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Yahoo
3 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Respiree Closes US$11.6M Series A Financing Round Led by We Venture Capital and ClavystBio
HOUSTON and SINGAPORE, July 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Respiree, a health tech company developing artificial intelligence (AI) platforms to manage disease progression across the healthcare continuum, announced the successful closing of a US$11.6 million Series A financing round led by We Venture Capital and ClavystBio. The round also had participation from Adaptive Capital Partners, conversion of note securities from Mayo Clinic's Mayo Foundation for Medical Research and from existing investors including Greenwillow Capital Management, Seeds Capital, and she1K angel investment. Proceeds will support expansion of Respiree's commercial team and U.S. presence, including company headquarters in Houston, Texas, at the Texas Medical Center (TMC) Respiree, with Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Gurpreet Singh at Center 'The digitalization of healthcare offers a powerful opportunity to improve outcomes and efficiency—but without the right tools, it risks overwhelming care systems, especially amid workforce shortages,' said Dr. Gurpreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Respiree. 'What we need is better use of data, not just more data. Our AI solutions enable timely interventions, reduce alarm fatigue, and support care quality. We're now focused on scaling these tools to enhance the entire patient journey—from smarter triage to follow-up.' Respiree's innovative, augmented-AI platform seeks to support quicker, efficient and precise decision making in various healthcare settings by automating patient monitoring, care pathway management and clinical insight delivery. One of its flagship AI models developed during the Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate program, where Respiree graduated from, can help healthcare professionals detect patient deterioration earlier – including rapid response calls in general wards and unplanned ICU transfers. Published as a pre-print in The Lancet, this flagship AI model significantly reduced false alarms while maintaining strong sensitivity — outperforming the positive predictive value (PPV) of EPIC's deterioration index by a factor of six (54.9% vs 8%). Respiree is currently in the process of seeking clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its flagship AI model. The goal is to integrate the model into its platform, 1Bio™, which already incorporates data from electronic health records (EHRs), mobile questionnaires, third party devices and Respiree's proprietary, U.S.-patented, FDA-cleared sensors to provide longitudinal insights into disease trajectories. 'We are very proud to welcome Respiree to the We VC portfolio,' said Louise Warme, Head of We Venture Capital. 'Respiree stands out in the market by providing a patient monitoring AI/ML + hardware solution with incredible performance, but also unmatched understanding and execution of clinical workflow integration. Their scientifically validated data and key partnerships position Respiree for a promising scale-up journey driven by an extremely execution-focused team.' 'ClavystBio's investment in Respiree is central to our strategy of helping companies scale globally from and through Singapore. Their innovative AI-powered monitoring platform is set to enhance patient care and empower clinical teams with actionable insights. This further underscores our commitment to accelerating medtech innovations aimed at improving patient outcomes across care settings,' said Anselm Tan, Digital Health & MedTech Lead, ClavystBio. Respiree's current solutions include: Scalable AI modules designed to be device-agnostic, platform independent and EHR-compatible, with increased precision to identify patient deterioration across patient touchpoints with low false alarms Pathway-management modules designed to automate delivery of standardized care pathways and requirements for nurses and patients to execute Centralized, EHR-agnostic platform connected to a broad range of EHR environments and medical device systems, consolidating continuous real-time analytics and data from multiple sources Connected wearables with configurable acquisition settings for a range of use-cases, capable of capturing a broad range of cardio-respiratory measures 'Respiree has achieved much since Greenwillow Capital Management first invested in February 2022 and continued to support the Company in the convertible notes last year. We are incredibly encouraged by the commercialization of Respiree's products and services in tier-one markets and look forward to being part of Respiree's growth as it continues to transform patient care on a global scale. We very much welcome the new investors We VC, ClavystBio and Adaptive Capital and look forward to working together in Respiree's forward journey,' said Dr. Wong Mun Yew, Managing Partner of Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund. Founded in Singapore, Respiree is now executing its global strategy to expand into new markets worldwide. Respiree's solutions are currently available in the U.S., Australia, and across Asia-Pacific (APAC). The company recently announced a partnership with Roche Diagnostics to launch pilot programs across the APAC region. The company has also established key international partnerships with leading global healthcare providers to support its expansion across both acute and home healthcare settings. A portion of the Series A funds will be used to strengthen operations with existing channel partners and accelerate the development of new business relationships. Respiree plans to expand its offerings into newer international markets including the Gulf Cooperation Council and Thailand. About RespireeRespiree™ is an AI/ML health tech company building state-of-the-art clinically-validated artificial intelligence (AI) for managing disease progression across healthcare's care continuum. The 1Bio™ platform by Respiree™ uses data from the EHR and its proprietary US-patented and FDA-cleared sensors to longitudinal measure and track disease progression. Respiree™ is now available in U.S., Australia and Asia-Pacific (APAC). Respiree™ is CE marked, has received regulatory clearances in Australia from the Therapeutics Goods Administration and has received the 510k clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ( About We Venture CapitalWe Venture Capital is a specialized fund, investing globally in diagnostics start-ups, as well as digital solutions and life science tools disrupting diagnostics. Launched 2023, We VC is focused on Series A investments, but also invest Seed and Series B. Being the corporate investment arm of Werfen, a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics, We Venture Capital is an active investor, leveraging the network and knowledge from Werfen to the benefit of our investments. We are firm believers of technical advancement as a means to improve patient outcomes and revolutionize healthcare. About ClavystBio ClavystBio is a life sciences investor and venture builder established by Temasek to accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough ideas into health impact. We invest and partner with innovators, entrepreneurs and founders to launch and grow global companies from Singapore. Our focus spans therapeutics, digital health and medtech, with an emphasis on first-in-class science and technology. Our collaborative space, Node 1, provides plug-and-play spaces for ventures that have graduated from incubators to progress to their next milestones. By bringing startups together, we foster a vibrant and supportive community. ( About Greenwillow Capital Management The Oriza Greenwillow Technology Fund is a venture capital fund established jointly by Greenwillow Capital Management Pte Ltd, an MAS-licensed fund management company based in Singapore, and Oriza Holdings, an investment firm from China with assets under management exceeding RMB120 billion. The Fund invests in early-stage technology start-ups in Singapore and the fast-growing markets of Southeast Asia, with a primary focus on the smart cities and health-tech sectors. 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Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Draya Michele Is Turning Criticism Into Capital—Starting With Clean Air
