Summary
Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech multimillionaire focused on anti-aging, stopped using rapamycin—a supplement he took for five years—after research suggested it might accelerate aging.
Johnson cited side effects like skin infections and glucose issues, as well as findings from a recent study showing rapamycin could worsen epigenetic aging.
Known for extreme anti-aging experiments, Johnson also created the health startup Blueprint, which markets pricey supplements.
His controversial methods, including teenage blood transfusions and genital shock treatments, have raised skepticism about their effectiveness and safety.
Is this the trickle down economics everyone is talking about? shall we again start selling uranium, platinum etc beverages to the rich?
He has a team for this?
“Despite the immense potential from pre-clinical trials, my team and I came to the conclusion…"
Forget trickle down economics, this is insane just bring the guillotines.
This is one of the biggest wastes of time I could imagine.
I see the proud tradition of drinking mercury concoctions is alive and well. I mean, not well, but…
This guy looks like he’s 60 cosplaying as a 20 year old
It would be hilarious if the societal collapse caused by wealth inequality resulted in him getting murdered. I would laugh and laugh.
To think that a societal collapse would stop a billionaire from hiring armed guards is absurd. By the time that guy is murdered, you’ll be so long dead.
It would be hilarious if the accelerated aging from the supplement undid all the progress he made from all the other stuff lol.
You can’t cheat life. We must all age…
He seems to actually believe there is a way to live forever. And he’s spending millions per year to get there. He said he wants to show the world how to stop ageing. When asked how everybody should be able to spend as much resources as he does, he said society has to figure that out. Besides the fact that cost-intense trestments will only benefit the wealthy there wasn’t one word about overall resource management, when people will die much later, but babies are born continuously. And the sentence about society has to figure it out really made me angry. Society already figured out billionairs are an issue and often enough the cause for many poor people suffering. But this doesn’t change anything, cause the rich make the rules.
This dude is just going to spend a bunch of money on shit that will eventually kill him. What a waste.
What an efficient allocation of capital!
That’s what we all do every day, this guy just has more to spend
Nah some of the shit we buy sustains us, and some of the killer shit we buy at least provides joy. This guy is just a miserable, wasteful asshole.
“genital shock treatments”
Ok… how did someone sell that as an anti-aging treatment?
I don’t usually like salespeople, but this one I like a lot.
The salesman: “anti-what?”
The passing of time must be stored in the balls.
Had to check this wasn’t nottheonion
Watched the documentary with a friend; we were trying to guess his age. We agreed on “decent looking for 55”. He’s 47 lol.
People who are obsessed with some physical quality about themselves always make whatever the issue is, like 1000% worse than if they just left it alone and lived normally.
His face looks old enough to make his hair look unnatural.
It looks like a wig.
I bet I live longer than him, and on a shoestring budget
The guy looks like one of those Kraftwerk robots.
I just watched this movie again today, wasn’t expecting a meme of it so quickly!
I watched his video describing a day in his life, sleep at 8pm and wake up at 5am, then take 50 pills, his whole day revolved around preparing for sleep, which he said was the most important thing, so I guess he’s right about that. But just thinking a tiny change in his life, even travelling, will upset this routine, then what, the stress from that routine is probably aging him the most.
That’s the thing, he might live a bit longer but at what cost? I would much rather enjoy my life than by a slave to a miserable routine dedicated to promoting longevity that will potentially buy me an extra decade. Like I can just eat a somewhat reasonable diet, exercise, sleep okay and with decent genetics based on my parents and grandparents I will probably make it to at least mid to late 80s, maybe longer if medicine advances. If I had genetics that suggested a strong likelihood that I would die in my 60s I would maybe be more interested
With this guys routine I could maybe push that to 100ish? I would certainly love to extend my life but not at the cost of it consuming my life. I assume he’s banking on getting to the theoretical max though, which is probably closer to 120ish, and that is substantial but then it’s like a few decades of extremely decreased mobility and mental acuity? Eh
And of course this all disregards the potential that you get cancer, murdered, car accident, etc.
I truly believe he loves doing this so no cost to him as far as mental health/stress goes. Sounds like you are doing most things right so that pretty much covers the 80/20 rule. Johnson is trying to live indefinitely without losing mobility or mental faculties. It’s great that we have someone testing things out and adjusting when things don’t work.
