One of Australia’s richest businessmen reveals the very bizarre steps he takes at bedtime to ‘stay young forever’

Australian luxury property and resort developer Tim Gurner is not only very wealthy – he’s reportedly worth $989 million – he also plans to enjoy his wealth for a long time to come.

He follows an extreme regimen to stay young. This reportedly includes taping his mouth shut every night so he can only breathe through his nose, and sleeping in a bed that is cooled to 18 degrees Celsius.

Mr Gurner made international headlines in 2017 when he suggested that first-time homeowners in Australia had their priorities all wrong. He said that when he wanted to buy his first home, he “wouldn’t buy an avocado for $19 and four cups of coffee for $4 each”.

The wealthy 42-year-old man wants to “live until he’s 500,” according to a staff member at his Melbourne anti-aging wellness clinic, Saint Haven.

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Since his father died of cancerMr. Gurner wants to live the best and longest life he can, to the point that it has become “an obsession,” he told the Sydney Morning Herald‘s Good Weekend Magazine.

He receives an injection of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) every morning and takes 40 tablets a day containing, among other things, boron, taurine, creatine and peptides that he says were invented by the Russian army in the 1980s to protect soldiers from radiation.

He also measures everything he eats so he gets exactly 3,300 calories a day, including “the exact same amount of fruits and vegetables.”

Mr. Gurner, of course, gets all of these supplies from his Saint Haven location in downtown Collingwood.

At home, where he lives with his wife Aimee and their three children, there is circadian lighting that reflects the color of the sun at different times of the day.

In the morning the color is orange, then most of the day it is yellow and before sunset it is orange again.

From 7:30 p.m. until he goes to bed, Mr. Gurner wears glasses with red lenses to block out blue light. About a third of all visible light is considered blue light, most of which comes from sunlight, but smartphones and LEDs also emit blue light.

Some studies have shown that blue light can affect your sleep and possibly cause illness.

The quest for eternal youth doesn’t stop when he goes to bed, though. He sleeps with a Chilipad – also recommended by Oprah Winfrey’s sleep doctor – to keep the bed at 18 degrees.

Before he goes to sleep, he tapes his mouth shut so he can only breathe through his nose.

He told reporter Tim Elliott that “mouth breathing is very bad … it’s changed the structure of our jaws.”

Mr. Gurner’s desire to live a long and prosperous life has its roots in the time he founded his first company more than twenty years ago, and in the traumatic event that followed almost immediately.

At 21, he founded My Well Being, a company offering yoga, massage, pilates and personal training.

But six weeks later, his father died of multiple myeloma.

He became terrified of dying and since then he has spent his entire life trying not to get sick and die. He said his goal became, ‘How do I live the best life possible with the least amount of risk, for as long as possible?’

Mr. Gurner also has the phrase “flow of life” tattooed in Morse code on his left arm.

However, his quest for a longer life isn’t just a personal obsession for him and other multimillionaires looking for ways to spend some of their money.

He also believes that longer life would be beneficial for the entire country.

“If we could raise everyone’s retirement age by 20 years, that would be the best thing for the economy,” he said.

‘Twenty years more taxes and spending, plus all the savings you would make in the health care system. You could redirect all those profits to fighting poverty.’

While he made a name for himself with his views on the price of smashed avocado toast and his desire to live long, Gurner accused Australian workers of becoming “arrogant” after Covid.

“We need to see the pain in the economy,” he told the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit a year ago, adding that he expected unemployment to rise by 40 to 50 percent.

“We need to remind people that they work for their employer, not the other way around.”

Mr Gurner took particular aim at skilled workers, claiming productivity had declined since the pandemic.

“People didn’t want to work as much because of Covid and that has a big effect on productivity,” he said.

“Tradies have definitely fallen back in productivity. They’ve been paid a lot in recent years not to do too much and we need to see that change,” he said.