Googling it, since the screenshot annoyingly doesn’t mention it, it’s autoimmune gastritis - which is relatively common and quite manageable, and typically does not affect life expectancy. He, of all people, will be fine.
I have autoimmune gastritis and it doesn't "eat you alive from the inside", what magnificent nonsense in that tweet, could not believe the misinformation. My stomach is fine, aside from not being able to absorb b12. The resulting deficiency causes primarily neurological and nerve symptoms. It's solved with regular b12 injections.
Of all the autoimmune conditions out there, it's one of the better ones to have.
I have it as well. Autoimmune presentations can vary wildly; mine can be very painful sometimes if I’m not careful with my diet, and I have precancerous tissue in my GI tract. However, to say that this condition is the stomach “eating itself” is so crazy. So much misinformation and fearmongering over what is not at all a terminal condition.
Yes, but the hyperbole is problematic because so many people are going to take it literally and misunderstand the condition. Sigh. I hope he’s more precise with his language about his condition in the future—he has a big platform and lots of people listening.
I get it, and if you want to be hyperbolic but more accurate you could say something like "My immune system is fire bombing my stomach acid factories"
Or even "My stomach lining is disappearing"
Completely agree. If I hadn’t known better (having the same condition myself), I’d have assumed based on the headline that his condition would quickly destroy his stomach and take away his ability to eat entirely.
Yeah, I have IBS / gastritis. TBH, the reality is that certain "experimental" treatments like peptides are actually the only thing that substantially helps, beyond the obvious stuff of just avoiding trigger foods. I understand people making fun of Bryan Johnson sometimes as he does some weird stuff, but he also shares his data and experiences with the public. And this is all in an environment where we *expect* the medical establishment to rob us for every penny. We should not be celebrating this guy suffering.
Exactly I'm pissed people are critizing him. He didn't have to share anything about his health issue and could have just kept it to himself. I genuinely appreciate that he did share it, if he finds anything that works or cutting edge treatments, he will share it.
Also he has his own personal health team and this was missed for years. This shows how the medical system fails us, it should have been caught a long time ago. I had a iron deficiency for years and was told to take more iron by doctors. I met two people who were naturopaths and told me something was causing the low iron and that I need to find out the root cause. None of the doctor cared about the root cause. I eventually found out the root cause (turns out I have beta minor thalassemia), but it's crazy that doctors hear iron deficiency and do nothing to investigate which happened in Byans case too.
I have ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis. I was taking ibuprofen for years because of body aches I assumed were from my job. Eventually, I got super sick and the only thing that helped my gut pain was ibuprofen. Turns out, it was masking the pain from the damage it was doing by triggering my ulcerative colitis. It had been eating my guts for years and hiding its own damage.
So, no more NSAIDs for me... and wouldn't you know it, those body aches came on like bats out of hell. I just toughed them out until a pain doc insisted that I use a topical nsaid for my back. All of my aches disappeared, but even though it was topical, it still triggered my ulcerative colitis. So, I stopped using it. The difference between how I felt with pain relief and without was enough to finally get me to look into it. Turns out, it's RA. I've probably been dealing with it since I was a teen and was diagnosed in my late 40s.
I spent years catching shit for how I adjusted to do things through my pain. At work, where others would kneel, I would sit. Installing carpet, anything that I could do seated rather than kneeling, I did. I got to be as fast as anybody doing it the conventional way, but because I was different, it was the wrong way.
Turns out, I was being super human pushing through pain they couldn't imagine.
I had extreme fatigue, serious memory loss, brain fog, confusion, difficulty concentrating, nominal aphasia (trying to say one word but another comes out), muscle cramps and spasm in my legs and feet, and spasms and tics in my hands. At one point I was scared I was developing early onset dementia due to the neuro symptoms. I went to my GP who did a blood test and found my b12 levels were extremely low, sub-148 while normal levels are 600-800. She looked at previous blood tests going back two years and saw a downward trend the whole time. Low b12 is most commonly due to diet (vegans are prone) but I had a very b12 rich diet. So she did a quite a few more tests to start ruling out possible causes. Long story short, referred my case over to a haematologist who made the diagnosis. Now I have a b12 injection every couple months for the rest of my life because I'm unable to absorb it through food or supplements.
I’m curious as I’ve been suffering from severe neutropenia as a result of an autoimmune disorder that manifested after I had my gall bladder removed. I’ve always had vitiligo, but it was never actively growing until the last few years as my neutrophil counts have cratered.