With a new investment in wellness tech and a fresh perspective on motherhood, Draya Michele steps confidently into a chapter defined by purpose, power and quiet reinvention. Draya Michele pictured in front of her latest wellness tech investment, Sereniby—a smart air care ... More system designed to support healthier environments for babies and young children. On a sunny afternoon in Santa Monica, California, I settled in for an NAD infusion and Normatec therapy—expecting a routine wellness reset—alongside entrepreneur, designer and now investor Draya Michele. Inside the sunlit sanctuary of Dripology—a sleek, minimalist wellness studio founded by ICU-trained nurse Hamed Afshari to bring medical-grade care into a luxury experience— what began as IV drips, compression boots and a few light laughs quickly unfolded into something far more intimate. The wellness advocate is entering a new era—one rooted in clarity, legacy and deeper intention. Known for her style, and decade-long success with Mint Swim, Draya is now channeling her energy into something far more personal: creating a safer, healthier world for the next generation, starting with her daughter. Watch Full Interview Here For Draya, wellness isn't just a treatment—it's a lifestyle that informs how she lives, parents and does business. And in doing so, she's reminding women—especially Black mothers—that they deserve to breathe deeply, build boldly and define success on their own terms. 'This season of my life feels different,' she tells me, as we settle in for our IV treatments. 'It's personal now. Every decision I make, I think about the impact it has on her.' A Partnership Rooted in Purpose Her newest move is a strategic investment and partnership with Sereniby, a wellness tech company redefining air care for babies and young children. The brand's flagship product—a smart, medical-grade air purifier—goes beyond filtration. It's built to support restful sleep, cleaner breathing environments and peace of mind for modern families. 'This isn't just another brand collab,' Draya clarifies. 'It's ownership. It's alignment. It's me investing in something I wish I had from day one as a mom.' Draya's connection to Sereniby didn't begin in a boardroom—it started in her daughter's nursery. During her pregnancy, she was remodeling her home and found herself surrounded by drywall, paint fumes and dust. 'I remember thinking, 'I can't be breathing this in while I'm growing a baby,'' Draya recalls. 'It made me hyper-aware of how overlooked air quality really is, especially for children.' Sereniby is a modern air purifier designed for nurseries, featuring medical-grade HEPA filtration, ... More whisper-quiet operation, and a gentle nightlight. Its sleek white body and wood-tone base blend seamlessly into any calming, baby-safe space. Sereniby stood out, thanks to a heartfelt note and family photos its founders sent Draya before the product even arrived. 'It wasn't just a product drop. It felt like something bigger,' Draya says. 'The purifier came days later and I was blown away. Not just by the design, but by the thoughtfulness behind it.' With hospital-trusted HEPA and carbon filtration, smart sensors that detect microscopic pollutants, and integrated white noise and light therapy features, Sereniby offered something that matched both her lifestyle and values. As a new mother again, Draya saw the product work firsthand—especially in supporting her daughter's sleep. 'She doesn't sleep easily, so anything that supports rest is gold to me. And if it also protects her health? That's not a luxury. That's essential.' Draya has faced public scrutiny in the past over her parenting style during her early years as a mother—a narrative she's since reclaimed by showing her evolution and deep commitment to growth. The entrepreneur's decision to invest wasn't just about the product—it was about the position. 'It's important to me that my daughter grows up seeing her mother not just as the face of something, but as someone who has a stake in it,' she says. 'I want her to see that we—Black women, Black mothers—belong at the forefront of wellness, parenting and innovation.' Draya Michele enjoying playtime with her daughter, with Sereniby in the background helping keep the ... More air fresh and clean. That positioning is key. As the wellness space grows, Draya's involvement signals a deeper shift: intentional representation at the ownership level. 'I've done collaborations. I've been the ambassador. This time, I wanted equity,' she says. Her investment also challenges the outdated notion that celebrity partnerships are purely transactional. 'This isn't PR. This is my daughter's air. This is our home. I use it every day. That's the difference," Draya expressed. Motherhood looks different this time around. Draya is juggling entrepreneurship, farm life (yes—more on that later), and raising a daughter who demands presence and patience. 'My sons were easy. My daughter? She's attached. She's loud. She's fire,' Draya says, laughing. 'I love it, but I've had to re-learn balance.' That means prioritizing routine, setting boundaries — especially on social media — and redefining what self-care looks like. 'I'm a post-and-go kind of woman now,' she says. 'I've limited who can comment on my posts because peace matters. If I didn't ask for your opinion, I don't need it.' It also means making smarter choices as a consumer and a mom. 'I used to be that person who bought the most expensive baby bottles—imported, hand-blown glass, $80 each,' she shares. 'Now? I'm an Evenflo six-pack for $10 kind of girl. They work just as well, and I don't cry when they break.' Draya Michele carries her daughter in a chest harness during a quiet moment together. Despite the glitz of entrepreneurship and the digital attention that follows her every move, Draya keeps her circle tight—and intentional. 'I'm really blessed to have a group of women around me that don't compete with each other,' she says. 'We all have our own lanes, and we show up for one another in real life.' Her core friend group—rooted in mutual respect, aligned values and zero performative energy—isn't just about vibes. It's protection. 'In this industry, especially as a Black woman, people project so much onto you. It helps to have friends who remind me who I am outside of social media, outside of work, outside of the noise.' And there's been plenty of that noise. Over the years, Draya has navigated harsh public judgment and unsolicited commentary about her personal life—most recently, when she shared an unpaid post about Sereniby during the LA fires, encouraging families to protect their indoor air quality. Santa Monica, California — Friday, June 6: Draya Michele sits down with Forbes contributor Corein ... More Carter for an interactive wellness interview at Dripology, where the two discuss motherhood, legacy, and Draya's newest investment in wellness tech. 'The comments were intense. People were like, 'Draya, people lost their homes—why are you talking about purifiers?' And I get that. But I wasn't speaking to those who experienced loss—I was speaking to the millions of others in LA breathing in that smoke,' she says. 'It came from a pure place. I wasn't paid. I just wanted to help.' Rather than clap back, she chose peace of mind. 