Tech mogul Bryan Johnson’s creepy ‘baby face’ photo leaves social media users unimpressed
Millionaire tech mogul Bryan Johnson showed off his continued journey in the fight against aging with a new “babyface” photo posted to his social media on Monday.
Johnson, who became famous for his $2 million-a-year anti-aging regime, claims he has overcome the hurdle of living in a 46-year-old body, but has instead worked to ensure it functions like a 18 year old body.
The photo is an update to ‘Project Baby Face’ which he started 10 months ago and is a code name for a process that revolves around aging his face with extreme wellness techniques.
In his post-Baby Face after, Johnson wrote, “I got really skinny the first year of Blueprint and lost a lot of facial volume. We started Project Baby Face 10 months ago. How are we doing?’
Bryan Johnson posted a photo update for Project Baby Face on his social media accounts. The tech mogul still claims his skin looks like that of a 28-year-old
But social media users were unimpressed. One user said: ‘the glow creates a bit of an uncanny valley’, while another said: ‘He literally looks his age’.
Johnson claims his daily Blueprint diet consists of taking 50-60 pills, monitoring his nighttime erections, intense morning workouts, and blue light therapy which he uses as a timer to meditate at the same time.
He lies on his back every morning and places a blue light mask on his face to stimulate collagen growth, control blemishes and give him the so-called ‘Baby Face’ look.
‘Most people assume that death is inevitable. We’re really just trying to extend the time we have before we die,” Johnson said TIME in September.
While Johnson may be pleased with the direction his actions have taken, many experts disagree.
Bryan Johnson (pictured in 2018) started the Blueprint Diet in 2020 and hopes to live until he is 120 years old.
“Death is not optional; it is written in our genes,” said Dr. Pinchas Cohen, dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California.
“There is absolutely no evidence that this is possible,” Cohen said, “and there is absolutely no technology at this point that even suggests we are moving in that direction.”
Meanwhile, Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, added that he and other doctors and health experts who met Johnson at an annual retreat in May were concerned about his appearance.
‘He looked sick. He was pale. I don’t know what he did to his face,” Barzilai said. “All these doctors all agreed he didn’t look that great.”
The description doesn’t seem that far removed from the photo Johnson posted online this week, which attracted similar reactions from followers.
‘Right now your skin looks inhumanly pale which is a turn off for most no matter how superficial it may be,’ while another wrote: ‘The quality of the skin is excellent but the pale color makes you look much older. ‘
Johnson spends about $2 million every year on his Blueprint Diet and starts his day with exercise and taking dozens of vitamins.
Johnson takes about 50 to 60 pills every day, changing them every few weeks based on what works for him.
Johnson has traveled to uncharted territories in his quest to stay young forever, claiming he has the skin of a 28-year-old, the heart of a 37-year-old and the fitness of an 18-year-old, but he regrets it he did not spend more time on the anti-aging process earlier in his life.
“What I would give to go back in time and start this way of life at that age (10 to 20),” Johnson said in a YouTube video titled My morning routine (live for 120+).
“It’s so much harder to reverse the damage of aging than it is to prevent it,” he continued. “There’s a mentality that you live fast and die young, or you do things in your youth and you correct things when you’re an adult.”
In August, Johnson went so far as to undergo penile rejuvenation therapy, which uses shock therapy to improve his erections.
He claims controlled studies prove the therapy improves erectile function and receives 4,000 shocks per treatment three times a week.
The treatment is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat erectile dysfunction.
In his latest revelation, commentators asked Johnson whether he thinks his millions of dollars would be better spent creating world peace or helping others.
He answered and said, ‘Blueprint is world peace: do not die. Don’t kill each other. Don’t kill the planet. Align AI with don’t die. One of the same.”