A California-based man who spends $2 million per year to achieve immortality revealed he was diagnosed with an incurable disease.
Bryan Johnson, a 48-year-old tech founder who spent recent years biohacking his body to live forever, confirmed on July 7 that he was diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis after a recent bidirectional endoscopy.
“It is true, my stomach is eating itself,” Johnson shared in a social media post on Tuesday.
The entrepreneur, who made a fortune selling Braintree, which included Venmo, to PayPal for $800 million in 2013, did not appear to be discouraged by his diagnosis and instead suggested he was “excited” about next steps.
“Autoimmune gastritis affects millions of people around the world, and it currently has no cure,” Johnson stated. “We are going to try to solve that.”
Johnson and his team are working to find a cure but admit they are “agnostic” about the process.
“There is a stigma around getting a diagnosis,” Johnson said. “People think it’s bad. I think it’s great. The earlier you know, the better you are. I want to diagnose every single thing in my body.”
Johnson thanked people who wished him well since the diagnosis and hoped to find a cure that could help millions of people.
“It would be a fantastic win to the human race,” Johnson said.
The Epoch Times reached out to Johnson’s team for additional information on next steps in the process.
The National Library of Medicine describes autoimmune gastritis as a “chronic inflammatory disease with destruction of parietal cells of the corpus and fundus of the stomach.”
Johnson noted that when he was 21, he was diagnosed with autoimmune hypothyroidism, an autoimmune disorder that impacts the thyroid gland, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“What most people don’t realize is the thyroid and the stomach are closely linked in autoimmunity,” Johnson wrote on Instagram. “When one is affected, the other often follows.”
Johnson went viral in 2021 for “Project Blueprint,” a rigorous medical plan he created to reverse the biological age of 70+ organs in his body. Part of the plan was to give him the lung capacity and physical endurance of an 18-year-old.
He also built a brand selling longevity mix, essential microbiome, and cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil “made for longevity.”
Johnson has 2.7 million followers on Instagram with a bio that reads “we may be the first generation who won’t die.”
His efforts toward longevity were detailed in a Netflix documentary titled “Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever.”
