This man is getting absolutely fleeced by his 'doctors' and is turning around and selling their grifts as forbidden wisdom. - ThreadSky

michaelhobbes.bsky.social • 123 days ago

This man is getting absolutely fleeced by his 'doctors' and is turning around and selling their grifts as forbidden wisdom.

Reposted from Helen Kennedy

Do you need a pick me up? That rich twit living a life of miserable asceticism in order to stay young forever has discovered that one of his anti-aging pills was actually prematurely aging him and also giving him skin infections.

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trevorpk.bsky.social•123 days ago

Silly man - everyone knows that the way to stop yourself aging is to have your portrait painted and then lock the painting in the attic.

misshap.bsky.social•123 days ago

His life just seems so miserable, I feel like if his doctors weren't all grifters they would maybe suggest therapy to deal with his fear of mortality, rather than 300 pills. Still, he's a rch asshole, so I can't care too much.

feefer2.bsky.social•122 days ago

His type are dime a dozen in LA, where bio-hacking is new snake oil schtick, operating concierge clinics on every corner in Bev Hills like they’re Starbucks, all trying to gain access to the scientific-illiterati fashionista jet-set crowd (think of 21st C. version of DeLeon’s fountain of youth)

misshap.bsky.social•122 days ago

At least if you went searching for the fountain of youth, you might have an enjoyable hike, maybe a fun camping trip.

choubacha.bsky.social•123 days ago

Not to be pedantic about the article… but wouldn’t a “centimillionaire” have like $10,000? Pretty sure it means 1/100.

mippy.bsky.social•123 days ago

Centi just means 100. In either direction. Centurions aren't 1/100th of a year old.

choubacha.bsky.social•123 days ago

Centu is a different prefix than centi. A centimeter is not one hundred meters

choubacha.bsky.social•122 days ago

Looked it up as confirmation. Centum is indeed 100 in Latin. But centi is the SI metric prefix for 1/100 that has a root in centum but has a very explicit definition. It would not make a good scientific unit modifier if the meaning could be 10000x off.

tisaph.bsky.social•122 days ago

No - centi is one-hundredth in the SI system. "Hecto" is 100 of something. For example, look up the common unit "hectopascals"

https://www.nist.gov/pml/owm/metric-si-prefixes

dwightlymanmoody.bsky.social•122 days ago

Centurians command 100 legionaires. Centenarian are 100 years old.

mippy.bsky.social•122 days ago

U rite.

jankoraven.bsky.social•123 days ago

Is this the dude drinking his son's blood

What is it with rich elites and weird blood stuff man. Vampires are not supposed to be real.

cindynorth1.bsky.social•123 days ago

hahahhaha

immaculatepizza.bsky.social•122 days ago

Every time I see him he looks older and weirder, and barring the fact that his living this insane fantasy and presenting it as reality is a miscarriage of journalism, or whatever it is when you report on tech shitheads, it's always a delight to see.

annbonnys.bsky.social•122 days ago

so THATS why he was looking so sick..

litazia.bsky.social•123 days ago

Maybe it's not being a billionaire, but I accept that I'm ageing and I continue with my life as best as possible. Yeah, I've bought some Olay products because I'm a bit self conscious, but that's... It?

freakanatcha.bsky.social•122 days ago

Genes are the key factor in longevity. His money would be better spent by building a time machine and to go back and become George Burns' and Betty White's love child.

rachelwales.bsky.social•123 days ago

We'll keep our universal health care system with real doctors. This is way too innovative for me.

slabgorb.com•123 days ago

it's obvious from his face he suffers from an excess of the yellow bile. I prescribe an emetic

crownvic63.bsky.social•122 days ago

Bleeding and cupping would work too.

ate-bush.bsky.social•123 days ago

why is the media treating this man's serious mental illness as at worst a quirk

pavlovcat.bsky.social•123 days ago

Dude looks more and more like Data every day.

deborahbuddingphd.bsky.social•123 days ago

He overplucks his eyebrows
He needs Anastasia to save him

oldandintheway.bsky.social•122 days ago

Can you imagine being married to him? Or having *any* sort of personal relationship with him?

porgus.bsky.social•122 days ago

If you grift a rich person, you automatically go to heaven.

callistamoonrise.bsky.social•122 days ago

He looks objectively in that picture to be around 50. Is that why people like Thiel hate women so much? We tend to live a lot longer and that is antithetical to their self (delusional) beliefs.

nowhere.bsky.social•123 days ago

Just realized

crownvic63.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yes!! I was trying to place him. It’s Data!

siduspreclarum.bsky.social•122 days ago

*Uncool* Data, then.

diehard3.bsky.social•123 days ago

Just when I thought his story could not improve....

jornreinsel.bsky.social•122 days ago

It’s a grifter ouroboros

incompetusrex.bsky.social•123 days ago

Holy crap, that’s a lot of supplements.

tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social•123 days ago

My stomach would revolt

jimmyjamjoe.bsky.social•123 days ago

But he doesn't sell the doctor's grifts. My understanding is he sells protein powder and vitamins. Also I was not aware one was literally called snake oil.

