The youth race has never been so popular and a wealthy 45-year-old CEO is willing to spend millions to look 18.
Bryan Johnson from Venice, California wants to be biologically young again. He is about to spend more than 2 million dollars to achieve his dream.
The American will undergo several medical procedures and examinations. Electromagnetic pulses will stimulate his pelvic floor muscles and his nocturnal erections will be measured.
Bryan Johnson also gets regular MRIs and has his body fat and heart rate variability measured. Samples of his blood and stool are also analyzed.
Johnson meets with a team of 30 doctors for regular, and sometimes invasive, testing under the project they’ve dubbed Blueprint, according to Bloomberg.
The doctor in charge of the project, Oliver Zolman, is a specialist in regenerative medicine. He is dedicated “to helping reverse the aging process in each of Johnson’s organs.” Zolman charges up to $1,000 an hour for patients interested in extensive testing like the one Johnson is undergoing.
According to initial data from Blueprint doctors, Johnson has the heart of a 37-year-old man, the skin of a 28-year-old man and the lung capacity of an 18-year-old man. His overall biological age is at least five years younger, at 40 years old.
“We didn’t get great results. We got small results, reasonable results. It was to be expected,” Oliver Zolman told Bloomberg.
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Johnson, who has a medical center of sorts in his home, sticks to a dietary ritual of 24 supplements and other medications at 5 a.m. every morning. He consumes 1977 “vegan calories a day”, exercises for an hour with glasses to block blue light.
“It may seem extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable,” Bryan Johnson told Bloomberg.
Since starting to see results, the 45-year-old has been chasing his dream, despite criticism that it’s all going too far.
A Bloomberg reporter who met him at his home wrote. “He could have been taken for a big, puffy porcelain doll.” Johnson reportedly recently had a fat injection in his face, which he says will help him accumulate more youthful cells, but he reportedly had an allergic reaction.
Johnson has made it clear whether it’s because of his dream of staying fit and young, outliving his own generation, or exploring the untapped potential of emerging longevity technology, he won’t stop in his quest anytime soon. .
“The whole field of longevity is undergoing a drastic transformation,” George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, told Bloomberg.
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