Tech Mogul Turns Son into His 'Blood Boy' While Chasing Immortality
Grandpa rolls up his sleeve, too. Who knew multigenerational plasma transfusions could be so bonding?
Silicon Valley tech bros are, um, different.
Too polite…let’s try again…
Silicon Valley tech bros are twisted freaks!
Why so judgmental?
You be the judge:
What if you were tech mogul rich and able to budget $2 million per year to chase the fountain of youth? Would you?
That’s what Bryan Johnson is doing, according to Futurism:
45-year-old tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson recently took to a Dallas-area health clinic with his 17-year-old son Talmage and his 70-year-old dad Richard to engage in an intergenerational blood swap — with the elders receiving the plasma of their offspring like some sort of 21st-century vampiric ritual.
It wasn't the first time the middle Johnson had been to a clinic to get young blood transfusions, though during those prior visits, he received the blood of an anonymous donor whose profile he'd painstakingly selected based on body mass index, blood type, diet, and overall health record. (Full disclosure: Johnson was an early investor in Futurism, though his involvement ended years ago.)
This is not, of course, Johnson's first foray into trying to drink from the fountain of youth.
Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported on the tech founder's quest to return his "brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum" to the state they were collectively in when he was 18. The ongoing endeavor costs him about $2 million per year as he employs a team of 30 doctors and specialists to advise him on how to return to his peak late teen physique.
Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
Anytime three people are swapping blood—particularly now in 2023—did any of these three Johnson’s get jabbed?
Because if the youngest is the only one inoculated—-now they all three are poked with mRNA juice.
Anyhow, if you want to follow Peter Pan’s quest for immortality, he tracks his progress and shares too much personal information for your viewing pleasure on Twitter:
What’s up with the lower leg bruising?
Oh, if you’re wondering about this whole notion of putting younger blood inside your body to help you get younger—not everyone is convinced.
In the wake of fears of a scenario like the all-too-real "blood boy" phenomenon depicted in a later season of the HBO show "Silicon Valley," the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning back in 2019 against the practice of young blood transfusions, which it called an "unproven" therapy.
"There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product," the FDA warned at the time.
Experts have voiced some serious doubts about the practice. Worse yet, it could be potentially harmful.
"To me, it’s gross, evidence-free and relatively dangerous," Charles Brenner, a biochemist at City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, told Bloomberg.
Brenner had an interesting theory as to why anybody would want to swap blood with their direct relatives.
"The people going into these clinics who want anti-aging infusions basically have an anxiety problem," Brenner told the publication. "They have an anxiety problem about their mortality."
For the morbidly curious, Johnson documented the very first blood transfusion ever performed between father, son, and grandpa (“The multigenerational plasma exchange”):
Now is a perfect time to segue into…
"relatively" dangerous...I much prefer "cabana" boyz...