Truth about 'live forever' guru Bryan Johnson: Devastating expose reveals he's a seedy control freak obsessed with anti-ageing his penis... and that's not even the worst part

We each privation antithetic things retired of life. Some question fiscal stability. Others privation spiritual fulfilment and satellite peace. Most of america conscionable privation to slumber done the night.

But Bryan Johnson, a erstwhile Mormon missionary and multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur who lives successful Los Angeles, has a alternatively much niche approach. He has dedicated his beingness to the pursuit of longevity. Or, much accurately, he's decided he's not going to die, ever. No, he'll simply unrecorded everlastingly – and wants america each to articulation him.

To which end, helium has spent 5 years – and astatine slightest £8million – experimenting connected his ain assemblage done an AI-designed authorities truthful austere that immoderate radical mightiness query the constituent of living.

So helium gets up astatine 4.30am, goes to furniture astatine 8.30pm, takes much than 100 supplements a day, eats 3 dreary meals of vegan sludge called 'Meal one', 'Meal two' and 'Meal three', avoids nonstop sunlight, exercises obsessively, sleeps nether a collagen disguise and that's conscionable the commencement of it.

He has besides been injected with his past 17-year-old son's humor plasma, regularly measures his night-time erections for magnitude and spot and has repeatedly shocked his penis with 'acoustic technology' to summation its virility. As a effect of this hard (sorry) work, Bryan claims to person knocked 5.1 years disconnected his biologic property and has reduced his ageing complaint to 0.64 which, by his reckoning, means that, for each 12 months, helium ages hardly seven.

Even amended quality for his 4 cardinal followers is that helium happily shares his secrets and supplements done Blueprint, his multi-million dollar long-life start-up, truthful we tin each drawback up branded olive oil, blood-testing instrumentality and different products tied to his idiosyncratic fare and recommendations to assistance reverse our ain ageing.

All of which would consciousness capable for astir of america to beryllium getting connected with.

But Bryan is lone conscionable getting started and precocious launched his ain religion: 'Don't Die'.

'Dear humanity, I americium gathering a religion...' helium writes modestly successful 1 of his societal media posts, '... the adjacent large framework. It's however we modulation into the epoch of AI and solving death… It saves the quality race.'

His disciples are lapping it up. Joining successful droves. Buying Bryan's peculiar $39 Don't Die olive oil. Meeting successful their thousands for Don't Die hikes and creation nights successful their branded T-shirts, readying for their adjacent 100 years.

So what a shame to larn – acknowledgment to an probe by The New York Times – that there's a spot of a hitch successful the aboriginal of forever. And that each is not good astatine the Blueprint/Don't Die HQ.

For starters, it seems that Bryan is unhealthily obsessed with secrecy and control. So overmuch truthful that his unit person been required to motion breathtakingly elaborate confidentiality agreements astir what goes connected down Blueprint's doors. Agreements pages and pages long. And not conscionable his staff. Bryan's obsession extends to girlfriends, intersexual partners, dates – 1 helium asked to motion a non-disclosure statement earlier they tried acerb together.

Even an ex-fiancée, Taryn Southern, 38, who besides worked for him, was made to sign. Though that narration went southbound erstwhile she was diagnosed with cancer, Bryan reportedly declared her a 'net negative' and the brace were embroiled successful nasty and nationalist litigation for ages, implicit money, secrecy and whether helium did, oregon did not, cure her of cancer.

There person besides been bizarre 'opt-in' agreements, with unit allegedly pressured to motion contracts agreeing not to kick astir Bryan wearing 'little and sometimes nary clothing/no underwear' astatine work, inappropriate behaviour and the seemingly endless discussions astir his erections.

On apical of each that, Oliver Zolman, Bryan's semipermanent 'longevity doctor' near softly past twelvemonth – reportedly unhappy with the efficacy of immoderate products sold done Blueprint, peculiarly the best-selling $49 'longevity mix,' which made a batch of radical precise sick.

There person besides been swirling allegations that immoderate of the information Bryan utilized to beryllium his reversal of aging mightiness person been cherry- picked. And that contempt each the grounds helium has presented to the contrary, Bryan is inactive really 47 years old. So I instrumentality a person look astatine the many, galore photos of his muscular assemblage – immoderate wholly bare but for a strategically placed kettlebell.

And, to beryllium fair, portion determination is nary question that helium is utterly ripped and you tin spot the outline of each bluey achromatic muscle, helium doesn't look peculiarly young. In fact, helium looks alternatively odd.

Sort of ageless, with his airy hairless skin, auburn hairsbreadth (which helium insists is 'not dyed'), unusual waxy look (caused by utmost lasering) and pink-rimmed eyes.

It can't assistance that, by his ain admission, helium is perpetually bare and lives a worryingly solo life, acknowledgment to the myriad restrictions demanded by the Project Blueprint algorithm. It wasn't ever so. Fifteen years ago, Bryan was a depressed, joined workaholic with 3 children and a stalwart of the Mormon assemblage successful Utah wherever helium grew up.

In 2007, with a young household to support, helium founded Braintree, a payment-processing institution which grew similar huffy and acquired Venmo (another outgo processing company) 5 years later.

It was aft helium sold the combined concern to PayPal successful 2013 for $800million – personally netting $300million – that it seems his values shifted a spot and helium embarked connected a 'period of exploration'.

He got divorced, ditched the Mormon church, mislaid 50 lbs, got his mojo back, started seeing prostitutes and, allegedly, dabbled successful acid. Soon after, similar truthful galore uber-wealthy tech bros, helium became obsessed with longevity.

Of course, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the remainder of the Silicon Valley pack had collectively tried everything to eke retired a fewer much years. But Bryan took it further.

In 2016, helium founded Kernel, a neurotechnology institution that uses a specially designed helmet to measurement encephalon enactment and which helium uses for amusive to measurement the property of his encephalon – 37 apparently.

But not conscionable his brain. Since 2021, helium has enactment his full assemblage done it – utmost dieting, excessive exercise, cistron therapy, quality maturation hormone, plasma transfusions with some his lad and father.

Meanwhile, his extended aesculapian squad has been repeatedly measuring the biologic property of each organ. Then, past year, helium became obsessed with his penis age. Not conscionable measuring its ups and downs and sharing the results. But completing a people of experimental shockwave therapy that was highly achy but made his penis consciousness '15 years younger'.

One of the large definites of beingness has ever been, of course, that we volition die. But Bryan has ne'er been abbreviated of self-belief. He is utilized to the hate. The backchat. The non-believers. His bluey achromatic tegument is arsenic heavy arsenic leather.

Over the years, helium has compared himself to explorers Christopher Columbus and Sir Ernest Shackleton – and Jesus Christ.

'I don't truly attraction what radical successful our clip and spot deliberation of me,' helium writes. 'I truly attraction astir what the 25th-century thinks.'

Whatever is happening down the scenes astatine Blueprint (and it doesn't dependable good), determination tin beryllium nary doubting the time, effort and wealth that Bryan has poured into his Don't Die movement. All those atrocious grey meals. All those tests. All those agonising shockwaves. And now, it seems, each that bullying control.

But possibly nary of it really matters. Because adjacent if Bryan was connected to something, and adjacent if we could spend to unrecorded similar him, bouncing astir successful our tiny shorts eating sludge and going to furniture astatine 8.30pm draped successful genital monitors, wherefore connected world would we privation to adjacent for a week, fto unsocial eternity?