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Wealthy tech CEO Bryan Johnson has spent millions of dollars, hired dozens of doctors, and been following a very unique reverse aging process for the past several years with the goal of returning his body to that of an 18-year-old. He figures that if he can reverse and/or halt the aging process, it’s possible that he might be able to live forever.
His stated goal is to have the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum of an 18-year-old. He is doing this by following numerous unique tasks and procedures he calls Project Blueprint. Part of that regimen includes a machine which he claims simulates doing 20,000 sit-ups in just 30 minutes. He and a handful of doctors claim that all of this is working and he is slowing, and in some areas reversing, the aging process.
Earlier this year, Bryan Johnson announced that he was starting his own religion based on his beliefs called “Don’t Die.” In discussing his new “religion,” Johnson hinted that artificial intelligence will essentially serve as “God.”
“It really is in my best interest to let it tell me what to eat, tell me when to sleep and exercise, because it would do a better job of making me happy,” he said. “Instead of my mind haphazardly deciding what it wants to eat based on how it feels in the moment, the body is elevated to a position of authority. AI is going to be omnipresent and built into our everyday activities. Just like it autocompletes our texts, it will be able to autocomplete our thoughts.”
Are shrooms the key to living longer?
On Wednesday, Bryan Johnson revealed that doing shrooms may also be another key to his living forever. He believes psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in “magic mushrooms,” might help him in slowing and/or reversing the aging process.
“I might have to try shrooms, for science,” Johnson, who loves his psychedelics, said on social media. “A new study found that psilocybin, a compound in magic mushrooms, which also happens to alter your mind, may slow your aging.
“Researchers paired the active form of psilocybin with human cells in a lab and the results were kind of wild. The treated cells stayed younger for longer, divided more times before aging out, and the end of their chromosomes stayed intact and healthy longer.
“But it didn’t stop there,” he continued. “In the same study, monthly doses of psilocybin were given to older mice. By the end of the trial, 80 percent of the elderly mice that had been treated were still alive, compared to just 50 percent of the untreated mice. That’s like the difference between living to your sixties or your nineties.
“This does suggest that psilocybin could slow your aging and keep you healthy longer. As more research is done, there’s a possibility that ‘tripping balls’ will be a part of everybody’s longevity protocol.”
That, or he is just trying to sell more possibly useless crap on his website. One of those things.
@_bryan_johnson_ I might have to try shrooms (for science)
What people are saying
“Where can we sign up… you know, for science?” one viewer wrote. “I’m happy to be a guinea pig, but if I go traipsing barefoot through the forest, that’s not on me.”
“Eagerly awaiting the video and evidence,” another viewer commented. “Imagine at your next event you have a group of followers (not myself) tripping on shrooms.”
“‘That’s the difference between living to your 60s or 90s?’ That’s not how math works,” someone else expressed. “What this actually would mean is that if humans typically lived until 70s, with about 50% living to 80s, this treatment would mean 80% lived to 80s while only 20% died in 70s.”
“Bro chat GPT says this dose in mice would be equivalent to between 8-24 grams of dried mushrooms, and that it was administered once a month which is important (you have to take it all at once),” read another comment. “This is a HUGE dose of mushrooms.”
So, in summary, magic mushrooms may or may not help you slow aging. They also may or may not help you become a crypto billionaire. Results may vary.