be interesting to actually try out some of these anti-aging techniques / products and see if they have any actual effect. But first, we have to actually find out how to reverse my age. So I think we need to go to the most reliable place on the internet to find well-documented, peer-reviewed information on this subject. Tiktok! "You're not ugly or old, but your inner dialog might be. If you want the ultimate glow-up, you won't find it in a bottle, but in the power of positive affirmations" Ding ding ding! You said the magic word! "Start speaking and thinking youthful thoughts." Okay... "Because your thoughts shape your reality" Positive affirmations, manifesting, that's a classic with this type of shit. Manifesting was a huge part of the video where I did, where I took a vision healing masterclass, so I'm pretty familiar with the concept, alright? This ain't my first rodeo. And hey, if it works for you, that's wicked. But the thing I'm confused about, she tells people to 'think and speak youthful thoughts'. "Start speaking and thinking youthful thoughts." What, what is that? What even is a youthful thought? 'Woah, he's so deep in thought I wonder what he's thinking about.' 'Just a widdle baby. I make boom boom in my dipey and I miss my mommy. I wuv Cocomelon so much.' 'Oh my god, what's that smell? Dude, did you shit yourself?' So this creator actually sells the exact affirmations you need to say on her website for $10, but I unfortunately can't buy those cause I'm just a little baby with no money. So I found a video on YouTube called Age Reversal Affirmations. "Rekindle your spirit and ignite the passion with these reverse aging affirmations. Listen or repeat them for at least 21 days in a row." 21 days in a row? What the f- Dude, no sleeping, no eating, no exercising, no doing any of the things that will, like, keep you healthy and also maintain a youthful appearance Fuck all that. You just sit in your fuckin' affirmations cave for three weeks straight. Imagine I walk out of my office 21 days later fuckin' sunken in eyes and stuff you can see my bones 'I've never felt so young!' Okay, so let's see what these affirmations are. "I have the spirit of a young." I have the spirit of a young. "I am glowing." I am glowing. "My bones and veins are in the best shape" My bones- my bones and veins are in the best shape. Just my bones and veins though, everything else sucks. I can't really tell if these worked or not because I haven't done them for three weeks straight, but I don't know, I can already feel like I have the spirit of a young. The comments on this video are really interesting too. And it's like, cool. Good for these people right? If that's what they wanna look like Like, personally, why would you wanna look 18 forever? That is a nightmare. This was me at 18. If I still looked like this, I would be a Batman villain, dude. I'd be fucking crazy I'd be so mad all the time. Dude I'd be running around Gotham fuckin' poppin' zits on people and shit, and I could fly because I'm, like, my- all my backne is popping so much all the pus coming out, the force of all my back zits popping just- Sorry, moving on from that horrifying picture of 18-year-old me So we know there's a lot of products and procedures that exist out there to slow the aging process. But even that's not enough for some people. One man in particular is going to extreme lengths to not just slow the aging process but reverse it entirely. And his name is Bryan Johnson. I wish his last name was Griffin. That'd be so savage. So this Bryan Johnson guy is a Mormon entrepreneur and venture capitalist from Utah. I know, pretty crazy, a Mormon from Utah? Now I have seen everything. And I'm sure some of you have probably seen this guy around the internet talking about his age reversal endeavours, but the shit he does is pretty fuckin' insane in my personal opinion. I watched his full morning routine and it is wild. "I just woke up-" I'm not gonna play the whole thing cause it's pretty lengthy, but I'll do a quick run through. He stars off his morning by taking his temperature. He then stands in front of a light that imitates sunlight because he wakes up before the sun rises of course. He then takes iron and vitamin C, he then weighs himself every morning by the way and not just his body weight. "Weight, BMI, fat, muscle, visceral fat, water, bone, heart rate and EBA. It also gives me the air quality in the area." Dude, I will go to the greatest lengths to not weigh myself. This guy does it every morning. Fuckin respect. Because for me, that is fucking torture, dude. Nah, maybe torture is a strong word. I can imagine a Saw trap that's like "Stand on the scale, or die." Bryan then does five minutes of blue light therapy, he then does a meditation, some weird vibrator thing that he never really explains fully. He puts in eyedrops and then he prepares his daily pills. And this has gotta be the craziest shit I have ever seen. Think of how many pills he's gonna have. It's more than that. I don't know how many pills are in here, I think last time we recorded it was something like over 50, maybe 60. That looks like a lot more, I'm not sure what's going on here." 50 to 60 pills every day? Buddy swallows a fuckin' entire pharmacy every morning dude That is wild, he's gotta tone it down. I think Bryan's gotta incorporate a couple of chill pills in there as well because Jesus Christ man. But Bryan still isn't done. He now puts red light on his head to prevent hair loss and if red light prevents hair loss, looks like I'm keeping mine forever. Sometimes when I'm driving, I hit so many red lights. Then he preps his food for the day. "This is what I'm gonna eat after we work out. Yeah, overall it's a lot of vegetables every month. It's over 50 pounds, I think." I hate to break it to you man, but that's shit from a butt. "I know people look at it and they say it's green goop and they like to make fun of it." Of course I'm gonna make fun of it, dude. That looks like baby shit, what the fuck? I found out this guy has a son too. That's gotta suck to have this guy as a dad. 