If you haven’t seen the latest antics of Bryan Johnson, you must have been living under a rock.

Whether it’s injecting his son’s plasma, attempting to de-age his penis, or casually sharing his son’s erection data on social media (eek!), the biohacker has built a reputation for pushing boundaries in his quest to reverse ageing.

Now, Johnson has recently drawn a comparison between India’s air pollution crisis and America’s obesity epidemic.

Johnson was in India for an interview on the WTF podcast with Nikhil Kamath, but the conversation was cut short after the biohacker started experiencing symptoms.

“The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I’d brought with me ineffective,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure.”

After three days in the country, Johnson said the pollution had already caused his skin to ‘break out in rash’ and ‘burn’ his eyes and throat.

But, the most shocking part of his trip, Johnson said, was how ‘normalised’ air pollution was in India, writing: “No one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known.”

Finding the whole situation ‘confusing,’ the biohacker noticed that ‘no one wore a mask’ – even babies and small children exposed to the air from birth.

He argued: “The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers.”

Given its well-researched public health risks, the founder of Blueprint questioned why India’s leaders have not declared air pollution a national crisis.

But when Johnson returned to the US, he noticed a similar picture painted in his home country.

Bryan Johnson is famous for his outlandish biohacking practices (bryanjohnson_ / Instagram)

“I saw obesity everywhere,” the tech mogul wrote. “42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it.”

In some ways, ‘obesity is worse than air pollution’ and it’s ‘surprising’ American leaders haven’t declared a national emergency for it.

This could either stem from relaxed government regulations or failures in the system. But as Johnson pointed out, the issues have become so normalised that people barely see them as ‘issues’ anymore.

Elsewhere, the biohacker has already taken a jab at Elon Musk on social media by offering to send the Tesla CEO his Blueprint Stack to ‘properly nourish’ him as he continues to ‘cut the federal fat’.

Surprisingly, we’ve yet to see the response of the head of DOGE’s response.

Biohacker Bryan Johnson has outlined the major ‘national emergency’ in America that’s affecting the health of many citizens, comparing it negatively to another health crisis across the world.

If there’s anyone that’s obsessed with their own health it’s Bryan Johnson, who has employed experimental biohacking measures through his $2,000,000 per year ‘Project Blueprint’ in order to extend his life span.

These involve complete physical transformations, strict diet and lifestyle choices, and health monitoring that extends all the way down to ‘erection data’, as he insists that ‘de-aging your penis’ is one of the key steps in avoiding premature death.

So, it’s only natural that someone this concerned and aware of their own health and body science would by hyperconscious of certain factors affecting others that have perhaps been overlooked by national government bodies.

This became clear in a two-part extensive post on social media platform X, as Johnson outlines the realizations he had during a trip to and upon his return from India.

Johnson was invited on a podcast during his trip, and he explained: “The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I’d brought with me ineffective.

Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure.”

This is understandably a problem for Johnson, as he’s trying to keep his body as ‘clean’ as possible and unavoidable air pollution can cause major problems in that department.

He goes on to outline that the air pollution had “made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn,” yet it had been so normalized in India that “no one even notices anymore.”

This, in Johnson’s eyes, is worthy of a ‘national emergency’ in India, arguing that it’s “really bad for the entire country” that it stays this way – but what he shortly realized was that this so-called emergency still paled in comparison to another ‘health crisis’ in America.

“When I returned to the U.S.,” Johnson illustrated, “my eyes were fresh to see what is so normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.5% of Americans are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it.

In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term. Why wouldn’t American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.”

This is certainly an interesting way to frame his concerns about obesity in America, but it’s clear that it’s something he’s worried about – even if it doesn’t directly affect him like poor air pollution did.

Johnson has declared obesity a ‘national emergency’ in America that he only realized upon his return to the country from India (Instagram/@bryanjohnson_)

Johnson might be getting the national emergency treatment that he’s asking for soon though, as Elon Musk – a man with significant political influence in the US right now – has previously outlined similar concerns.

“Nothing would do more to improve the health, lifespan, and quality of life for Americans than making GLP inhibitors super low cost to the public,” argued Musk in a post on X in response to United Healthcare assassin Luigi Mangione’s manifesto.

This, in combination with prospective health secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s mission to ‘make America healthy again’ indicate that obesity is a key target for the Trump administration, though the solution might prove to be controversial if GLP inhibitors are to be used.

Outside of Johnson’s concluding point, however, many have highlighted the contradictory nature of his trip to India in the first place:

“I don’t get it though, you are trying to fine tune and optimize the smallest details of what your body consumes so you can live longer, you do all the research before doing anything that can hurt your health… Yet, you travelled to India, knowing the AQI. Why?”

Johnson himself didn’t have a response for this, and some have pointed out the need to create awareness for the issue at hand, but others remain confused at Johnson’s often strange and self-inflicting methods.