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| How to Be 18 Years Old Again for Only $2 Million a Year |
| 2023-01-30 |
| [Bloomberg] Middle-aged tech centimillionaire Bryan Johnson and his team of 30 doctors say they have a plan to reboot his body. Novak Djokovic, age 35, sometimes hangs out in a pressurized egg to enrich his blood with oxygen and gives pep talks to glasses of water, hoping to purify them with positive thinking before he drinks them. Tom Brady, 45, evangelizes supposedly age-defying supplements, hydration powders and pliability spheres. LeBron James, 38, is said to spend $1.5 million a year on his body to keep Father Time at bay. While most of their contemporaries have retired, all three of these elite athletes remain marvels of fitness. But in the field of modern health science, they’re amateurs compared to Bryan Johnson. Johnson, 45, is an ultrawealthy software entrepreneur who has more than 30 doctors and health experts monitoring his every bodily function. The team, led by 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman, has committed to help reverse the aging process in every one of Johnson’s organs. Zolman and Johnson obsessively read the scientific literature on aging and longevity and use Johnson as a guinea pig for the most promising treatments, tracking the results every way they know how. Getting the program up and running required an investment of several million dollars, including the costs of a medical suite at Johnson’s home in Venice, California. This year, he’s on track to spend at least $2 million on his body. He wants to have the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum of an 18-year-old. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #26 It works. Had a family friend in the 80+ years Was he getting extra blood, or was it specifically from young people, Thruter Gloluger6393? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-30 23:30 |
| #25 20 year old rectum Rectum re-virgining? Heard it all. Shoot me now. |
| Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-01-30 22:11 |
| #24 Or how about those blood transfusions from young blood It works. Had a family friend in the 80+ years that required the occasional top up. He felt and acted much better for a few months until the RBCs died and and the growth factors used up. After a serious fall, the docs said he needed another transfusion to continue but he decided he had lived long enough, declined and passed soon after. |
| Posted by: Thruter Gloluger6393 2023-01-30 22:10 |
| #23 Which is why Herschel wanted to be a warlock. WTH was the stupid party thinking? |
| Posted by: Beavis 2023-01-30 20:28 |
| #22 Oh, I certainly believe there are vampires. They are not what they think they are though. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-30 17:27 |
| #21 Some people do not understand that Anne Rice books are fiction... Anne Rice books are fiction. Ken Hite's Night's Black Agents seems to be reality. Vampire overlords and all. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2023-01-30 17:18 |
| #20 I don’t know why he has a 20 year old rectum listed on his priority list He wants to be a hot date. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-30 15:04 |
| #19 I don’t know why he has a 20 year old rectum listed on his priority list and how many team members and the percentage of his $2M is dedicated to his anal rejuvenation. Aldi has bagged salads of different varieties for around $3 a pop. Get your colon checked once a decade and reallocate the funds towards some lasic. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-01-30 14:55 |
| #18 @#16 - Darren McGavin....haven't thought of him in a few snows. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-01-30 13:53 |
| #17 Who's Anne Rice? /rhet |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-01-30 13:52 |
| #16 Better call out Carl Kolchak |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2023-01-30 13:52 |
| #15 In Antifragile, Nassim Taleb said if he wanted to kill someone, or at least make them die early, he'd give them their own personal physician. To justify his existence, and to satisfy the client, the physician would medical-ize every complaint, major or minor, and sooner or later make dangerous mistakes. |
| Posted by: James 2023-01-30 13:32 |
| #14 Some people do not understand that Anne Rice books are fiction... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-30 10:56 |
| #13 Or how about those blood transfusions from young blood they said the British royal family were getting? lol |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-01-30 10:24 |
| #12 Enriching your blood with extra oxygen lead to early burnout of the body. Think about it, all those extra oxygen would cause your red blood cell to rust! just another scam... |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-01-30 09:54 |
| #11 The live forever crowd is the "rather rule in Hell crowd." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-30 09:51 |
| #10 90% of what these people are doing is relatively inexpensive and available to anyone. Sauna and cold plunge? Local rec center. Exercise? Sure. Good sleep. NMN costs a couple hundred / year. Rapamycin maybe a grand or two. Hyperbaric chamber is about $6k. Stem cells are pricey - about $25k. But if you work one more year you more than pay for it. |
| Posted by: Angstrom 2023-01-30 09:42 |
| #9 As much of it requires tissue from abortions, it's not a good thing. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-01-30 09:36 |
| #8 /\ Proof of vaccination will be required Frank. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-30 09:17 |
| #7 Would the experimental results be translatable to us normal humans? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-01-30 09:04 |
| #6 /\ I’m fine with the super-rich offering themselves to humanity as an experimental pool to prove — or disprove — various hypotheses on aging. Are nominations being accepted? Is there a GoFundMe site ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-30 08:40 |
| #5 I think I'll stick with what that Japanese doctor recommended yesterday. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-01-30 07:43 |
| #4 I’m fine with the super-rich offering themselves to humanity as an experimental pool to prove — or disprove — various hypotheses on aging. It’s like those with fourth stage cancer trying out experimental treatments that might or might not work, only without out the anguish, but with the same high probability of failure... and they are paying for it out of pocket. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-01-30 07:31 |
| #3 Which may also explain the rumors of some Elite and Uber rich are looking into Stem & Fetal Cells injections. Plus, some are Cell Banking their own cells for later regrowth and injection eg. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s Larry Page, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Palantir’s Peter Thiel are just a few of the super-rich who have taken a keen interest in the fast-emerging field of longevity, according to interviews, books and media reports. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-01-30 07:21 |
| #2 While your birth certificate indicates you were born in 1961, your Regenerative Medical Age (RMA) is only 50. Baring any change in your medical condition, you may qualify for 'Needs Based' early Social Security benefits (RMA age 62) in 2035. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-01-30 06:55 |
| #1 And after they drain his accounts, he'll be found in a hotel room, clutching a mason jar of pee and mumbling, "My precious..." |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-01-30 03:07 |