'Sorry son, you're grounded.' 'Eat shit, dad.' 'I do.' He's still not done by the way. He then prepares his second meal of the day which he calls nutty pudding "Nutty pudding-" which is like a protein powder that he actually sells on his website. Maybe it's called that because you gotta be a little nutty if you're gonna be 'pudding' that into your body. And would you believe me if I told you his morning routine still isn't done? No it's not! We're like fuckin' halfway through it dude by the time this morning routine is done he's gonna have to start his bedtime routine. Because Jesus this is taking all fuckin' day. So after making his poop and sand, he does a quick workout and then he finally eats his breakfast. That honestly seems like so much work compared to my morning routine. My entire morning routine can be summed up with the first two words of Chop Suey by System of a Down. "Wake up-" That's it man, that's it. I'm awake. And that's the thing, it's wild seeing morning routines like this because, like, who is this for? I made this point in my Living Like a Billionaire for a Week video but like 99% of people do not have the time to do this shit when they wake up. He says in this video that his morning routine can take up to four hours. "My morning routine is about three to four hours, it varies on any given day sometimes I go-" Too long. This is just not realistic to normal people. But honestly, I don't know why I'm getting so hung up on this guy, like who even cares what this guy has to say anyway? He doesn't even have the erection of an 18-year-old. Uh, yeah. I feel like even a manicurist would say that's the grossest thumbnail they've ever seen. What the fuck is that. I also found this really interesting video of Bryan Johnson. He's using yet some other fuckin' crazy contraption to make himself younger. "Today I'm going to show you the machine I use that allows me to do the equivalent of 20,000 sit-ups in 30 minutes time. I've set the machine to 100% and 15 so it's the max level. This is definitely not something you wanns start with what it feels like is, it's pulling your entire stomach out. Like ripping it out. Strap it on-" Imagine he starts the machine and it's just like, 'aaaah! It hurts, it hurts! Kill me! Just kill me, put me out of my misery, aaaah!' Exercise complete Alright, now if you guys want one of these hit the link in my bio. Also, like a part of his face is like discoloured in this, it's like yellow. His face is like yellow in this video. I don't know if that's healthy, right? Is he going through the new experimental Simpsons treatment? So yeah, this Bryan Johnson guy is like the final boss of anti-aging but I don't think I'm ready to experience that just yet, I gotta work my way up right? And I think I found the perfect person. His name is Brandon Miles May, or @brandonskincare and he has been getting pretty popular on TikTok recently and here's why. "I'm 35 and many people ask me if I don't smile or laugh to prevent fine lines and wrinkles. And it's not true, I do laugh and I do smile. This is how I laugh without using Botox and for preventing fine lines and wrinkles. Ahaha, ahaha!" Yeah, so he's obviously doing a bit in this video, but this guy is allegedly 35 years old. For someone who looks that young, I'd assume he would have like a fucking Jimmy Neutron-sized head because his head's gotta be full of youthful thoughts. When I first saw this video, I felt like I was being, like, possessed by a far right conservative because all I wanted to comment was, 'show me your birth certificate.' Because I just couldn't fucking believe it, honestly still kinda don't believe it, but that is the story he's sticking with, so that's great. He takes this shit pretty serious so, you know what? Sure. He's 35. This guy is five years older than me. And Brandon's entire internet persona is based around anti-aging. He eats food for the sole purpose of anti-aging. Same as his skincare routine. Even his clothing helps him stay young. "Anti-aging outfit of the day! Are you ready for this?" "So today is really warm, so it's pretty basic. I have a UPF 50 hoodie on right here this is- has the thumb holes for the backs of the hands, but I can also use this to protect the sides of my face, I have my big sunglasses on to protect like pretty much half of my face, I have a UPF 50 cap that has a long bill I'm wearing J.Crew shorts and sunscreen on my legs." If you can tell, any clothing that Brandon wears it, uh, it protects him from the sun because according to him the sun is the main contributor to the aging of the skin. "I just practice safe sun protective behaviours because the sun contributes up to 90% of the skin's visible signs of aging." And he's not wrong. the sun is incredibly dangerous for your skin if you don't protect yourself. So he wears clothing that is UPF 50, and that stands for Ultraviolet Protection Factor. And apparently UPF 50 