Billionaire Bryan Johnson has spent more than $2 million in an attempt to “reduce his age.”
The 45-year-old hired a team of medical professionals to help him, according to Bloomberg, “have the brain, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, the tendons, the teeth, the skin, the hair, the bladder , the penis and rectum of an 18-year-old boy.”
So far, Johnson’s team has focused on the unsurprising: developing a regimen of diet and exercise. If he eats and drinks well and exercises regularly, he will improve his overall fitness, probably more so when he has spent large sums of money on equipment to help maintain it.
Johnson follows a 1,977-calorie vegan diet and even follows a sleep schedule. He also takes a number of medications and supplements.
Meanwhile, it monitors everything from your gut and body fat to your nocturnal boners, Popular Mechanic reported. Adjustments to your regimen and medication are made after viewing the data.
So far, Johnson claims to have seen good results, improving measures such as his blood pressure and lung capacity.
“My new effort, Project Blueprint, aims to measure the 70+ organs in my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each,” he writes on his website.
“We have measured more than 15 organs and I have obtained 507 age reversal points. My chronological age is 44, the measured biological age is 36,” she adds.
He claims that his GrimAge, a metric based on biomarkers in his DNA, which has been shown to be a good predictor of morbidity, is 36.
While it’s nice that he’s getting some returns on his $2 million, nothing really out of the ordinary so far.
We know that diet, exercise and aging have been linked for a long time, so it’s no surprise that living healthily made Johnson fitter and the equivalent of a younger man. So far, it looks like he paid for a gym routine and diet, instead of an 18-year-old’s brain, heart, lungs, penis, and rectum.
According to the team’s regenerative medicine doctor, they may be looking into gene therapies, though details were not given.
Gene therapies have shown promise in reversing the signs of aging in mice, and some scientists are skeptical that similar therapies could one day be applied to humans.
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