My guess is he wants to live forever because he feels he has made no contribution to the world, or does not feel a sense of fulfillment and purpose from raising his family. Maybe he feels cracking the secret could be his contribution, or maybe he thinks he can find meaning in his life, given enough time.
It's like those showerthought ultimatums : You can choose to gain eternal life, but every day your dick is the subject of the worst pain you've ever felt.
Hey, for real, tho. You should quit smoking. Just get the starter pack of chantix, follow the directions, and be sure to eat before taking it. It's really not that hard and the stupid chantix side effects go away once you stopped taking it.
I want to see this happen. You can do it. And if trump brings down the whole house we can both go grab a pack of cigs.
i saw him on two separate youtube channels: Magnus Midtbø (norwegian climber) and Will Tennyson (bodybuilding vlogger)
in both cases, they were invited by Bryan Johnson to his lair, going through his routine. it felt like a surreal cringe fest of zero social awareness. Bryan was permanently looking for some kind of validation, comparing his skills to his guest, or asking the various personal trainers / doctors if he beat some younger age category, etc.
everything he does can't be healthy and i wouldn't call what he does "living". he's bound to a 24h program where everything is planned down to the minute.
I don't mind this guy. He's basically committing his time, money, and body towards being a guinea pig exploring means that could benefit us all. I do understand there are some arguments to be had about some less-than-scientific approaches to his experiments, but I don't think it totally negates the value.
Also, oh no, talking openly about penis health is uncomfortable to puritanical Western norms.
Talking about your dick is one thing. Talking about your sons dick and using your sons blood is just fucking creepy. Hope the kid gets good therapy for this crazy shit.
On a scale of billionaires most destructive to society, he seems to be very low on the list. One might argue he's on the list of ones at least being minorly beneficial.
But, you know, people will hate. And those people are also likely contributing little of value to society.
This isn’t really about dick problems, though. Check the news, check socials, many people are perfectly fine these days talking about dick problems and scientifically accepted solutions.
Yeah I don’t know enough about him, just glances at bits of content over time, but I agree. History is full of such over enthusiastic tinkerers who subject themselves to ridiculous experiments but every now and then they learn something useful. It is cringeworthy, though, and not ok if foisted on others.
I couldn't get through more than about a paragraph before getting prompted to subscribe so I'm still little confused.
Why get measurements of your child's erections in the first place? How does this son feel about his PHI being shared all over the internet? Hard to imagine anyone being okay with that.
i didn't get any prompts, and read the article, so i'll quickly answer.
the guy is obsessed with penile behaviour as a measure of overall health, for some reason, and measured the nocturnal boners of himself, as well as his 19 year old son, as a point of comparison.
the son shared his dick metrics himself. seems he's well and fully invested in his father's phallocentric longevity scheme.
While I do kind of like the idea of having data on random bodily functions like erections, can't say I'd be willing to share that data with my parents or the world.
i think most people don't really want to die. and they like living for all sorts of reasons. i hope you can think of at least a few reasons you'd like to go on living as well.
Also let's be real. He's not trying to help anyone but himself. If he ever does find some miracle cure that significantly slows aging, you can bet your ass that he'll charge so much for it that only his billionaire cronies will be able to afford it
And what useful data comes from one rich asshole trying EVERYTHING? This is not science, it's existential desperation sprinkled on a soufflé of wealth and cringe.
I appreciate his data collection and experimentation, although plenty of the data is anecdotal and the number of simultaneous experiments in a complex system is gonna make parsing out protocols a chore.
I agree with you and don’t know why people pile on against you. Is the guy cringey? Sure. Would it be more useful to humanity if he just donated his money to existing and more reputable research? For sure. But he’s just tinkering on himself, which is his right, and shares what he learns.
Is he misguided and a quack who may not learn anything? Maybe, but sometimes it’s the crazy folks who go against the grain that stumble on some good ideas.
Also, if anything he tries is interesting, yes of course he’s just a sample size of 1 - the idea is that other people could research it further.
(I think him roping other people in like his kid isn’t great)
And also he seems to be mixing "experiments" concurrently. How does he know what worked and what didn't if he has 30+ variables to account for all the time? xd
sometimes it’s the crazy folks who go against the grain that stumble on some good ideas
The chances of that happening in real life are close to nil. Sometimes, people who actually know what they're doing are mistaken or mischaracterized as crazy, but it's not all that hard to distinguish them from cranks. And even among those with the technical or scientific competency to actually do things right, people often make wrong hypotheses. Science is hard.