Bryan Johnson may look like a middle-aged man, but inside his veins pumps the blood of a 17-year old.
Literally, in a video he posted to Youtube, Johnson chronicles the process in which he takes blood from his 17-year-old son and replaces his own blood with it in order to keep himself young and vital like some kind of tech vampire.
The process is known as rejuvenation therapy, and is just one of the many ways Johnson is trying to beat the curse of Eden.
The tech mogul who sold BrainTree to PayPal for $800 million in 2013 found that money did not satisfy him. All he could think about was his body's impending and inevitable death.
That's when he decided that he would use his fortune to hack his body to stay young forever.
He now spends $2 million per year on his body. He aims to have
"the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum of an 18-year-old"
One component of that process is taking the blood of young men called "blood boys" and replacing his own aging blood with it.
Which is where his son, Talmage, comes in. In the video, Johnson says,
"I created this human being. I never imagined in my entire life this kind of relationship with my child."
Funny, I don't know that any of us imagined a father selfishly preying on his son's blood like a vampire either.
When it comes to rejuvenation therapy, the FDA warns,
"We're concerned that some patients are being preyed upon by unscrupulous actors touting treatments of plasma from young donors as cures and remedies. Such treatments have no proven clinical benefits for the uses for which these clinics are advertising them and are potentially harmful."
In other words, Johnson might just achieve the opposite of his goals if he keeps experimenting on his body the way he is.
And I'll go ahead and offer a prediction, Bryan Johnson's experiments will ultimately fail.
There's only one way around the curse of sin and death, and that's through the blood of Christ.
Thanks to Not the Bee user @leamcwho for the heads up about this story.
