Wednesday, May 8

Bryan Johnson: Who spends millions to reverse ageing

A millionaire has allegedly reversed the clock by 31 years by injecting his son’s blood into himself.

Bryan Johnson, a tech millionaire, has injected himself with his son’s plasma so that he can have the body of an 18-year-old and stop the aging process.

Before making news again, Johnson revealed that he was investing $2 million (£1.6 million) every year in a rigorous program to slow the progression of his biological age.

Another of his controversial attempts to look younger is the plasma injection he had from his son, as reported by The Times. He was apparently motivated to do this by a study showing that older rodents benefited from sharing a circulatory system with younger mice.
Johnson claims he will soon reveal the outcomes of his own plasma therapy, despite the lack of data on its effects in humans.

Who is Bryan Johnson, and why does he want to turn back the hands of time?

Who is Bryan Johnson? 

45-year-old Bryan Johnson is a tech entrepreneur from Utah who wants to stop getting older.

Johnson was brought up in the Mormon faith and served as a missionary.

He became “partly estranged” from his three children after he quit the religion, as his 17-year-old son Talmage told The Times. Both the father and son have relocated to California.

He became wealthy after selling a technology company to eBay and has invested his fortune on health technology initiatives including Project Blueprint, his plan to reverse the effects of aging.

Technological endeavors

In 2013, he sold his payment processing startup, Braintree, to eBay for $800 million (£646 million) and set out on his mission. The mobile payment service Venmo was purchased by Braintree the year prior.

With his own $55 million (£44 million) in 2016, he started Kernel. The gear that Kernel creates is used to monitor neural activity.

According to The Week, Johnson intends to use the helmets to aid in the research of brain aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and strokes, among other maladies, and to develop psychedelic-based remedies for mental health.

Reverse Aging

The multimillionaire went on to reveal Project Blueprint for 2021, the goal of which will be to slow the aging of his internal organs. His chronological age was 44 at the time, but he said he was only 36 on the biological side.

According to reports, Johnson has delayed the rate of aging by the equivalent of 31 years after following his Blueprint method for two years, and is currently aging at a slower rate than the typical 10-year-old. He has “perfect” liver fat and “ideal” levels of muscular mass throughout the rest of his body.

But getting younger isn’t a simple task, and it’s not cheap either.

Johnson consumes less than 2,000 calories per day on a vegan diet and fasts for 16-18 hours per day. He also takes more than two dozen supplements per day, including a large dose upon waking and another large dose with dinner.

Costing Johnson over $2 million (£1.6 million) per year, Johnson’s rigorous regimen includes hundreds of measures each year (routine measurements include body mass index, blood glucose, physical fitness, MRIs, and ultrasounds).

While this may sound like a daunting and time-consuming task to the average person, Johnson has stated that he finds “tremendous pleasure” in his work.

When people find out about this, their first assumption is that Johnson must be miserable, as he explained to British GQ.

“It’s so hard to believe that this could be the thing I enjoy doing the most.”

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