Mon Jul 6, 2026 - 3:05 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A wealthy entrepreneur who spends more than $2 million a year and who has received blood from his teenage son and other young persons in his quest to achieve immortality, or at least stave off aging, reports that he has developed a rare disease that he says is causing “My stomach to eat itself.”
Biohacker Bryan Johnson, founder of online payments company Braintree, announced on social media that he has been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis (AIG), an incurable autoimmune disease.
In a lengthy, nearly 2,000-word post on X, Johnson said, “My stomach is eating itself,” but declared that is “going to try and solve it.”
“AIG causes irreversible damage: nutritional deficiency, anemia, and over a long horizon, elevated cancer risk,” Johnson said. “When AIG is discovered today, standard medical care concedes defeat, stating that nothing can be done except managing the condition, no matter how awful or lethal the effects.”
In 2023, news emerged that Johnson had recruited his then-17-year-old son, Talmage, to provide a full liter of his blood that was separated into a batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, according to a Bloomberg report.
His son’s plasma was then infused into his veins.
Johnson had previously received blood transfusions from young anonymous donors with the goal of reversing the aging process.
According to Bloomberg, Johnson personally screened the donors in order to ensure they had an ideal body mass index, were free of diseases, and lived a healthy lifestyle.
“As well as blood transfusions, Johnson follows a strict daily routine that includes monitoring his body fat, heart rate variability, blood, stool samples, and the number of erections he has per night,” a May 2023 Fortune report explained. “Every day he also takes two dozen medicines at 5 a.m., consumes 1,977 ‘vegan calories,’ and exercises for an hour before using blue-light-evasive glasses and hitting the hay.”
Elsewhere, Johnson has stated that he takes 54 pills each day.
He has also had himself injected with “gene therapy.”
Johnson founded Braintree, an e-commerce company that he sold to PayPal for a reported $800 million in 2013.
He has amassed 1.5 million followers on X, 2.6 million followers on Instagram and 2.2 million subscribers on YouTube, all of whom are interested in following his crusade to discover the fountain of youth.
Since early last year, Netflix has streamed a 1.5-hour documentary about Johnson’s longevity quest titled Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever.
“As a species, we accept our inevitable decay, decline, and death,” Johnson said at the outset of the film. “I want to argue that the opposite should be true.”
He says he wants to “neutralize aging.”
Johnson claims that through his “Project Blueprint” he has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18-year-olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10-year-old, and reduced his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years.
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edit: I don't actually ethically endorse this. I was moreso poking fun at the morbidity of the biohacking influencer space which invites people to obsess over an influencer's health and inevitably turns into something gruesome when said influencer has a tragic health outcome.
However each of his tests, as they are new, also has a smaller probability of having ruin effect: killing him or leaving him disabled in the process. Multiplying the treatments increases significantly the downside risks (1 failure is enough) while the positive will not compound (you will need many of them to work to see a significant effect).
If you really wanna live a long time you probably need to be carefully making tons of fermented food the way our grandparents did but with the advances of modern science and monitoring. And of course eat an otherwise healthy diet with moderate and varied amounts of exercise and low stress.
And of course win the genetic + luck lottery.
Doubt the guy would be having GI issues if he was eating his own homemade Natto everyday
Edit: went to the guys site and the first product he's selling is a gut health pill that makes a lot of bold claims. Bullshit meter is off the charts
I know Putin is also doing a similar thing, he has a team of doctors who are supposed to keep him alive forever. But he certainly seems the sort of boss you cant disagree with or give bad news to (we can see that in how he commands the war) so maybe he will also hopefully die sooner than we think.
Seems interesting but not consequential.
Is incredible but understandable, that many don´t get it.
That definitely doesn't seem to be the case, especially if you look beyond his bio-hacking endeavors. His treatment of employees and ex-partners seems pretty horrible: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-...
And he looks pretty much exactly his age.
Oh really? have him told you so? Amazing. Did he give you more details about the treatments?
It's also not cancer. AIG makes him more susceptible to certain cancers, but he does not have cancer yet.
And looking at what he's done compared to the symptoms, it's possible he's been inadvertently self-medicating his condition for a bit.
He's currently blaming his lifestyle before his "biohacking" for his condition.
“Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.
Isn't getting "hacked" suppose to be a bad thing ?
There we go again. There's always that one guy in the crowd, who knows better what you should be spending your money on. Also, that guy has the moral right to tell you. He is a really good person, you know! So you should listen! You should also thank him.
> He deserves to be mocked.
Just look how good this guy is.
And then maybe a percentage of those people have a more debilitating version ?
It's also useful because most AI models are able to talk about what the community is saying about drugs and the model can correlate that with many other things and it does enhance diagnostic and it's quite useful to train medical models.
See a relatively "new" example is about Vapes, there has been deaths and so-on due to people experimenting with illicit ones, without those reports, we will never have in future Science book and AI models that some chemicals are dangerous to inhale or whatever (it's a shitty example but you get my point)
Funnily enough donating blood actually can have big benefits for health - they did a study on Firemen who have massively higher PFAS blood levels (exposure to fire fighting foams). Turns out by regularly donating blood it forces the body to make new blood which was the only reliable way to dilute the "forever chemicals".
Evil Motherfuckerness seems to be uniformly distributed across the social strata.
Unfortunately, stupid communist ideas are very popular on this website. Say "eat the rich" and they will clap.
Age is often a factor here. If you're older then you've known a different world of capitalism than what's being put on display in contemporary times. By contrast for younger people, this sketchiness is all they've ever known.