Bryan Johnson, a 45-year-old tech executive, has quit his attempt to reverse his aging process involving blood plasma infusions from his teenage son.
Two months ago, Mr. Johnson recruited his 17-year-old son Talmage and 70-year-old father Richard for a tri-generational blood-swapping treatment.
Mr. Johnson, his son, and his father all had one liter of blood drawn during the plasma exchange. Talmage’s plasma was injected into Mr. Johnson’s veins, while Mr. Johnson’s plasma was injected into his father’s veins.
After seeing no benefits from the plasma exchanges, Mr. Johnson said via Twitter on July 5 that he would stop the experiment.
“Does not in my case stack benefit on top of my existing interventions,” he shared via Twitter.
“Alternative methods of plasma exchange or young plasma fractions hold promise,” he added. “My father’s results are still pending.”
Spending $2 Million Each Year
Mr. Johnson spends $2 million annually on a regimen that is being managed by a team of 30 doctors and regenerative health specialists, according to a Bloomberg report.
It has led him to visit a Dallas clinic for plasma exchange, where he reportedly screened anonymous donors as “blood boys” to verify he was receiving blood from someone with an ideal BMI, lived a healthy lifestyle, and was disease-free.
His anti-aging initiative, Project Blueprint, involves following a strict routine consisting of a low-calorie vegan diet, frequent medical checks, engaging in an hour of daily exercise, and going to bed at the same time every night.
It also encourages followers to take daily measures of their weight, BMI, body fat, blood glucose levels, and heart rate fluctuations.
“My new endeavor, Project Blueprint, aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each,” Mr. Johnson wrote in a 2021 blog post.
His ultimate goal is to have all his major organs functioning youthfully as if he was in his late teens.
He claims to have made some progress in reducing his biological age: in January, his physicians informed Bloomberg that testing revealed he has the heart of a 37-year-old and the lungs of an 18-year-old.
Mr. Johnson stated that his interest in eternal youth was sparked by a dramatic decline in his mental and physical health before he sold his payments gateway Braintree to eBay in 2013.
He told Bloomberg News that he was overweight, depressed, and on the verge of contemplating suicide as a result of stress and working long hours.
“Data, not emotions, now manages both my diet and sleep protocols,” he also wrote in the post.
