Science Biohacker Bryan Johnson reveals he has been diagnosed with an incurable stomach disease - Beast system enjoyer still can't evade death despite all his efforts

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The biohacker says doctors have diagnosed him with a condition that means his 'stomach is eating itself'
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Biohacker Bryan Johnson has revealed he has been diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease that means his ‘stomach is eating itself’.

The 48-year-old has spent the last few years going to extreme lengths to try and ‘de-age’, including injecting himself with his son’s blood and sticking to a strict hours-long morning routine that involves shockwave therapy, exercise and daily time in a sauna.

In a new update, Johnson has revealed that he has Autoimmune Gastritis (AIG) and opened up about the long road he took to get a diagnosis.

Although these days, Johnson is known for his ultra-healthy lifestyle, that wasn’t always the case.

“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,” he wrote on X.

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Bryan Johnson has revealed he's been diagnosed with a rare autoimmune condition (X/Bryan Johnson)

“Juggling that stress and grind, I let my health slip and gained 40 lbs. 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).”

Despite the condition likely developing a while back, Johnson was only diagnosed in May.

He explained that he had been diagnosed with hypothyroidism, when the thyroid is underactive and fails to produce enough hormones, in his early 20s but took medication so that it functioned properly.

Despite not being aware of his AIG, Johnson says there were early signs, such as having low ferritin - a protein that stores iron in the body - without anaemia.

Even after taking iron supplements, Johnson’s ferritin levels would still fall below the normal range.

So, he decided to undergo tests to get to the bottom of why his ‘iron kept disappearing’.

He ruled out colon cancer with a colonoscopy, and went on to have an endoscopy and biopsies taken from three parts regions in his stomach.

These biopsies were the ‘critical piece’ of the puzzle, as they came back ‘showing clear signs of early autoimmune gastritis: early atrophy confined to the acid-producing lining, with the rest of the stomach still spared’.

“We now had a formal diagnosis. I have autoimmune gastritis AIG. My stomach is eating itself,” he said.

Johnson explained that the condition is relatively rare and tricky to diagnose.

"Autoimmune gastritis affects an estimated 2–5% of people, and likely more, because it hides and is challenging to diagnose," he said.

"It's usually silent for years, surfacing only once the stomach has atrophied enough to do real damage."

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He's detailed the long journey it took to get a diagnosis (YouTube/Bryan Johnson

Johnson continued: “I just discovered it in May. I'm unsure how long I've had it. AIG causes irreversible damage: nutritional deficiency, anaemia, and over a long horizon, elevated cancer risk. When AIG is discovered today, standard medical care concedes defeat, stating that nothing can be done except managing the condition, no matter how awful or lethal the effects.”

According to the Global Autoimmune Institute AIG can't be cured.

“Since there currently isn’t a cure for autoimmune gastritis, treatment approaches focus on symptom relief, treatment of anaemia, and lifestyle modifications," it states.

However, Johnson has vowed that he is ‘going to try and solve it’ and then will ‘share all’.

He laid out a detailed plan for what he and his team hope to do, and then put out a call out for anyone working in related fields to reach out.

Johnson ended the lengthy post on a ‘personal note’ telling his followers: “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.”
 
I wonder if he started his immortality journey at the same time: wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrophic_gastritis
Symptomatic patients are mostly females, and signs of atrophic gastritis are those associated with iron deficiency: fatigue, restless legs syndrome, brittle nails, hair loss, impaired immune function, and impaired wound healing. And other symptoms, such as delayed gastric emptying (80%), reflux symptoms (25%), peripheral neuropathy (25% of cases), autonomic abnormalities, and memory loss, are less common and occur in 1%–2% of cases.

Psychiatric disorders are also reported, such as mania, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, and cognitive impairment.
 
If there is anyone who can actually throw enough money and science at curing an incurable condition it's him.

He is a little nutty, but he's self-aware enough to be self-depreciating and even though most people can't spend the money or time he does on most of his routine, treatments, or diet/supplements, I appreciate the fact that he is so dedicated to sharing his results and techniques with the world. If he figures out any small protocol that works, and you can implement it, you can see exactly what he did and do it yourself.

Shine on, you crazy diamond.
 
“We now had a formal diagnosis. I have autoimmune gastritis AIG. My stomach is eating itself,” he said.
I don't understand, I have autoimmune gastritis (and it was REALLY fucking bad at one point, like i went through the holocaust bad) and all I had to do was just take omeprazole (prilosec is I think its OTC name)/a pill that coats your inside and your stomach usually calms down after a week or so - less (like 2 days) if you've already done this before and brought it back to step 1 of fucking your stomach up. As far as I know its not a life threatening disease its just "lol your stomachs getting ulcers nigga enjoy"

Recently avoided taking medication due to lack of pain for 3+ months, recently started having stomach pain again after eating spicy food so I took like 3 or 4 pills over 3-4 days and I'm back to normal, no issues from the stomach anymore.
 
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I hope all the years you wasted with this nuttery instead of enjoying them like a normal person were worth it, cuz they might have been your last. Crazy how life works like that.
 
If there is anyone who can actually throw enough money and science at curing an incurable condition it's him.

He is a little nutty, but he's self-aware enough to be self-depreciating and even though most people can't spend the money or time he does on most of his routine, treatments, or diet/supplements, I appreciate the fact that he is so dedicated to sharing his results and techniques with the world. If he figures out any small protocol that works, and you can implement it, you can see exactly what he did and do it yourself.

Shine on, you crazy diamond.
Rich people being forced to confront their mortality with rare diseases so they benefit the greater good? its an interesting idea....
 
I wonder if he started his immortality journey at the same time: wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrophic_gastritis

When I first learned about this, i thought right away he was going to get some sort of weird disease from all the experimental nonsense he was doing to his body and lo and behold.

I don't understand, I have autoimmune gastritis (and it was REALLY fucking bad at one point, like i went through the holocaust bad) and all I had to do was just take omeprazole (prilosec is I think its OTC name)/a pill that coats your inside and your stomach usually calms down after a week or so - less (like 2 days) if you've already done this before and brought it back to step 1 of fucking your stomach up. As far as I know its not a life threatening disease its just "lol your stomachs getting ulcers nigga enjoy"

He likes media attention so I'm sure he's playing it up a bit.
 
Just as likely they will try and fuck everyone over for any petty and none reason because they can.
Well, it's a nice idea to think that it could result in that, too many damn rare diseases in the world that causes people to suffer because of little to no support for it in my experience.
 
Rich people being forced to confront their mortality with rare diseases so they benefit the greater good?

There was an episode of MAD TV when an alcoholic gets elected President, and one of the things he did was give cancer to the richest CEOs in the country, and in six months they came up with cures for five different cancers.
 
For those unaware, he has a thread and one of his experiments involved monitoring his son's erections

 
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