Summary

Bryan Johnson, a 46-year-old tech multimillionaire focused on anti-aging, stopped using rapamycin—a supplement he took for five years—after research suggested it might accelerate aging.

Johnson cited side effects like skin infections and glucose issues, as well as findings from a recent study showing rapamycin could worsen epigenetic aging.

Known for extreme anti-aging experiments, Johnson also created the health startup Blueprint, which markets pricey supplements.

His controversial methods, including teenage blood transfusions and genital shock treatments, have raised skepticism about their effectiveness and safety.

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    4 months ago

    Rapamycin

    It’s not just “one of many” it was the big one that has a large online following swearing by it, and lots of idiots taking it.

    Also I can’t see a pic of this guy without thinking of Dennis Reynolds asking if he should wear a mask of his own face.

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      Every time I think of Dennis Reynolds, I’m reminded of the episode where he tries to sell his car that got stuck in water, and he berates the guy for mentioning how the car isn’t even runnable.

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    Hah, sounds like his “research” is trying it out on himself and deciding he didn’t like it. And now that he doesn’t like it, all of a sudden he finds the research valid. He’s still only listening to opinions he agrees with. What a shallow twat.

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    this guy sucks. He’s conducting essentially a thousand uncontrolled trials on himself making them all useless unless he dies of a new contraindiction

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    This dude is just going to spend a bunch of money on shit that will eventually kill him. What a waste.

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    I’m in my forties and he doesn’t look noticeably younger than I do except for my hair being salt and pepper. I don’t look exceptionally young or anything, it just doesn’t seem like his regimen is really doing anything that diet, exercise, and sunscreen can’t also accomplish.

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      I can imagine that having a hyperfocus on anti-aging and unstoppably aging at the same time, must be really stressful and at the end of the day, ends up contributing to a faster aging overall.

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      He just hit the final S in that system

      He probably should have taken this medication under the supervision of Dr. Toboggan.

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    When you’ve got everything in life and all you want to do is live longer.

    instead of helping the billions living in squalor and dying premature deaths.

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    Is this the trickle down economics everyone is talking about? shall we again start selling uranium, platinum etc beverages to the rich?

    He has a team for this?

    “Despite the immense potential from pre-clinical trials, my team and I came to the conclusion…"

    Forget trickle down economics, this is insane just bring the guillotines.

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      It’s so completely unfair that idiots like this guy make millions of snake oil “experiments” that don’t even work, but people who dedicate all their time and energy into a labor of love are left to rot

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      so high on his own supply

      I’m out of the loop, I don’t know who he is and I’m not sure I’ve heard about the drug earlier. But IMO, at least he did that. Instead of only peddling dreams to others for a hefty price

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    I see the proud tradition of drinking mercury concoctions is alive and well. I mean, not well, but…

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      Would be nice if the dude just went ahead and dove into taoist alchemy instead of trying to create a veneer of actual science.