'I've learned I don't have to explain everything. But I also won't let people twist my intentions. I believe in what I support.' To guard her peace, Draya has made a simple but profound adjustment: she limits who can comment on her social media posts. 'I post and go. I'm not here to be debated. This is my life, not a group chat,' she says. Though wellness is her latest move, Draya's swimwear brand Mint Swim remains a cultural staple. Known for putting Black and brown women at the forefront of its campaigns since the beginning, Mint Swim continues to champion diversity in a space that once overlooked it. Draya Michele stuns in her signature swimwear line, Mint Swim This past Earth Day, she introduced a limited capsule made from repurposed materials—using her boyfriend's old T-shirts to create new swimwear. 'Fabric waste is a real problem, and fashion contributes to it,' she says. 'I just wanted to do something that felt good and looked good.' With her usual eye for style and practicality, the drop was equal parts thoughtful and fashion-forward. 'It was fun, it was conscious, and it sold out fast,' she notes. 'We'll definitely do more.' In perhaps the most unexpected twist, Draya is now exploring homesteading. On her property, she has 16 chickens, three dogs, a cat and a full vegetable garden. 'I'm learning to grow what I eat. I'm obsessed with the process,' Draya expresses. The farm, like the purifier, represents something larger: autonomy. Peace. Slowness. 'This version of me isn't just about hustle. It's about health. It's about home. I want to show my kids what it looks like to build a full, beautiful life on your own terms.' In her garden, Draya Michele showcases her brand, Mint Swim. She's just as honest when reflecting on her early years as a founder. 'I used to be stubborn. I didn't ask for help. I made expensive mistakes,' she admitted. 'Now? I ask questions. I lean on my peers. You don't have to build alone.' Showing the Woman Behind the Brand In a world that often flattens public figures into brand extensions, Draya is committed to showing her whole self—even if it's unexpected. 'People have assumptions about me,' she admits. 'But the reality is, I'm a mom who recycles, a woman who gardens and someone who genuinely cares about this planet.' One of her quirks? She never litters. 'I'll carry trash in my purse all day before I throw it on the ground,' she says, laughing. 'And if you come to my house, you better write your name on your water bottle. We don't waste around here.' Draya Michele pictured in front of her latest wellness tech investment, Sereniby—a smart air care ... More system designed to support healthier environments for babies and young children. These small rituals—along with her larger moves in sustainability, wellness and conscious parenting—paint a fuller picture of Draya Michele: not just a personality, but a person. 'I'm not trying to be perfect. I'm trying to be real,' Draya adds. 'That's how I humanize myself—by showing up honestly. Whether it's on my farm, in the boardroom or online.' I want to keep showing people what's possible when you operate from intention, not just attention.' And for the little girl watching her every move, Draya's already paving the way. 'This isn't about being perfect. It's about being present. And I hope that everything I do shows my daughter she can build anything—and breathe deeply while doing it.' 'My biggest flex right now isn't a look or a moment,' Draya expresses. 'It's peace. It's alignment. It's knowing that every move I make reflects who I am and what I stand for.' 'I want my daughter to grow up watching me do this with grace, with grit, and with integrity,' Draya says. 'That's legacy. That's impact. That's the kind of woman I'm raising her to be.' And if this chapter is any indication, Draya Michele is just getting started.
Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Why Healthcare CEOs Should Rethink Their Compliance Strategies
Jesse Corn, CPO Zivian Health, is a digital health executive and health tech founder with over 14 years of experience in digital solutions. For some healthcare companies, compliance is regarded as a box to check. It's an essential but uninspiring function typically relegated to legal teams and manuals. But as care delivery becomes more decentralized, digitally enabled and geographically expansive, that perception can become increasingly risky. In today's healthcare environment, I believe compliance shouldn't be treated as a passive shield against liability. Instead, it can act as a dynamic driver of operational excellence, strategic growth and workforce sustainability. Our company's journey started with a dedicated effort to address healthcare compliance, and my core focus as CEO has evolved to center on not only strengthening and automating compliance strategy but also contributing to a more holistic healthcare environment. In my experience, an effective approach to compliance can allow healthcare companies to streamline operations, create the foundation for safe growth and activate high-quality healthcare delivery for more patients. The Importance Of Operational Compliance In the news, major compliance issues are often viewed through the lens of isolated incidents: privacy breaches, fraud investigations or malpractice claims. But in the modern care environment, compliance is deeply entwined with day-to-day operations. A great example is the healthcare system's growing reliance (subscription required) on advanced practice providers (APPs), such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants. APPs often practice across multiple states under the supervision of collaborating physicians. Ensuring that each relationship adheres to state-specific regulations—on everything from the number of allowable supervisees to the meeting and chart review requirements—can be a full-time operational challenge. Likewise, many of today's healthcare organizations operate across multiple jurisdictions. Whether you're a telehealth company, a hybrid care platform or an expanding digital clinic, you're likely practicing across multiple, and often highly restrictive, states—each with its own quirks, documentation requirements and enforcement posture. A new rule in Texas, a revised filing requirement in New York, a collaboration limit in Georgia—any of these can derail a clinical program or trigger audit exposure if overlooked. In this environment, compliance is not a static legal construct. It is a living operational necessity that touches clinical workflows, staffing, credentialing and quality assurance. Recognizing this is important to protecting our healthcare organizations from both regulatory action and operational disorder. The Hidden Cost Of Inattention Noncompliance doesn't always announce itself with a lawsuit or public enforcement action. In my experience, it more often erodes performance in subtle ways. It may look like missed payer opportunities because your clinical structure doesn't meet credentialing requirements, or delays with onboarding clinicians due to opaque filing requirements, or mounting administrative burdens on care teams who spend hours documenting tasks instead of seeing patients. It can also show up in burnout. I've found that when clinicians don't feel supported in understanding and meeting their compliance obligations, more tend to disengage. When operations teams are forced to rely on spreadsheets and email chains to track regulatory tasks, it can lead to more errors and less trust, efficiency and growth. Solutions Designed For Reality In my experience, taking control of compliance in today's healthcare environment starts with recognizing the need to move beyond spreadsheets, static PDFs and one-off legal memos. Instead, I recommend embracing a systems-level approach that integrates regulatory awareness, real-time workflows and accountability. In my experience working with healthcare organizations