clothing blocks 98% of the sun's rays. This guy would probably still be a fuckin' baby if it blocked 100%. I gotta say though, including the sunscreen in the fit check- "And sunscreen on my legs-" That's genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen. People gotta start getting like super specific like that in those like 'walk me through your fit' videos. "Alright, walk me through your fit." "Alright well first off I got the toupee on my head, Gucci t-shirts, swollen nipples from when my older brother purple nurpled me this morning, Dolce & Gabbana jeans, preparation H on my haemorrhoid, herpes medication on my wiener and I got the Prada shoes with my ankle monitor from my house arrest." "House arrest?" "Police! Get your hands up, get down on the ground!" "Also just copped a taser in the back." And this is all well and good, but I feel like at a certain point it's like kind of impossible to avoid the sun. And also like why would you rob yourself of that joy? There's like no better feeling than having the sun on your face. Like what about when you're driving, what are you gonna do then? Maybe like, you know those sun blockers that people put on their car windows when they park their car? I imagine Brandon just has that over his windshield at all times, just absolutely mowing people down, can't see shit... Sorry, let's get back to Brandon, let's see what kind of food he's eating so he can keep that youthful glow. "Here's what I'm eating for dinner tonight for the purposes of anti-aging. This is steamed broccoli and steamed bell peppers, the broccoli is high in vitamin C good for collagen synthesis, it also contains sulforaphane which increases NRF2 NRF2 pathway-" overlapping dialog This guy's just making up words. What the fuck was all that shit. I'm convinced he's speaking in tongues dude, he needs to be, he needs to be exorcised by a priest. And I can't help but think about that tweet, of a person who's meal prepping broccoli, chicken and eggs and someone quote tweeted it with, 'okay mr fart'. That's all I'm thinking of when I look at that dinner, dude. This dude's farts could probably make you hallucinate bro. Oh, you know what? Maybe that's what UPF stands for. Ur Prolly Farting. I also just watched a video from Brandon saying that he eats pizza once a quarter. "I would say about 95% of the time I eat everything that I show here on TikTok about 5% of the time, yes I'll go out with a friend or like my partner or somebody and we will maybe get pizza, maybe like every quarter or so we might have pizza it's not like a big deal for me." Which sounds like a brutal existence dude, a pizza every quarter? Just one pizza a quarter? I'd have a quarter of a pizza every hour if I could, dude. Like I said earlier, I wanna see how effective this anti-aging lifestyle really is. So for the next week, I'm gonna live my life the exact same way Brandon does. And we'll see if I end up looking any younger. But first, we need to lock down a daily routine. Okay so luckily, Brandon has a lot of videos detailing pretty much everything he does in a typical day for anti-aging. Let's start off with what I'm gonna be eating this week. He has a video called 'What I eat in a day for anti-aging'. To summarise that video, Brandon has a dark roast coffee in the morning and then an hour or two later, he has breakfast which sucks for me because the first thing on my mind when I wake up is what I'm gonna eat for breakfast. For breakfast he says he makes a green smoothie on days where he isn't fasting. I figured I'd do a smoothie pretty much every day and then one day I'll try to go fasting and see how that goes. And then a few hours later he makes a humongous salad for lunch. He then makes a hot chocolate made of 100% cacao, cocoa powder, almon milk and salt. And I don't know about you guys but I like my hot chocolate sweet as hell. So let's see how he sweetens it. "No sweetener, I don't add any sweetener or sugar, so it is bitter." Great. And for dinner, Brandon usually does salmon or some other kind of fish for omega-3. I don't know what those are, it sounds like it could be one of the fuckin' Autobots. 'Omega-3, roll out.' And then alongside the salmon Brandon also has broccoli and "my favourite fall vegetable, a sweet potato." And then for dessert he does frozen blueberries and dark chocolate. So that's gonna be pretty much my diet every single day this week. And there were some other foods in his TikTok and stuff, like hard boiled eggs and avocado and stuff that I'll sprinkle in here and there. And also, god, real quick. I gotta say, love the energy Brandon's YouTube profile picture is giving off, I love it dude. It looks like I'm seeing him through a peephole. And obviously another pinnacle of anti-aging is exercise. Brandon starts his day with a 10 minute stretch, and this next part's gonna be pretty hard, but Brandon aims to hit 20,000 steps a day. "I've been trying to reach for 20,000 steps-" That's a lot of steps, ok? Especially to a guy who has mastered the art of parking it, but Brandon actually uses this little treadmill, this like walking pad while he works and stuff, so I went ahead and ordered that same treadmill because I can't possibly think of another way to get 20,000 steps in a day. Especially during the summertime. Brandon then does some weightlifting with some 12-pound weights and that'll be no problem. And that's his daily workout routine. Seems pretty low impact, which is nice. But compared to my usual workout routine that