Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, is trying to reverse the aging process by spending millions of dollars on a team of experts monitoring and conducting experiments on his body in order to achieve the body of an 18-year-old, according to a new interview with Time magazine. Time senior correspondent Charlotte Alter described visiting and interviewing the entrepreneur in his California home. « The goal is to get his 46-year-old organs to look and act like 18-year-old organs, » she reported. According to Johnson, he now has the bones of a 30-year-old, and the heart of a 37-year-old. The journalist went on to describe Johnson’s restrictive health regimen to reduce his « biological age. » « That system includes downing 111 pills every day, wearing a baseball cap that shoots red light into his scalp, collecting his own stool samples, and sleeping with a tiny jet pack attached to his penis to monitor his nighttime erections, » she wrote. ‘FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH’ TO PREVENT SOME EFFECTS OF AGING MAY HAVE SURPRISING SOURCE: STUDY Alter then described the spartan conditions of his bedroom: « The only two objects in the room besides his bed are a laser face-shield he uses for collagen growth and wrinkle reduction, and the device he wears on his penis while he sleeps to measure his nighttime erections. » « I have, on average, two hours and 12 minutes each night of erection of a certain quality, » Johnson told the reporter. « To be age 18, it would be three hours and 30 minutes. » The journalist described numerous details of Johnson’s routine before 6 a.m., such as measuring his « weight, body-mass index, hydration level, body fat, and something called ‘pulse wave velocity,’ » using a « light-therapy lamp (which mimics sun exposure) for two to three minutes to reset his circadian rhythm » and taking his « inner-ear temperature to monitor changes in his body. » While scientists and medical experts Alter quoted voiced skepticism about his project and methods, Johnson suggested he is more interested in the future’s opinions rather than his modern contemporaries. « I have a relationship with the 25th century more than I have a relationship with the 21st century, » he told Alter. « I don’t really care what people in our time and place think of me. I really care about what the 25th century thinks. » The reporter recounted that such procedures have made his dating life difficult, noting he had listed « what he calls the ‘10 reasons why [women] will literally hate me.’ The reasons include: eating dinner at 11:30 a.m., no sunny vacations, bed at 8:30pm, no small talk, always sleeping alone, and, of course, ‘they’re not my number one priority.’ » SUPERMODEL LAUREN HUTTON SLAMS ‘ANTI-AGING’ TERM, SOCIETY’S ‘OBSESSION WITH YOUTH’ Alter questioned whether one can truly retain their humanity when their lives are so regimented around an extreme health routine. Johnson replied, « Whether we’re talking about falling in love, or having sex, or going to the baseball game, you’re talking about biochemical states in the body. » He added, « You can remove everything and just say, ‘I’m experiencing this kind of electrical activity in my body and these kinds of hormones.’ We have a whole bunch of ideas about what it means to exist, we have all these ideas about what is happiness, and other things. We’re walking into a future where we no longer have control, » appearing to refer to AI, before declaring, « we are willing to divorce ourselves from all human custom. Everything: all philosophy, all ethics, all morals, all happiness. » When asked by the journalist whether eternal life would be tainted by losing all of one’s loved ones who are not in the same program, Johnson compared the feeling to « senior night » at high school, where, « We say goodbye, we have been together all these years, and we’re probably not going to see each other again. » Alter responded that her « 21st century Homo sapien brain was not convinced, » writing that Johnson « seemed to suggest that for humans to survive in an AI-aligned future, they may need to sacrifice part of what makes them human in the first place. » Robinson did not respond to a request for comment. Fox News’ Kristine Parks contributed to this report.
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