on their compliance, the best solutions are multi-pronged. Here are a series of strategies to consider: Take a full inventory of where your organization may be exposed. This includes clinical collaboration requirements, provider licensing status, credentialing and payer enrollment, HIPAA and data privacy, continuing medical education (CME) tracking, clinical documentation and quality assurance protocols. Identify who 'owns' each function and how current your tracking processes are. Fragmented compliance data can lead to blind spots, so create a single source of truth. That might be a compliance platform, a credentialing system or an internal dashboard. But equally important is decentralizing awareness by making sure teammates have real-time visibility into their areas of responsibility. Many of today's compliance platforms go beyond basic document storage. Look for ones that offer features like automated licensing alerts, structured workflows for clinical supervision, dashboards for compliance requirements, electronic health record (EHR) integration and audit log generation. Clinicians are often the first to feel overwhelmed by poorly designed processes. Seek their feedback to ensure your solutions are intuitive for end-users. A system that makes compliance burdensome is much more likely to be ignored. State laws change frequently. To keep pace, I recommend subscribing to policy trackers; partnering with legal advisors who specialize in Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) and collaboration rules; and building change monitoring into your review processes. Ideally, your systems should surface legal changes early and translate them into action. Compliance can be a measurable function. Track your on-time compliance requirements, license verification turnarounds, training participation and documentation quality. In my experience, this can help with creating clarity and concrete goals. Compliance As Culture Ultimately, I believe the most important move CEOs can make is to establish compliance as a culture within their organization. This essentially means creating systems that make it easy for your employees to do things the right way. This can look like replacing manual processes with systems that surface risk early, automating complexity and creating shared accountability across clinical, legal and operational teams. The stakes are too high to treat compliance as an afterthought, so consider how you can reevaluate and improve your compliance strategy today. I believe those who make this move earlier will be the ones best positioned to thrive in healthcare's next chapter. 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WIRED
2 days ago
- Health
- WIRED
Bryan Johnson Is Going to Die
Jul 21, 2025 6:00 AM Millions of dollars in treatments, supplements, and scans. Immortality through AI. Bryan Johnson's longevity script has everything—except an ending. PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ At first, the two bowls of fruit on Bryan Johnson's kitchen island look perfect. They're brimming with plump kiwis, hardy avocados, and ripened bananas. These are the food of the gods, I figure, for a man who aspires to live like one. But then I look closer. A lone orange, its skin flecked with mold, sits adjacent to two lemons, both almost entirely consumed by a layer of white fuzz. Something, it seems, is rotten in the estate of Johnson. That estate, it's worth noting, is a predictable one. Johnson's home in Venice, California, is the angular, concrete-floored template of a dwelling you'd assume is owned by a man. Specifically a man who worked in tech, made his millions, and subsequently embarked on a midlife, post-wealth search for purpose. All of which Johnson is, and did, and still appears to be doing: After selling his web payments company, Braintree, for $800 million in 2013, Johnson parted ways with both his wife and his lifelong Mormon religion. In 2021 he announced Project Blueprint, an effort designed to reverse his own body's aging process. This involves an all-consuming, unproven regimen including but not limited to daily exercises, blood tests, a doctrinal sleep routine, MRIs, plasma transfers, scalp stimulants, urine tests, several dozen supplements, Dexa scans, light therapy, and caloric restriction. If the rotting fruit didn't give it away, then no, this is not a kitchen where household memories are made over milk and cookies—although a collage of candid photos taped above Johnson's stove offers hints of familial warmth. (Johnson has three kids, one of whom is infamous for donating data on his youthful erections and his own plasma to his father's anti-aging efforts.) This is a kitchen, after all, that shares a home with specimen cups of semen and coolers of Johnson's blood; where pills and powders, which I find meticulously stocked in Johnson's walk-in pantry, are mixed, optimized, and consumed; where food is not eaten so much as nutrition is performed. Performance, of course, is Johnson's specialty. There's the performance of his body, which Johnson claims is now the single healthiest on Earth. And there's how that body shows up to the viewing public, which it does quite often. Johnson has been the subject of dozens of profiles and interviews, as well as a Netflix documentary released earlier this year. He has amassed more than 4 million followers across YouTube, Instagram, and X, and he posts an ongoing stream of content about his sleep habits (sublime), his diet (meticulous), and his erections (trigger warning). Johnson has also used his online reach to push back against recent controversies, including a legal battle with his former fiancée Taryn Southern, and a New York Times investigation into his extensive use of confidentiality agreements to prevent, among other things, Blueprint employees from publicly talking about Johnson as well as his business dealings. Over a 90-minute conversation, Johnson spoke at length about his longevity protocol, his assessment of RFK Jr.'s MAHA movement, and those agreements that he continues to enforce. He also took great pains to convince me—and all of you—that this wasn't just about health and longevity. No, like most tech men living in boxy modernist homes and saddled with illusions of grandeur, Johnson has a new holy grail with which to galvanize his faithful following: artificial intelligence, baby. PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ KATIE DRUMMOND: I'm going to ask you a very simple true-or-false question that you can answer however you want. Ready? BRYAN JOHNSON: Yes. True or false: You, Bryan Johnson, the man sitting across from me, one day at some point in the future, will die. False. Tell me more. Death has always been inevitable, so we have made all these preparations. We talk about immortality in professional achievements. We talk about life after death. There are the ways that we've dealt with death up to this point. And now we have this real possibility of extending our lifespans to some unknown horizon. So that's extension. But we also have the ability to begin moving ourselves to computational systems. So currently, in a very crude form, I have a Bryan AI that has digested everything I've ever said. You do currently have this? I do. OK. And that Bryan AI is pretty good. As the technology gets better and better, the most prized asset is going to be existence; immortality as we thought about it before, through accomplishment or through offspring or the afterlife, will be devalued relative to existing. And that's my fundamental bet on the future. If there was a world where, let's say in five years, you could upload Bryan into an AI—and AI Bryan is pretty much as good as Bryan Bryan—does Bryan Bryan eat the cheeseburger? Let's think about your question in a different way. Most people today spend every waking moment pursuing wealth; and the time they're not spending