A billionaire is defined as someone with a net worth exceeding one billion dollars, euros, or pounds and who achieved that wealth through hard work alone rather than inheriting their fortune. Almost all self-made billionaires did not inherit their wealth but earned it through hard work alone.
Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, 45 years old and looking to turn 18 again. To do this, he’s on an intensive program with more than 30 doctors monitoring every aspect of his body.
He’s spending $2 million a year
Bryan Johnson is a 45-year-old tech entrepreneur who has spent millions to reverse his aging. This involves following a strict daily regimen and eating within an acceptable window window as well as dedicating hours of focused thinking time. Johnson works closely with a team of doctors and health experts in monitoring all aspects of his body in his effort. Johnson wants his lung capacity and physical endurance of an 18 year old.
A billionaire is spending $2 million each year to try to reduce his biological age, taking novel steps such as injecting himself with plasma from his 17-year-old son and taking numerous supplements and medical tests regularly, all in the name of improving health and lowering Alzheimer’s risk and other age-related conditions.
Even with his immense wealth, Johnson has failed to achieve the youthfulness he desired. His quest for eternal youth has caused it to be more difficult to maintain healthy relationships as well as find someone suitable to accommodate his rigorous lifestyle.
Although most individuals cannot afford to live forever, wealthy individuals are increasingly investing their money in technologies that could extend human lifespans. Billionaires such as Jeff Bezos have donated large sums of money to companies seeking to reprogram cells to reverse aging while other billionaires donate generously to organizations dedicated to curing or preventing diseases associated with aging.
Tech billionaires tend to be competitive people, which is evident in their attempts at maintaining youthfulness. Gwyneth Paltrow reportedly consumes only chicken broth for lunch and fasts until noon; Demi Moore has even employed leeches in order to drain her blood away.
Bryan Johnson stands out among longevity-hunting billionaires by being open about his efforts and not keeping any details hidden from view. He even created a website which acts like a fitness tracker-meets-personal-diary where he documents every step in his journey to longevity. It even features a leaderboard so other tech billionaires can compete to see who can reduce biological age the fastest.
He’s injected with his 17-year-old son’s plasma
One billionaire tech tycoon is spending $2 Million each year to recreate his body as that of an 18-year-old. Waking at 5am each morning and taking two dozen supplements daily. Eating pureed vegetables as part of his daily diet. Wearing red-light caps which stimulate hair growth. He even underwent young-blood exchange, an anti-ageing procedure in which plasma from his son was passed into his veins for use during anti-ageing treatments.
Bryan Johnson, who recently sold Braintree Venmo for an unprecedented $800 million, has taken this quest to extreme levels. He consumes 70 pounds of vegetables per month, regularly measures his blood, tracks everything from sit-ups he does at night to the number of erections experienced each night – everything except sleep! However, Bryan’s latest endeavor stands out – undergoing the world’s first multi-generational plasma exchange, an innovative process in which blood is donated or received between generations.
Young-blood exchange is part of the growing “biohacking” trend, which seeks to utilize plasma and other biomarkers as ways of slowing aging. Although FDA cautioned against it, young blood exchange remains popular in anti-ageing circles.
Johnson went to a wellness clinic near Dallas with his son and 70-year-old father to have one liter of blood extracted, separated into its component parts and processed for plasma analysis – the yellowish liquid which transports hormones and nutrients throughout your body – often used to treat autoimmune diseases, clotting disorders or immune deficiencies.
Johnson and his son then exchanged plasma, with each taking one-liter from each of them to consume. Once consumed, both underwent blood tests to check biomarker levels; results revealed Johnson was biologically aged 36 compared to 40 in chronological age.
Though still early days, this approach could be promising. The goal of an entrepreneur’s approach isn’t just to extend their lives further but also reverse effects of aging and disease – in hope of developing treatments for dementia and other common conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Juno Therapeutics and GRAIL both take similar approaches – creating senotherapeutic drugs which could rejuvenate human bodies at a cellular level.
He’s eating 70 pounds of vegetables a month
Billionaires of the world are no slackers when it comes to competing in life. From launching space shuttles to buying the largest yachts, they constantly push boundaries, seeking new challenges and engaging in games of one-upmanship that would give most of us headaches. Yet these mega-rich people don’t just use their fortune for extravagant pursuits – Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett both make philanthropy a top priority and pledged to give away half their fortunes before death.
Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson has made headlines as a contender in the Rejuvenation Olympics, an online leaderboard which ranks players according to their biological age – that is, how long someone has lived since birth. At 46 years old, Johnson leads all his competitors, such as one 23-year-old following Blueprint Diet and Exercise routine to reduce biological age.
Johnson consumes 70 pounds of vegetables every month and takes 61 supplements daily – an undertaking which necessitates him waking up at 4:30 a.m. and going to bed by 8:30 p.m. In addition, Johnson wears a light mask while sleeping, wears trackers to monitor his performance during the night and receives blood transfusions as part of his regimen.
Johnson claims his anti-aging regimen will cost $2 Million this year; but, according to him, the investment may extend his life while making organs healthier and younger-looking.
Braintree was acquired by Paypal for $800 million in 2011. Johnson includes Talmage, 17, in his regimen to test some of Blueprint’s anti-age techniques such as donating blood plasma in order to slow his biological age down.
Rejuvenation Olympics has attracted much hype and media coverage due to their growing popularity; however, its growth raises several serious concerns, including many top competitors lacking scientific backing and providing false hope that you can turn back time on aging and live longer.
He’s taking dozens of supplements
Bryan Johnson is spending $2 Million each year to reverse the effects of time. To do so, he claims he consumes 111 pills each day in an attempt to return his body to that of a 45-year-old. To track his progress he uses various health monitoring devices that measure his blood sugar, fat percentage, and heart rate variability.
Johnson maintains his fitness regime through regular physical activities as well as eating low-cal vegan meals and brushing his teeth using special toothpaste and eucalyptus oil rinse. He takes daily vitamins and minerals supplements; and has even reduced his risk of cancer by cutting gluten and dairy out of his diet; further, using his wealth he’s now investing in anti-aging supplements to keep looking younger.
Johnson has already undergone a plasma transfusion from his 17-year-old son in order to decrease his biological age, as well as taking numerous supplements in an effort to remain healthy and youthful. While this approach has attracted much media coverage, experts remain unconvinced it will work.
Tech billionaires such as Bryan Johnson are obsessed with prolonging their own lives, and they’re not the only ones. Other wealthy people – such as golfer Tiger Woods and tennis player Novak Djokovic – also attempt to control the aging process, employing supplements, diet plans and gadgets in an attempt to stave off Father Time.
These men are much savvier than you might realize and are confident that their hard work and discipline will eventually bear fruit. But to live longer successfully you need more than money; dedication to keeping going when others might give up is also necessary.
Tech billionaires’ arrogant belief that they’re smarter than most is perhaps arrogance itself; but we must remember that life span is unpredictable and nobody truly knows how long their bodies can last.