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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
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Nobody else picked up on the important part?
Today, for whatever reason, he admitted a mild infection in November 2022 (months before those interviews) stripped him of 15% of his lung capacity.
This is a guy that tweets about every other health gain he says he is making. Most recently he has boasted he reduced his sperm age from 57 to 42.
So why did he admit this now and not earlier? Who knows. I asked him, but haven’t had a response.
He’s a billionaire who has long-COVID himself, but still can’t bring himself to admit it. Why? Simple. Recognizing long-COVID means opening the doors for a restructuring of society, which strips rich people of their unearned wealth.
I think it’s far simlpler: the fact that one can easily get sick or hurt and render so much of an otherwise healthy life meaningless shows how ridiculous his whole project is.
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I’ve posted many times before that long-COVID is often curable with time + isolation. I was completely cured of my long-COVID symptoms 2.5 years after my initial infection in 2020.
And your comments keep getting taken down for misinformation. Unless you’re bringing science, leave the the anecdotal evidence to yourself.
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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.
Also, a mild infection.
mild infection of the most contagious x virulent bioweapon the CIA created yes
Also a disease that so common we are all going to get it at least once a year, we are fucked.
Two of the three meals he eats every day are exactly the same: boiled broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms and garlic, nuts and seeds.
Bro why even live forever if that’s what you gotta do
Yes, this is it exactly. What the hell is the point?
I guess he is sure he is goig to hell.
True, that would be a reasonable explanation for it haha
yeah even if it made me live an extra 20 years, not worth
Maybe he fucks a lot
and goes to bed – alone – at 8.30pm, without exception
Nope lol
He does have a son who is his “blood boy”
techbro
A complete focus on personal benefit vs helping to build a society that actually responds effectively to crisis that affect us all.
He’s a techbro, it’s more shocking he didn’t just outright turn his kid into his own bloodbag forever
He gets up at 4.30 and goes to bed at 20.30? So he gets a regular 8 hours of sleep? What’s the health benefit of getting up at 4.30? You’re not getting up early, you’re sleeping 8 hours. You just have the same bedtime as a child for some reason.
Not that it’s wrong, but it seems like he does it for a health reason and I don’t get it.Also it sounds like all of his day is dedicated to doing stuff to not die? He sounds like a human version of those collectible dolls people leave in their box to preserve value.
It seems like he just wants to maximize his time being exposed to the sun by setting noon as his midpoint. I guess he’s not enough of an early bird since his day should be 4am to 8pm. His schedule is shifted 30 minutes forward. That or he’s one of those people who think you have to be awake during dawn, so he based his schedule on the summer solstice when dawn is at its earliest, which would be around 4:30am without daylight savings/5:30am with daylight savings.
Like might as well take advantage of humans being diurnal and wake up with the sun and sleep with dusk like we’ve been doing for hundreds of thousands of years.
I guess, but there’s just not a lot of places where the sun rises at 4.30 and those places only have it like that for a short period, as far as I know.
This dude was posting about his morning wood and nightly erection quality on twitter recently, extremely weird behaviour.
man posted his dick girth in those graphs. Elon musk could never
Just realised it means he sleeps with a digitised cock ring on his shaft, that connects to his phone through an app.
What the fuck
Yeah give me analog all day
Wax just sounds better
These are the people saying you’re “too unqualified” to even work minimum wage.
Over/Under on him getting a lung transplant from a healthy poor person?
Too high to even bet on. The only real question is Palestinian or not
He’s got a son for that.
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He ain’t even gonna get cancer… he’s just gonna fall down flat one morning, because he took an extra pill in there that made him overdose…
Carefully dosing nanograms below liver failure to try and unlock Limitless
This is the vampire freak who steals his sons blood. Fuck these literal ghouls
What… they’re not beating down the thymus gland allegations that easily, aren’t they?
Hilariously it later turned out that you could get the same result just by running the blood through a haemodialysis machine.
Taking someone else’s blood or glands?
Literal vampire capitalism.
If he roasted that broccoli instead of boiling it I bet he’d only have to take 99 pills
Nah the Maillard reaction is carcinogenic. Gotta cook it the British way
ok fine steam it. anything but boiling
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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Most 100+ year olds I knew got to enjoy salsa.
to be fair those people aren’t immortal either
hilarious that he’s fucked, but that means the rest of us are even more fucked
Lol, makes my head hurt to think of how pointless so much of our “journalism” is.
I had so many friends at school who wanted to be journalists. I often wonder how many made it, and what garbage they are writing now, and what atrocities they are whitewashing.
At first I wanted to be a journalist, but there are way too many problems with that:
- No one’s hiring
- The Anglosphere has an intense INTENSE brand loyalty to Fox News and refuse to hear anything else that might challenge their biases that they hold sacrosanct
- AI
- Even if you’re able to find a job at a “progressive” news outlet, you’re going to be controlled opposition at best and be forced to say the dreaded BuT aT wHaT cOsT over anything good China does.
He experimented with injecting himself with blood plasma from his 18-year-old son Talmage.
Look, if you’re going to do this sort of thing, why don’t you have some fun? You’re probably going to get shot by someone who thinks you’re an Epstein-Clinton vampire anyway.
100 supplement pills daily
I take 9 and it seems like a lot o_O I had a friend taking around 50 a day for some Lyme’s disease treatment and I joked that a substantial portion of her calories might come from medication filler.
And goes to bed - alone - at 8.30 pmI bet he fucking does.
