Anti-aging fanatic Bryan Johnson bragged his plasma is so squeaky clean that a medical staffer “couldn’t bring himself to throw it away” as the tech mogul revealed a new procedure he is using to remove toxins from his body.
Johnson, 47, who funnels $2 million a year into his quest for eternal youth, said on Monday he underwent a total plasma exchange that would take that fluid from his body and replace it with pure albumin, a protein found in a person’s blood plasma.
He noted the process is different from when he swapped blood with his teenage son, who he bizarrely called “blood boy,” last year. The blood exchange reportedly had no real benefits.
“TPE removes all of my body’s plasma and replaces it with Albumin,” Johnson wrote on social media.
“The therapy objectives are to remove toxins from my body. The evidence is emergent.”
The exchange involves a patient’s blood passing through a machine where the filtered plasma is removed with reinfusion of red blood cells, in addition to a replacement fluid like plasma or albumin, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Johnson, who made his massive fortune in his 30s when he sold his payment processing company to eBay, said he completed a series of baseline measurements before going forward with the therapy that will involve six overall treatments.
He then claimed the procedure operator, who has been doing total plasma exchange for nine years, marveled that his plasma was “the cleanest he’s ever seen. By far.”
“He couldn’t get over it,” Johnson said of the operator. “When we finished, he couldn’t bring himself to throw it away. He was imagining all the good that it could do in the world.”
He then said it’s possible his plasma could be auctioned off or donated following the next procedure.
“Liquid gold,” he called it.
Johnson has become a prominent face of the anti-aging movement, using his pot of money to follow an incredibly strict routine overseen by a team of doctors that includes daily exercise, a vegan diet and swallowing more than 100 daily supplements.