While they say you shouldn't fear the reaper and that in the end everyone and everything must succumb to the inevitability of time, one man is trying his hardest to turn back the clock on ageing.
Bryan Johnson is a tech developer living in California and the 45-year-old puts his body through a strict regime on a daily basis in the hopes of reversing the ageing process.
Overseen by a team of 30 doctors, the billionaire puts his body through the supposed equivalent of 20,000 sit-ups in half an hour as part of his workout routine.
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He's even got a special machine to help him work out and enable an otherwise impossibly punishing regime.
Johnson believes his efforts have been working as well, claiming he has the lungs of an 18-year-old and the heart of a 37-year-old.
It's not just exercise that he does in his quest to stay young, as the tech billionaire spends about $2 million a year on trying to make his cells younger.
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He goes to bed at 8:30pm every day, eats a day's calories worth of plants and vegetables between 6am and 11am, believing that eating after that time is not a good idea.
Johnson also believes that drinking 3oz of wine in the mornings helps, while sex after bedtime is off the table and he won't share his bed with anyone else.
Also part of his daily diet is a whopping intake of over 100 pills and tables which are supposed to help him while he tries 'revolting against the culture of death' as he told the Diary of a CEO podcast.
What's in all those pills, I hear you ask?
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Well, some of that plethora of pills include ashwagandha, turmeric, garlic, acarbose and glucosamine sulphate which all form a cocktail of chemicals, hormones and other things which are apparently the key to a longer life.
He explained on his TikTok account that he starts the day by taking 63 of them and finishes the window of opportunity in which he allows himself to eat with a further 44 capsules.
In addition to the exercise, highly structured daily routine and strict diet of pills, the billionaire determined to at least buy himself a few years of time before the grim reaper shows up has also gone through a number of medical procedures on a monthly basis.
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He said that some of the things he'd done were 'quite extreme and painful', but his goal is to 'to reverse my measured biological age by 1.01 years for every one year that passes'.
It turns out that it takes 'a lot of really hard work' and quite a significant amount of money if you want to try and hit the brakes on the runaway train that is the ageing process, never mind trying to stick it in reverse.
Topics: Science, Technology, Health
Joe Harker