Obsessed with youth, he transfuses himself with his teenage son’s blood. The case of tycoon Bryan Johnson

On the advice of a team of 30 doctors and regenerative health experts, father, son and grandfather showed up on April 3 at a Dallas clinic to put into practice the world’s first intergenerational plasma exchange.

It is the new experiment of the American tycoon Bryan Johnson who, obsessed with youth, spends $2 million a year on an anti-aging program and who, at this stage, turned 17-year-old son Talmage into his own personal plasma donor.

45 years old, founder of Kernel – manufacturer of helmets that measure brain signals and the impact of meditation and pharmaceutical interventions on chronic pain – Johnson’s main objective is to keep his internal organs (including the penis and rectum) functioning as they did in his youth. Hence, the decision to “enroll” his teenage son Talmage to carry out a blood transfusion from a younger donor.

Last month, Johnson, his father Richard and son Talmage therefore showed up at a Dallas clinic for an hour-long trigenerational blood exchange.
Usually, Johnson receives plasma from an anonymous donor, but in this case it was Talmage who provided him with a liter of his blood and more: after drawing the blood, Talmage’s plasma was injected into Johnson’s veins which in his opinion Once he “gave” his to his 70-year-old father Richard.

Interviewed about it by BloombergJohnson explained that he follows the suggestions of his team of regenerative health experts, which they have included in his strict rejuvenation program called Project Blueprint also plasma exchange. To carry it out, anonymous young donors with an ideal body mass index and a healthy lifestyle were selected.

Plasma as «anti-aging» therapy: does it work?

The use of plasma as an anti-aging technique caught the attention of wellness fanatics when scientists have experimented on young and old mice by sharing their circulatory systems. Older rodents showed improvements in their cognition function, metabolism and bone structure, while younger subjects showed that frequent blood donation could have positive effects.
However, there is little human-based data, leading many researchers to view longevity techniques related to plasma exchange as inconclusive. Skeptical about it is also Philip Ongaroexpert of anti-aging and functional medicineas well as author of Longevity mission.
«Let’s say that as a procedure I don’t know that there is any validation that justifies its use. There are preliminary data in mice but nothing in humans and certainly nothing definitive. Having said that, I would make a broader discussion. These behaviors seem to me to be the result of a terror of death and old age that leaves little room for enjoying life. Maybe you can even lengthen it, but what’s the point if you have to live like this, spending your time in constant medical treatment?», points out Ongaro.

A routine to stay «always young», but does it make sense?

All of these treatments are part of an anti-aging program created by Johnson and called Project Blueprintwhich also encourages followers to measure their weight daily, the body mass indexThe body fati blood glucose levels and the heart rate changes. “My new venture, Project Blueprintaims to control all 78 organs in my body and reverse the biological age of each to the maximum,” Johnson wrote in a 2021 post.

Bryan Johnson follows an ultra-strict routine that starts at 5 every morning with two dozen supplements. He then trains for an hour, has breakfast following one low calorie vegan diet and even brushes her teeth following a protocol that involves a tea tree oil rinse and antioxidant gel.
While he sleeps, Johnson he is connected to a machine that counts how many erections he has during the night. Before bedtime, he wears a pair of blue light-blocking glasses for two hours.

Goal: Have all major organs — including the brain, liver, kidneys, teeth, skin, hair, penis, and rectum — functioning as well as they do in their late teens. The billionaire claims that all these very expensive treatments have already brought him closer to the fountain of youth: today he shows the heart of a 37-year-old And the skin of a 28 year old. But is it worth constantly submitting to this rigid and expensive program to “earn” ten years?
«Certainly it can be an interesting experiment to understand what results it gets but I don’t think that for most people this is a sensible experience», underlines Filippo Ongaro. “That’s why I don’t even think that such approaches help to promote proper lifestyle management in the population, which we really need. Today’s challenge is not to make a few billionaires achieve immortality but to make sure that more people learn to live healthily and age healthily».

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