Millionaire biohacker shares ironic update about ‘toxic’ item in his home
Biohacker Bryan Johnson has run into a little problem in his longevity goal, and has since called himself an ‘idiot’ for not noticing it before.
From nutrient smoothies to red light therapy and even injecting himself with his son’s blood, the millionaire is no stranger to what studies claim makes you live longer, and what can hurt you.
Having lived for his longevity routine for years now, Johnson has tailored his whole life t accommodate his need to live longer.
But he has since realised he’s made a big mistake in keeping a ‘toxic’ item in his home.
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Claiming it can cause a variety of health issues, he explained in a post on X that he has to get rid of it.
To be honest, anyone could have overlooked it.
Johnson began: “Guys, I’m an idiot. All this time I’ve spent trying not to die, I had toxic turf in my backyard.”
The billionaire, who admitted to trying to de-age his penis, claimed that ‘artificial turf contains crumb rubber infill made from recycled tires’, and said this ‘leaches chemicals including PFAS, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons’.
Johnson went on to allege: “These compounds are linked to hormone disruption, carcinogenicity, and systemic inflammation.”
According to the National Toxicology Program, he’s not wrong.
The government website reveals that ‘a standard synthetic turf field uses infill materials, such as crumb rubber, which is spread between the fibers to provide cushioning and traction’.
It also confirmed what Johnson stated, revealing that turf does contain things like ‘polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), metals, plasticizers, such as phthalates, and bisphenol A (BPA)’, but there was a difference.
The NTP’s study found that there was ‘no evidence of toxicity’ in mice that ingested crumb rubber, and that the level of crumb rubber chemicals ‘were very low’.
When testing human cells, it went on to say that it found that the crumb rubber would leach chemicals under ‘certain experimental conditions such as high heat’, which could cause ‘cell death’.
However, it’s important to note that the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment found ‘no significant risk from key component’ of synthetic turf fields.
For Johnson, this potential is enough for him to get upset over his turf, considering how much he spends yearly on trying to live as long as possible.
He said in his post: “I don’t know how I missed it. It makes me question my basic competence in life. What gets me is that I try so hard to survey the world of potential idiocy. Then I find out there’s a monument to idiocy sitting right in front of my face that I was blind to.”
He went on to claim that he’s removing the turf, ‘yet I’m still stuck with this seemingly unsolvable problem of how to not be an idiot.’
Topics: Bryan Johnson, Health, Twitter
Britt Jones