The man who spends $2.7m a year to look 18 is swapping blood with his father and son
On April 3, the tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, 45, turns up at a health services clinic near Dallas with his 70-year-old father Richard and 17-year-old son Talmage.
Mr Richard goes last and receives Bryan’s plasma after making room for the fluids by having his own blood drained.One might be: Is this like the “blood boy” thing? And yes, it is exactly like the blood boy thing. Johnson carefully screened the donor to make sure the person had an ideal body mass index, lived a healthy lifestyle and was free of diseases.Mr Bryan made a name for himself in the technology field as the former head of Braintree, a digital payments company that owned Venmo.
In traditional medicine, plasma infusions are used to treat a variety of conditions, including liver disease, burns and blood disorders.Some Covid-19 patients were given the plasma of people who had recovered from the disease and showed antibodies in their system, although the World Health Organisation recommended against the practice in 2021.
“We have not learned enough to suggest this is a viable human treatment for anything,” says Dr Charles Brenner, a biochemist at City of Hope National Medical Centre in Los Angeles.My transplanted heart and I will die soon
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