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The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs.
If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.
He has been interviewed by most mainstream news outlets where he has documented his extreme and bizarre quest for immortality. From a story in The Guardian:
“He rises at 4.30am, eats all his meals before 11am, and goes to bed – alone – at 8.30pm, without exception. He ingests more than 100 supplement pills daily and bathes his body in LED light. Two of the three meals he eats every day are exactly the same: boiled broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms and garlic, nuts and seeds. He takes 54 pills in the morning, and the rest in between skin treatments and red-light therapy. He doesn’t drink alcohol, and doesn’t go out in the evening. He experimented with injecting himself with blood plasma from his 18-year-old son Talmage.”
Lol, and indeed, lmao
No kidding, and he’s probably overdoing it on some of the vitamins. Why doesn’t he eat a more varied diet, it’d be so much cheaper and simpler. Most 100+ year olds I knew got to enjoy salsa.
You know multiple people who are 100+? They gotta have some crazy stories I bet.
I knew 3, they’re all dead now. One was a professor of mine (103), the other two were friends of my grandparents (101 and a 104). The later 2 had mostly great depression horror stories.
Yeah my mom was big on health supplements for a few years until I sat her down and showed her the she got 1000-3000% of daily recommended intake of various vitamins and metals. She was having constant migraines.
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Yeah… wtf, why can’t you enjoy life while doing this?
Guy has got to have some kind of mental illness. I mean what’s the point here, honestly? Looking back at a 120 years of increasingly esoteric health rituals on the worlds most rigid schedule?
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to be fair those people aren’t immortal either