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Wealthy tech mogul's desperation to remain young has him using his son as a 'blood boy'
2023-05-25
[Blaze] In an effort to delay or possibly even reverse decrepitude, 45-year-old tech mogul Bryan Johnson has tapped his son's veins.

Johnson sold his digital payments company Braintree to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, then started the brain-machine interface company Kernel.

The technologist's millions reportedly did not bring him peace. Instead, he was left depressed, bordering on suicidal, haunted by the inevitability that the march of progress would one day leave him behind.

TheBlaze reported earlier this year that Johnson had assembled a team of 30 doctors and was poised to spend $2 million a year on his body, admitting, "What I do may sound extreme, but I'm trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable."
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  "I was ecstatic to have that opportunity."

"To ensure my inheritance". Many ticks here
Posted by: Frank G   2023-05-25 18:52  

#3  So, all that was required to unleash all of Hell's demons was for us rubes to elect Trump. IOW, Deep State has a direct line to the 9th ring of Hell.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-05-25 17:13  

#2  Well, they've been telling us that donating blood is kinda good for us for a long while, which in the short term it sometimes is because it thins the blood a little. Which is why people actually thought bleeding was a long term treatment for stuff. (which it isn't, it doesn't work like that).
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2023-05-25 15:38  

#1  More from the article:

While Johnson has not yet transformed himself into a Frankenstein monster comprising parts taken from various 18-year-olds, a new report indicates he has endeavored to take blood from young men.

Johnson routinely has the blood of a young, anonymous donor pumped into his body at a Dallas-area clinic called Resurgence Wellness.


The New York Post indicated that his previous donor was selected from various "blood boys" who had been "carefully screened ... to make sure the person had an ideal body mass index, lived a health lifestyle and was free of disease."

It appears as though the stranger's blood may have lost its savor.

Johnson turned up at the Dallas-area clinic on April 3 with a new blood boy: his son Talmage. His 70-year-old father Richard Johnson also tagged along and partook in the bloodletting.

The tech tycoon's son surrendered over 33 ounces of his blood (roughly one-fifth of the blood in his body), which was "converted via a machine into its piece parts — a batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets," reported Bloomberg.

Johnson had his son's plasma subsequently fed into his veins.

"I created this human being," the tech tycoon told his camera crew. "I never imagined in my entire life this kind of relationship with my child."

Talmage Johnson said, "I was ecstatic to have that opportunity."

Rather than discard the plasma displaced by his son's blood, Johnson passed his middle-aged blood onto his geriatric father, who had similarly been drained.

This vampiric practice is referred to as "rejuvenation therapy," which has allegedly been shown to improve cognitive function, bone structure, and metabolism.


Ugh. And the son claims to feel ecstatic, which is not how I would feel about such a parent.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-05-25 15:10  

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