pursuing wealth, they're pursuing some sort of status or prestige. When you give birth to superintelligence, you can start extending lifespans to some unknown horizon: 200 years, 1,000 years, 10,000 years. Millions of years. We don't know. When that happens, the entire game of humanity shifts from that singular focus on wealth accumulation and status and prestige to existence. Now, embedded in existence, we may still play games of power, but it will be conditioned that existence itself is the highest virtue. That's the shift that's starting to happen right now. Let's move the conversation to your immediate existence. You've talked at length about your protocol. Walk us through a day in the life right now. OK, cool. I have built my entire existence around sleep. My sleep profile is that of an early twentysomething. I've worked very hard at this. So it's eight hours and 34 minutes. I'm up less than one time per night on average, I go to bed within two to three minutes of my head hitting the pillow, and I have 94 percent sleep efficiency. Typically, most people's sleep signal is like the stock market, and mine is just flat. But to do that, you can't just show up and say, 'I'm going to put my head on the pillow and fall asleep.' You have to build your whole life system around that. So my day begins the night before when I go to sleep, and then I wake up around 4:30 or 5:00. First thing when I wake up, I get out of bed. I try to get up within one minute of waking. Within one minute? I try to avoid the '10 more minutes' or pull the phone up and start scrolling. I get up, I will get light in my eyes within a few minutes of waking—I wake up before the sun, so it's 10,000 lux light. I'll take my inner ear temperature. One thing we've noticed, as I've done this for the past four years, my body temperature has dropped almost 4 degrees Fahrenheit. And there's good evidence that species with lower basal temperatures live longer. I will then put a serum on my hair, my scalp. Rub my scalp with a silicone scrubber for hair growth. I'll take a quick shower, and then I'll come downstairs. I have a morning drink. I will eat something, I'll work out for an hour. I'll do red light therapy, then hyperbaric oxygen therapy, then some sauna, then I'll rinse off, and then get ready for work. That is quite a regimen. And then you stop eating for the day at … ? Around noon. Really quickly, rapid fire, ask me a couple questions about myself, and then tell me how I'm doing in the Bryan Johnson universe. Great. Go. What is your resting heart rate? 48 beats per minute. That's fantastic. Thank you. What is your most recent body inflammation blood test result, your hsCRP? Bryan, I have no idea. What is your blood glucose level? A good one. OK. How many continuous push-ups can you do? Probably 10. OK. If you stood on one foot and closed your eyes, how long could you stay standing? A minute. What is—a minute? Yes, a minute. That's very good. Yeah. Try me. Not right now. What is the length of your telomeres? I don't know. OK. What are your omega levels? I don't know. OK. These are very involved questions. What is your speed of aging? Well, according to the skin test I took earlier, Bryan, it was 1.9. Yeah. Yeah. I thought you were just going to ask me if I smoke. Or exercise. Or sleep enough. I can pose a question, like 'How's your sleep?' And you can give me a generic answer like 'I sleep great,' but if you look at the actual data of your telomere length, it tells me the story of your overall health. These are readouts of your biology. They just say, 'This is me in raw form.' There's no storytelling. It's just the data. I'm relieved that I don't have that data for you right now. Now, you were a successful entrepreneur. You felt like you weren't living your healthiest life. You parted ways with Mormonism. You got divorced. You went through all of these seismic life changes. A lot of people make major changes to their lives. Exceedingly few people—very, very, very, very, very few people—go as far as you have. What made you take this to such an extreme? I'm really motivated by having read various biographies of people throughout time and place. In their moment, they were able to identify the most far-ranging ambition identifiable in that moment. You couldn't have sequenced the genome in the year 1800. You probably couldn't have gone to space in the 1920s. In any given time, a new emergent possibility is present. Then two questions arise. One is: What is it? And two is: Will somebody do it? The year 2021 was the first time in human history where a person could say 'We are the first generation who won't die' and not be ridiculed. I saw that and I thought, this is a moment when it comes together, where you see it and you can do something about it. If you talk to people who know me, if you ask my husband, poor guy, they would say that I'm a very controlled person. I wake up at the same time every day. I do the same exercise. I tend to eat a lot of very similar foods. There's a lot of routine and structure to my life. When I hear about the way you live, I, as a very controlled person, am astounded at how controlled your life is. Was control always something that was a defining characteristic? I would reframe it and say you're actually a really smart engineer; you realize that the metabolic cost of you having to make these decisions every single day is so expensive that you say, 'You know what? It's not worth it. I'm just going to systematize this so that my brain can be allocated toward other higher-level thinking.' I view it the same way: Why would I fight these daily, miscellaneous, ultimately irrelevant decisions on a moment-to-moment basis when they can just be automated? I'd rather spend my scarce brain capacity thinking of higher-level things—about the future of the human race, for example. PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ In 2023 I was leading the newsroom at Vice, and we published a story on you. You talked about your body image from decades ago. You talked about how hard it was at that time to control yourself around food at night. You said you now often go to bed hungry, and you've learned to find joy in that. You eat mostly plants. If I stripped your name out and looked at a bulleted list of those comments, that sounds a lot like me 20 years ago with a very serious eating disorder. It wasn't about the number on the scale. It wasn't about how I looked. It was about being able to systematize and control my environment. I think if you were to ask some doctors and psychiatrists, they would say, 'Well, that sounds like disordered behavior. That sounds like an eating disorder.' How do you respond to that? Particularly when we're talking about you as a public figure advocating for a certain approach to health, do you have concerns about what you're advocating for? Most people I know in America have an eating disorder. I rarely meet somebody who doesn't find themselves, late in the evening, powerless to stop themselves from eating the ice cream or the cookies or the chips. I clearly struggled with controlling my food intake. I would say it's really more of a widespread societal problem, that we have an addiction problem with food, our phones, and our entertainment, our scrolling. I don't know if my addiction is more excessive than other people's addictions or if it's just weighted more toward food versus the phone, but I'd say I'm probably pretty average on a population-level addiction scale. So you've taken what used to manifest in one way, which was an inability to control what you were eating and when you were eating it, and essentially adopted a new approach, which is saying, 'I eat these things at these times, and I eliminate the variables. I take the choice out of it, and that is how I am going to manage this part of my health.' Exactly. And I guess more broadly it's a cultural commentary, where