They say that the only two certainties in this life are death and taxes, but I think that list needs amending. Rich people have been very good at evading taxes for a long time, and now, 45-year-old tech millionaire Bryan Johnson is trying to evade death too. Or at least postpone it for as long as possible.


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Johnson sold his company Braintree Payment Solutions to eBay for $800 million in cash in 2013 and has been spending over $2 million a year since to reverse his aging process.



“My new endeavor, Project Blueprint, aims to measure all 70 organs of my body and then maximally reverse the quantified biological age of each,” Johnson wrote in 2021.


Part of his regimen includes regular blood and plasma transfusions from “blood boy” donors, including his 17-year-old son Talmage. Johnson claims he has the heart of a 37-year-old and the skin of a 28-year-old. They also perform the procedure with Johnson’s 70-year-old father.



Although Johnson has a team of 30 doctors to help him, there is little medical research to support Johnson’s techniques.


“We have not learned enough to suggest this is a viable human treatment for anything,” the biochemist Charles Brenner said to Bloomberg. “To me, it’s gross, evidence-free, and relatively dangerous.”


Last week we covered the unsearchable conspiracy theory to explain celebrity aging, which involves taking a chemical called adrenochrome from younger donors. That theory is also unsupported, but it would seem that Johnson is of like mind.



Rich people will do whatever they can to avoid suffering the same fates as the rest of us. But while I probably pay a higher percentage in taxes than Bryan Johnson, I’m willing to bet my blood he meets his maker around the same time the rest of us do.