Tech tycoon turned biohacker Bryan Johnson has announced he has begun undergoing penile rejuvenation therapy.
The 45-year-old, who made millions from his online payment platform Braintree, has done everything he can to optimize his health and age himself.
The billionaire is known for taking dozens of supplements every day and has now announced that he is undergoing shock therapy to improve his erections.
Johnson posted to X and said, “Started with the first penile rejuvenation therapy. Focused Shockwave Therapy 6 treatments, 3x/wk Cost $1-2k.”
According to Johnson, controlled studies show that shock wave therapy improves erectile dysfunction.
Tech tycoon Johnson said he was rocked by 4,000 shocks per treatment in an attempt to increase his erections
He has undergone a major transformation since he started the project. He is pictured here in 2018 on the left and 2023 on the right
His post continued, “We are testing whether it improves total nocturnal erections, subjective sexual performance, sexual satisfaction, and medical imaging-based penile markings.”
Johnson also added that the machine he will be connected to is operated by STORZ Medical and will destroy him with 4,000 shocks per treatment.
The University of Utah offers shock wave therapy as an option for patients with erectile dysfunction, but they clearly state that it is an “experimental treatment option.”
According to the university, data show that the experimental treatment can stimulate blood flow and possibly grow new vessels.
The treatment is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in the treatment of ED.
Risks of the therapy include pain, bleeding or bruising on and around the penis, blood in the urine and penile curvature, the university said.
They also said it takes one to three months to see results, but the initial results can be dramatic.
Before announcing he was undergoing treatment, Johnson said he had hoped to get a three-hour, thirty-minute nighttime erection.
He then tweeted confirming that this means standing up for three hours and thirty minutes a night, and poor sleep can cause this.
Johnson would spend $2 million a year on a project to reverse the aging of all organs in his body
Johnson trains for an hour a day with more intense training sessions three times a week
This is the last part of his militant and eccentric regime that is estimated to cost him $2 million a year.
In addition to taking dozens of supplements a day, he eats a strict vegan diet of mixed foods that he meticulously documents.
He’s taken more than 33,000 pictures of his gut and monitors everything from his bone weight to his number of nocturnal erections.
Johnson and his doctors claim that in two years he has reduced his total biological age by more than five years and now has the heart of a 37-year-old, the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity and fitness of an 18-year-old .
He starts his day at 5 a.m., followed by an hour-long, high-intensity workout, and goes to bed at the same time every night after wearing blue light-blocking glasses two hours earlier.
But the lifestyle he once led to build that business left him feeling depressed and suicidal. he told Bloombergwhich led him to embark on a journey to understand the workings of his body.
Along the way, the father-of-three founded several bio-startups two years ago, focusing on perhaps his most ambitious project to date: redesigning his body.
As part of what he calls Project Blueprint, Johnson lives by a regimen that’s more like a full-time job.
Johnson undergoes regular tests that target more specifically his kidneys, prostate, thyroid and nervous system
Johnson wakes up at 5 a.m. and takes about two dozen supplements to start his day
Johnson undergoes regular tests that target more specifically his kidneys, prostate, thyroid and nervous system
He’s had his pelvic floor radiated with electromagnetic pulses to improve his muscle tone in hard-to-reach places, and he wears glasses that block blue light for two hours before going to sleep at the same time each day.
Johnson says his goal is to keep his brain, liver, kidneys, teeth, skin, hair, penis and rectum functioning as they were when he was 18.
“The blueprint has that kind of potential to reshape our relationship with health and time, and we could really be on the cusp of something dramatically different and better,” he added.
“There isn’t a person in the world who is 45 chronologically, but 35 in every organ,” his chief physician, 29-year-old Oliver Zolman, told Bloomberg.
Together, Johnson and Zolman review the latest scientific literature and use Johnson as a guinea pig to test promising advanced treatments.
Johnson claims to take in exactly 1,977 calories a day on a strict vegan diet, keeping his body fat between 5 and 6 percent
Johnson now lives in Venice, California, in a house he bought for $5.7 million in 2017
For Zolman, the improvements they’ve made to Johnson’s body so far are just the beginning. “We didn’t get any remarkable results,” he said. “We’ve had small, reasonable results with Bryan, and that’s to be expected.”
Johnson trains for an hour a day with more intense training sessions three times a week. It is an integral part of his mission that his bodily functions are religiously tested.
While sleeping, it monitors its waking body temperature, blood glucose, heart rate variations, and oxygen levels.
In addition, he also undergoes regular tests that are more specifically aimed at his kidneys, prostate, thyroid and nervous system.
Johnson now lives in Venice, California, in a home he bought for $5.7 million and later modified to include a full medical suite prior to Project Blueprint.