Anti-ageing millionaire Bryan Johnson recently broke the internet after he attended billionaire Nikhil Kamath's podcast but left it midway due to Air Pollution. Yes! you heard it right. Bryan Johnson Nikhil Kamath Podcast is turning out to be a matter of discussion on social media and even the American millionaire raised questions on Indian leaders on why they are not declaring an emergency on Air Pollution. In order to keep his stance balanced, Bryan Johnson also slammed the US leaders for not declaring a national emergency on obesity which he said is 'worse than air pollution'.
Bryan Johnson Nikhil Kamath Podcast
Bryan Johnson was featured in a round table talk on the topic of longevity in Nikhil Kamath's podcast. During the conversation, Bryan Johnson who seemed restless asked Nikhil Kamath, "Is it okay that if I put my mask on?" Nikhil nodded to it hinting that it's alright.
Another guest part of the roundtable asked Bryan Johnson, what is the air quality in New York? Bryan Johnson responded, "It's good throughout the US. The US does a good job at the Air Quality...I feel it. It burns my lungs, burns my throat, and then I also just know these levels of pollutants really wreak havoc on the body."
Listening to this, Nikhil Kamath asked whether is it tough to live for him as he is continuously traveling to different places. Bryan Johnson said, "You know what in many ways it's easier because it makes decisions for you. The algorithm makes decisions for you. The objective is don't die. It's just a systematic process of what inflicts damage on the body and then how do you mitigate it down. How do you block it..So in that regard, the food you eat, if you drink water out of plastic bottle or if you filter your water, if you wear a mask or not...We took the air purifier and went to the gym but we measured the air quality in the gym is really really bad..so it really streamlined decision-making of every aspect."
Why did Bryan Johnson leave Nikhil Kamath's Podcast?
Bryan Johnson fired a tweet on X and wrote, "When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective.
Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure. This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn.
Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing.
The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers. I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country.
When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it.
In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term. Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country."