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Tech Billionaire Who Spends $2M A Year To Look Young Is Now Swapping Blood With 17-yr-old Son & 70-yr-old Father
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By Orianna Rosa Royle
With all the money in the world to spend, the rich and famous can afford to go to pretty extreme lengths to remain for- ever youthful.
Gwyneth Paltrow recently revealed
on The Art of Being Well podcast that she fasts until noon and has only chicken broth for lunch—all the while hooked up to an IV vitamin drip for the entire inter- view. Meanwhile, Demi Moore has
enlisted the help of “highly trained med- ical leeches” to suck and “detoxify” her blood, and John Cleese swears by stem cell therapy.
But there’s one CEO taking matters even further.
The tech entrepre- neur Bryan Johnson recently recruited his 17-year-old son, Talmage, and his 70- year-old father, Richard, to join him in “the world’s first multi- generational plasma exchange.”
Last month the trio
headed to Resurgence Wellness, a medical spa in Texas where, according
to Bloomberg, the youngest Johnson got a full liter of his blood removed (for context, the human body has about five liters of blood) and separated into a batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
Next up, Bryan underwent the same process with the addi- tion of having the same quantity of his son’s plasma infused into his veins. Finally, the multimillionaire’s father had some of his own blood drained to make room for Bryan’s good stuff.
The FDA advises against people infus- ing young blood because there’s “no compelling clinical evidence on its effica- cy,” yet Johnson’s medical team approved the proce- dure as a possible treatment for cogni- tive decline.
In traditional medi-
cine, plasma infu- sions are already used to treat a variety of conditions, includ- ing liver disease, burns, and blood dis- orders but not as a means to reverse aging.
This isn’t the first time Bryan Johnson has had young blood pumped into his body to reverse aging.
The American serial entrepreneur previ- ously received blood transfusions from young anonymous donors who, accord- ing to Bloomberg, Johnson personally screened to ensure they had an ideal body mass index, were free of dis- eases, and lived a healthy lifestyle.
It’s all a part of Johnson’s $2 million a year anti-aging rou- tine for his latest data-driven venture, Project Blueprint.
As well as blood transfusions, Johnson follows a strict daily routine that includes monitoring his body fat, heart rate variabil-
ity, blood, stool sam- ples, and the number of erections he has per night.
Every day he also takes two dozen medicines at 5 a.m., consumes 1,977 “vegan calories,” and exercises for an hour before using blue- light-evasive glasses and hitting the hay.
The results? He claims to now have the heart of a 37- year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old, and the lung capacity of an 18-year-old.
While the data is pre- liminary, Johnson plans to continue sharing his methods and lessons so that others can evaluate and benefit from his work.
But the majority of people who don’t have the resources to have a medical facility in their home are more likely wondering how on earth did Johnson get rich enough to afford all these treatments in the first place?
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