Working with an oncologist we found that a prednisone challenge caused them to return to normal but all other immunosuppressive therapies haven’t worked.
I suspect it might be gastritis and my bodies reaction to inflammation, but that’s just a theory of mine. I’m trying to figure out next steps now, and am looking for a good gastrointerologist to see if I can get my GI system looked at. Kind of scary right now because I’ve been suffering from some of the neurological symptoms you mentioned.
I'd say I'm about 80% recovered. I don't think my memory and concentration are all the way back yet, but I'm no longer having episodes where I find myself in a room and don't know why I'm there. The confusion and aphasia are gone. The muscular symptoms are gone except funnily enough for a few weeks after I have an injections, I get an issue with my hands where they lock up, particularly when I'm making a fist or picking up something heavy. I've had to pry my fingers off the kettle handle more than once.
Interesting you mention your white blood cell issue, I have sort of the opposite with an elevated eosinophil level, but I also have asthma so that's not unusual.
So are we just out here taking what “Clown World” says at face value? They didn’t even quote him. Those words are entirely their own and used as click bait.
As someone with that disease, how disgusting are these doctors who are blaming it on his pursuit of health and making random claims off the top of their head that he’s taking dangerous substances with 0 proof?
I was legitimately interested in whether his extremes would enable him to reach an older age never achieved or not. To me he’s doing the life longevity version of building some crazy super car and driving it yourself to beat a record. This is like the car getting a flat tyre and it crashing out on the way.
He has had an autoimmune thyroid condition (hashimotos) since he was 20 or so. He always had middling health, that is part of why he got so obsessive about it.
Honestly, he’s in fantastic shape. I’m a former competitive powerlifter and it’s refreshing to see a public persona push fitness as a tool, not as a personality requirement or something you beed to be obsessive or elite in to benefit from.
idk much about the guy but he kinda seems like an autistic gamer who just games irl with his body..
I do that too in summers with cardio as its fun to watch all metrics like resting hr, VO2max and time improve. But he obviously has more free time and money to game even harder than I can
As far as tech billionaires go he’s one of the better ones. At least his weird and freaky experiments and ideas he’s only applying to himself and his family and not the rest of us.
Eh, if you watch interviews of his son it comes off in a way that makes the son seem very used. It's kind of sad like, "I didnt know my dad while I was growing up so now I'm giving him my blood for a sliver of his attention."
It may be controversial, but I think Bryan Johnson is a good guy. I think he's out of touch like a lot of middle aged rich men and his protocol is probably mostly for his own benefit but..
I think he genuinely wants to help people and has good intentions about using his own body as an experiment, knowing things could go wrong, to further health and longevity protocols for the average person.
He also doesn't advocate for people to do the expensive or wacky stuff he does, just that they optimise their sleep, nutrition and exercise.
I don’t think that’s what’s he motivated by, and if it is then he’s incredibly misguided and could be using his time and money in about a thousand different ways that would be far more productive to improving the health and lives of other people. In my opinion, he’s pretty obviously motivated by a narcissistic desire to not die and all the media/public attention that’s gotten him.
To your final point, maybe in parts sure, I think he also plays the social media game a little bit and hopes that kind of attention will draw people towards his main message/messages, but I've watched a couple of his appearances on different podcasts and he does come across as quite genuine in his desire to help people and empathetic because of his background.
On your first point, also sure, I think it's fair to say he's a bit misguided, but I think he also makes some good points on how a few specific health optimisations can transform certain people's lives and happiness.
You mentioned better ways to use his money, were there ideas in mind you had? (Genuinely curious :) )
I liked him on YMH too. A weird dude- for sure lol but but his passion for this does come off as kind. He recognizes himself as the experiment and doesn't really judge others for doing whatever.
It's quite disrespectful imo to compare this to actual sexual misconduct. It's weird for sure but it's just a known health indicator. A father involving their son in their passion (ie health tracking) isn't harmful in and of itself. It's like saying you were molested because your dad took you to the nude beach as a kid.
He did this over a period of 6 months, to see what effects it has on aging. It was voluntarily given by his son. He too, voluntarily gave the same amount to his own father during this period. No significant benefits were found, so he ended that trial. If you’re going to say something, say it all.
Do you think a minor child should have to be responsible for defending their own health like that, standing up to their billionaire dad and shutting down the whole idea? Do you think that’s a truly voluntary situation, being pressured into donating dangerous amounts of blood at dangerous frequencies?
