r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 08 '26

Society Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease

https://www.techspot.com/news/113035-bryan-johnson-millionaire-biohacker-who-wants-live-forever.html
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u/MeMahi Jul 08 '26

Of course he doesn't, welcome to modern reddit where any bullshit gets upvoted.

Brian already got diagnosed with AIG at 21 long before any of his recent madness.

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u/Avent Jul 08 '26

He's had autoimmune hypothyroidism since 21, the new diagnosis is AIG. That said, I think OP is thinking of Graft-Host disease, which is another autoimmune disease that is associated with blood transfusions.

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u/vicinadp Jul 08 '26

It’s less likely that it’s GVH because GVH typically is from bone marrow or Liver transplants not blood transfusions. Transfusions are not going to cause GVH because they wouldn’t be on immunosuppressants for a transfusion and GVH is caused by graft T Cells attacking host tissue since they are viewed as foreign. 

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u/VaiFate Jul 08 '26

GVHD is not an autoimmune disorder

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u/squirreltard Jul 08 '26

You can get autoimmune hemolytic anemia from blood transfusions but plasma infusions are what treats it in some cases. Like mine. Never had a blood transfusion though. I have positive ANA and other autoimmune diseases, many of which were activated by Covid.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

That's great, but that still doesn't explain why these losers are so happy about it.

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u/SentenceSingle5375 Jul 08 '26

That wasn't the discussion though, was it?

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u/arnold_palmer42 Jul 08 '26

I mean this dude is a huge loser

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u/Wacky_Water_Weasel Jul 08 '26

Modern? We're you not here when we falsely identified the Boston Marathon Bomber?

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u/PupperVanAugsbork Jul 08 '26

We did it Reddit!

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u/Wacky_Water_Weasel Jul 08 '26

No big deal just ruined an innocent guy's life. But hey, the narwhal bacons at midnight amirite???

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 08 '26

I wonder if whoever made that comment had to quit reddit because of how often it gets brought up and made fun of

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 Jul 08 '26

When social media killed a cop

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u/FirefighterTrick6476 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Ngl why are you stirring up beef? You don't have to answer for others. That's a bad character trait ngl.

Edit for the downvote-gang: I love that this post triggers you.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

it's ok to have an alternate opinion on reddit, unless your opinion is that people arent allowed to have an alternate opinion

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u/FirefighterTrick6476 Jul 08 '26

yeah ik ik. But being a dick usually is not an opinion. And chiming in talking for others definitely is a dick-move imo.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

its not being a dick to point out the entire comment chain is operating off nonsense info

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u/FirefighterTrick6476 Jul 08 '26

If one fabricates nonsense, it is their duty to provide facts though. And if the chain is just stacking unsupported nonsense on top of each other ... all just claiming to be right ... well you get the point. That is just arguing for the sake of arguing and talking over each other. And I did not think of this as a circlejerk subreddit. Well until today lol.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

It's cool man, I obviously did way more research into this particular autoimmune situation than you did. But you can keep talking if you want.

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u/FirefighterTrick6476 Jul 08 '26

ngl if you wanna compare spears you gotta pay for dinner first. But that flamebait is boring af.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

I just don't get these people, if you read what he wrote it was informative and useful to anyone else suffering from that disease. He isn't trying to harm anyone. You don't have to trust 100% of every single thing he does to have some sense that he's not pure evil.

Anyone who knows anything about the supplement and health industry knows this guy is pretty elevated from the average charlatan there. It's 95% snake oil.

But maybe it's always been revenge fantasies that have kept people retarded, who knows. The important thing is to note that these poeple are angry losers who don't do research and are mad at someone who does.

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u/dgafrica420lol Jul 08 '26

I know, its almost infuriating how many people want to watch this guy fail who is actively out here using his own body to debunk heath myths. He might be a weirdo, but hes clearly doing what he thinks is the best and openly sharing the results, both good or bad, with the world, including personal sensitive stuff like this. To actively wish ill on someone like that is insane.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

We live in the most bitter place on earth, I really am starting to believe that. Pampered yet abused.

The combination of nice things for so long plus economic hardships plus now the propaganda is pumped directly into their eyes as soon as they wake up and even while they're shitting.

They just cannot think well anymore. It'd be sad if they weren't such jerks. They get what they deserve I guess.

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u/dgafrica420lol Jul 08 '26

Youre 100% right, but I cant blame everyone else without looking inward. The fact that I’ve encountered this dude as many times as I have and have formed even more than a nominal opinion speaks more to my addiction to media intake and need for discussion than anything about the guy.

I think this conversation it might have finally been the catalyst to take that dumb phone plunge that I’ve on the verge of for a year. Good luck! <3

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

dude, that is an awesome idea. i mostly just set mine aside but if i made it seem like im not also a damn addict its not true.

i try very hard to scroll quickly past the political, gender wars type stuff but man, that shit is so targeted

i do know that every minute away from my phone makes me about a 1% happier person. reddit is actually a problem for me, i could have done more with this time but it was nice talkin to you man. you seem like a cool ddue

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26

Yeah he's just a rich dude taking blood from his children in order to live forever, what's not to like.

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u/dgafrica420lol Jul 08 '26

His child actively participates in it with him as a consenting adult who directly and immediately benefits from all of his findings. If my dad started to do this, I would be happy to donate blood to help him. Humans have free will, he likely didn't put a gun to his head and instead asked for permission. In fact, I believe he has a second son who actively choses to not participate.

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Ok, that's a fair point. Should I edit the biased "taking his child's blood" phrasing and replace it with the neutral "injecting his child's blood"?

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u/FirefighterTrick6476 Jul 08 '26

and he is also living for free in your mind! time to eat the rich lol

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26

Buddy I'm discussing him in a thread about him, I don't think about this dude otherwise.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

You only use him to score social and political points, yeah we know. That's the point.

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26

What points am I scoring? Reddit points?

Why do you think you're the only one with legitimate opinions and everyone else is trying to "score points"? I'm just here discussing stuff the same as anyone. Get over yourself.

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

You're saying the popular widely accepted opinon and want a pat on the back but I need to get over myself? Sorry not everyone agrees with you, that's life.

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26

Sometimes the popular, widely held opinion is correct, sorry that bothers you so much. That's life.

"Cancer is bad."

"Billionaires shouldn't exist."

"Injecting your son's blood in order to live forever is weird."

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u/BigLlamasHouse Jul 08 '26

yeah buddy, we get it

you can only say the things you heard and have no ability to think on your own

we get it, trust us. we were just talking about you actually

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u/d3l3t3rious Jul 08 '26

buddy he's not gonna share his blood injections with you

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u/Majestic-Baby-3407 Jul 08 '26

Why are you so obsessed with defending Bryan dude?

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u/MeMahi Jul 08 '26

I really don't care about Bryan, I just hate how reddit always jumps on a narrative with zero proof and then make it sound like a fact.