A millionaire in his 40s in the U.S., who has invested billions of won every year due to his obsession with rejuvenation, has been under fire this time for receiving blood from his own son.According to Bloomberg News on the 22nd (local time), Brian Johnson (45), a U.S. IT businessman, is pushing for a “Project Blueprint” with various doctors with the goal of returning his body age to 18 years old.As part of the project, he has received several blood transfusions from unnamed young donors in recent months. Not satisfied with this, he recently took his own son, Tellmaze, 17, to a medical center in Texas to draw a liter of blood. It is estimated to be about one-fifth of the total blood volume of Telmeiz. The plasma separated from the blood was injected into his father Brian.The plasma donation did not end here. Brian also drew his blood, separated the plasma, and injected it into his 70-year-old biological father to complete the “triangle donation.”Some criticized the case of three generations of Brian’s plasma exchange. Previously, there have been experiments to “replace” the blood of young and old mice in the name of rejuvenation therapy, but studies on the human body are extremely rare.
Charles Brenner, a biochemist who works at a hospital in Los Angeles (LA), said, “We don’t know enough if this is a valid human treatment for anything,” adding, “I think it’s disgusting, no evidence, and relatively dangerous.”Plasma injection is a treatment used in a wide range of fields, including liver diseases, burns, and blood diseases, in the medical community. In the treatment of COVID-19, it has also been used in a way that plasma of a person who recovered from COVID-19 was injected to some COVID-19 patients.However, the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that it does not recommend this method in 2021.
Bloomberg, who reported the case of Brian, also said, “There is a vampire-like aspect,” and called it unsavory. In general, it is pointed out that the reality is that wealthy people receive plasma donations from younger and less wealthy people.
On the other hand, Brian Johnson is a person who has been sitting on a cash cow by setting up a digital payment company called “Braintree” and selling it. It currently operates a brain-computer interface venture.
He has long made headlines for using wealth to spend millions of dollars a year on finding ways to slow or even reverse aging altogether. He is himself being tested and is looking for medical diagnoses and treatments, including meals, sleep and exercise.
Chang Young Choi
US ASIA JOURNAL
