Published 19:11 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?
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Tech mogul, bio-hacker Bryan Johnson took to Instagram about his latest tryst with an anti-ageing experiment that went horribly wrong.
At initiation of this experiment dubbed, 'Porject Baby Face', Bryan was seeking answer to only one query being are we first generation who won’t die?
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"To begin, my team and I evaluated all scientific literature on longevity and aging, stack ranking best performing health rapies with most compelling evidence," he said.
Caloric restriction was among 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 brink of death.
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As Blueprint grew into a global movement, 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.
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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 problem was Johnson didn’t have enough fat on my body to extract, so he availed help of a donor.
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following turn of events blew up on his face, making it worse until it turned into an allergic reaction of severity.
"Thirty minutes after 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.
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After a week, his face returned to its normal state, which fueled tech billionaire's enthusiasm for future experiments.
19:09 IST, November 19th 2024