Bryan Johnson spends $2M a year chasing immortality — then discovers an incurable stomach disease
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-06
A long-form feature profiles Silicon Valley longevity figure Bryan Johnson, who spends $2M a year and takes up to 111 pills a day, only to reveal he has incurable autoimmune gastritis — and at 48 had never had a routine colonoscopy. His aggressive self-experiments largely failed: young-blood transfusions abandoned after finding "no benefit," five years of rapamycin caused recurring infections and metabolic issues, facial fat transfers triggered severe allergic reactions. The piece argues his project is as much a business as a quest: his Blueprint brand sells supplements and testing to 40,000+ customers at $40M annual revenue, part of a $30B+ longevity industry backed by Bezos, Thiel and Altman — yet the human lifespan record (122 years) remains unbroken.
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