The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs.

If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

He has been interviewed by most mainstream news outlets where he has documented his extreme and bizarre quest for immortality. From a story in The Guardian:

“He rises at 4.30am, eats all his meals before 11am, and goes to bed – alone – at 8.30pm, without exception. He ingests more than 100 supplement pills daily and bathes his body in LED light. Two of the three meals he eats every day are exactly the same: boiled broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms and garlic, nuts and seeds. He takes 54 pills in the morning, and the rest in between skin treatments and red-light therapy. He doesn’t drink alcohol, and doesn’t go out in the evening. He experimented with injecting himself with blood plasma from his 18-year-old son Talmage.”

Lol, and indeed, lmao

38 points

This is the vampire freak who steals his sons blood. Fuck these literal ghouls

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What… they’re not beating down the thymus gland allegations that easily, aren’t they?

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14 points

Hilariously it later turned out that you could get the same result just by running the blood through a haemodialysis machine.

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Taking someone else’s blood or glands?

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Literal vampire capitalism.

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8 points

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO (COVID)

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22 points

owned

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No kidding, and he’s probably overdoing it on some of the vitamins. Why doesn’t he eat a more varied diet, it’d be so much cheaper and simpler. Most 100+ year olds I knew got to enjoy salsa.

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Kylo Ren More dot jpg

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Most 100+ year olds I knew got to enjoy salsa.

to be fair those people aren’t immortal either

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17 points

You know multiple people who are 100+? They gotta have some crazy stories I bet.

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I knew 3, they’re all dead now. One was a professor of mine (103), the other two were friends of my grandparents (101 and a 104). The later 2 had mostly great depression horror stories.

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Yeah… wtf, why can’t you enjoy life while doing this?

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13 points

Guy has got to have some kind of mental illness. I mean what’s the point here, honestly? Looking back at a 120 years of increasingly esoteric health rituals on the worlds most rigid schedule?

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I hate how this guy and other guys like him have become the face of longevity science. Because in principle, I see nothing long with trying to extend and/or regain youth. Getting older sucks, and not just for the majority of hexbear that are aging milennials, but think of your parents and grandparents, suffering from things just because of advanced age. I see nothing wrong with extending your lifespan in a healthy way. Imagine living long enough to see and experience many beautiful things with enough energy to enjoy it. In theory it shouldn’t be too hard, just tweak things here and there to make your body think it’s 21 again or something like that I dunno.

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