thomasczikmantori.bsky.social•123 days ago

Well put. Reminds me of a podcast about snake oil, actually.

jamiejoo.bsky.social•122 days ago

54 supplements a day? How do you know which one is causing side effects?

kansasblueblood.bsky.social•123 days ago

*takes a sip of water and notices the passage of time*
I have to discontinue this shit. It's aging me

adlemm.bsky.social•123 days ago

*takes a sip of son's blood

verboseminimalist.gay•123 days ago

Honestly, more power to anyone grifting idiot billionaires.

shmtann.bsky.social•123 days ago

no one has ever been more destined to die early of a completely preventable cause than this man

maryvvmahon.bsky.social•123 days ago

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tokenweirdgirl.bsky.social•123 days ago

This guy just needs to chill. Eat some vegetables, drink water, exercise, wear sunscreen, and call it a day. His lifestyle sounds miserable and not worth it.

acinonnap.bsky.social•123 days ago

I can think of many other ways to spend $2million/year that don't involve being a self-absorbed twat making a fool of oneself on the public stage

slowerloris.bsky.social•122 days ago

Yeah, but one of those "doctors" might actually have a philosopher's stone

albinodino.bsky.social•122 days ago

How long til he's drinking his own urine?

leeaaronrosen.bsky.social•122 days ago

How long since he’s been drinking his own urine?

frankitodevito.bsky.social•122 days ago

It’s a grift-ception! A human griftipede, if you will.

butlerofdogs.bsky.social•122 days ago

He looks ill

beltsquid.bsky.social•122 days ago

It's so rad that "guy who tells you drinking mercury will make you immortal" is still a job

robofthesky.bsky.social•122 days ago

His doctor:

bjoh13.bsky.social•123 days ago

This is giving me life today 😆

cwashington.bsky.social•123 days ago

haileyisheretostay.bsky.social•123 days ago

For all of his time and money he still looks like a dude in his 40s.

bete-noire.bsky.social•122 days ago

As a centimillionaire, he opted to selfishly make himself look young and pretty .... when he could've made himself a public hero and permanent legacy for himself by helping the disadvantaged and marginalized in a myriad amount of ways.

Fucking dumbass.

grungehamster.bsky.social•123 days ago

So like, what is the timeline to when he actually turns into Howard Hughes? The "quirky eccentricity" turned genuine mental health issue?

stitchy.bsky.social•123 days ago

But he had the rectum of an 18 year old!!!! Surely that wasn’t bunk!

quitabunnies.bsky.social•122 days ago

Honestly, love that for him.

emzeegee.bsky.social•123 days ago

Since people who live v long l usually report social connections, purpose and genetics as key factors, he’d be better off doing the standard Good Ideas (balanced diet, exercise, no smoking), and devoting his considerable energy and resources to supporting other people and building connections. 🙄

mytwistedknife.bsky.social•123 days ago

i would love a maintenance phase episode on this freak!

chaoticrambling.bsky.social•114 days ago

Honestly it feels like it HAS to happen

domdelorenzo.bsky.social•122 days ago

This is so fucking good.

liberalhenry.bsky.social•122 days ago

He needs a satin cape and a coffin to sleep in now. 😂

dhcalifornicus.bsky.social•122 days ago

A fool and his money....etc etc.

sharpwit.bsky.social•122 days ago

Did this guy think The Substance was an infomercial?

neverella.bsky.social•123 days ago

botox is only c.£300 a quarter

arrozconhalib.bsky.social•123 days ago

I want to share with folks what one of his “miracle cures” is: plasmapheresis. Essentially EXTREME dialysis. Your blood is removed (usually through either a semi-permanent port or a temporary catheter in the jugular and carotid artery). It is then processed by a machine and donor plasma is added.

arrozconhalib.bsky.social•123 days ago

This is supposed to be a treatment for illnesses such as severe autoimmune disorders (gMG, MS, etc.), not a vanity treatment. There has been a plasma shortage since the pandemic. My dad had gMG, and one time while he was in crisis, he wasn’t able to get plasmapheresis b/c of the plasma shortage.

arrozconhalib.bsky.social•123 days ago

I hope that all of Brian Johnson’s miracle cures leave him looking like the N*** at the end of Raiders. He has been hoarding valuable, life-saving biologics, making them less available to folks with autoimmune disease who need donor plasma to survive.

paulajsmith.bsky.social•123 days ago

I’ve been hoping we might get a Maintenance Phase about “anti-aging” grifts in the wellness space.

nub.bsky.social•122 days ago

I think he serves a valuable role in the world where he tests snake oil and confidently explains to everyone why it sucks with a lot of rigorous charts.

He's also popularized some useful things that I think will genuinely improve peoples healthspan.

doomforpresident.bsky.social•123 days ago

This guy is spending millions of dollars to look his exact age.

nickforbrains.bsky.social•123 days ago

He looks so bad for his age

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