Bryan Johnson, a well-known and eccentric tech mogul, has an intense obsession with maintaining a youthful appearance. Recently, he has gone to extreme measures by exchanging blood plasma with both his father and young son.
Johnson has gained worldwide recognition as a biohacker and has developed a reputation for spending millions of dollars annually on various medical procedures in his quest for eternal youth.
In the past, Mr. Johnson has undergone blood transfusions from an anonymous, healthy donor. However, he has now gone a step further by accepting plasma donations from his 17-year-old son, Talmage, and his 70-year-old father, Richard. Johnson expressed his delight, comparing the infusion of exceptionally healthy blood to winning the lottery.
From Daily Mail:
The trio underwent the transfusions at a Dallas clinic in which the senior father and teen son have a liter of their blood removed and converted via a machine into its piece parts— one batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
That collection is then fed into Mr Johnson's veins with the goal of rejuvenating and repairing cellular damages wrough by the aging process by replacing old blood in an old body with new blood from a young donor.
Johnson, the American tech tycoon worth nearly half a billion dollars, has become the de facto posterchild of drasic measures to prevent age-related decline.
Johnson and his doctors claim that in two years he has reduced his overall biological age by more than five years and now has the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old.
Undeniably, this obsession is quite peculiar, bordering on addiction. It's important to recognize that aging is an inherent aspect of nature, and the notion of spending exorbitant sums of money in pursuit of a mythical "fountain of youth" appears utterly absurd.
However, I suppose that if someone possesses an abundance of disposable income, they may feel inclined to indulge in such ventures without financial constraints.
