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.

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

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    That would be a very stupid thing to imply!

    What I’m implying is that for at least one person on the planet (me), total recovery was possible through total isolation

    So either I’m a genetic freak and the ONLY phenotype on the planet for which this is possible, OR, I actually have a somewhat normal body/immune system and this same thing might be achievable for a large subset of other long-COVID sufferers. Look mods, I made no definitive claims here.

    IF that latter option is true, that means huge swathes of long-COVID sufferers have a vested interest in forming communes/gated communities. So IF that latter option is true, it is a threat to the US government

    also: imagine bailing water out of a sinking boat, while simultaneously running a hose from the ocean filling water INTO the boat, and wondering why the boat won’t stay afloat. This is the state of everybody else’s understanding of long-COVID.