Billionaire tech guru Bryan Johnson SCRAPS £100k-a-month anti-ageing blood swapping treatment as ‘it doesn’t work’
BILLIONAIRE tech guru Bryan Johnson spent thousands injecting himself with the blood of his teenage son to reverse his age.
But the 45-year-old American tycoon revealed he’d scrapped his ‘blood boy’ project after ‘no benefits were detected’ from the costly transfusion, which saw his young son donate a fifth of his blood.
Bryan is known for pumping two million dollars each year into treatments which he hoped would help regain his youth.
His quest to become 18 again lead the tech mogul to previously receive blood transfusions from healthy, anonymous donors who he carefully screened to ensure they had an ideal body mass index and were free of diseases.
But he took it a step further by recruiting his 17-year-old son Talmage and 70-year-old dad Richard to join him in the tri-generational blood swapping treatment.
In April, the trio visited Resurgence Wellness, a medical spa in Texas, where Talmage had a litre of blood removed – around one-fifth of the blood in his body.
Bryan and Richard also drained a little of their blood each, which was split into liquid plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
Bryan had plasma from his son’s blood injected into his own blood, rejuvenate and repair it and keep him looking and feeling young.
Richard also received plasma but Talmage didn’t take any from his dad or grandfather.
Bryan took to Instagram to document the process, writing: “My son, father and I completed the world’s first multi-generational plasma exchange.
One divided by the mind, now united by biology”.
But in a recent tweet he revealed he would be ‘discontinuing’ the plasma exchange treatment, as he found no benefits in it after evaluating “biomarkers from biofluids, devices and imaging”.
“Young plasma exchange may be beneficial for biologically older populations or certain conditions,” Bryan went on.
But the tech mogul – who sticks to rigorous daily diet, exercise and skin routine – said that he saw no benefit in the plasma treatment for him “on top of [his] existing interventions”.
“Alternative methods of plasma exchange or young plasma fractions hold promise,” he added, saying that his father’s plasma transfusion results were ‘still pending’.
Bryan got the idea from tests in rodents showing that older rats were rejuvenated when infused with blood from younger rats.
The older rodents showed improvements in cognitive function, metabolism, and bone structure.
The 45-year-old tech CEO also recently shared his strict anti-aging routine that aims to make him 18 again at Fortune Magazine’s annual tech conference.
His routine – which he claimed is “entirely based upon evidence and data” from scientific studies – includes:
- Waking up around 5 a.m.
- Measuring his body composition, including fat, muscle mass, BMI and temperature
- Drinking a preworkout smoothie and taking 61 supplements
- Working out for an hour
- Eating a breakfast of ‘super veggies’
- Undergoing treatments like red light therapy and ultrasound
- Having his second meal, which he described as a ‘nutty pudding’, and 40 more supplements
- Eating his third and final meal of the day by 11 am
- Working from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., then spending two and half hours for “family time,” relaxation, skincare, and dental care
- Going to sleep by 8:30 p.m – “I’ve structured my entire life around sleep,” Bryan said