Bryan Johnson is a 45-year-old dad and successful tech worker who appears to have a major goal: to stay as young as possible for as long as possible. And to that end, Bryan has come up with a fairly intense and definitely fascinating solution.
Bryan, his 70-year-old dad, and his 17-year-old son recently met up at a blood transfusion clinic in Dallas, Texas, where they exchanged their plasma, platelets, and red and white blood cells. This wasn't the first time the trio had used the treatment, but this time his 17-year-old son donated his own plasma to his dad.
As reported by Bloomberg, 17-year-old Talmage first donates a liter of his own blood, which is then split into its useful parts. The plasma is then fed into his father's veins.
Bryan's father also receives the same treatment when it's his turn. The trio are overseen by 30 doctors, who all travel to Dallas at the same time to make sure it's successful.
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Bryan also sometimes receives donations from anonymous donors, whom he has screened to make sure they have the appropriate body mass index and do not have chronic diseases.
The outlet also reports that the treatment was first conceived after scientists were able to physically attach old and young mice so they could share a circulatory system. The older mice soon showed improvements in their cognitive abilities and metabolism.
However, not everyone is on board for this treatment in humans. As Charles Brenner, a biochemist from Los Angeles' City of Hope National Medical Center says, "We have not learned enough to suggest this is a viable human treatment for anything. To me, it’s gross, evidence-free and relatively dangerous."
Bryan refers to the "project" as Project Blueprint. As he explains in a blog post, "My new endeavor, Project Blueprint, aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each. We have measured over 15 organs and I’ve scored 507 age reversal points. My chronological age is 44, measured biological age is 36."
He continues, "Many people believe that anti-aging, the fountain-of-youth radical type, is decades if not centuries away (if ever) and will arrive in the form of a magic pill. Blueprint is a stock ticker of sorts that will reveal, through the tracking of my biological versus chronological age, the status of today’s anti-aging science (even if an N=1 for now). With my world-class team of doctors, researchers and clinicians, if I am able to reverse my measured biological age by 1.01 years for every one year that passes, that is evidence that we have reached the first stage of aging escape velocity where life expectancy increases faster than passed time."
