A billionaire who is obsessed with living forever and forks over $2 million a year in an attempt to extend his biological clock has revealed how his quest to avoid death has completely ruined his dating life.
Bryan Johnson, 45, who is originally from Provo, Utah, but is now living in Venice, California, is best known for creating the online payment system called Braintree, which eventually joined forces with Venmo and was acquired by PayPal in 2013 for $800 million.
Journey leading to his new lifestyle
After struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts in 2020, the tech mogul had an epiphany about his lifestyle, and has since gone on an all-out pursuit to optimize his health and de-age himself.
He takes extreme measures to try to avoid getting older – like taking 111 pills a day, not eating past 11am, drinking three ounces of alcohol in the morning, going to bed at 8:30pm every night, and injecting himself with his own son’s plasma – and his bizarre lifestyle has made it hard for him to find love.
‘I’m single,’ he admitted during a recent appearance on Seven Bartlett’s Diary of a CEO podcast.
Then becomes an impossible partner
‘In circumstances where I’ve tried to date, the first thing I do is give them a list of 10 things, like, “Here’s all the things you’re going to hate about me, and [all the things that are] going to make me an impossible partner for you.” It’s a big deal.’
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Getting a good nights rest is one of the many important steps that Bryan takes to improve his lifespan, which means dating him would come with strict rules regarding the bedroom and nighttime endeavors.
He worries that sharing a room with someone could ruin his ‘perfect’ sleep pattern, explaining, ‘Wake events are very costly – once you get woken up, going back to sleep is very hard – so it’s just extremely challenging when you’ve got to coordinate with another human.
‘Trying to negotiate with another person about their bedtime [and] their sleep hygiene is really difficult.
‘My son and I have a protocol in the house where there’s no exchange of like, “Good morning. How are you?”‘ he said.
Every morning, Bryan dedicates four to five hours to ‘concentrated thought,’ which he said could be easily ruined by ‘teeny interactions.’
Even questions like ‘How are you?’ or, ‘How did you sleep?’ could ‘knock him’ off track, which could be another reason why he hasn’t found love.
‘I go to bed early, I wake up early, and I have these four or five hours of concentrated thought where I can think about these really big pictures and try to pull myself out of my situation and just be as sober as possible,’ he continued.
‘I probe myself to deep levels, but you can get knocked off so fast. Someone saying, “How are you? How was your sleep?” can knock me off.’
The father-of-one eats 2,250 calories a day – between 6am and 11am – and sticks to a strict plant-based diet. He has three ounces of wine with breakfast.
