Biohacking: a trend among middle-aged men from Silicon Valley
Expensive cars and twenty-year-old models as cures for the midlife crisis of the past. Now rich 45-year-olds in Silicon Valley are saving themselves from old age with longevity coaches, hormonal injections, nutrigenomics (eating based on genetic information) and intermittent fasting. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are investing millions of dollars in biohacking and rushing scientists to hack the system to become the first immortals. Otherwise, what is the point of all these penis-shaped rockets going into space, developing the first settlements on Mars, if they already see it in their graves. The concern of aging billionaires did not arise out of nowhere - life expectancy in the United States after Covid 2020 fell from 79 years to 76 years.
The plan to save Silicon Valley men from death involves more interesting tools than Dr. Kao's scalpel and sea moss. They follow a special diet that includes foods and supplements to maintain telomere length (the longer the telomere, the longer the cell lives). Doctors are developing it based on biomarkers in blood, urine and saliva. This is nutrigenomics.
Silicon Valley old-timer, father of biohacking, creator of Bulletproof, 49-year-old Dave Asprey regularly injects stem cells into all organs of his body, including the penis, sleeps in a pressure chamber and visits a cryosauna daily. He claims that he will live to be 180 years old. The most successful in the fight against the ticking clock is 45-year-old Brian Johnson, who spends $2 million a year to prolong his youth. 30 doctors monitor his health every day. Bloomberg's sources claim that Brian has the nighttime erection speed of a seventeen-year-old. Twitter creator Jack Dorsey champions intermittent fasting because it's cheap and cheerful and doesn't take much time. And the result is guaranteed - weight loss and regulation of blood sugar levels.
The biohacking trend among middle-aged men is also catching up in the Upper East Garden. Heads of hedge funds are in the habit of spending $50 on HGH drips once a year to maintain testosterone and overall rejuvenation.
I think what makes the midlife crisis so noticeable for men is that they suddenly realize that they are no longer 30. Women experience 45 more easily because we prepare for old age starting in our 20s. Thank you beauty marketing. My lover also doesn’t like the numbers in his passport, but he believes not in biohacking, but in the Soviet wisdom “if I don’t part with the Komsomol, I’ll be with forever young.” I try to fit in. It seems to work - it looks better than the biohackers from Silicon.
Author: Yunia Pugacheva
