“I’m a professional rejuvenation athlete”: that’s how Bryan Johnson, a 47-year-old American businessman, describes his quest to regain his youthful glow.
Turn back the clock biologically. The American, who is almost fifty, wants to be a veritable scientific object in his quest to look younger. Excessive food supplements, a timed, almost military routine, injections of his 18-year-old son’s blood, surgery… Bryan Johnson seems convinced that he can reverse the ageing of his body’s cells and regain all the freshness of his early youth. It’s an ambition that many people still secretly dream of, but which has become obsessive and ethically questionable.
A phase of depression
His background is ambivalent, to say the least. Bryan Johnson grew up in Springville, Utah, in a modest environment and under the aegis of the Mormon community, a religious movement derived from Christianity. His father, a lawyer, suffered from drug addiction and was disbarred. His parents divorced when he was three. At 19, he left America for Ecuador to become a missionary. Marked by the extreme poverty of the country, the young man returned to the United States two years later and completed his studies at Brigham Young University and the University of Chicago.
With an MBA in business, Bryan Johnson launched several companies before he even turned 30, but without much success. ‘I had this irresistible desire to try and improve other people’s lives. So I thought about becoming an entrepreneur, making a lot of money before I turned 30. Then, with that money, to earn some free time to do something useful’, the businessman told a conference.
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