And no, I’m not obligated to list every insane part of this guy’s “experiments,” lol. You’re welcome to add whatever you want
Buddy, he was 17. Not a toddler. The son is an active part in the trials because he cares about his dad. I gave blood all the time at even younger ages. It’s perfectly normal. Just because you have some internalized daddy issues, doesn’t mean nobody else cares about their father’s health enough to not do something so small as donate blood.
When you choose to cherry pick information to help frame a situation the way you want everyone to perceive it, it makes you look like an ass. You wanna cry about what someone else chooses to do to help their father be healthy, be my guest. But don’t try and manipulate information to spread your own insecurities to others. Just provide information, and keep the self loathing to yourself.
I think an important point of the blood donation is that it replenishes fully relatively quickly. 17-year-olds donate blood everyday at school without input from their parents. A kid donating to their dad's experiment when any risk is extremely low isn't that different than say helping your dad with a woodworking project and running the risk of getting injured. You hit your thumb with a hammer, it hurts but heals, and you move on.
And no, I’m not obligated to list every insane part of this guy’s “experiments,” lol
Your right, but you also chose a relatively benign example that didn't appear to influence anyone's opinion lol. If there's not a more "insane" example out there, it still doesn't really come off as hurting anyone.
Nothing about the transfusions were dangerous your clearly uneducated and ignorant to medical standards and safety precautions, probably to more things than just that based on the kind of ideologies you ascribe to based on whatever social media figurehead or news article u are dedicated to listening to
If we’re going by “if you’re going to say something, say it all,” here’s some more context:
Not only did he take 1/5 of his teenage son’s blood/plasma monthly for six months (way over the donation limit) he also tracked and compared their penis sizes and erections. “His duration is two minutes longer than mine,” he wrote alongside the chart. “Raise children to stand tall, be firm, and be upright.”
Wanted to make sure that was included so no context is missing! (Quote and info is from a reply I got to another comment on this thread, I had no idea about this either.)
People who receive blood donations are more likely to have autoimmune reactions, there’s a fair chance that he facilitated this disease by taking his son’s blood and injecting himself with it.
The son being a minor, and the quantity (and frequency!) of blood being taken being dangerous and unreasonable, and this guy being in charge of his son’s well-being….
Yeah, I think that pretty much qualifies for a bad person
Yes. Stealing the blood of someone you're supposed to be looking after and have power over makes you a bad person, how is that even a controversial statement? I'm pretty sure it would be illegal in my country.
Wait what? Isn't this similar to what Elizabeth Báthory (1560–1614), the 17th-century Hungarian 'Blood Countess' did? Except it was bathing in young blood to de-age herself.
In a case where the only person affected is you, it is nothing but noble. He is the test dummy, he isnt using others for his experiments other than taking blood from his son (a non harmful procedure) to do an experiment on himself with
Well i was ignorant of that/ had forgotten his name. But even so, his son did survive, so I'm willing to say that, despite the harm he did, he doesn't "deserve" this. And anyone feeling gleeful about it is a coward afraid to feel empathetic.
You remind me of the annoying fat lady on the Bryan Johnson vs 20 Skeptics - have a watch and look at who shares your views, just a bunch of overweight septum pierced freaks.
I'm actually happy that this thread isn't filled with assholes who point their finger and go "serves him right". Imgur can be classy sometimes. Well done, imgur.
He has done MUCH harm. Half of the ingredients in his supplements stimulate the immune system. People with autoimmunity get flare ups or get their immune disease triggered. He KNEW that his supplements stimulate the immune system and ignored it.
Is it too crazy still value all the lives he did no good but sell lifestyles tied to his own product with the claims of these things being the best thing on earth and everyone should do it. Now he's sick where all these things we consume is processed. I mean how much harm he did even as some physicians thinks that is all related. Truth he was committed to build a awesome image regardless of real data bias.
It's a little out of touch people saying this kind of stuff with the amount of evidences confirm anti-nutrients content in vegetables, plus the necessary steps to be a vegan and trust your health in atleast a handfull of supplements without fully understanding the near alchemy levels of fully out body with powders and essences versus the real thing, like bioavailable multiple cases of essential nutrients contained in red meat.
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u/Kuzcopolis Jul 06 '26
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This may well have been one of his worst fears, and he hasn't done much harm, if any.