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- techtakes@awful.systems
- cross-posted to:
- techtakes@awful.systems
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
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.