Who is Oliver Zolman? Regenerative physician vouches he can reduce Bryan Johnson's age from 45 to 18
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND: Tech tycoon Bryan Johnson, 45, reportedly spends $2 million a year to reverse the aging process of his body. Johnson has a team of more than 30 doctors and medical experts, led by Oliver Zolman, 29, to help him achieve the aim of engineering his body into that of an 18-year-old. 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. Zolman, an MD, who is leading the initiative from the front, 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 Oliver Zolman?
Zolman is a regenerative medicine physician who is committed to the reverse aging process. He is the founder of 20one Consulting Ltd in Cambridge, England, according to his official website. The UK-based research company is working to prove age reduction from age 80 to 60 by 2030, in all 78 organs. Zolman has also created Longevity School to teach Longevity 123 protocol and how to measure the 78 organ clocks at research grade standard. Zolman completed his MBBS from King's College London. He has a First Class Honours BSc in Regenerative Medicine, Innovation Technology & Biology of Aging and Visiting Fellowship in Evidence-Based Medicine, at the University of Sydney.
One of Zolman's most prominent clients is Johnson, founder of Kernel, OS Fund and Braintree-Venmo. Zolman works with Johnson to maximally reverse the quantified biological age of all of Johnson's organs using the 500+ Zolman Clocks and Level 123 protocol. The aim is to transform the 45-year-old's body into that of an 18-year-old, DailyMail reported. Zolman and Johnson's parents are the first people to go through the Longevity Level 123 protocol, as per Zolman's official website.
Zolman stresses that his work with Johnson is just beginning and that they have hundreds of procedures left to explore, including a range of experimental gene therapies, as reported by Bloomberg. Zolman's medical wake-up call came in 2012, when he hurt his back playing basketball during the first year of medical school. The injury was so bad that he struggled to walk for about a year. Since the doctors Zolman met couldn't fix things, he started doing his own research and developing his own physical therapy program, including deep-tissue massages across his legs, glutes, lower back, abs and pelvis, enabling him to walk.
Zolman is convinced that progress in the field of longevity requires a more concerted pursuit of medicines and therapies. He spends most of his time reading research papers and synthesizing their findings into something Johnson can try. "There is no person in the world who is 45 chronologically but 35 in every organ," Zolman said, he added, "If we can eventually prove clinically and statistically that Bryan has made that change, then it will be such a large effect size that it will have to be causative of the intervention and beyond what’s genetically possible." To determine such progress, Zolman keeps track of 10 or more different measurements for each of a patient’s organs.