Who is Bryan Johnson? Tech tycoon takes anti-ageing techniques to new extreme
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Bryan Johnson, 45, a tech tycoon reportedly spends $2 million a year to reverse the ageing process of his body. Johnson has a team of more than 30 doctors and medical experts to help him achieve the aim of engineering his body into that of an 18-year-old, according to the Daily Mail. The initiative, known as Project Blueprint, requires Johnson to follow a strict vegan diet with 1,977 calories per day, a daily exercise regimen that lasts an hour, high-intensity workout sessions three times a week, and going to bed every night at the same time.
Johnson and his doctors claim that in just two years his overall biological age has been reduced by more than five years and he now has a heart of a 37-year-old, skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old. His medical team is led by Oliver Zolman, 29, a doctor researching ageing therapies in Cambridge. Zolman has said “We have not achieved any remarkable results,” he added, “In Bryan, we have achieved small, reasonable results, and it’s to be expected,” as reported by Bloomberg.
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Who is Bryan Johnson?
Johnson is the founder/CEO of Kernel and OS Fund. He was also the founder and CEO of Braintree Venmo till 2013. According to his LinkedIn page, Johnson completed his MBA in 2007 from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Johnson started Kernel in 2016, personally backing the endeavor with $54 million, while the OS Fund was started in 2014 with $100 million. The Kernel team includes world-class physicists, engineers and neuroscientists who systematically evaluated the viability of building a brain interface that could be mainstream. "I believe that quantifying, exploring and understanding the human brain and mind is the most consequential opportunity in history. The future is the manifestation of our cognition, and this new frontier of exploration begins within ourselves," reads Johnson's LinkedIn profile. Johnson, a father of three children now lives in Venice, California, in a $5.7million home that has been modified to include a full medical suite.
Johnson told Bloomberg, "The body delivers a certain configuration at age 18," adding, "This really is an impassioned approach to achieve age 18 everywhere." Johnson said that he is aware that this can sound deranged and that his methods might strike to some as biotech-infused 'snake oil,' but he doesn’t much care. As part of the Project Blueprint, Johnson wakes up at 5 am every morning, takes around two dozen supplements and medicines a day, has an hour long workout with 25 different exercises and puts on goggles to block blue light for two hours before he goes to sleep. Johnson measures his weight, body mass index and body fat, daily. He also monitors his waking body temperature, blood glucose, heart-rate variations and oxygen levels while sleeping. He is known to have taken 33,537 images of his bowels.
Johnson gets several medical tests done on a regular basis, including a stream of blood, stool and urine tests as well as whole-body MRIs, ultrasounds and regular tests for his kidneys, prostate, thyroid and nervous system. Johnson applies seven creams daily, to repair the sun damage to his skin, while also getting weekly acid peels and laser therapy. In addition to this, to improve hearing in his left ear, Johnson does sound therapy, which tests the limits of the frequencies he can hear and then produces inaudible sounds that stimulate the cells in his ear and brain.