Bryan Johnson (45) wants to stop aging

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“My heart is 37, my skin is 28, and my lungs are 18,” Bryan Johnson, 45, says in a video. She stares blankly at the camera: red hair, pale skin, not an ounce of excess fat. The US multimillionaire has dedicated his life to one goal: not only to stop the aging process, but even to reverse it. He wants his body to be 18 years old again.

Johnson invests millions of dollars each year in longevity. A team of 30 doctors, nutritionists, and education specialists are dealing with the man who sold his Braintree payment service to Ebay in 2013 and became super-rich overnight.

Through nutrition, training and always the same daily rhythm, each of Johnson’s organs must be optimized for maximum health. Daily tests document progress. According to the report, he is said to have reduced his biological age by an average of five years so far.

You may have different ages lately

The alarm clock rings at 5:30 am. Johnson weighs himself first, then has breakfast with a powdered drink made from spermidine, a messenger substance also found in our cells. Plus 60 vitamin pills and three spoons of virgin olive oil. Finally, he chews two pieces of gum to stimulate saliva production. Exactly 60 seconds later it spits them out again.

He is watched by half a million people on YouTube, Tiktok and Instagram. For so-called biohackers, Johnson is the ultimate role model. These are people who are trying to stop their body’s aging process with so-called hacks.

“The epigenetic clock is in vogue right now,” says Hartmut Geiger, Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Ulm in southern Germany. His chronological age is 53, he wants his biological status to be clarified as soon as possible just for fun. Having different ages is a relatively new development. “However, it has not yet been proven that biological age can be clearly separated from chronological age,” says Geiger.

Geiger describes Bryan Johnson’s so-called “Project Plan” as a “strange mix”: On the one hand, it is extremely egocentric and therefore of little scientific significance. “The experiment is performed on only one person – I seriously doubt it will be successful in any case.” Secondly, it is a very expensive and time-consuming procedure. “As a role model for the masses, it shouldn’t be very good.” Geiger also suspects that Johnson has taken substances that have not yet been released.

Eternal youth – but at what cost?

Given the huge interest in Johnson’s blueprint project, we have to start with the fundamental social question, says Geiger: “If you find it so desirable to be 18 forever, what image of man do you hold on to?”

The assumption that eternal youth and beauty make you happy is a fallacy. “Of course, a balanced diet and exercise are healthy,” says Geiger. But Johnson’s tightly planned daily routine leaves no room for the things that statistics say are essential to a happy life: friendships, new experiences and diversity, little stress, fresh air, and the occasional bit of adventure.

At the end of his video, Johnson demonstrates his two-hour workout routine and meticulously practices countless remedies. Finally, lunch time: vegetables and proteins. Johnson eats exactly 1977 calories a day. He looks seriously at the camera: “To carry out my plan, I banned all self-harming behavior from my life.” That’s what someone calls it if they eat too much or the wrong kind of food, drink alcohol, or otherwise overdo it.

Medical examinations and tests are carried out in the afternoon. At exactly 8:30 PM Johnson goes to bed. Like every evening. And if he’s not dead, he’ll still be alive 100 years from now.

Source : Blick