Biohacker Brian Johnson reveals he’s dating Blueprint

Brian Johnson was fighting Father Time, but Cupid defeated him first.

The anti-aging mogul revealed on Tuesday that he has been quietly dating Kate Tolo, the co-founder of his longevity startup Blueprint, for years.

“Kate and I have almost become one person at this point,” Johnson, 48, gushed in a lengthy post shared on Instagram and X, saying their relationship “fits like a puzzle.”

Johnson first met Tolo, 30, when she joined Johnson’s brain-computer interface company Kernel. He remembered her as “glowing” and said their professional relationship slowly turned romantic over time.

They made their relationship official three years ago, but kept their love story a secret while they figured out whether it was meant to be long-lasting or a brief fling.

After all, dating Johnson isn’t easy. The self-proclaimed “impossible partner” once told Time magazine that there are at least “10 reasons why” [women] Really gonna hate me” — even though he claims he has the penis of a 22-year-old.

At the top of the list is sleep. The biohacker says sleeping less than eight hours a night is an “act of violence”.

Johnson wakes up at 5 a.m. and goes to bed by 8:30 p.m. every day—without exception.

Don’t even think about lying in bed with him. Johnson insisted on sleeping alone.

“Try negotiating bedtimes with others [and] Their sleep hygiene is really difficult,” he told Steven Bartlett on the CEO Diary podcast.

“The cost of a wake-up event is very high, and once you wake up, it’s very difficult to go back to sleep, so it’s very challenging when you have to coordinate with another person,” he explains.

Even if you’ve spent a full eight hours, don’t expect to joke around over your morning coffee.

“I don’t make small talk,” Johnson told Bartlett. “My son and I have an agreement at home not to say, ‘Good morning. How are you?’ or anything like that.”

These simple pleasantries, he says, can derail the four or five hours of “contemplation” he spends every morning.

But don’t picture him lounging around in his robes daydreaming.

Johnson claims he performs more than 100 different rituals every day to optimize his body’s “ideal state.” This included swallowing a staggering 111 pills per day and eating all plant-based foods before noon. Romantic dinner? Not possible when his dinner is served at 11:30 a.m.

Tolo also has to engage in his sometimes outrageous biohacking operations, which cost him at least $2 million a year.

Johnson made headlines in 2021 for giving himself monthly injections of his then-17-year-old son’s blood in hopes of slowing down the aging process. He also injected his own plasma into his 70-year-old father to improve his deteriorating physical and cognitive health.

But he has since stopped using his son Talmadge as his personal “blood boy,” saying he “did not see any benefit.”

This isn’t the first time Talmadge has been in the spotlight for biohackers. Earlier this year, Johnson shared comparative data on father and son’s “nocturnal erection data.”

“His lasted two minutes longer than mine,” Johnson wrote on X, noting that measurements also included number of episodes, erection quality and sleep efficiency. “Teach your children to stand tall, firm and upright.”

At least Tolo knew what she signed up for.

She was involved with Johnson’s anti-aging journey from the beginning, convincing him to share his regimen online and coining the name “Project Blueprint.”

“Most people … thought she was my assistant,” he wrote. “It’s such a loss because people were looking for what she had to offer.”

Johnson called Tolo the “unsung hero” of his biohacking efforts, writing, “Our minds have become so intertwined that life feels naked without her.

However, he admits their relationship has always been relaxed.

“I am a 48-year-old American raised Mormon with three children. She is a 30-year-old Bosnian-Australian American. We need time to heal our worlds,” Johnson wrote. “A lot of times we don’t know if we’re going to succeed.”

Fortunately for the couple, Johnson said they found their rhythm over the past year.

“I trust Kate as much as I trust my mother,” he wrote. “I’ve wanted this my whole life and been waiting impatiently for 25 years. It’s better than I imagined.”

“I love you,” Tolo wrote in the comments on the post, adding, “I’m glad you didn’t give up.”