According to a report from Bloomberg on Monday, Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old CEO who wants to maintain the youthful functioning of his internal organs, including his penis and rectum, has swapped blood with his 70-year-old father and teenage son. Johnson’s son provided a litre of his blood, which was separated into different parts. Johnson and his father followed the same process. Johnson received his son’s plasma, whereas his plasma was transfused into his father’s veins.
Johnson, his 70-year-old father Richard, and his 17-year-old son Talmage visited a clinic close to Dallas last month for an extended, three-generational blood-swapping procedure, according to the outlet. Johnson often receives plasma from an unidentified donor, but Talmage supplied a litre of blood this time, which was divided into two batches of component parts: one of liquid plasma and the other of red, white, and platelet-rich plasma.
Johnson disclosed to Bloomberg that he has a team of 30 physicians and specialists in regenerative medicine guiding his treatment plan, which now includes visits to a clinic in the Dallas region for plasma exchanges. He reportedly pre-screened anonymous donors as “blood boys” to make sure he was getting blood from someone with a healthy lifestyle, an ideal body mass index, and no diseases. When researchers physically connected young and old mice together so they shared a circulatory system, using plasma as an anti-ageing treatment drew the interest of wellness addicts, according to Bloomberg.
While the younger participants demonstrated that frequent blood donation might have good consequences, the older rodents demonstrated increases in their cognitive function, metabolism, and bone structure. According to Bloomberg, many academics still believe that plasma-swapping longevity procedures are inconclusive because there is a dearth of human-based data.
Johnson has a very rigid schedule that starts with two dozen supplements at 5 a.m
Charles Brenner, a scientist at the City of Hope National Medical Centre in Los Angeles, told Bloomberg that “we have not learned enough to suggest this is a viable human treatment for anything.” “To me, it’s disgusting, lacking in supporting evidence, and fairly dangerous.” According to the Red Cross, blood plasmas are typically provided to patients who are suffering from trauma, burn, shock, severe liver illness, and clotting difficulties, among other diseases.
Johnson, who amassed wealth by selling Braintree Payment Solutions, a provider of payment processing services, to eBay in his early 30s for $800 million in cash, became well-known earlier this year for his struggle with ageing. Johnson has a very rigid schedule that starts with two dozen supplements at 5 a.m. every morning. He then works out for an hour, consumes a low-calorie vegan meal, and brushes his teeth with a tea-tree oil and antioxidant gel rinse. Johnson is then connected to a device while sleeping that keeps track of how many erections he gets throughout the night.
He asserts that these expensive procedures have already given him the heart of a 37-year-old and the skin of a 28-year-old
Johnson wanted his primary organs to be operating as they were when he was in his late teens, including his brain, liver, kidneys, teeth, skin, hair, penis, and rectum. He asserts that these expensive procedures have already given him the heart of a 37-year-old and the skin of a 28-year-old, bringing him closer to the fountain of youth. All of this is a part of Johnson’s Project Blueprint anti-ageing programme, which also exhorts participants to test their weight, body mass index, body fat, blood glucose levels, and heart rate changes every day. Johnson wrote in a 2021 blog post that his new project, Project Blueprint, “aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each.”
He was apparently working long hours at the time, right before he sold Braintree to eBay, which made him agitated and borderline suicidal. “Data, not emotions, now manages both my dietary and sleeping protocols,” he said in the essay. Johnson founded Kernel, a maker of $50,000 helmets that assess brain impulses and the effects of meditation and medicinal therapies on chronic pain, as a result of his fascination with longevity.