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Unlike your everyday millionaire who lives life on the fast lane, Bryan Johnson is a firm believer in slowing down, especially when it comes to his age. The US-based centimillionaire is known to spend upwards of $2 million a year on age reversal and used to take blood transfusions from his 17-year-old son in a quest to stay young forever.
Johnson, whose daily routine reads like something out of a science fiction novel, gave TIME Magazine a rare glimpse into his daily life and how he has been challenging the conventional rules of ageing.
It all started three years ago when he set out on a mission to avert death and bring about “the most significant revolution in the history of Homo sapiens,” as he calls it. During that period, he’s spent more than $4 million constructing Blueprint, a life-extension system in which he delegated every decision regarding his body to a team of specialists who used data to design a strict health routine to reduce his “biological age.”
It is important to note that there’s no evidence-based medicine substantiating this degree of anti-ageing. According to what Dr Dilip Gude, senior consultant physician, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad, has previously told indianexpress.com, “There are no randomised controlled trials that have shown to reverse the internal organ ageing process.”
He takes 111 tablets per day, wears a baseball cap that emits red light into his scalp, collects his own faeces samples, and sleeps with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his overnight erections. Johnson considers any act that hastens ageing, such as eating a cookie or sleeping less than eight hours, to be an “act of violence.”
The 46-year-old begins his day long before the sun rises at 4:53 a.m. His bedroom is free of distractions. There is no clutter, no work, no reading—only sleep. A laser face shield for collagen formation and a device detecting nighttime erections, a critical indication of sexual and cardiovascular health, stand out in this minimalist chamber.
Johnson is subjected to a battery of health exams upon awakening, including weighing himself on a sophisticated scale that monitors everything from body mass index to hydration levels. He then resets his circadian cycle with a light therapy lamp and measures his inner ear temperature for physical changes.
Johnson’s kitchen counter acts as a platform for his daily supplement regimen, which includes a slew of pills and drops targeted at improving his health. He goes to great lengths to maintain his vigour, from pre-cataract eye drops to unusual nostril stimulation.
Johnson’s exercise program is just as strict as the rest of his routine. His regular workouts are witnessed by a specialised home gym decorated with tranquil forest wallpaper. He can leg press 800 pounds, and his workout consists of weights, planks, and stretches.
He does this seven days a week, with three days of high-intensity training, all while testing his VO2 max, which is comparable to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson has abandoned traditional meal labelling in favour of numerical identifiers. The first meal of the day is blended vegetables and lentils that have been mixed into a mush. He doesn’t eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Simply Meal 1, Meal 2, and so on.
He’s single currently, and he has previously confessed that his busy schedule makes dating difficult. His priorities are firmly in his pursuit of age reversal.
“What I do may sound extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable,” he had once told Bloomberg Businessweek.
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