Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease
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And then maybe a percentage of those people have a more debilitating version ?
Eep, just looked up the exact figure and yeah the median age is now just about 40. So if something affects 10% of people over 40 then it'd affect 5% of all people. So you can bring my made up numbers above way down, and still end up with 5%.
And he looks pretty much exactly his age.
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.
But yeah, if we're talking seriously - seems like this boils down to a ton of luck (good genetics and a secure enough employment or opportunity).
Seems interesting but not consequential.
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.
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).
This man is not mentally well...
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)
Saying that wouldn't be useful is kinda like saying HN/Reddit isn't useful because it's all anecdotal, that applies to almost all topics in life.
Lastly, let's not pretend that most doctors do actually follow properly a patient blood before/during/after a course of a drug, in most cases, doctor will just ask How did it go, any side effects?... That's a new "data" for the doc, all anecdotal, almost the same value as a "trusted" rando on Reddit.
For starters, you don't conduct two simultaneous experiments on the same subject because of confounding variables, let alone 50.
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".
For the average person (if we're all contaminated with some small level of pfas) I'm not sure there's a better solution to normal and regular (over many years) blood donation.
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/ov...
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.
Oh really? have him told you so? Amazing. Did he give you more details about the treatments?
“Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.
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.
Isn't getting "hacked" suppose to be a bad thing ?
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-...
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.
HN is/was a bastion of venture capital and big tech. This is literally Y Combinator. Maybe reflect on why the tides may be slightly shifting away from idealist absolutism even in a place like this. You'll probably find genuine grievances and criticism instead of Red Scare cardboard cutouts that you'd look so good taking down.
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.
It can't really be reasoned with because it's a subconscious reflex.
Heuristics overwrite reasoning for most people because they don't consume much resources in the brain, the cheaper path is selected by default.
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
Is incredible but understandable, that many don´t get it.
The most common cause of death globally is cardiovascular disease. The people buying supplements from him are buying his longevity supplements which likely have limited benefits to anyone.