For $1 million, you can pay Bryan Johnson (or BryanAI?) to teach you how to live longer

It’s the mediate of February, and the aerial is dry. There are good lines emerging connected my forehead, possibly due to the fact that I don’t moisturize enough, but possibly arsenic a harbinger of thing greater: each time I turn person to my ain death. Soon, I volition beryllium 30. I volition ne'er beryllium younger than I americium close now.

Fintech-founder-turned-longevity-guru Bryan Johnson has an connection that has caught my attention. For the low, debased terms of $1 cardinal per year, I tin wage him to amusement maine the ropes of the “exact protocol” he’s followed for the past 5 years. He calls the programme “Immortals.”

Yes, a feline who has received botox injections successful his genitals volition thatch maine however to supposedly reverse the process of aging. Why shouldn’t I judge that Byran Johnson has uncovered the secrets to surviving longer than immoderate different human? No, helium has not yet proven his capableness to outlive each different humans. He was calved successful 1977, a twelvemonth successful which galore existent humans were born.

But wherefore would I uncertainty the judgement of a feline who fortified his constitution with blood from his teenage son? When person the tech elite ever misled us? Should I besides question erstwhile Elon Musk says that saving for status is irrelevant due to the fact that AGI volition make an economical abundance truthful large that nary 1 volition ever cognize poorness again?

According to Johnson’s station connected X, this exclusive work — lone 3 spots are available! — volition see “a dedicated concierge team, BryanAI 24/7, extended testing, millions of biologic information points, continuous tracking, champion tegument and hairsbreadth protocols, and entree to the champion therapies connected market.”

I tin speech to the AI mentation of a feline who livestreams himself doing shrooms for “science?” Sign maine up!

Except I can’t. Because I bash not person $1 million. Those similar maine volition person to settee for buying Johnson’s overpriced olive lipid successful our pursuit of immortality (it’s peppery and smooth!)

My emergent forehead wrinkle intensifies with the cognition that Johnson volition apt person an casual clip filling up those 3 $1 cardinal spots. Among the ultra wealthy, longevity has go an progressively blistery pursuit.

John Hering, who has fixed Musk billions of dollars successful backing, co-founded Biograph, which describes itself arsenic a preventative wellness and diagnostics clinic. Its astir premium rank costs $15,000 a twelvemonth (next to Johnson’s offering, it astir seems similar a bully deal… almost). A akin startup, Fountain Life, has raised $108 cardinal to money its “ultimate longevity program,” which charges a $21,500 yearly fee. Sure, Johnson’s programme is simply a batch much expensive, but remember, there’s lone 3 spots! And if you’re inactive not acceptable to ammunition retired 7 figures, well, you tin entree a vague “supported tier” for $60,000.

There’s thing incorrect with wanting to unrecorded a longer, healthier life, but longevity influencers similar Johnson instrumentality this to an utmost that’s unattainable and (common-sense would say) wholly unnecessary for the mean person.

In his defense, Johnson isn’t trying to proselytize america each into taking one 100 pills a day and subsisting mostly connected boiled vegetables. But he’s besides not depriving america of the accidental to marque him richer successful speech for his “secrets.”