Biohacker who took 100 pills a day to 'live forever' now diagnosed with incurable disease

Biohacker who took 100 pills a day to 'live forever' now diagnosed with incurable disease A biohacker who wants to 'live forever' has been diagnosed with an incurable disease, but this doesn't mean that he's going to let it rule his life, as he's looking for a cure Biohacker Bryan Johnson, 48, who is trying to 'eliminate death', has shared with his followers that he's suffering from an incurable disease. He explained to his millions of followers that he had some "bad news," sharing that his stomach is "eating itself". And it's bad news for others, as "two-to-five per cent of people have this, too. Likely more, because it hides." However, he shared with fans that he was going to "try and solve it," using science, technology, data, and self-experimentation to optimise his own physical and mental performance, health, and longevity. And he shared his story and diagnosis of Autoimmune Gastritis with others to help inspire them. Bryan, who has previously spoken about taking around 100 pills and supplements every single day in his bid to stay healthy, said: "As a kid, I ate sugar cereal, drank sugary soda, and gobbled down fast food. I had a few healthy years in my early 20s, but then became a young father of three and began building a business. "Juggling that stress and grind, I let my health slip and gained 40lbs. 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. It’s called Autoimmune Gastritis (AIG)." He explained he had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism when he was 21 years old, and began managing it with supplements. "By taking these pills daily, my body was able to operate as though my thyroid was functioning properly," he said. "What I didn’t know was that something else was going on inside my body: my stomach had begun attacking itself. But there was no routine test to find out, and I didn’t have any symptoms." He said that AIG - which is currently incurable - is "challenging to diagnose," as it's "usually silent for years, surfacing only once the stomach has atrophied enough to do real damage: iron deficiency first, then B12 deficiency, then anaemia from both, and over a long horizon, raised stomach-cancer risk." He explained that his iron deficiency has been "corrected" thanks to "a 1,000 mg Monoferric iron infusion". "Current medical standards treat AIG as something to be managed, not resolved," he said. Bryan also shared: "It's worth noting that many of you give me a hard time, inviting me to 'live life' and engage in self-destructive behaviours like a 'normal person'. I'm cool with the playful ribbing. Also, had I not taken care of my health during the past five years, my situation could potentially be very serious. "You too may have a lurking health issue that is undiagnosed and could increase in severity from unhealthy life choices, without your knowing. The absence of symptoms is not the presence of health." Bryan said he thinks that "modern medicine has normalised too many conditions that erode our health, function, and comfort, shrinking the goal to monitoring and management, while a cure is rarely even attempted," and he wants to change that. "In the age of AI, multiomics, and custom-built DNA, proteins, and cells, no condition should be presumed incurable simply because no one has yet tried to cure it with today's stack," he wrote. He ended the lengthy post on a "personal note," emotionally penning: "We fill our days mostly on things that are trivial next to what we ultimately care about. We know, deep down, however, that in the noise of it all, health is easily forgotten until it’s the only thing that matters. "We spend a fraction of our lives truly sober to the preciousness of life. We feel it when someone we love dies, when a child is born, when we come close to death ourselves, or when a diagnosis marks our limit. "In those moments, we are sobered, and the rarity of it all becomes self-evident. Imagine the existence we’d build together if that clarity didn’t fade. I wish all of you the very best. Care for yourself, care for others, care for the planet and care for our animal friends. Care for life, as it’s the most precious gift there is."