A millionaire who’s spending $2 million a year on a mission to ‘live forever’ has explained exactly why he’s doing it.

Finance technology magnate Bryan Johnson has made headlines for his unusual regime to extend his life, which began in 2021.

Dubbed ‘Project Blueprint,’ he’s hacking his health in an attempt to reverse the aging process in every single one of his organs and live forever.

Johnson made his fortune after founding payment systems company Braintree in 2007, which acquired Venmo for $26.2 million in 2012.

The business was then bought out by PayPal for $800 million in 2013, cementing Johnson’s multimillionaire status.

But the entrepreneur – who now reportedly has a net worth of $400 million – spent much of the following decade binging on junk food, drinking in excess and dealing with mental health issues, including depression.

So he decided to change that, and eating all his meals from his strict diet before 11am and going to sleep at 8.30pm are some of the more tame steps taken by the 47-year-old.

But his upcoming Netflix documentary, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever, explores the more extreme practices he’s tried in an attempt to prolong his time on Earth.

Bryan Johnson has gone to some extreme lengths to reverse the aging process (Instagram/@bryanjohnson_)

Johnson explains his rationale behind blood plasma transfusions between him, his 17-year-old son, Talmage, and his 70-year-old father – even previously claiming that his ‘super blood’ had reversed his dad’s age by 25 years.

However, he’s since stopped the practice after six months due to ‘no benefits’ being detected, according to Fortune.

In the documentary trailer, he explains exactly why he’s wants to live forever.

He says: “I really want to have multiple lifetimes with my son. One hundred lifetimes isn’t going to be enough.”

Johnson previously told The Guardian in 2023 of the realization he had before starting up Project Blueprint, explaining after his decade-long slump: “What I said about myself is: do I really think that I can live my best life on my own?

“And I decided that, no, I can’t. I just don’t have what it takes. I really need this augmentation.”

Bryan and his son Talmage (Netflix)

Tiger King director Chris Smith is behind the new documentary, which delves deep into into Johnson’s psyche and gives intimate access to his grueling daily routine, home life and medical procedures.

It also aims to tackle the ‘larger issues it raises about our fear of mortality and long-held notions about growing older’.

Smith told Tudum: “Last year, I saw a headline about a man spending $2 million a year to become 18 again.

“That initial curiosity led to a 12-month journey following Bryan Johnson’s quest and its effect on those closest to him, while interviewing experts from around the world to get a better understanding of the people trying to live healthier, longer.

He spoke of the impact working on the documentary has had on his own health, adding: “A year later, I drink less, go to bed earlier, and wear a ring that tells me how bad my sleep is.”

Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever drops on Netflix on Wednesday (January 1).

It seems like Bryan Johnson’s extremely expensive anti-aging regime is working.

Johnson is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist, but in recent years, he turned his attention to the anti-aging space.

As of December 2023, Johnson was said to have a net worth of approximately $400 million, so spending $2 million of year of his wealth in a bid to reverse his biological age is just a drop in the ocean for the 46-year-old.

So far he claims that his ongoing efforts have stopped him from balding, as well as his hair going grey.

Johnson also says he has the body and fitness levels of an 18-year-old.

As to how he does this, Johnson has a very strict routine consisting of 5am-wake ups, a vegan diet, and up to an hour of working out a day.

At one point, he was also taking a staggering 111 supplements a day.

With his gruelling regime in mind, you’d hope that Johnson would be getting the results he hoped for – and he recently hit a new ‘personal best’.

Bryan Johnson has hit a new anti-aging ‘personal best’. (Bryan Johnson/YouTube)

In a new YouTube video shared to his channel on Wednesday (June 12), Johnson said: “I’ve just achieved a personal best – 0.64. That roughly means for every 12 months that pass, I only age for 7.6 months.”

With this in mind, he could celebrate turning a ‘technical’ year older every 19 months.

He went on to say that a huge part of this accomplishment is from his diet, ‘where every calories has to fight for its life’.

Johnson proceeded to break down his diet for his 994,000 subscribers and it’s safe to say he eats a lot of vegetables.

But one hack in particular that everyone could easily try at home is adding more olive oil into your diet.

“With every meal I have one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil,” Johnson shared.

But this can’t be your usual oil from Walmart, as the tech mogul explained that it has to be high-grade, premium extra virgin olive oil.

Johnson often gives away bits of advice to his followers, and earlier this year shared his tips on how to have great teeth.

He detailed his eight-minute routine, which starts with a waterpik. Johnson then uses his electric tooth brush to, you know, actually brush his teeth, and finishes by using a tongue scraper.

To round off the rather long routine, Johnson uses xylitol mouthwash and a bruxism device to stop his teeth from grinding.

Sounds pretty straight forward to me!

A self-described ‘biohacker’ has revealed the ultra-strict regimen he hopes will help him to cheat death.

Bryan Johnson has become an internet sensation in recent times over his belief that his habits and diet will help to extend his life and, ultimately, ‘avoid death’.

The multi-millionaire’s regimen also includes some more eccentric elements, such as using his own son’s blood in a bid to help ‘de-age’ himself.

These aren’t cheap either, reportedly costing the Californian tech mogul some $2 million a year.

Johnson, 46, hopes that his eccentric and expensive measures will help to extend his life far into the future, though doctors have disagreed about the impact of his lifestyle.

But that hasn’t stopped Johnson from making some pretty bold claims about the impact that his habits have on the pace of his aging.

He boasted about the latest ‘effect’ in a post on X.

Bryan Johnson has gone to absurd lengths to reverse the aging process. (Instagram/@bryanjohnson_)

The tech businessman wrote: “New achievement unlocked: 0.64 speed of aging.

“I am aging slower than: + 100% of all 30-60 yr old males, + 99% of 20 yr old males. How slow is that? I only age 7.6 months every 12 months. How low can we go?”

He included an image of projected aging in a ‘normal’ person, and then a humorous image of himself ‘de-aging’ back into an infant.

There are a lot of different aspects to his regimen, including one part of it that you might not expect in the life of someone who is trying to be as healthy as possible.

This is including chocolate in his diet. Yes, chocolate.

Needless to say we are not talking about your run of the mill candy here.

This is purchasing very fancy cocoa, which he then consumes in a very specific way.

Bryan Johnson wants to turn back time. (Instagram/@bryanjohnson_)

He revealed his taste for chocolate in a video posted to his YouTube channel which hit almost 500,000 views.

In it, he said: “Sometimes the things that are good for us we don’t do.”

He explained that he consumes doses of high quality cocoa, claiming that it has health benefits.

Nonetheless, he did stress that not all cocoa in the store is of this ‘high quality’.

He said: “If you’re looking to buy high-quality cocoa, you want to look for several things; one, it’s pure cocoa; two is you want it to be undutched; three, you want to test it for heavy metals; and four, you want a high flavonol count.”

The tech mogul consumed the cocoa by mixing it with a ‘nutty pudding’, calling it ‘delicious’.