consists of 20 reps of hanging out followed by three sets of chilling, this is gonna be a big change for me. Uh, yeah. The only push up I do is push up on the D-pad, cause I'm a freaking gamer. I paused my game to be here. You know I can eat and exercise all I want but if I don't look the part then what am I doing? So I'm gonna order some UPF 50 clothing as well. And wow, look at these. Holy crap, these are ugly. They're not ugly, sorry. They're just not what I would wear. It's like, there's not even one ironic vintage graphic t-shirt on here what the fuck? And I guess it's nice that these clothes protect you from the sun, but it doesn't say anything about protecting you from insults. So I'm pretty nervous about that. But I'm gonna give these a genuine try. So I'm gonna order some of these. And last but not least, Brandon made a video going through some tips and tricks about anti-aging that nobody really talks about. "So whenever I am, like, cooking a meal and I'm baking and I'm using the oven, I will be very very hesitant to just reach my hand in there with just a mitten." Damn, your skin can't even get warm? What the fuck? That's not real. "People who bake things for a living have more aged skin on their dominant hand the hand that they use for putting things in the oven and pulling things out." Also the example he uses... He says people who work in kitchens age poorly? That might be true, but I can guarantee you that's not because of the heat. I've worked in restaurants before, ok? If it's not the cigarettes, booze and sniff that ages them poorly, it's the unnecessary amount of stress they put themselves through. 'Ugh I'm so mad, the restaurant I work at that sells food is selling too much food. I gotta yell at Curtis and get more hand tattoos about this.' Sorry to all the line cooks and stuff out there but I think that's just personal work trauma I'm working through that- nothing on you guys. "Tip number two, flying in airplanes, I always choose a window seat so that I can control when the window is up and down because when you're in higher altitudes, UV- UVA in particular is strongest at those highest altitudes-" Yeah I guess that makes sense, but like a couple hours of sunlight isn't gonna fucking kill you. Well actually, I don't know. It might kill him. I don't know. As you get on a flight, you're in the window seat, sitting next to you is Brandon Skincare, you look over, you open the window, sun shines through and then you look back at Brandon and there's just a pile of ash there. "Tip number three is wearing white clothing. The sun comes down and reflects UV off of that white significantly more so than any other colour." Alright, this is terrible news for me because I actually really love wearing white t-shirts, that's my favourite thing to wear because I got this cool thing called dandruff. So when I wear black my shoulders kind of look like a fuckin' Charli XCX concert. But who knows? Maybe all this healthy eating I do this week will somehow cure my dandruff. "When you have bright lights on at night, like just everywhere in your house and you're watching TV and you're on your phone and you're on your devices this blue light and this visible light is stimulating your serotonin levels when it's not supposed to be stimulated, and your circadian rhythm is getting all out of whack." Got, this is also gonna be a huge change. Like I'm playing video games and working until like 1AM fuckin' like every night. Literally the lonely stoner seems to free his mind at night, I don't know if he's heard that before. But now Brandon's saying no bright lights at night? That ain't right! "And also socialising and connecting with others is really really important." Okay, so I gotta hang out with my friends and my wife this week. I think I can make that happen. "Maintaining an overall positive attitude just overall can be connected to these things, you know relaxation and reducing negativity. Negativity is a powerful detriment to your anti-aging goals. A lot of people who are just negative overall tend to have a reduced life span and just more health issues overall, tends to be a correlation there, an association." That's dumb. That's stupid. Fuck dude, being negative shortens your life? Nice knowing you guys! Jesus Christ dude. "And number 10 tip is basically not drinking alcohol-" Okay. Come on, man. How you gonna tell me to be social but not have any alcohol? Yeah, great thing for anti-aging is to go skydiving but don't wear a parachute! Maybe he's just talking about hard liquor, right? 'I'm sure he's not meaning 100 million beers, right friend?' "I just don't drink personally because I know that there's really no benefit to alcohol." No benefits to alcohol? Okay, you tell that to my hands that I'm not sure what to do with at a concert. Alright, I think we've got a firm understanding of what my anti-aging week is gonna look like, but I think before I dive into the shallow end and break my neck, I need one final day of getting all the fun shit I like doing out of my system I got a haircut. So I had my quarterly pizza the night before my week of anti-aging and with a chest full of heartburn I stared at my computer screen for the rest of the night. I've been really busy getting ready for tour and everything and I knew I wasn't gonna have that much time to do it this week, so I had to get as much done as I possibly could. That being said, I also played some video games. If you're wondering what video game I was playing, then you're in luck.