Biohacker hoping to live to 160 reveals alarming diagnosis: 'My stomach is eating itself'

Bryan Johnson, a biohacker and longevity guru who has claimed "we whitethorn beryllium the archetypal procreation who won’t die," revealed helium has an autoimmune information causing his tummy to "eat itself."

The Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur, 48, has antecedently shared publically that helium is hoping to unrecorded until the twelvemonth 2140, erstwhile helium would successful mentation beryllium 160 years old.

Now, Johnson says helium has been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis (AIG), a chronic autoimmune illness successful which the immune strategy attacks the stomach's acid-producing parietal cells, reducing tummy acerb and impairing vitamin B12 absorption, according to Nature Reviews Disease Primers.

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"My tummy is eating itself," helium wrote successful an Instagram post. Johnson besides shared that anyplace from 2% to 5% of radical apt person this disease.

"I’m going to effort to lick it," Johnson went on. "Will stock all."

Bryan Johnson, a biohacker and longevity guru who has claimed "we whitethorn beryllium the archetypal procreation who won’t die," revealed helium has an autoimmune information causing his tummy to "eat itself." (Getty Images)

The biohacker shared that arsenic a child, helium ate sugary cereal, drank sugary soda and "gobbled down accelerated food."

"I became a young begetter of 3 and began gathering a business," Johnson went on. "Juggling that accent and grind, I fto my wellness gaffe and gained 40 lbs. Within a fewer years I’d fallen into a deep, chronic depression."

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"Somewhere successful that timeline, my assemblage began processing an autoimmune process affecting my thyroid and past my tummy lining," helium added.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Johnson for comment.

AIG tin stay hidden and tin beryllium challenging to diagnose, Johnson noted, often surfacing years aft harm has already occurred to the stomach. It tin origin robust deficiency, B12 deficiency and anemia, and tin besides summation the hazard of tummy cancer, the adept warned.

"Low robust stores get normalized and seldom investigated astatine each erstwhile anemia hasn’t shown up yet," Johnson wrote. "That unsighted spot is what hid excavation for a decade."

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He besides shared that for 11 years, helium has had debased levels of ferritin, a macromolecule that stores robust wrong the body's cells. Ferritin releases robust erstwhile the assemblage needs it, supports musculus relation and carries retired different indispensable processes.

"We continually tried to rise my robust levels with nutrient and supplementation, but thing would work," helium said.

The Los Angeles-based tech entrepreneur, 48, has antecedently shared publically that helium is hoping to unrecorded until the twelvemonth 2140. (Getty Images)

Johnson acknowledged that immoderate communal biohacking techniques — including hard training, sauna and hyperbaric oxygen — each rise the body’s request for iron.

"But nary of them explained the halfway failure: Despite maine taking robust orally, trailing each formulation and utilizing each timing trick, nary of the robust would stick."

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Johnson underwent a colonoscopy and precocious endoscopy, which examined his full intestinal tract. Five biopsies were besides taken from his stomach, which recovered "clear signs of aboriginal autoimmune gastritis: aboriginal atrophy confined to the acid-producing lining."

In January 2026, the biohacker stated successful a station connected his website that "by 2039, my extremity is immortality."

"In the property of AI, multiomics, and custom-built DNA, proteins and cells, nary information should beryllium presumed incurable simply due to the fact that nary 1 has yet tried to cure it with today’s stack," Johnson said successful his post. (Getty Images)

He elaborate his strategy for defying aging, which includes embracing a strict regimen to dilatory oregon halt biologic aging, utilizing AI to accelerate longevity research, investigating caller treatments successful lab-grown cells and organs, and reaching "longevity flight velocity" — successful which aesculapian advances would yet widen lifespan faster than helium ages.

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"I whitethorn neglect astatine this task, but my squad and I volition effort our best," helium wrote astatine the time.

There is presently nary cure for AIG, which Johnson said helium wants to change.

Johnson acknowledged that immoderate communal biohacking techniques — including hard training, sauna and hyperbaric oxygen — each rise the body’s request for iron. (iStock)

"In the property of AI, multiomics, and custom-built DNA, proteins and cells, nary information should beryllium presumed incurable simply due to the fact that nary 1 has yet tried to cure it with today’s stack."

Johnson ended his station by urging others to prioritize their health.

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"Care for yourself, attraction for others, attraction for the satellite and attraction for our carnal friends. Care for life, arsenic it’s the astir precious acquisition determination is."

The longevity guru besides shared an representation showing the elaborate findings of his 5 tummy biopsies.