among all the other stupid bullshit here, why would you feature of a photo of the guy holding up a single pill like it's the key to everlasting life when you go on to say he takes "more than 50 a day"
If that’s his picture, he doesn’t look that much younger than 47. He will eventually die, and he won’t be able to take his wealth with him when he does.
i mean yall interviewing this fucking creep over and over again sure does make me want to do a Funny Joke In Person to him that answers the question in your headline definitively
What's controversial about stealing your son's blood and spending more money a year than the vast majority will make in a lifetime to look like a walking corpse?
let's just redistribute the billionaires stolen riches to the rest of us "non-capitalists", you know, us the MAJORITY, and we'll sort of immortality later.
Rich people have been doing this nonsense for thousands of years. They think that the entire world revolves around them and all they actually do is use their wealth and power to hurt others.
My biggest fear is to have an undignified death like being run over by a Prius. I feel vindicated that there are people with much bigger problems out there! 🤣
he reminds me of the "people" in those midjourney-created party pics from a few years ago - he has the same slightly off, greasy coating those figures have - somebody better check those hands
he's got to look weird. if he just looked "a bit younger than his age" there would be no story, but diving into the uncanny valley gets him headlines like this, which raises the stock price of the snake oil
Here's a plain fact you may want to consider: this whole thing is not about how he looks like but how long and how healthy he's living. Your point is mute.
Thanks. He is much more healthy than average people but he risks a lot by doing some untested things, overestimates how much more healthy he is, and pays far more than what is needed for it. There is no point denying that + various data he published (not all of it) & his body-shape clearly prove it.
Maybe this is a hot take but the only way we’ll actually learn to live forever is through extremely unnatural means
Virtual copies of consciousness, radical genetic engineering, etc. will be the only ways to ever live forever
Weird how the "protect our children" crowd is completely silent on a rich dude literally harvesting his child's blood for a gross scientifically-challenged experiment to live "forever"
he took plasma donation(s) from his son, voluntarily, for a brief period. it didn't yield satisfactory results so he stopped doing that. the kid is fine, and people donate plasma every day. how is that abuse?
Someone being your child doesn't mean they're your personal supply of blood and organs.
Most places require you to be an*adult* who *volunteers* to donate plasma to a *stranger*. This isn't a usual at home DIY project to do with your kids.
Most jurisdictions would also be severely critical of the power imbalance in the relationship between father and son. Which is again, why these products are donated anonymously and not recruited from family members.
I am amused because almost every doctor who is not a quack would point out that neither blood nor plasma would do what he thought it would do. The "experts" around him sound like scammers to me for not shooting the idea on the spot.
What this dude is doing (slurping up the blood of his son, or some fucking thing???) is not it.
There are multiple animals that are virtually immortal, and the thing they have in common is endlessly regenerating telomere caps on their genomes. That's where "aging" comes from.
Buddy, you understand that we eat pizza and beer because those are small joys that we can actually afford, right? How many exploited working class citizens fund your multimillion dollar quest to stay young forever? Hyperbaric oxygen chamber? Blood transfusions from your son? Fuck all the way off.
The rest of us are worried about living through next WEEK, and you're out here telling us to drink hyper-nutrient smoothies and give up on small pleasures so we can live forever to be exploited by people like you? NO.
Been hearing about Bryan Johnson for over 15 years now (thanks for nothing Wired) and not once have i ever thought “gee, now here’s a sane and reasonable guy.” Dude’s a fucking weirdo and not of the fun/interesting/thought provoking variety.
I read about this freak and then immediately forget he exists, but whenever I do I remember that he craves attention his money can't buy and will get nothing from his efforts. Someone needs to donate him some sunlight. Pasty white will never be in style, whatever your dollar value.
God I hope not. Immortality would be wasted on those who could afford it. Do we really want 200 year old bastards arbitrarily deciding who gets water rations?
This man has extreme orthorexia and needs to be in hospital, not constantly profiled as a future-guru. Just because he has more money than god doesn't make him any less sick or in any way worth platforming.
That's a bold diagnosis assuming for a moment you haven't actually spoken to him. Certainly signs are there but how would you distinguish him from a mentally healthy billionaire spending money on their selected niche for 'sane' albeit unusual (given how little we know about billionaires) reasons?
US media has an excuse for this in that their billionaire American owners are trying to ingratiate themselves with Trump. The Guardian has no reason to do this. Are they just following US trends, assuming it's what readers want rather than what is being forced on them unwillingly?
