Billionaire tech tycoon Bryan Johnson has revealed that he is suffering from an incurable autoimmune disease.
Johnson, 48, who is trying to eliminate de@th, recently told his millions of followers on social media that he is suffering from Autoimmune Gastritis (AIG). ‘My stomach is eating itself,’ he explained.
The disease affects between two percent and five percent of people, and ‘Likely more, because it hides,’ Johnson said before adding that he is trying to find a cure for the condition, which currently has treatments to manage the symptoms.
In a lengthy post on X, Johnson said that as a child, he ate fast food and sugary foods and beverages. The biohacker had ‘a few healthy years’ in his 20s before he let his health slip after he became a father and began building a business, he said.
‘Within a few years I’d fallen into a deep, chronic depression. Somewhere in that timeline, my body began developing an autoimmune process affecting my thyroid and then my stomach lining,’ Johnson wrote on X.
He was diagnosed with hypothyroidism at 21 and successfully managed the condition with common treatments for nearly three decades. But for years, there were signs that something else was going on, Johnson said.
‘I’m unsure how long I’ve had it. AIG causes irreversible damage: nutritional deficiency, anemia, and over a long horizon, elevated cancer risk,’ Johnson said.
The biohacker noted that for 11 years, he had low levels of ferritin, a protein that stores iron, but he did not have anemia. He said he had tried many ways to raise his iron levels, but nothing worked.
Johnson said that his recent diagnosis made him realize that his low ferritin levels were an early sign of AIG, but ‘low ferritin was easy to dismiss by most standards of care.’
The California-based tech mogul was only diagnosed after he ‘overhauled’ his medical team this year to ‘lay the groundwork’ for a $1 million per year longevity program called ‘Immortals Care,’ designed as part of the biohacker’s quest to defeat de@th.
The team conducted a series of tests, including a colonoscopy that came back negative for cancer.
