Biohacker Bryan Johnson before and after his extreme health regimen

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what six million dollars worth of cutting edge medical and nutritional breakthroughs can do for your face, look no further.

After having an epiphany about his lifestyle habits in 2020, tech mogul-turned-biohacker Bryan Johnson has since gone on an all-out pursuit to optimize his health and de-age himself.

The 45-year-old, who made millions off his online payment platform Braintree whic, in a span of just three years, garnered nearly $5 million in revenue. In 2012, profits ballooned with Braintree’s $26 million acquisition of Venmo, and by the following year, was bought out by PayPal for $800 million. 

He has since developed a company aimed at improving the quality and access to high-tech brain scans meant to spot oncoming diseases early, earning him a mountain of revenue to put toward his health endeavors such as devices to measure nocturnal erections and a blood plasma exchange with his young son. 

Mr Johnson’s militant and eccentric regimen – estimated to cost him $2 million per year – has made global headlines in recent months. But photos of him before his journey to make the most of his time on earth have emerged and social media users have said he looked better years ago.  

Mr Johnson’s name has become synonymous with the biohacking movement that has taken hold among business titans like him who have embraced unconventional health techniques based in biology and technology that aim to improve one’s physical health. 

Some common biohacking methods include wearable devices the monitor vital sights such as a smart watch, nootropics or other drugs that boost cognitive function, and red light therapy to improve skin health. 

Biohacking can also mean experimenting with meditation and mindfullness practice and optimizing nutrition and exercise routines. 

And with a body fat percentage that hovers between five and six, his visage is taut, poreless, angular, and, to some, offputting. 

And his ‘exploration into the future of being human’ is a pricy endeavor.  

Mr Johnson is estimated to have spent around $6 million on his quest for better health since 2020. 

The funding has gone toward maintaining a cadre of doctors flanked by the latest – and most exclusive – scientific advances.  

In addition to revamping his blood and internal organs, Mr Johnson has also undergone fat injections in his face in order to build a ‘scaffolding’ to produce genuinely young fat cells.

Mr Johnson has touted the measurable benefits, namely, that he has turned his biological clock back to a spritely 36, though the fine print on his birth certificate would tell you that he is 45.

The tech tycoon-turned-medical marvel is striving for the organs of an 18-year-old and, by all accounts, he could reach his goal.

Mr Johnson has said a strict exercise, nutrition, and medicine regimen has eradicated all signs of inflammation from his body, brought his blood pressure to perfect levels, and helped him achieve physical fitness scores to rival the healthiest teenagers.

He starts his day at 5am followed by an intense hour-long high intensity workout, maintains a strict vegan diet never exceeding 1,977 calories, and goes to bed at the same time every night only after wearing blue light-blocking glasses for two hours prior.

Primary care physicians will typically prescribe a similar if not less militant routine to maintain or improve their health consisting of regular exercise, a nutritious diet heavy on whole produce and lean protein, and a consistent sleep schedule.

Other interventions that Mr Johnson swears by likely would not be accessible to the everyday American or even appealing for that matter. ‘Fat scaffolding’ comes to mind. 

And his newly-sharpened features have garnered a range of opinions online, with one person saying he resembles the android character Data in Star Trek, while another said it ‘looks like he had a lot of plastic surgery’ and now ‘looks kinda fake’

Last year, he swallowed a camera ‘the size of a baby carrot’ after a 24-hour fast.

He then downed laxatives for six hours, only for the camera to reemerge at the other end about 11 hours later replete with over 33,500 intimate photos of his intestinal tract. 

The goal, he said, was to monitor for lymphoma, Crohn’s disease, small bowel cancer, and abnormal growths n the colon called polyps.

In order to get the clearest picture of his own body, Mr Johnson undergoes regular blood tests, hormone scans, MRIs, ultrasounds, and colonoscopies, mostly in his home thanks to the fully outfitted medical-grade lab tucked in his discreet Venice, California compound.

He also reportedly takes between 112 and 130 supplements every day from basic turmeric to an added dose of a substance called Dehydroepiandrosterone, which naturally occurs in the body and that proponents argue can boost cognitive function, bone health, skin health, and vitality.

He has a team of more than 30 doctors, researchers, and clinicians within earshot to analyze the wins – such as a perfect sleep score on his smartwatch or improved urination strength, as well as the losses, such as the realization that infusing his teenage son’s plasma into his own did not have the clinical pay off he was hoping for.

Mr Johnson’s physicality now is a stark contrast to his days working in big tech thanks to 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman.

‘I currently have no plans to die,’ he told Daily Mail earlier this summer.