I'm saying the most powerful forces in all of society—corporations—are pointing their power at getting you to be addicted to their thing. Whether it's scrolling their app, eating their food, watching their show—all their intelligence is pointed at you and trying to get you to be addicted. I don't want to be addicted to anything. I want to have agency and freedom over my existence as much as possible, so that's what I'm trying to build. I realize that people on the outside looking in, they say, 'He's working through his childhood trauma. He's working through a food addiction.' I'm open to all those explanations. I would be the first person to be self-deprecating and be like, 'This guy has got issues.' Unquestionably. You're addicted to longevity. I mean, there's probably no way of actually getting over addiction other than controlling where your addiction is pointed. I want to ask you about MAHA. When President Trump won the election, you congratulated him on social media. You were photographed with RFK Jr. What is your assessment of RFK Jr. and the Trump administration vis-à-vis American health? How do you rate the administration so far? RFK is certainly not a status quo person. You could say that. The status quo in the US is not working. If you look at the data around the health of our citizenry, it's embarrassingly bad. I think we spend 1.8 times our peer countries in health care: $13,000 per person versus $7,000 or so in the other developed countries. We spend more and we get less. Whether RFK is the solution or not, what we're doing is not working, so I'm open to change, and I'm open to a variety of possibilities. It's not to say that everything he's doing is correct, but I do support the idea that we definitely need to change. Do you worry about medical research being delayed by years or decades if it's curtailed right now? Oftentimes, when one path is discontinued, everybody thinks it's an end of something; but actually, that change produces a new path that people didn't anticipate. So no, I support the creative destruction. I think it could have some positive outcomes. Clearly, there could be some drawbacks. When you break things like this, it goes both ways. It's not a clean win or loss. I think what would be cool is if we as a country said, 'We want to be number one in the entire world for life expectancy.' That is a very clear goal. Let's talk about faith, because for so many people, religion or faith is fundamental in informing how they think about life and death. They think about the afterlife, they think about heaven or hell or whatever version of an afterlife exists. If you are not a person of faith, and I am not, you think, 'Well, my body disintegrates and goes into the ground and then it helps the trees grow and that's just how this works. I am a biological organism.' How do you contemplate the idea of an afterlife or what happens after we die, given that you spend a lot of time focused on not dying? This is the biggest question. This is the one that everybody has to grapple with, which is, What is existence? But for the history of humanity we have not had an opening to ask the question, What does existence mean? Right now is the first opening in literally tens or hundreds of thousands of years. The new answer to existence is that existence itself is the highest virtue. Sounds like you now have a religion. Yes. When did that become an idea, and ultimately … why? You've got your public persona, you have your protocol, you have a business. Why bring religion into this? Companies come and go. Countries come and go. Religions have endured for millennia. Confucius built a system of ethics. Muhammad received visions. Jesus was the son of God. Adam Smith wrote about the invisible hand. Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital . The American founding fathers wrote a constitution. Satoshi dropped the White Paper. If you look at the major ideological and technological phenomena of the world, they've landed in different ways. It's very obvious that right now, in this age of AI, a new ideology is going to drop. It always drops in answer to technological disruption. An ideology must help humans make sense of the world. When I look at the world right now, I can't see any ideology that helps explain this moment, that helps me make practical day-to-day decisions. You can't go to Christianity and say, 'Tell me how I behave in this moment.' You can't even go to democracy. You can't go to capitalism. I want to make sure I understand. Your premise here is that AI will be this transformational technology that will extend our lifespan in some way, and there is not an ideology that supports mankind at that moment? I'm saying nobody knows what's going to happen. All we know is that AI is improving at a rate that is unfathomable to our minds. Now, that doesn't stop humans from saying, 'I will explain to you what's going to happen. It's going to make the world an abundant place, and we humans are going to be able to do whatever we want, and we're going to have one day a week where we work.' To be clear, I think that's a very utopian and very unlikely scenario. I agree. I don't believe any human knows what's going to happen. I only believe we have an event horizon. Nobody can see past it. This thing is moving very fast. We as a species don't move that fast. We can't move that fast. We can't change our society at that speed. So there's going to be some kind of dislocation. And I'm trying to say we need to prepare ourselves in the most basic way we can. My solution for this is we choose to not die. That's it. I'm not arguing for immortality. I'm not arguing for utopia. We as a species, our existence is at risk. We do not know if humans have a role in the future. We do not know if we're going to survive this moment. We are already at each other's throats. We have nuclear annihilation as a possibility. It's a moment where we evolve into a species who say: The single thing we have in common is that nobody wants to die right now. That's it. What is required for someone to be a disciple of this religion? At a foundational level, it's a humility to say we don't know what's coming. Therefore, the most sober and practical thing to do is lock in our individual and shared behaviors. I'm not going to do things that kill myself. We're not going to kill each other. We don't kill the planet. And then we align AI with Don't Die. Right now you've got the US developing AI, and China developing AI, and open-source models, and closed-source models, and we're basically just putting it all into this coliseum where everyone's going to fight it out for power. I don't think we want to give birth to AI in a warlike scenario. So wouldn't aligning your movement, in the context of AI, have more to do with making sure the AIs don't kill us than taking supplements? You're saying that so much of what you do is not about health, but so much of what you put into the world is about health. I do feel like this is legitimately an opening that we haven't seen for a few thousand years, for a new global ideology to emerge rapidly and be the fastest-growing ideology in history. Something's going to rise and fill this void, whether it's Don't Die or something else. So I was trying to figure out, how do you actually talk about this? People don't care about philosophy. They don't really care about ideas, not until it's really important. What they do care about is their health, how they feel in the morning, how they look. I tried to approach this conversation in a way that would be understandable, where Don't Die as a philosophy is going to bed on time and eating nutritious foods and saying no to junk food. Once you get people in, and they can understand health is a really good thing, you can bridge to philosophy and be like, 'There's this bigger thing going on that we can talk about.' So you are the founder