DAILY MAIL
A well-known eccentric tech mogul with a zeal for looking younger has taken the drastic step of swapping blood plasma with his father and young son.
Bryan Johnson is a world-famous biohacker who has become notorious for spending millions of dollars every year on a cadre of doctors and medical procedures that purport to carry the fountain of youth.
Mr Johnson, who has received blood transfusions from a healthy, anonymous donor in the past, has now accepted plasma donation from his 70-year-old father Richard and 17-year-old son Talmage.
The trio underwent the transfusions at a Dallas clinic in which the senior father and teen son have a liter of their blood removed and converted via a machine into its piece parts— one batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
That collection is then fed into Mr Johnson’s veins with the goal of rejuvenating and repairing cellular damages wrough by the aging process by replacing old blood in an old body with new blood from a young donor.
Johnson, the American tech tycoon worth nearly half a billion dollars, has become the de facto posterchild of drasic measures to prevent age-related decline.
Johnson and his doctors claim that in two years he has reduced his overall biological age by more than five years and now has the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old.
