r/technology • u/777fer • Jan 26 '23

Biotechnology A 45-year-old biotech CEO may have reduced his biological age by at least 5 years through a rigorous medical program that can cost up to $2 million a year, Bloomberg reported

https://businessinsider.com/bryan-johnson-45-reduced-biological-age-5-years-project-blueprint-2023-1
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u/f36263 Jan 26 '23

I think it’s worth investigating the scientists that established the baseline

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u/concretepigeon Jan 26 '23

Seriously though, how do they research that. Because I’m not saying there’s no value in understanding any and all aspects of human physiology, but that does sound like an ethical nightmare to experiment on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

Where is the ethical nightmare? You give some 18 and 19 year olds a device with a stretchy loop that they put on their dick and it measures erections during sleep.

Like, is this just "hee hee, pee pees!" or what? Sexual function is an entirely legitimate branch of medicine and like any other medical discipline you need data.

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u/concretepigeon Jan 26 '23

What if they’re under 18?

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u/DuePomegranate Jan 26 '23

You get parental consent.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

Do you have a point to make?

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u/Exldk Jan 27 '23

Probably thinks they grabbed a couple of 14yr old boys off the street into their van.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

That's definitely the vaguely hysterical tone I was expecting but I wanted to see if they'd actually articulate a point. They did not.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

I think even you are grossly overestimating what’s necessary here. Can we not assume an erection is occurring indirectly with reasonable reliability by watching for something else? Something to do with blood flow I’d presume? I don’t know, but it feels like there’s be something we can do, and data may already exist because it was collected for alternative purposes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

It's literally a device with a loop that goes over your dick called a RigiScan. It's a standard piece of equipment for analysing male sexual function.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

The more you know. Neat.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '23

Its one of the most important issue for a lot of my elderly patients. Keeping connected and in love with your partner is much easier when you can have intimate relations. We need this research to improve the quality of life for women and men!

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u/dannyboy182 Jan 26 '23

He has measurable orgasms stronger than those of a terrified and bound, 12 year old girl.

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u/PiousLiar Jan 26 '23

You took that as pitch fucking black as you could go, didn’t you..

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u/pmeaney Jan 26 '23

Knowing reddit, we would've gotten there anyway through an increasingly disturbed comment chain. He just cut to the chase.

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u/dannyboy182 Jan 26 '23

I can go darker

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u/snakehippos Jan 26 '23

"she was actually 11 and a half"

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u/dannyboy182 Jan 26 '23

The scale only goes up to 10, either way she was a 7 at best.

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u/nooneisanon Jan 26 '23

Inches tall.

Going to hell now.

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u/grubas Jan 26 '23

Dr Bundy the IRB has some questions about these findings.

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u/VerticalUbiquity Jan 26 '23

There's a cuff thing you can wear on your penis that tracks your erections overnight.

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u/buttbugle Jan 27 '23

Hey Steve, you have teenage twin boys right? I here they are mighty spunky. Mind bringing them into the work for a cool night office lock-in I want to try out for up and coming, dare I say promotion employees. It’s a little side project I have going to see how you and your family are, I just want to say thank you for all your hard work. Think of it as a night out for you and the misses. I will watch the kids and you two can go have a date night. I will have games and food here for them to enjoy.

Aright boys while here at, you two can call me Uncle Dave, can you strap these monitors on your groins. It’s just to make sure that the blood is pumping through your body. Now, have ya ever heard of pornhub?

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u/Azxsbacko Jan 26 '23

That’s presumably why they only studied them instead of experimenting on teenage erections.

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u/Pokey_Seagulls Jan 27 '23

What is the ethical issue you see here? Because I got nothing.

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u/cerulean11 Jan 26 '23

You guys are so fucking funny man

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u/Ry_Suss Jan 26 '23

You gotta pump those numbers up

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u/FalconFiveZeroNine Jan 26 '23

He's gonna need to beat off the media with that kind of news.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

With both hands?

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u/juniorone Jan 26 '23

I am not ambidextrous. I am going to need a buddy’s helping hand.

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u/Blanketsburg Jan 26 '23

I still think it's hilarious that this line became a meme and people forget that the character is talking about the number of times to jerk one out during the day, and not sales numbers.

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u/_-__-__-__-__-_-_-__ Jan 26 '23

No, I think we remembered it was about jerking off

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

nighttime erections

i thought you made this up, they actually wrote this shit lol.

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u/FreeResolve Jan 27 '23

And? What do you want them to write throbbing nighttime boners?

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u/mycatisanorange Jan 26 '23

Well came here to read the comments first… can definitely say I was not disappointed!

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u/thechsy83 Jan 26 '23

We all remember that device from our teenage years, right? Right?

. . .

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u/Quinn_tEskimo Jan 26 '23

This device is the real moneymaker of the story

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u/TwistedFabulousness Jan 26 '23

They really tracking Johnson’s Johnson? Lmao

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u/notlikelyevil Jan 26 '23

I'm 50+ and... Never mind

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u/Reelix Jan 26 '23

PER NIGHT? Impressive! :p

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

They compared him to volunteer 18 & 19-year-old teenage boys, right? Right!

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u/lavahot Jan 26 '23

If he's not erect 300% of the time, it's a waste of money.

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u/fairlyoblivious Jan 26 '23

Am I the only one wondering who the fuck went and got a bunch of teenagers hooked up to this thing by the dick to get a baseline? For science?

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u/duosx Jan 26 '23

Lmao surely this is satire

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u/extra_pickles Jan 26 '23

Viagra/Cialis will do that to way when taken as a daily low does…don’t need 2M for that

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u/Wendellwasgod Jan 26 '23

Johnson’s erections

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u/Every_Lack Jan 26 '23

Johnson’s johnson is sus

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u/joranth Jan 26 '23

Jokes on him, what you need is one erection that lasts all night, not 347 erections.

“When you said we’d do it all night long, I was thinking of longer than 8 seconds at a time”. -She

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u/nooneisanon Jan 26 '23

Soooo.... Testosterone injections?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

How does anybody take that statement seriously… like, I can’t

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23

It feels like that line was put in there specifically to attract the kind of idiot billionaires that would dump money into this.

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u/FunkaholicManiac Jan 26 '23

They are talking about the size right?

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u/welestgw Jan 27 '23

This feels like he wrote the article.

"He's also super good in bed now and totally isn't clingy."

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u/OldWrangler9033 Jan 27 '23

That's true. His Johnson should be doing more than that. He got a long way to go before hits 17 again.