“My Stomach Is Eating Itself”: Biohacker Bryan Johnson Redoubles Efforts To Live Forever After Admitting Incurable Disease

“Don’t die.” This is the idea that lies at the core of the philosophy of Bryan Johnson, the “man who wants to live forever.” He is a controversial biohacker, longevity and anti-aging advocate, tech entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and—by his own admission—the world’s most measured human. Johnson wants you—and himself—to live forever and be eternally young. “Conquering death will be humanity’s greatest achievement,” he boasts.

His argument to his cult-like followers is simple and seductive. If you manage to live just long enough, technology will have evolved to the point where you can, essentially, ‘cure’ aging and become immortal. You will have achieved ‘longevity escape velocity.’ He offers (free and incredibly detailed) protocols and (paid) supplements under the Blueprint brand to help you on your journey. And if you’re really rich and buy into his whole immortality schtick, you can get access to his mind-bogglingly costly $1-million-per-year longevity program.

But unfortunately, despite his intensely rigid, mind-bogglingly expensive, high-maintenance, and ethically dubious health and fitness protocols and self-experiments, there might be one thing that this longevity hyper-enthusiast can’t conquer. And not for a lack of trying.

Recently, Johnson, who considers himself the world’s healthiest person, has publicly admitted that he has been diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease. Naturally, this throws a spanner in the works for all of his plans. And yet, he is dedicated to curing himself and redoubling his efforts to overcome mortality. However, with his health under even more scrutiny, many of his medical experiments are raising eyebrows. Talks about ‘cloning’ himself as a newborn, freezing his partner’s menstrual blood, plasma infusions from his son, and various medical interventions and invasive procedures are making people uncomfortable. Let’s get into what’s fact, what’s hype, and whether Johnson’s ambitious missions to cure himself and live forever are realistic or just incredibly loud and clickbaity self-promotion.