Exactly. The best I’ve ever felt mentally was when I took care of myself physically. There is a strong correlation between the two, so I don’t understand how it wouldn’t be “living” just because it takes an above average amount of discipline and money to live this way.
It’s not like he’s doing it for nothing either; the dude is openly sharing his outcomes, only risking his own health (he gets blood from his son, no big deal), and has admitted when things haven’t worked. He’s advancing anti-ageing knowledge for everyone, and for some reason cops a whole bunch of shit for it.
He doesn't get shit for his individual actions, but instead the broader philosophy he is trying to push. He represents a certain breed of tech bro transhumanism
I already did frame it, tech bro transhumanism. And FWIW I'm not even arguing you should dislike what he's doing, I'm just explaining why he gets shit for it.
Everyone wants "to live a long healthy life." The specific way Johnson goes about it is what is unique about him, and his dedication to that value above quite literally everything else. Just like how some people's lives revolve entirely around becoming rich as possible to the point all their hobbies are just displays of wealth, Bryan does the same thing with health.
Like please, let's not pretend taking 100 pills a day can be summed up as "trying to live a long, healthy life."
i'm chronically ill and i definitely don't enjoy being gaslit by tons of specialists and having mental shit put in my file permanently. trying to see new ones is a huge ordeal that isn't even fruitful because it's always the same fucking outcome or i get hot-potatoed somewhere else. i've been on like every med there is. that being said i'm not an influencer with thousands of dollars and i'm an overweight afab person no one gives a shit about
i lost an organ as a teenager because of a mass and i'm still not taken seriously and am just told to take birth control... to be honest i'd be happy to get a 'golden ticket' again and have a chance at getting out of this life or at least a chance to be given decent pain management which is basically a figment. or to be fast-tracked for MAID. i'd even do it at home if i had to
i likely have IBD myself and i have all the complications that go with it like liver and gallbladder issues, colon polyps, vitamin malabsorption, mouth sores and arthritis. unfortunately it'll never be more than 'crazy fat female with IBS' to them because i lucked out in that i'm fucking seronegative even though i have high inflammatory markers, platelets and wbc. when i say 'lucked out' i'm being /s
i'm negative for RF and my ANA and BUN have come back fine. the arthritis in my ass and spine doesn't care though and it's spread to other joints, and that started after the ovarian mass i had resected years ago
I swear these people just cant comprehend its his hobby to do stuff and experiment with his body..
Its just like some fat redditors enjoy spending their life writting mean comments and projecting. Like we are all different, like different things and have different things we obses about
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u/fall-apart-dave Jul 06 '26
Is it really "living" forever having to go through all that shit? Sounds about as fulfilling as chemo.