Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson invests millions each year to try to slow his biological aging. He believes that swapping his blood with that of younger individuals will help ward off disease and slow degradation. For this, he consumes numerous pills daily while going through numerous tests each month.
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Tech billionaire Bryan Johnson spends $2 Million each year to maintain good health and reverse his “biological age.” To do this, 30 doctors monitor his body and study scientific literature as well as use him as a guinea pig for promising research projects.
His daily regimen entails taking 100 pills daily, wearing a cap that shines red light into his brain, consuming blood plasma and engaging in vigorous physical exercise. Furthermore, he visits an off-shore Caribbean island for injectable gene therapy treatment.
Delphine Larrieu, for instance, is researching how naked mole-rat brains keep them young by studying their DNA. She hopes to use this research to learn more about aging processes and one day use this knowledge to extend human lifespan – something already proven thanks to Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka’s groundbreaking work; yet people continue trying other strategies in an attempt to slow their biological clocks in the meantime.
Blood swap
Bryan Johnson, 45, a technology entrepreneur spending over $2 Million each year to reverse his own aging process by using supplements and diet to restore his body back to the condition it was in when he was 18 (ie, his brain, heart, lungs, liver kidneys tendons muscles skin eyes bladder penis back then). To accomplish this feat he follows an exhaustive program with various supplements as well as low calorie vegan food consumption plans; most recently his latest trick involved exchanging his blood with his teenage son – something no doctor could achieve in this lifetime.
At the start of April, tech billionaire Richard Branson visited a wellness clinic in Texas with his 17-year-old son Talmage and 70-year-old father Richard to have their blood plasma exchanged. This procedure has been done before with anonymous donors whose health data had been verified; each treatment costs $5,500 with donors receiving $100 gift cards as compensation.
His initiative, known as Project Blueprint, involves various antiaging strategies including using MRIs, ultrasounds and other testing equipment on himself while also keeping meticulous track of his teeth-brushing regimen and sleep schedule.
He claims this will eventually result in the reversal of his biological age, though experts remain skeptic as they believe this will likely only slow down aging rather than reverse it.
Infusing older people with younger blood is highly controversial and could potentially have adverse side effects. While not the first time this method has been tried by a rich person, this might be its most extreme application to date. Parabiosis has proven its success with rodents but results remain unknown when applied to humans. Some startups are now exploring taking this concept one step further by researching molecular changes that might help fight the signs of aging; but this won’t likely become available anytime soon.