A wealthy entrepreneur who has spent millions of dollars trying to reverse his biological age is dabbling in some unique methods.
Bryan Johnson is a software developer from Venice, California, who hit the jackpot in his 30s when he sold his incredibly successful payment processing company, Braintree Payment Solutions, to eBay for an eye-watering $800 million, per the New York Post.
Clearly, Johnson is using that money as part of his retirement plan - spending upwards of $2 million per year to get an 18-year-old's body -- despite being 45 years old.
I mean, what better way to spend retirement than trying to halt the effects of aging?
Johnson has an all-star team of over 30 doctors and health experts, who monitor him daily to check his bodily functions, all in the hope of restoring his organs to how they were when he was 18 years old.
During an interview with Bloomberg News, Johnson revealed that his lifestyle has given him the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old, and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old. He achieves this by maintaining a strict routine that sees him consume 1,977 calories a day under a vegan diet, one hour of exercise per day, high-intensity exercise three times a week, and ensuring he is in bed at the same time each night.
Now, he's testing out a trigenerational blood transfusion, recruiting his 17-year-old son, Talmage, and his 70-year-old father, Richard.
Indy100 detailed that the family traveled to a clinic in Dallas, where Talmage and Richard gave a liter of their blood for it to be converted into a batch of plasma. Bryan then donated a litre of his blood to Richard, and documented the whole thing in a YouTube video.
It wasn't the first time Johnson had made the effort to get young blood transfusions though, during these prior visits, he received the blood of an anonymous donor whose profile he'd painstakingly selected based on body mass index, blood type, diet, and overall health record.
As for 'young blood' transfusions, Insider reported that some studies in rodents have suggested older mice that share blood and organs with their younger counterparts may experience a reverse-aging effect, but these studies have been controversial and the practice is not FDA-approved. In fact, there's so far no evidence to suggest that such an exchange would work in humans, and the outlet did explain that the practice could have dangerous side effects, such as a strong immune reaction.
Johnson himself is well aware of how hellish his blueprint for youth sounds. "What I do may sound extreme, but I'm trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable," he told Bloomberg.
