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Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Did he somehow wronged you or are you just having a bad day?

Guy is a weirdo, I remember logging into Twitter a few weeks ago and he was talking about his wife like she were some lab experiment. I don't know if it was a joke but it coming from a weirdo didn't help.

Personally I am happy that there are weirdos and that they share their weirdness.

What he has may not be a very serious disease yet I was interested in learning about his experience and felt sorry for him.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate

We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable)

If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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His protocols are usually pretty robustly researched. The worst thing you can say about Bryan Johnson is that I personally believe he over-indexes on suspect science, but that's it.

His longevity protocol trial with group of people had negative overall results according to ny times. His supplements tested to not contain what it claimed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/technology/bryan-johnson-...

Thanks; I read the story you linked. It mostly reads as a hit piece centered around various legal allegations tied to stringent confidentiality agreements. There isn't much substance beyond that. The article briefly discusses some vague customer complaints about allulose-directed side-effects from his 'longevity mix', but the actual complaints are incredibly vague and you could attribute side-effects to or from basically any supplement. The article is basically a long-form screed saying over and over "he makes you sign confidentiality agreements".

I don't like Bryan Johnson per se, I just don't think that mal-intent has been substantiated.

For your second claim, I had to use ChatGPT to source it. It turns out that there was a problem with an earlier batch of one of his many supplements being out of spec per the COA. This is common and not unusual. He provides lab testing and COA for his current supplements. The unusual part is that anybody even ever knew his supplements were out of spec because companies don't really publish COA - and people knew because he did publish COA.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else)

He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical research, and document it.

He does sell supplements and now whatever immortals care is, but I can't imagine he makes much money from either compared to his NW (and passive income from it). It's more likely that there is demand from people following his experiment to get in on his findings (which are all public anyway, but convenience is king), because again, he doesn't have much incentive to scam people and his goal is already a selfish one, to live forever. But at least he openly shares everything on that path.

Edit: Since people really snag on the money part, since money makes you evil by default, let me rephrase:

"Bryan Johnson, a greedy billionaire, has totally fucked up his latest scam, and you can easily copy everything he does because he foolishy doesn't even try hiding any of his routines, regimens, daily meals, or even obfuscate any of the ingredients in the supplements he sells. That's right, you can fully copy what he does without giving his greedy hands a single penny. He even accidentally shares all his medical findings publicly too."

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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To those suffering similar issues: don't give up. There are many off label options to pursue. Immuno-modulation is, from my observations, understudied. I won't list anything here though.

Also, we're continuously finding new roles that microbes play in autoimmune disorders, eg rheumatoid, a condition which I myself have managed to reverse from utterly disabling to perfectly functional. My rheumatoid was almost certainly triggered by microbial (bacterial/viral) activity.

H Pylori is ubiquitous, and quite transmissible. Medical journals describe the many ways it can transmit, even via flies landing on utensils, plates, etc. I do not suggest pylori is directly at work here, but the growing consensus when treating it is that reducing it, not eradicating it, may be the better approach. Considering the many ailments it might be contributing to, including some forms of cancer, protocols for managing it may be prudent. But pylori is one of many, and there are countless strains of it alone.

I got to the point where I would get rashes from touching certain materials. That persisted for over a year. Not presently though. Doctors literally mocked me though, and without the temptation of insurance to milk, would ave nothing to do with me, at times literally taunting me.

My last encounter with an ER doctor was due to nasal swelling and pain, accompanied by extreme fatigue and malaise. During the visit, he told me to simply use any sharp object to remove the internal swollen matter and consider taking antidepressants. As soon as he left the room, so did I, and promptly the hospital itself. Unconventional disorders can seem futile, but there are, until corporately aligned LLMs centralize information and substitute the internet altogether, many medical journals, case reports and research papers that remain available.

I had chronic high BP sitting often around 197/170. Doctors told me I'd need to remain on BP medicine indefinitely, and that it would almost certainly be irreversible. When I could no longer afford regular tests, my GP sent a certified letter dismissing me as a patient. That was the end of my BP meds. 4 years later, without any medication, my BP sits at ~128/87, which may not be ideal, but is better than it was while on the meds.

I will say, that if we can wangle a truly FOSS LLM, rigorously policed for corporate and institutional influence, a lot of what is presently ailing us could be resolved. Many answer are out there, many waiting to be conceptually synthesized, but there is a lot out there. And there is a lot of incentive going in both directions.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

Yes

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food.

So while organic sustainable farming works and produces food, what is not shared is that the yield per unit work is dramatically higher for the chemical laden stuff.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did he somehow wronged you or are you just having a bad day?

Guy is a weirdo, I remember logging into Twitter a few weeks ago and he was talking about his wife like she were some lab experiment. I don't know if it was a joke but it coming from a weirdo didn't help.

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Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

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Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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In medicine, if you look hard you will likely find something.

That part that confuses me about his story is: not once does he mention the symptoms or side effects. Unless I somehow missed that part, or he's leaving them out for private reasons, his evidence and symptoms are entirely lab-based.

Bodies are weird and do "abnormal" things in reaction to the environment, stress, physical activity, nutrition, etc. -- not everything your body does has to be a disease, a disorder, or something wrong.

He talks about how if he hadn't spent (ungodly amounts of) money tracking his health over the years, he could be in worse off condition. But I'd bet that if he hadn't been tracking his labs, he would've lived a pretty normal life.

Maybe the outcomes at 80+ years might be slightly different? But bodies will still naturally deteriorate over time and humans cannot live forever.

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