Bryan Johnson, the unconventional American tech millionaire known for his intense anti-aging experiments, has acknowledged that his pursuit of longevity may have pushed beyond the limits.
Johnson, 48, made the unusually frank admission on X on Wednesday after revealing he had been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.
“Been thinking things over and wonder if I’ve taken this whole longevity thing too far,” he wrote.
The comment came a little more than a week after the entrepreneur claimed he had cloned himself as a newborn baby in order to harvest organs, calling the science fiction-like proposal a “frontier of new paths” for reversing aging.
“I just cloned myself…as a newborn,” Johnson posted on X last Tuesday. “This may be scary to some people…a dystopian future.”
In recent years, the California-based venture capitalist has drawn global attention for his high-profile efforts to slow aging, extend human life and challenge the biological limits of death.
Johnson has reportedly spent about $10 million on longevity research, intensive health tracking, strict supplement routines and experimental procedures, including receiving blood plasma from his son.
He has even publicly referred to his teenage son as his “blood boy.”
However, with his recent admission that he has developed autoimmune gastritis, an incurable chronic condition affecting the stomach lining, Johnson appears to have had a change of heart.
Johnson has faced everything from derision to horror over his stunts, from sharing detailed reports about his wife’s vagina and the volume of microplastics in his sperm on social media, to claiming to have produced a newborn clone of himself.
