This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** Millionaire tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson wants to live forever. But after spending $2 million a year “future-proofing” his body, the 48-year-old has finally tapped into an actual reason for living.  “Guys … I have a girlfriend,” Johnson posted to X.  In 2025, he announced he had been dating his Blueprint health protocol co-founder, 30-year-old Kate Tolo, for three years. But it wasn’t until this month that he flew to Australia to meet Kate’s parents for the first time.  “International travel causes aging,” he noted from the plane. “But I really love her so it’s worth the cost.” Behind every man attempting to live forever, there’s a strong woman organizing his 54 daily supplements, plugging in his red light therapy laser helmet, and holding his stuff during his therapeutic plasma exchange appointments. But a temporary deviation from his 1,977 vegan calories per day allowed him a glimpse at an existence beyond vitalitycore. “I ate everything [Kate’s mother] prepared, including meat, bread, and pasta, and embraced the discomfort of being an introvert in a week-long marathon social interaction,” Johnson shared. “It was laughter and teasing all around … It feels nice to be part of the family.” Johnson also posted a photo of himself cowering under a UV umbrella on a sunny day as Kate’s dad cracked macadamia nuts from their tree, and he lamented the “spike in food noise” while traveling thanks to off-kilter hormones from jet lag. But while the painfully on-brand longevity enthusiast routinely takes incoming fire from haters in the comments, many related to Johnson’s desire just to be accepted by Kate’s family. “A pale immortal trading their immortality for the love of a human is actually a very important trope to me,” an X user wrote. Someone else gleefully shared, “Lol why does this man who I loathed have me screaming and kicking my feet?” “Some things are worth dying for,” commented another.  It wasn’t a total surprise that Kate’s Bosnian-born parents were slow to warm up to her mogul boyfriend. Just a month before the trip, Johnson wrote about Kate’s “top 1%” vaginal microbiome swab test with a not-safe-for-work announcement about the couple’s recent activities. Mom and Dad’s dream. Considering that he’s said “I really want to have multiple lifetimes,” it’s putting it extraordinarily lightly to say Johnson sets a high bar. Since selling his company Braintree Venmo to PayPal for $800 million, the 48-year-old has been raking it in, acting as his own guinea pig to shill gateway goods for his branded longevity protocol. Apparently, all it takes is $40 “Snake Oil” extra virgin olive oil, $60 facial serum, and a $40 blueberry nut mix and you’ll be on your way toward sitting in front of a sunlamp every morning stimulating your “body clock” for your health. I watched Johnson’s 2025 Netflix documentary, “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever,” without blinking. My basic Amazon omega-3-6-9, magnesium, and creatine routine felt like Flintstones Vitamins next to Johnson’s aspirational regimen. Can anyone keep up with this guy? We all have our types. But I could never imagine even being distant roommates with someone so focused on manicuring his body hair like a mint-condition Ken doll. Earlier in his life, Johnson was married for 13 years to a woman with whom he shares his son, Talmage Johnson. But by age 44, Johnson says he was beginning to come to terms with living out the rest of his lifetimes (yes, plural) solo.  Then he met Kate, who witnessed the unvarnished ins and outs of life with BJo (she may have even styled the French braid he wears to keep his mane out of his rejuvenated eyes) and said, Sign me up for more of this. They say there’s a pot for every kettle.  On some level, we’re probably all just looking for someone whose weirdness is compatible with our own. Luckily for humanity, most of us meet our match. Even for fans of ultra life-maxxing, the love quotient has a real impact on longevity. Research proves that those of us with close relationships experience a 50% greater overall rate of survival than those with “meh” personal connections, with one study suggesting that we should all “take social relationships as seriously as other risk factors that affect mortality” such as smoking, alcohol, and inactivity.  On the flip side, the devastating surge in loneliness and social isolation has been shown to lead to earlier death from all causes.   If you’ve got the money, you can pay for $25,000 gene therapy at a specialized clinic in Honduras as Bryan Johnson did. But while the procedure may have helped him maintain muscle mass and quell a little of his alleged inflammation, he can’t spoon with his own six-pack abs at night under the covers.  According to an 80-year-long study (the rough equivalent of two of Bryan Johnson’s current lives), happy, fulfilling relationships — not genes, IQ, or social class — might be the greatest predictors of longevity. “Playing the longest game ever with Bryan Johnson: Don’t Die …” wrote Kate, summing up their serendipitous meeting of the minds when she emailed him as a fan of his work. Even though she originally wanted to get into fashion, their life’s passions aligned. “Kate was luminescent … butterflies fluttered in my stomach,” Johnson wrote of first falling for his co-founder. “It wasn’t how she looked but how her mind worked: original, eccentric, entirely her own. She was art.” “Life sinks or sails based upon the quality of our most intimate relationships,” he said. Sounds like a well-matched pair doing a little love-gevity research as they sail into the sunset.