Johnson, 46, is a centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who has spent most of the last three years in pursuit of a singular goal: don’t die. During that time, he’s spent more than $4 million developing a life-extension system called Blueprint, in which he outsources every decision involving his body to a team of doctors, who use data to develop a strict health regimen to reduce what Johnson calls his “biological age.” That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections. Johnson thinks of any act that accelerates aging—like eating a cookie, or getting less than eight hours of sleep—as an “act of violence.”
Once again a rich man thinks his money can stave off the grim reaper.
He so much wants to live forever he spends his life too scared too actually live.
Yes, the steps he is taking may extend his life for a few years but until we can reliably and safely alter our DNA he will run into the same problem of every person who has dreamed of eternal life. That our genetics seem to have a hard coded end of life at about 120 years.
In the past century the average human lifespan and the quality of those extra years his massively increased but the 120 hard stop has not.
Living that long is just absurd. And the mindset to think that he’s too important to die is just a mental illness. I hope his doctors rip him off really good