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The Billionaire Who Ate Like a God – And Got an Autoimmune Disease
The other day I learned that Bryan Johnson—the magnate who sold his companies to dedicate himself to ‘prolonging his life’—has been diagnosed with ‘autoimmune’ gastritis.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that all this supplementation and these interventions, together with his oh-so-‘healthy’ diet—which includes every kind of grass rich in a thousand ‘indispensable’ compounds—might cost him his much-touted goal of living longer and better (remember how he bragged that his erections were on par with a teenager’s?).
This post isn’t meant to mock anyone. It’s simply to draw attention to this man’s attitude toward food, and I’m doing so because it reminds me of myself shortly before I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Those plates of innocent little vegetables, vegetable juices, sweet potatoes, and the like are a bomb. Thinking that everything is good, or that everything has something the body needs, or that everything can contribute to health—that is dangerous.
And the worst part is that he plans to fix it with even more ‘big pharma’-style interventions, seeking some antidote to knock out his defenses against specific targets, rather than correcting the error of eating all kinds of crap.
Meat, beans, and rice are enough—as ‘Grande’ Genereux has demonstrated—and everything else is accessory.
Do you know of any other famous person who has also succumbed to such an attitude?
I don’t recall when exactly, but I started hearing about antioxidants in the 1980s. I remember going to one of the vitamin stores and everything was touted as containing antioxidants; ORAC levels were also popular then.
So it’s been decades of us being fed this line that antioxidants are good for us and we should consume more things that contain them.
I don’t really know how the science lines up with public health, but it seems that since the 1980s (when we were told to eat healthier and more fruits and veggies and such), we have had an explosion of illnesses that defy explanation.
I’m not hear to say fruits and veggies are bad, but maybe we need reevaluate certain compounds in them.