Long before Bryan Johnson began dropping $2 million a year on 61 daily supplements, snapping 33,537 photos of his bowels, and injecting his teenage son’s blood in the hopes of reverse aging back to 18, he was actually somewhat normal … and dare we say kinda hot.



As BBC News headed to Twitter to promote their recent piece on the 45-year-old entrepreneur — only the latest article on Johnson’s deranged, seven-figure routine — a throwback image of the businessman started circulating on Twitter, proving that this hefty price tag is far from worth it.


“I've only just seen his before photos from ancient… 2018,” wrote @nickw84 alongside two photos of a weirdly sexy-looking Johnson. “This man has been ROBBED.”



But @nickw84 wasn’t alone in his assertion that tens of thousands of ass pictures and teenage blood didn’t necessarily do Johnson much good.


“He thinks he looks YOUNGER now?!” asked @MoreAndAgain. “He looks like he's transforming into Kate Moss.” “I’m just as tired of the ultra-profiled peter pan billionaire as you are…but learning this is him FIVE years ago is blowing my mind,” wrote @NotaliePortman.


“Ohhhhh so the anti-aging dude was *bitten by a vampire" and had to invent this whole thing to excuse why he'll look like this forever, ok,” theorized @Builtahouse. 


Meanwhile, @franzsherbert began speculating that maybe his unconventional results are all by design. “My new theory is he saw a really weird looking 18yo once and now just thinks that's what you have to look like to look 18,” they pondered 


But hey, maybe Johnson could glean some money-saving insights on these viral dunks. As @davemc99 so aptly put it, “If you're gonna go from this to this for $2m a year, some of it should at least have been spent on heroin.”