On June 9, 2026, Bryan Johnson launched Immortals Medicine, a website that prescribes and ships the six medications he personally takes, priced from $13 to $26 a month.[1][2] You answer an online quiz, a telehealth clinician reviews it, and the medication arrives at your door. There is no membership fee, and the platform covers all 50 states.[2]
Four months earlier, Johnson's Immortals brand made headlines for the opposite reason: a $1 million-a-year longevity program with three available spots.[3] The new prescription platform is the other end of that range. Arguably, the most-followed personal longevity experiment in the country now sells its drug regimen at generic-medication prices to anyone who passes a telehealth review.
I don't personally have a lot of thoughts good or bad on the new website, that said I always believe that people should consult with a licensed medical doctor before taking any types of medications. I am also not a doctor.
What Immortals Medicine Sells
Immortals Medicine sells prescription medications for longevity, weight management, skin, hair, menopause, and sexual health through an online quiz and a telehealth visit.[2] Version 1 launched with six medications, and Johnson says more are coming in version 2.[1]
Medication | Price | Platform category | FDA-approved use |
|---|---|---|---|
Oral minoxidil, 1.25 to 2.5 mg | From $13/mo | Regrow Hair | High blood pressure (hair regrowth is off-label at low doses) |
Metformin, 500 mg | From $20/mo | Support Longevity | Type 2 diabetes |
Tadalafil, 5 mg | From $24/mo | Support Longevity | Erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate, also some people cite this as a performance enhancer in physical fitness |
Acarbose, 25 mg | From $25/mo | Metabolic Health | Type 2 diabetes |
Tretinoin, 0.025% | From $25/mo | Renew Skin | Acne (also prescribed for sun-damaged skin) |
Estradiol, 0.010% | From $26/mo | Support Menopause | Menopause symptoms |
Prices and categories are from the Immortals Medicine site at launch.[2]
One distinction matters before anything else. "Support Longevity" is the platform's marketing category, not a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indication. Every drug on this list is FDA-approved for a specific condition, and none of them is approved to extend human lifespan. When Immortals Medicine prescribes metformin to a person without diabetes, that is an off-label use, decided at the discretion of the telehealth provider.[2]
The platform sits inside a larger ecosystem. Immortals, founded by Johnson and Kate Tolo, now spans the Blueprint supplement line, the prescription platform, a biomarker testing service, a free app, and a concierge tier with a waitlist.[4] The medical side is led by Carl Seger, MD, a board-certified physician and the former CEO of Wild Health.[4]
Who Built Immortals
Bryan Johnson originally made his money in payments, not medicine. He founded Braintree in 2007, a company that processed mobile and web payments for e-commerce companies. Braintree acquired Venmo in 2012 for $26.2 million, and PayPal, then part of eBay, acquired the combined company for $800 million in September 2013.[5] Time reported that Johnson personally walked away with more than $300 million.[5]
He spent the next decade funding science. In 2014 he launched OS Fund, a venture firm he backed with $100 million of his own capital, and in 2016 he founded Kernel, a brain-interface company he seeded with another $54 million.[5] In October 2021 he announced Project Blueprint, the anti-aging protocol that made him famous: a team of doctors, constant measurement, and a strict diet, exercise, and sleep regimen, all published openly. Blueprint became a commercial company headquartered in Los Angeles, raised $60 million in October 2024 from investors including Kim Kardashian, and named former Modern Health president Gyre Renwick as CEO in July 2025.[5] A Netflix documentary, Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, profiled Johnson in 2025.[5]
Immortals is the umbrella brand Johnson and Tolo, his Blueprint co-founder, built on top of all of it. It debuted in February 2026 with the $1 million-a-year flagship program, a planned $60,000 supported tier, and a free digital tier.[3] The June 9 prescription launch fills in the bottom of that pricing ladder.[1]
The Evidence Behind "Longevity Prescriptions"
The medications on the platform are not fringe picks. Several have real scientific backing as longevity candidates, with one consistent catch: the strongest lifespan data comes from mice.
Acarbose is the clearest example. In the National Institute on Aging's Interventions Testing Program, acarbose increased median lifespan in male mice by 22 percent, though only 5 percent in females.[6] That is a striking result in animals, and it is also where the evidence currently stops.
Metformin has been used to treat diabetes for more than 60 years, and studies show it can delay aging in animals.[7] The proposed Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial, a six-year study across 14 research institutions that would enroll over 3,000 adults aged 65 to 79, is designed to test whether metformin delays age-related diseases like heart disease, cancer, and dementia in people. As of this writing, TAME is still raising funds to launch.[7] In other words, the definitive human trial for the platform's flagship longevity drug has not started yet.