And techbro billionaire worship. However they are entirely wrong: the people who like this shit are not reading the Guardian. The Guardian should provide an alternative.
They don't need to be "above it" - they need to recognize that they have a different audience from the Washington Post and need to cater to them, rather than aping the US quality media.
CORRECTION: "... first generation of .001%ers that won't die... "
Stop pretending that technological advances only accessible to extremely wealthy people have any effect on the rest of us. And, yes, I know he, not @theguardian.com, said it; but you led with it uncritically.
It’s not going to work for them either. Most of this live forever shit is wellness grifters preying on people with inflated egos because they have money.
Why are you giving this narcissist attention? He's an extremely rich guy but immature with a psychological complex about dying and has decided to cope by transitioning into a comic-book villain with vampire tendencies. Stop giving his delusions free publicity.
Quin Shi Huang the 1st Emperor of China who reigned 259 - 210 BC sought immortality. He died of mercury poisoning. The mercury pills were prescribed by his court doctors to make him immortal.
crazy negativity here, perhaps the article style is too blame. this guy takes a scientific approach to investigate slowing of aging and shares a ton of data for free. has a bunch of informative videos. never says you should try to do exactly or everything that he does.
fair enough. but his data is useful for others who might want to incorporate some of his methods into their life, or who want to investigate them. his approach is basically "here's what i've tried, this is what seems to be working, do what you want with that information".
He looks a creepy 47. I know plenty of people in their mid 40s who look better than this just because they're not spending all their time trying to be something they're not.
He's nearly killed himself multiple times with injections and weird stuff that no normal person would put into their body. Like he's legitimately not well.
You may think you can beat mortality, but so has everyone else, from Gilgamesh and Icarus onwards. I do, though, wish you the best death that anyone can have, a peaceful dying in your sleep at the end of a long and fulfilling life.
Life is random. You can do everything right and get hit by a car walking the dog on a sunny Saturday morning. Thinking you can avoid an expiration date is a fool's errand.
Childish flailing in the face of inevitability. Ego, hubris, and the inability to accept one's own fragility. A just society would simply take all of this man's money and put it towards something useful.
These people are so used to getting everything they want that the fact that they can't buy their way out of death really seems to bother them. They found the one thing their money and power can't bend to their will, and I actually kind of love this for them.
No. We’re not. And Bryan Johnson is very likely to die as a result of the experimental jackassery he’s engaged in, which is probably for the best because he’s starting to look a lot like Joan Rivers.
Totally fair. Joan Rivers was a comedy icon and she was one of the great roasters of all time. He just looks like her (late in life), not with her talent.
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Pasty white rich weirdo says what now?
Do better.
This is ridiculous.
Super normal rich guy stuff. Nothing to see.
I have their ashes on my bookshelf.
but 🌩️
https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE?si=L3Cvb98z3LyumdDR
But he isn't more healthy. He just pays for a lot of PR covering how healthy he supposedly is.
If some rich guy wants to burn through his fortune to look his exact age, only more mucilaginous, that affects not one single other person.
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/01/fiery-angels-fell-wheel-turns-four.html
Virtual copies of consciousness, radical genetic engineering, etc. will be the only ways to ever live forever
Most places require you to be an*adult* who *volunteers* to donate plasma to a *stranger*. This isn't a usual at home DIY project to do with your kids.
Most jurisdictions would also be severely critical of the power imbalance in the relationship between father and son. Which is again, why these products are donated anonymously and not recruited from family members.
There are multiple animals that are virtually immortal, and the thing they have in common is endlessly regenerating telomere caps on their genomes. That's where "aging" comes from.
Fortunately for the rest of us, entropy is a fundamental law of the universe. It cannot be defeated.
What a weirdo.
You are failing in your journalistic integrity.
"Arguably the best British playwright of the 20th century" eg
Not headline-related, but still.
"I’m creating a new sport and a new way to understand reality."
*Timothy Leary already did this.
I'd love to see a person who has made billions without exploitation.
...congrats?
Stop pretending that technological advances only accessible to extremely wealthy people have any effect on the rest of us. And, yes, I know he, not @theguardian.com, said it; but you led with it uncritically.
So SPOILER ALERT: this is not a new scoop.
Spare us.
😂🤨😅
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSRvcdlgSI
idiocy masquerading as hubris
and what is 'controversial' about a public display of stupidity?
Glad I no longer pay you actual money