‘No benefits detected’ from swapping blood with son, Bryan Johnson says
The anti-aging-obsessed tech mogul who used his teenage son as his personal “blood boy” said he won’t be swapping plasma with his child again because there were “no benefits detected.”
Bryan Johnson — the 45-year-old fanatic who spends $2 million a year on a regimen that includes counting his nighttime erections so that his organs, including his rectum, function like a teenager’s — tweeted last week that he was stopping the blood swaps.
Johnson had enlisted his 17-year-old son Talmage two months ago for a tri-generational blood-swapping treatment that included his 70-year-old father Richard.
During the plasma swap, Johnson, his son and his dad had one liter of blood drained. Talmage’s plasma was fed into Johnson’s veins and Jonson’s plasma was fed into Richard’s veins.
Johnson said he stopped the “blood boy” experiment after seeing no benefit from the treatment.
“Does not in my case stack benefit on top of my existing interventions,” he shared via Twitter.
“Alternative methods of plasma exchange or young plasma fractions hold promise,” he added. “My father’s results are still pending.”
Using plasma as an anti-aging technique caught the attention of wellness junkies when scientists literally stitched young and old mice together so they shared a circulatory system, Bloomberg reported.
The older rodents showed improvements in their cognitive function, metabolism and bone structure, while the younger subjects showed that frequent blood donation could have positive effects.
However, there is little human-based data, leaving many researchers to view plasma-swapping longevity techniques as inconclusive, according to Bloomberg.
Johnson made his fortune in his 30s when he sold his payment processing company Braintree Payment Solutions to EBay for $800 million in cash.
He spends a lot of those funds on an uber-strict daily routine that’s overseen by a team of 30 doctors, which Johnson claims has given him the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old.
He exercises daily, eats strict vegan diet that totals a mere 1,977 calories per day, has his last meal at 11 a.m. and takes more than 100 daily supplements.
Johnson touts the rigorous regimen as Project Blueprint.
He told Bloomberg that it “may sound extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable.”
