14 million and the clock of life turned back 5.1 years, what would you choose?
In 2019, Silicon Valley tech tycoon Brian Johnson sold his self-made company for $800 million, and then began to spend $2 million (equivalent to 14 million yuan) a year to create a "blueprint plan" for aging intervention.
After the start of the plan, he continued to announce the progress of "rejuvenation" on social platforms, such as the exchange of blood between grandparents and grandchildren, electric shocks to the private parts of the lower body and other extreme operations, which caused an uproar in global public opinion. In an interview with the media, he revealed that his "biological age has decreased by 5.1 years in 7 months" and "the aging rate is slower than that of 88% of teenagers".
What the hell is going on? Is it true that the world of the rich is out of the hands of time?
01 The end of wealth is the temptation of "youth"?
"It was a nightmarish period when the body was hollowed out bit by bit, and the state of health quickly collapsed within a few years." In fact, like many self-made entrepreneurs in China, Brian often slept only two hours a day in order to earn a place in the huge vanity fair of Silicon Valley, and was so busy that he ingested large amounts of refined carbs and processed foods in the middle of the night.
Although he has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars in assets in just a few years, his long-term unhealthy state has also caused his body to gain 54 pounds and age rapidly. After breaking up with his ex-fiancée, the billionaire decided to stop the company and devote himself to the experiment of rejuvenating the body.
The "Blueprint Plan" created by Silicon Valley bigwigs at a sky-high price includes a top scientific team of 30 people. These scientists not only formulated a mainstream aging intervention plan for him to "take 111 nutritional products a day", but also instructed him to use more than 30 kinds of black technology equipment, including "tens of thousands of pulsed electric shocks in the pelvic area every week", which even made the well-informed Musk comment "scared".
Between the temptation of wealth and youth, the domestic rich seem to have chosen the latter as well. Long before Brian, it was revealed that 4 rich Chinese people went to Ukraine in a group and spent 4 million to experience the "young needle", but the follow-up ended in a pseudo-scientific farce.
In the following years, with the gradual maturity of research technology, there were also aging health intervention projects in China, and the Timecure service, which landed in Shanghai with an offline center, took the lead in making a name for itself in the "Shanghai Rich Circle".
Log on to the official website of Timecure and find that the service includes "more than 400 kinds of high-purity raw materials" personalized nutrition production line, "hyperbaric oxygen, infrared light therapy cabin, etc.", advanced black technology equipment, etc., which also significantly reversed the life clock of domestic tycoons.
02 The light of life science and technology, or the "IQ tax"?
"I'm trying my best to save myself, where is $2 million a year?" As a well-known geek in the field of anti-aging, Brian has nearly 500,000 followers on global social platforms such as Twitter, and his intervention plan has also sparked heated public discussion.
While some appreciate his courage to try new research, others are concerned that nutrition regimens are too complex for ordinary people to follow and suffer side effects. And his latest public electric shock therapy is even just an experimental solution.
In contrast, the domestic Timecure service is more of a modest version of the "Blueprint Project". According to a wealthy person who made an appointment on the official website, the 1.9 atmosphere civil oxygen chamber included in this service, as well as the N-in-one optical chamber that reaches the cell layer directly through photobiomodulation technology and improves the metabolism of the whole body, have long been used by well-known stars such as James and Ronaldo for body aging repair.
Previously, David Sinclair, a professor at Harvard Medical School, also learned about hyperbaric oxygen for the first time, and shared the technology on his personal social platform as one of the key means to resist aging. As the godfather of the anti-aging industry, the intervention methods of dietary and nutritional products triggered by him have also repercussed well in the above-mentioned domestic version of the service plan.
After making an appointment through the official website of Timecure, these high-net-worth individuals received nutrition, equipment and equipment interventions including what Sinclair said under the guidance of 3-5 doctorate-level individuals, which is also regarded by the industry as "the landing of the top rich program".
"5.6 years younger in a year". A 51-year-old Mr. Zeng said after receiving the above intervention service, while the results of microbiological age indicators were reversed, aging problems such as "muscle grip strength" and "brain retardation" were also alleviated and boosted.
03 Is it really possible for everyone to grow old and not grow old?
In the past 10 years, human beings seem to have opened the "Pandora's box" of life science and technology, such as organ regeneration, genetic scissors, surgical robots and other technologies, from the incredible and unacceptable stage to the clinical application to solve the once difficult medical problems.
Although Brian's behavior is too radical and misleading, there are also professionals who believe that his attempt involves almost all the latest achievements in the field of anti-aging, and the test data will provide key feedback to the new technology and become an important marker of research progress.
Perhaps, as the commentary said: he spent money for his youth, but gave a head start to the future of mankind in old age.