The idea Bryan Johnson gave me with his new wrinkle and mitochondrial repair protocol

Bryan Johnson has shifted the focus again. Now it's the skin's turn.

Not for aesthetic reasons. The skin is the only organ you can audit with the naked eye every morning.

What interested me about his protocol is not any specific product. It is the change in framework: treating the wrinkle as a cellular energy problem, not just lost collagen.

The hypothesis: a fibroblast with tired mitochondria repairs less, and that shows up sooner in the eye contour than in any lab test. Hence the noise surrounding red light.

In a randomized trial with 136 volunteers, 113 received two weekly sessions of red light, alone or with near-infrared, up to a total of 30. The other 23 were controls.

Those who received light improved collagen density measured by ultrasound and skin roughness compared to the control group. Adding infrared did not offer an advantage over red light alone.

Two nuances before you go searching for a panel online. The study did not measure mitochondria, so the mechanism remains a hypothesis, not a fact.

And the control group was small: 23 people. Furthermore, the authors sign off from a medical light consultancy, not a university.

My take is different. The cheap stuff comes first: actually sleeping, protecting yourself from the sun, maintaining muscle mass, and not living in a chronic protein deficit.

Red light, in any case, would be a supplement. Never a substitute.

In the Gray Hair and Wrinkle Protocol, I explain in what order to place these pieces and what is just marketing with good photography.

The skin does not lie. It just takes time to speak.

Your 1% improvement for today.

Take a photo of your eye contour and the back of your hand in natural light, without filters. Repeat it every three months, same place and same time. Without a reference, there are only impressions.

This is what I cover in the Gray Hair and Wrinkle Protocol: Before spending 300 euros on a red light panel, I organized my priorities: that is what I explain in the Gray Hair and Wrinkle Protocol.

Remember that I now sell only ONE access to the Gray Hair and Wrinkle Protocol per day.

The price is set by a Dutch auction.

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