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Published 19:09 IST, November 19th 2024

Project Baby Face: Tech Billionaire Bryan Johnson's Anti-Ageing Experiment Goes Wrong

Bio-hacker Bryan Johnson's latest anti-ageing test seeks answers to existential queries like are we the generation that does not die?

Bryan Johnson | Image: Unsplash

Tech mogul, bio-hacker Bryan Johnson took to Instagram about his latest tryst with an anti-ageing experiment that went horribly wrong.

At the initiation of this experiment dubbed, 'Porject Baby Face', Bryan was seeking answer to only one query being are we the first generation who won’t die?

"To begin, my team and I evaluated all the scientific literature on longevity and aging, stack ranking the best performing health therapies with the most compelling evidence," he said.

Caloric restriction was among the early selections. Johnson's daily calorie consumption dropped from 2,500 to 1,950. As a result, Johnson got really lean and lost a lot of fat—especially in my face. My biomarkers were improving, but I looked gaunt. People thought I was on the brink of death.

As Blueprint grew into a global movement, the scrutiny increased. facial fat, became important for how people perceive youth. It didn’t matter how good my biomarkers were if I didn’t have face fat.

Project Baby Face. Image credit: Instagram

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The process started-off by injecting a fat-derived extracellular matrix to regain volume that got reduced by my body's natural fat growth. It’s possible to use one’s own body fat for this but the problem was Johnson didn’t have enough fat on my body to extract, so he availed the help of a donor.

The following turn of events blew up on his face, making it worse until it turned into an allergic reaction of severity.

"Thirty minutes after the treatment, I was scheduled to meet with @valleyhack of Bloomberg to talk about Blueprint. I called him and said, “Hey, so that you’re not alarmed, you may not recognize me today. I think I’m ok. I hope I’m ok. If I’m not ok, are you by chance trained to perform any life-saving actions?” Johnson shared on Instagram.

After a week, his face returned to its normal state, which fueled the tech billionaire's enthusiasm for future experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

Updated 19:11 IST, November 19th 2024

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