Prescriptions
The prescription medicines Bryan Johnson listed in January 2026, spanning thyroid replacement, glucose and lipid management, blood pressure, hair and skin treatments. This page reports his regimen; it is not prescribing guidance. Conflicting doses on the source page remain explicitly labelled.
Interventions
Medications
- Acarbose
200 mg twice daily; the same page also says 400 mg daily · twice daily
blunt post-meal glucose
Details & sources
- EmpagliflozinJardiance
10 mg · Daily
longevity intervention and calorie-restriction mimetic in animal experiments
Details & sources
- Candesartan
8 mg · Daily
blood pressure, heart, kidney; 'possibly... brain inflammation'
Details & sources
- Custom topical minoxidil solution
5%, 1 mL · nightly · applied to the scalp each night
hair growth
Details & sources
Sources
Original accounts behind this protocol. Numbers match the references in each intervention.
- 01Bryan Johnson's Protocol ↗Metformin · Acarbose · Jardiance (empagliflozin) · Repatha (evolocumab) · Tadalafil · Oral minoxidil · Armour Thyroid · Levothyroxine · Candesartan · Custom topical minoxidil solution
- 02Bryan Johnson's Evening Routine ↗Oral minoxidil · Tretinoin (topical) · Custom topical minoxidil solution
- 03Bryan Johnson: thyroid treatment and discontinued testosterone ↗Armour Thyroid · Levothyroxine · Testosterone
- 04protocol.bryanjohnson.com · Website ↗General website; a specific source page is not linked.Tretinoin (topical)
Same page as protocol.bryanjohnson.com; the page carries two acarbose doses and two oral-minoxidil doses, both left standing