Longevity-obsessed tech millionaire stops anti-aging drug over fears it’s aging him

Brian Johnson has long been obsessed with it “obsolescence”.. The 46-year-old multimillionaire, who made his money by founding various technology companies, has spent years of his life and millions of dollars trying to get his body to looks like that of a teenager. His wellness regimen includes acceptance 54 different add-ons every day for breakfast. These pills apparently helped him prolong his life and, as he put it, “broke the age-reversal world record.” In recent months, however, Johnson has stopped taking at least one of those supplements out of fear that instead of slowing him down, it was actually “accelerating” his aging.

in November Johnson tweeted that he stopped taking a supplement known as rapamycin. “Despite the tremendous potential from preclinical trials, my team and I have concluded that the benefits of lifelong dosing of Rapamycin do not justify the severe side effects (intermittent skin/soft tissue infections, lipid abnormalities, elevated glucose, and elevated resting heart rate ), he said. “With no other underlying cause identified, we suspected Rapamycin, and since dosage adjustments had no effect, we decided to discontinue it entirely.”

He added: “Furthermore, on October 27, a new preprint shows that Rapamycin is one of the few putative longevity interventions that cause an increase/acceleration of aging in humans across the 16 epigenetic clocks of aging.”

In other words, after taking this experimental drug for half a decade, a new study has come out that suggests it may be doing the exact opposite of what Johnson wanted it to do, and it may also be giving him skin infections.

Johnson, whose obsession with living longer led him to start a new health and wellness company called Blueprint, is also the subject of a recent Netflix Documentary. The doctor quoted Johnson as saying he had “the most aggressive rapamycin intake” of “anyone in the industry.” The New York Post reports. “I’m taking it because there are potentially some longevity benefits,” he adds, noting that it’s “something in the longevity community that people are excited about,” while “outside the longevity community it’s still kind of crazy.”

Many of Johnson’s suggestions for longevity aren’t exactly groundbreaking. His basic rules for a longer lifeas prescribed by his Blueprint website, include things like not drinking or smoking, a healthy diet, and exercising a few hours a week. Blueprint sells subscription bags of different protein powders that the company calls “longevity mixes.” A recent review of the subscription service called it “just another add-on, albeit one with a very interesting personality and story behind its creation.” The review also notes that while the powder regimen includes “some good stuff,” it ends up being very expensive and may not be suitable for different types of people.

While Blueprint may be somewhat mundane, Johnson’s experiments on himself are not. In the past he used the blood of his own teenage son to test whether transfusions from a younger person had any direct benefit to the health of someone his age (he he has since discovered that they do not) and recently used a “shock treatment” on his genitalia in an apparent effort to reverse the aging of his penis and thus induce an erection in an 18-year-old. There’s no real idea what the outcome of Johnson’s strange self-experiment will be. At this stage we really only have the physical results, which so far aren’t great. Johnson, who once just seemed like a normal dude, now he himself admits that he looks like a vampire.