of a religion. You are also the CEO of Blueprint; you sell supplements and a variety of products. You sell a finger pinprick aging test. Where do the religion and the commercial business start and stop? Where do they overlap? And why run a commercial enterprise off the back of this? I agree with you a hundred percent. And honestly, I am so close to either shutting it down or selling it. How close? I've been talking to people about this. I don't need the money, and it's a pain-in-the-ass company. Practically, I was having to solve these basic problems myself, like how do I find clean protein powder that is tested by a third-party lab and has low heavy metals? I need it for my body. Once I started doing it, friends were like, 'Can I have some?' I'm like, 'Sure.' It just evolved in a way where I was trying to do people a solid. The problem is now people see the business and give me less credibility on the philosophy side. I will not make that trade-off. It is not worth it to me. So yeah, I don't want it. The New York Times published a story about you recently, and that story included reporting about the integrity of the products that you sell and about the financial health of the company. Is the decision to potentially sell or shut the company down informed by that, either that controversy or the fact that the company isn't working the way you had hoped? It has nothing to do with The New York Times. I am not hiding from the New York Times article. I'm happy to take, head-on, every single allegation they made. I will say [their reporting on] the business, that was fucking made up. They take things and they contort it to fit their narrative, but anybody who's been on the side of a hit piece knows it's bullshit. You know it. I know it. ['We are confident about the accuracy of our story,' says New York Times spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha, 'which included reviewing legal and internal documents as well as interviewing 30 people close to Mr. Johnson and his company.' —Ed.] PHOTOGRAPH: ERICA HERNANDEZ As a journalist, I believe that our industry operates in good faith. I respect The New York Times. I read them every day. I know a lot of great journalists who work there. Obviously I had nothing to do with reporting that piece. Is the company right now a profitable company? Are you running a profitable company, whether you sell it or disband it? They painted it like we are in some kind of emergency financial situation. That is not the case. We are break-even, and I've said that publicly many times. We've had profitable months, we've had loss months. I've been very clear, we priced our products at the exact level to basically be break-even. Additional margin is just not worth it to me. It's been a consistent strategy the entire time. The thrust of the New York Times piece was around how you use confidentiality agreements. You have a former fiancée who was also a former employee, and at least two other former employees, who have filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board about confidentiality agreements that sound very extensive. In some cases, they're 20-plus pages. Sometimes there's an additional opt-in agreement. You're so transparent about yourself publicly. I know so much about your body—more than I would like to—and that's my choice. I can close the tab if I don't want to hear more about your penis. But you are so transparent, and then you're essentially saying to your employees, 'Support me in my transparency, but don't fucking say anything yourself,' right? I grew up poor. My mom made my clothes for me. I was poor until I was 34, and then I made a couple hundred million dollars. I'm new money. In that moment, when I made that money, I did not understand what it means to have money and how it fundamentally changes your relationship with the entire world. Over the past 12 years, I've learned what it means to have money. I will tell you, and anyone who's been in this situation will tell you the same, it changes everything. My fiancée attempted to extract $9 million from me, and she used, quote-unquote, 'the most feared law firm' in the whole world. They sent me this really scary 13-page letter and said, 'Look, we're going to say these terrible things about you, but you can make it all go away if you just pay us $9 million this week.' It was the first legitimate attempt on [my money]. [Quinn Emanuel, the law firm, declined to comment. In its settlement offer, it proposed that Southern would 'enter into a full mutual release of all claims' against Johnson and 'give up rights to use her life experiences' with him for the flat sum. —Ed.] This is at the tail end of 'Me Too,' where I had friends and others losing their entire professional life over something, right? So it was a very high-risk situation for many people, who were seeing very serious consequences for public allegations. Often deservedly so. Sure. Whether deserved or not, when a phenomenon like that emerges, a cottage industry will emerge and people will say, 'This is an opportunistic time for me.' We know there's a variety of legitimate and not-legitimate situations. Do I cave and pay $9 million to make this go away quietly, or do I stand my ground? I slept on it and said, 'I'm going to stand my ground. What they're saying is not true, and I'm not going to buckle. I'm not going to pay for this.' To be clear, the allegations in the letter, in your view, were false? After two years of legal disputes, if you read the report, the arbitrator and then the superior court judge said there was no evidence for what she said. That whole legal process vindicated me, after millions of dollars in legal fees. Five years later, it's resurfaced through The New York Times, and they don't mention any of that. They don't mention that she was discredited as a truth-telling person through this legal process, that she's on record having said things that are just fundamentally not true. [LTL Attorneys, which represented Southern in her 2021 lawsuit against Johnson, declined to comment on litigation. According to court documents, the arbitrator did not adjudicate Southern's claims, as she found that Southern 'had not raised a triable issue.' Similarly, the state judge ruled Southern had 'not established grounds to vacate the arbitration award,' which she had contested. —Ed.] When I'm walking into this world of Blueprint, I'm saying, 'OK, now I've seen a few patterns here where people use things as an advantage for their own gain, and sometimes it ends up in an extortion-like effort.' So I said, 'To address this, I'm going to be incredibly transparent. I'm going to say: When you come and work in my environment, this is what you could expect.' It was the most fair gesture possible. I understand this idea that you amass wealth and people see opportunity in that. And that if you want to come work at a company where someone is talking about their erections on the internet, they should sign something testifying that they are OK with that. What I'm not quite clear on is placing intensive limitations and restrictions on what employees can and cannot say about their work environment and their company. How does that tie into what you're describing? I think you would agree that that is standard practice for a corporation. When you are a corporate entity, and even when you're a married couple, there's things you discuss in private which you don't discuss in public. Corporations have boundary conditions around information, whether it's IP, whether it's product development. But everybody has rules and systems for how you control information. Almost nobody in society operates with complete transparency, because everybody has learned life lessons that things go wrong. People will use this to their advantage and to other people's detriment. What I'm doing is not atypical at all. In your view, do you run a safe and supportive