LEVITY REVIEW: Don't Die - The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

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There is a chasm in Don't Die - The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, and I find myself waiting and hoping that the Netflix documentary will build a bridge over it. But the deep fissure runs straight through the core of the film about Bryan Johnson.

On one side, you have Johnson himself, meticulously surrendering his life choices to what he calls an “algorithm”. His diet, exercise, sleep, and even social connections all revolve around a single principle: if it, to the best of his knowledge, reduces his risk of dying, he does it. If the vast amounts of personal health data he collects suggest otherwise, it’s strictly off-limits.

On the other side are the experts - people who actually understand the biology of aging - appearing as talking heads throughout the documentary: Brian Kennedy, Matt Kaeberlein, Vadim Gladyshev, Steve Horvath, Andrew Steele, to name a few. They’re often edited in as reality checks, inserted whenever Johnson says or does something that might feel extreme to a typical Netflix audience.

Yet here’s the thing: many of these experts - some of whom have said so publicly - also share the vision of a world where aging is defeated and death becomes rare.

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