The rest of the list is more conventional. Tretinoin has decades of dermatology evidence behind it for acne and sun-damaged skin. Estradiol is standard hormone therapy for menopause symptoms. Low-dose oral minoxidil is a widely used off-label option for hair loss. Daily tadalafil is approved for erectile dysfunction and enlarged prostate but also for general physical performance in some cases as well. These are reasonable medications with established uses. They are also available from any physician, which is the point worth sitting with.
What a Quiz Gives You, and What It Cannot
To be fair to the model, direct-to-consumer telehealth does some things well. The prices are transparent. Access is fast. For a healthy 40-year-old who wants tretinoin and has no insurance gymnastics to run, $25 a month with a clinician review is a genuinely convenient option. This is the same playbook Hims & Hers used to build a multi-billion dollar company, and we covered where that model hits its limits when it launched Labs AI.
The gaps show up over time, because these specific drugs are long-term commitments that deserve monitoring:
Metformin can lower vitamin B12 over years of use and needs kidney function checks. The decision to take it without diabetes should weigh your fasting glucose, your hemoglobin A1c, and your family history, not a questionnaire.
Estradiol dosing is individualized. The risk-benefit calculation depends on your age, time since menopause, clotting history, and breast cancer risk, which is a conversation, not a checkout flow.
Tadalafil interacts dangerously with nitrates and matters for anyone with cardiovascular disease.
Acarbose and metformin together affect how you absorb and process carbohydrates, which changes what your bloodwork means.
A telehealth provider reviewing a quiz can screen out the obvious contraindications. What the model does not include is the person who tracks your labs year over year, notices that your B12 dropped 200 points since you started metformin, and adjusts. Johnson himself does not run his protocol off a quiz. He runs it with a dedicated medical team measuring everything, which is the layer the $13-a-month version strips out.
Where a Concierge or DPC Doctor Fits
Every medication on the Immortals list can be prescribed, where clinically appropriate, by a concierge or direct primary care (DPC) physician who also handles the monitoring around it. A DPC membership runs $50 to $200 a month, and concierge care starts around $3,000 a year.[8] That is more than a single Immortals subscription, but it buys the part the platform cannot ship: a physician who orders the baseline labs first, knows your history, and owns the follow-up.
This is the same pattern we wrote about as GLP-1 prices fall and prescribing gets commoditized: when the drug gets cheap and easy to obtain, the scarce thing becomes the doctor who manages it well. It is also the budget version of the question raised by Equinox's $40,000 longevity membership, which bundles testing and coaching but not a prescribing physician relationship.
Longevity-focused physician practices already exist at every price point. In Johnson's home market, concierge doctors across Los Angeles build prevention-first panels, and ultra-premium groups like Private Medical in Santa Monica run family-office-style medicine for patients who want the full measured protocol with a physician attached. A patient who wants metformin, tadalafil, and tretinoin from a doctor who also checks the bloodwork behind them has options today.
If the Immortals launch does one thing for patients, it may be this: it makes longevity medicine feel normal. The drugs were never exotic. The question was always who watches what they do to you.
FAQ
What is Immortals Medicine?
Immortals Medicine is Bryan Johnson's prescription telehealth platform, launched June 9, 2026. It sells six generic medications he personally takes, from $13 to $26 a month, prescribed by US-licensed physicians after an online quiz and telehealth review.[1][2]
Are these medications FDA-approved for longevity?
No. Each drug is FDA-approved for a specific condition, such as type 2 diabetes for metformin and acarbose. Prescribing them for longevity is an off-label use, and no medication is currently FDA-approved to extend human lifespan.
Is there evidence these drugs extend lifespan?
The strongest data is in animals. Acarbose extended median lifespan in male mice by 22 percent in National Institute on Aging testing.[6] The TAME trial, designed to test metformin against age-related disease in over 3,000 older adults, has not yet launched.[7]
Do I still need a primary care doctor if I use a platform like this?
Yes. Medications like metformin and estradiol need baseline labs and ongoing monitoring that a one-time telehealth review does not provide. A concierge or DPC physician can prescribe the same medications where appropriate and manage them over time.
How much does Immortals Medicine cost compared to a concierge doctor?
Immortals Medicine prescriptions run $13 to $26 per month each with no membership fee.[2] DPC memberships run $50 to $200 a month and concierge practices start around $3,000 a year, which includes the physician relationship and monitoring rather than only the medication.[8]
For sake of clarity I am not a doctor, nothing here is medical advice, there may be mistakes in this article always consult a licensed medical doctor before taking any substances.
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