workplace? Yes. Is this a good place to work? Absolutely. You feel very confident in that? We have three goals at the company. The first goal is that our customers write us love letters. That's the most important goal. Number two is that people say it's the best job they've ever had. And three is that we say we are the best in the industry at what we do. I say this every single week in our company meetings. And on number two, I'll say, 'What this means, you guys, is if you've got an issue that you're dealing with, if something is causing you to not like your circumstance, if it's a process that's annoying, if it's something that doesn't make sense to you, if your screen is too small, whatever the issue is, you have the opportunity to raise it. And when you raise it, we're going to show you we have the organizational capacity to address it.' Most of the time when people experience things that they're not happy about, the course of action is to talk to the coworker and be like, 'I'm going to gossip about these things.' I don't like it. I call this pebbles in the shoe. Do you have an HR person who helps with the pebbles? Yes. We call this person out and we say, for any issue you have, you can go directly to her; anything you have, you can raise it. Do you like being famous? From when we assigned that story at Vice in 2023 to now, you have become much more famous. I think the more famous someone becomes, to some degree, the less they can control the narrative out there about them. That's right. Do you worry about a level of fame where you can't systematically address the entire world and what's being said? In the Netflix documentary, you seemed to take great joy and almost glee in reading nasty shit people say about you on the internet. I'll take all the dunks about me all day long. It's when they say something about you that challenges your trustworthiness—that's what I would isolate. It's trust that I deeply care about, and being respected by the 25th century. Maybe humans are not around, but whatever form of intelligence is around, I really care about them saying, 'You know what? We're grateful that there was a guy who tried to piece this thing together.' If my trust is in question, I can't go after these bigger goals. On fame, I think it's fantastic. If I had to choose between fame and a billion dollars, I would choose fame 100 times out of 100. It's very hard to achieve. It's uniquely valuable. I get access to almost anyone in the entire world at this point. If the goal is to create the fastest-growing ideology in the history of the human race and to pair it with the time when the species is evolving into something else, you need fame. So you're not thinking about your legacy in a 10-year, 20-year, 50-year timeline, you're thinking about hundreds of years? It's the only time that makes sense to me. I did a thought experiment where I imagined being present in the 25th century. I'm sitting with them, and they're talking in whatever form they're talking, and they are looking back on the early 21st century. Just like we look back at other centuries and we compress them into a few major things but otherwise we don't get into the details, they will do the same thing for the 21st century. So if they do that, what do they say? I thought about this question for years. One: They would say that's when humanity gave birth to superintelligence. Two: That's when humanity figured out that they were the first generation who wouldn't die. And so I thought, how can you possibly act now on that information? You could build a biotech company, or you could try to pass governmental policy. But it's very obvious we need a new ideological framework, and what's more powerful than religion? So in the 25th century, when people are sitting somewhere talking about that guy Bryan who did this and that and the other thing, what are you doing? I joke that I am inevitably going to die from this ironic thing. I mean, that tree right there is about to fall, and it's going to be over right now. Exactly. 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Can your Apple Watch detect pregnancy?
What if your Apple Watch or iPhone could alert you to a pregnancy before a test does? A new Apple-funded study suggests that this is now within reach. Researchers used a mix of behavioral and biometric data to train an artificial intelligence model. The result? The system correctly predicted pregnancy in 92% of cases. It is not meant to replace a lab test, but it could help women spot early signs before they even suspect anything. Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you'll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my The research comes from the Apple Heart and Movement Study, which collected over 15 billion data points from more than 162,000 participants. The data came through the everyday use of the Apple Watch and iPhone. For the pregnancy research, the model analyzed information from 430 reported pregnancies and more than 25,000 non-pregnant participants. The AI looked at more than heart rate and temperature. It also examined movement patterns, sleep habits and exercise routines. According to the study, changes in behavior provided strong clues. For example, a shift in walking gait or a change in bedtime routine could signal early pregnancy. "Pregnancy results in substantial changes to an individual's behavior," the researchers said. "Hence, this task acts as a clear example of the complementary nature of modeling both types of data." Pregnancy was just one of several health conditions the AI model learned to identify. The researchers also tested the model on other health issues with strong results. It predicted diabetes with 82% accuracy, infection with 76% accuracy and injury with 69% accuracy. These findings suggest that AI-powered wearables may soon do much more than count steps or track sleep. They could help detect serious health changes before symptoms even appear. Even with these promising results, trust remains a major barrier in women's health technology. Privacy concerns are growing, especially when it comes to sensitive data like menstrual cycles or pregnancy. In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission fined the popular app Premom for sharing user data without consent. A recent FTC study confirmed growing skepticism. Women are less likely to trust apps that collect reproductive health information, especially when the companies do not make their data practices clear. That raises an important question. Even if the Apple Watch can detect early signs of pregnancy, would users want it to? Apple continues to build tools for reproductive and maternal health. In 2019, it added menstrual cycle tracking to the Health app. In 2023, it introduced a pregnancy tracking feature for the Apple Watch. The company has not announced any plans to turn the AI findings into a consumer feature. But this research shows where Apple's focus may be headed. With support from public health officials calling for widespread use of wearables, Apple could play a key role in shaping the future of personalized healthcare. More about the Apple Watch and what other health conditions it will help you uncover: This study shows that your Apple Watch may someday detect major health changes before you notice them. It is not a replacement for a doctor, but it could become a powerful early-warning tool. Still, trust and transparency will matter just as much as the technology itself. Would you feel comfortable if your watch told you that you might be pregnant or detect any other major health changes? Let us know by writing us at Sign up for my FREE CyberGuy ReportGet my best tech tips, urgent security alerts and exclusive deals delivered straight to your inbox. Plus, you'll get instant access to my Ultimate Scam Survival Guide — free when you join my Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
