🧠 90 days of Blueprint learnings

Hi friends,

The 90 days is up - we did it 🎉

It’s hard to believe that our first 90 days of Blueprint is coming to a close, but I couldn’t be prouder of Jesse and myself.

(If you haven’t already watched the video of delivering results to Bryan you can check that out here.)

What do we do now?

As we debate on what to do next, the best next step seems to be to pause and reflect after such an intense adventure.

Here are some of my main takeaways from the past 90 days:

1. Did Blueprint work? Yes, I’d say so. It depends on your definition of “work” - but if we assume work means “get healthier” the results speak for themselves:

   1. Overall Jesse lost 28 lbs of fat tissue, gained 14 lbs of muscle, and reduced his speed of aging by 0.18 or so (1.33 to 1.15) - fantastic results. More importantly Jesse is feeling better than ever and is able to move more easefully for all tasks (getting out of the car, putting on socks, etc). His insulin use has gone down and his life is changing for the better. I’m incredibly proud of his tenacity.

   2. For me, I maintained consistent weight and gained muscle in my core, I also have been more consistent in my sleep than ever in my adult life. My speed of aging stayed the same (0.93 to 0.94) but this doesn’t concern me. So overall I’d say the experiment went well for me and was full of learnings.

2. Why aren’t you concerned that your speed of aging didn’t change? We didn’t mention this in the video, but TruDiagnostic speed of aging tests take a LONG time to to get results, about 4-6 weeks. This made things tricky. In order to get some kind of results for the 90 day challenge finale this meant we took our second test on the 45th day. That’s not a very long time for speed of aging to change (generally 3 to 6 months is recommended). Since I was already fairly healthy at the start of the challenge my results staying consistent over 45 days checks out. And Jesse’s results changing by 0.18 in 45 days is remarkable. Nonetheless, we’ll take another test at the current 90 day mark and followup.

3. Would you recommend doing what you did? Definitely not. I do recommend people experiment with elements of Blueprint (eating more whole foods / removing or minimizing flour, sugar, and processed foods, keeping a consistent bedtime, exercising at least 3 days a week, etc). However, I don’t recommend people go to the extreme that we did. It was an incredibly stressful process to implement so many changes at once. If a friend asked me how they should start I’d say to take baby steps, consider focusing on one thing at a time e.g. if starting at no exercise, go with a buddy to the gym every Tues, try that for a week, then add 1 veggie meal a day, see how that goes, and so on.

Overall, I’m glad we did the experiment for the sake of experimenting and shared the journey with others. But in general I wish for my loved ones that they have a more gentle shift into a Blueprint-like lifestyle. Smaller tweaks tend to lead to sustainable long term change (rather than a 3 month burst, only to go back again).

Are you planning to incorporate a new healthful habit in your life?

If so I’d love to know. It’s the joy of my week to read and respond to your comments / emails.

Hope you have a great week :)

With love,
Sierra

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🌈 Videos this week

I Delivered my Results to Bryan Johnson. The finale episode is here. I deliver my results to Bryan Johnson, meet Kate Tolo at the airport, and go over all the nitty gritty result details. Check out the fun here.

Want to watch another woman do Blueprint? Check out Kate Tolo’s (Bryan’s CMO who did Blueprint for 90 days) video here. It’s an awesome vlog style video where she documents her first 30 days of full on Blueprint. I’m a big fan of Kate!