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Summary
Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech multimillionaire focused on anti-aging, stopped using rapamycin—a supplement he took for five years—after research suggested it might accelerate aging.
Johnson cited side effects like skin infections and glucose issues, as well as findings from a recent study showing rapamycin could worsen epigenetic aging.
Known for extreme anti-aging experiments, Johnson also created the health startup Blueprint, which markets pricey supplements.
His controversial methods, including teenage blood transfusions and genital shock treatments, have raised skepticism about their effectiveness and safety.
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I just watched this movie again today, wasn’t expecting a meme of it so quickly!
I know it’s not the popular choice, but Last Crusade is by far my favorite of the Franchise. I re-watch it way more than Raiders.
Ditto, I think it’s the best out of all of them!
Hah, sounds like his “research” is trying it out on himself and deciding he didn’t like it. And now that he doesn’t like it, all of a sudden he finds the research valid. He’s still only listening to opinions he agrees with. What a shallow twat.
Watched the documentary with a friend; we were trying to guess his age. We agreed on “decent looking for 55”. He’s 47 lol.
People who are obsessed with some physical quality about themselves always make whatever the issue is, like 1000% worse than if they just left it alone and lived normally.
His face looks old enough to make his hair look unnatural.
It looks like a wig.
Rapamycin
It’s not just “one of many” it was the big one that has a large online following swearing by it, and lots of idiots taking it.
Also I can’t see a pic of this guy without thinking of Dennis Reynolds asking if he should wear a mask of his own face.
Every time I think of Dennis Reynolds, I’m reminded of the episode where he tries to sell his car that got stuck in water, and he berates the guy for mentioning how the car isn’t even runnable.
Lol he even has “big hair”. I bet this guy is a blast to be around. Yikes.
Is he buddy’s with Peter thiel and all the vampires that support trump and want to live forever
“genital shock treatments”
Ok… how did someone sell that as an anti-aging treatment?
The salesman: “anti-what?”
The passing of time must be stored in the balls.
I don’t usually like salespeople, but this one I like a lot.
My guess would be Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite.
I’m choosing to read that as someone is screwing with him.
this guy sucks. He’s conducting essentially a thousand uncontrolled trials on himself making them all useless unless he dies of a new contraindiction
Why does he suck though? Aren’t we all conducting uncontrolled trials on ourselves? Better that, than doing it on other people, right?
I think what they meant is even if he finds something that works, the data can’t be trusted, which will heavily delay things like doing it properly.
If the tests aren’t being done on anyone else yet then he’s not going to delay anything by trying it himself.
Frankly, I admire his daring. When people pilot experimental aircraft or climb a mountain nobody’s climbed before they’re considered to be adventurers, he’s doing the pharmaceutical equivalent.
He’s doing what all of us are doing which is why the whole article is just ego fellatio for a rich dullard.
I watched his video describing a day in his life, sleep at 8pm and wake up at 5am, then take 50 pills, his whole day revolved around preparing for sleep, which he said was the most important thing, so I guess he’s right about that. But just thinking a tiny change in his life, even travelling, will upset this routine, then what, the stress from that routine is probably aging him the most.
That’s the thing, he might live a bit longer but at what cost? I would much rather enjoy my life than by a slave to a miserable routine dedicated to promoting longevity that will potentially buy me an extra decade. Like I can just eat a somewhat reasonable diet, exercise, sleep okay and with decent genetics based on my parents and grandparents I will probably make it to at least mid to late 80s, maybe longer if medicine advances. If I had genetics that suggested a strong likelihood that I would die in my 60s I would maybe be more interested
With this guys routine I could maybe push that to 100ish? I would certainly love to extend my life but not at the cost of it consuming my life. I assume he’s banking on getting to the theoretical max though, which is probably closer to 120ish, and that is substantial but then it’s like a few decades of extremely decreased mobility and mental acuity? Eh
And of course this all disregards the potential that you get cancer, murdered, car accident, etc.
I truly believe he loves doing this so no cost to him as far as mental health/stress goes. Sounds like you are doing most things right so that pretty much covers the 80/20 rule. Johnson is trying to live indefinitely without losing mobility or mental faculties. It’s great that we have someone testing things out and adjusting when things don’t work.
I’m in my forties and he doesn’t look noticeably younger than I do except for my hair being salt and pepper. I don’t look exceptionally young or anything, it just doesn’t seem like his regimen is really doing anything that diet, exercise, and sunscreen can’t also accomplish.
I can imagine that having a hyperfocus on anti-aging and unstoppably aging at the same time, must be really stressful and at the end of the day, ends up contributing to a faster aging overall.
Yeah I remember seeing some stupid post somewhere about this guy saying “can you believe this man is only 45” and everyone in the comments saying “um yes that is what 45 year olds look like.”
I bet I live longer than him, and on a shoestring budget
This dude is just going to spend a bunch of money on shit that will eventually kill him. What a waste.
What an efficient allocation of capital!
That’s what we all do every day, this guy just has more to spend
Nah some of the shit we buy sustains us, and some of the killer shit we buy at least provides joy. This guy is just a miserable, wasteful asshole.
You have to see this guy’s routine. His life is built around attempting to extend his longevity. He lives like a luxurious lab rat being pocked, prodded, measured and eats/drinks/sleeps/exercises on a ultra-strick program.
It seems miserable.
The Dennis System for Aging
He just hit the final S in that system
He probably should have taken this medication under the supervision of Dr. Toboggan.
If I was old I’d simply say: Old age begone!
This guy looks like he’s 60 cosplaying as a 20 year old
If it kills him sooner, that’s one less oligarchs billionaire to worry about.
The guy looks like one of those Kraftwerk robots.
Had to check this wasn’t nottheonion
When you’ve got everything in life and all you want to do is live longer.
instead of helping the billions living in squalor and dying premature deaths.
If he hits on an effective anti-aging treatment from his efforts then he’ll help billions that way instead. Pretty much everyone eventually suffers from aging if they live long enough.
I applaud your otimism in thinking it will be democratised and not a luxury for wealthy classes.
Almost all medications start out as a luxury for wealthy classes.
When insulin was first discovered as a treatment for diabetes the first Americans to be treated with it back in 1922 were James D. Havens, son of former congressman James S. Havens, and Elizabeth Hughes Gossett, daughter of the US Secretary of State. I can just imagine the Reddit threads at the time decrying how diabetes research was only benefiting the “elites.” But nowadays insulin is manufactured in bulk and anyone can have access to it.
At this rate, he can likely claim solitude regarding the premature deaths
Edit: solidarity not solitude. My brain broke this morning.
