The center-aged uber-wealthy enterprise capitalist who spends some $2 million per yr to show back his biological clock to age 18 said he has been inundated with criticism on social media from trolls who accuse him of being a “narcissist”.
Bryan Johnson, the 45-year-old tech mogul who sold payments processor Braintree to eBay for $800 million in money a decade ago, tweeted an inventory of insults which were hurled at him online since Bloomberg News published a profile on Wednesday detailing his extreme anti-aging regimen.
“Should we tell him he doesn’t look 18?” a critic on social media commented. “How about while he’s at it, get a face transplant?” one other Twitter user remarked, adding: “He looks 91!”
“It’s a buttload of labor,” one other Twitter user quipped, responding to reports that Johnson also desires to keep his internal organs — including his rectum — functioning youthfully.
“Can I even have your prostate while you’re done with it?” one other Twitter user wrote.
“Don’t leave us hanging. Show us some stats,” said one other in response to Johnson’s admission that, while he sleeps, he’s connected to machines that send electromagnetic pulses to his pelvis and count his nighttime erections.
One person wondered whether Johnson, who employs a military of 30 doctors and medical professionals to de-age his organs, “might wish to add a psychiatrist to his list of doctors.”
One other naysayer opined: “He feels like a complete weirdo.”
Johnson’s routine consists of every day exercise, regular blood tests, and a strict, vegan food regimen. He also wears specialized glasses which block blue light two hours before bedtime.
His critics, nonetheless, were unimpressed.
“He seem like a raw chicken,” one commenter wrote.
“Possibly he chokes on a bit of broccoli or mushroom,” one Twitter user commented.
One other suggested: “He should eat a cheeseburger in real time for charity.”
Johnson is considered one of several Silicon Valley tech moguls who’ve spent large sums of cash toward researching ways to spice up human longevity.
However the pie-in-the-sky notion of everlasting youth struck some as far-fetched.
“Eat right, exercise, die anyway,” remarked one Twitter user. “That is narcissism gone wild.”
Despite the torrent of abuse, Johnson appeared unfazed.
“Responses today were surprisingly tame,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “Haters, I do know you might be hard at work creating zingers, take-downs, and insults.”
He added: I’m looking forward to them!”
Johnson told Bloomberg News that while he was increase Braintree, he became obese, depressed, and nearly suicidal — a results of an accumulation of stress and dealing long hours.
He recently founded one other startup, Kernel, which manufactures a $50,000-apiece helmet that is alleged to give you the chance to read brain waves.
“What I do may sound extreme, but I’m attempting to prove that self-harm and decay usually are not inevitable,” Johnson told Bloomberg News.