Bryan Johnson, world's first "professional rejuvenation athlete"

Who we're talking about: Bryan Johnson, who currently bills himself as a "professional rejuvenation athlete." Formerly, Johnson was a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. He founded Braintree, a mobile payment startup which he sold in 2013 to PayPal for $800 million.

And the news is: For the past two years, Johnson has been following a novel personal rejuvenation program. He designed this program himself in collaboration with a small team of longevity scientists.

Johnson calls this program The Blueprint. It’s an intense and regular battery of tests which drive Johnson's diet, supplementation, exercise, sleep, etc. In a nutshell, take the best longevity science recommendations, apply them by the minute, monitor the results constantly — and you get the Blueprint.

As you can imagine, designing such a system and carrying it out day-by-day is not cheap. According to Johnson, The Blueprint has cost him $2 million per year.

So does Johnson’s Blueprint work? After two years of following the Blueprint, Johnson claims he has achieved significant and measurable rejuvenation. He has managed to reverse 5 years off his biological age (he is 45) and many of his organs now test as functioning at the level of 20-year-old.

Perhaps most impressively, Johnson has managed to slow down his rate of aging down to the level of an average 10-year-old. In other words, using existing lifestyle modifications and careful and constant testing, Johnson claims he has managed to effectively stop and even reverse his aging.

What's next? Johnson has been making the rounds of various media outlets, getting the word out about The Blueprint. On a recent episode of the James Altucher Show, Johnson said, "If I’ve done it in this bootstrapped way, I’ve proven inevitability for everyone else." In other words, if he can do it — so can you.

Sure, but what about that $2 million per year cost? Clearly, that level of investment in personal longevity is unavailable for all but smallest fraction of society right now. The hope is that prices — of testing, supplements, various longevity-enhancing gadgets — will come down, and quickly, if Johnson is successful in building awareness about his success with personal rejuvenation.

In the meantime, Johnson keeps raising awareness of the possibilities of longevity science, and maybe blazing a path for others to follow. In case would like to see the obsessive details of Johnson's blueprint, and even follow the more affordable and accessible parts, the entire system is fully laid on Johnson's website.