VAMPIRE DAD
A DAD is injecting himself with the blood of his teenage son to stop himself getting old.
Multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson is attempting to slow down the ageing process through a series of bizarre blood transfusions.
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The 45-year-old tech mogul is known for pumping millions of pounds a year into treatments that he hopes will regain his youth.
Johnson has previously received blood transfusions from healthy, anonymous donors who he carefully screened to ensure they had an ideal body mass index and were free of diseases.
But he has now taken the drastic step in recruiting his 17-year-old son, Talmage, to swap blood plasma with.
The process sees each participant having a litre of their blood removed and converted into parts via a high-tech machine.
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The blood is split into liquid plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
This is then injected into Mr Johnson's veins where he hopes it will rejuvenate and repair his old blood and keep him looking and feeling young.
The American tycoon also recruited his dad Richard, 70, to join him in the tri-generational blood product exchange.
Last month the trio visited Resurgence Wellness, a medical spa in Texas, where Talmage had a litre of blood removed - around one-fifth of the blood in his body.
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Johnson then donated a litre of his blood to Richard, and Talmage didn't take any blood from his dad or grandfather.
The dad-of-three took to Instagram to document the bizarre process and showed his followers a shot of him and his son topless, while holding a vial of blood.
He wrote: "My son, father and I completed the world's first multi-generational plasma exchange.
One divided by the mind, now united by biology".
As well as blood transfusions, Johnson follows a strict daily routine that he claims gives him the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old, and the lung capacity of an 18-year-old.
He now has a team of more than 30 doctors and regenerative health experts managing his intense routine in a bid to reboot his body.
Johnson told Bloomberg News: “What I do may sound extreme, but I’m trying to prove that self-harm and decay are not inevitable."
The biotech entrepreneur aims to have all his 78 of his major organs functioning as if he were in his late teens.
Johnson claims he wakes up at 5am, takes 24 supplements, exercises for an hour, and drinks a green juice with creatine and collagen peptides.
The supplements include metformin, turmeric, zinc, and, for brain health, a small dose of lithium.
Oliver Zolman, a doctor heading up the team hired by Johnson, said they aim to prove a human being can reduce the medical age of their organs by 25 per cent.
The 29-year-old - dubbed the "rejuvenation doctor" - said: "There is no person in the world who is 45 chronologically but 35 in every organ.
"If we can eventually prove clinically and statistically that Bryan has made that change, then it will be such a large effect size that it will have to be causative of the intervention and beyond what’s genetically possible."
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But the results of swapping blood in an effort to look younger are unproven and would not be recommended by medical professionals.
In 2019, the US Food and Drug Administration cautioned consumers against receiving young donor plasma infusions, noting that they have "no proven clinical benefit" for age-related or other diseases in humans.
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