Dec 2, 2025 6:36 PM

Bryan Johnson Has Discovered Shrooms, and He Really Wants You to Know It

The longevity entrepreneur’s five-and-a-half-hour livestreamed trip is antithetical to the introspective nature of the drug. But the stunt could reduce stigma around psychedelics.

Photograph: Kyle Grillot; Getty Images

“Come watch me trip balls,” declared Bryan Johnson, the “Don’t Die” longevity entrepreneur, on X a couple of days before he livestreamed himself consuming a high dose of psychedelic mushrooms at a psilocybin center in Oregon on Sunday.

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