The Aesthetics Advisor

The prospect of slowing, stopping, or even reversing the aging process has captivated humankind for millennia. The competitors of the Rejuvenation Olympics (RO) hope the elusive fountain of youth may finally be within reach. “Where you win by never crossing the finish line,” teases the website. A special leaderboard charts progress based on the age of participants’ cells and tissues—beyond just years accrued. Bryan Johnson , a 46-year-old multimillionaire entrepreneur and biohacker, conceived RO as the ultimate anti-aging proving ground. While Mr. Johnson ranks seventh in the top 20—despite pumping $2 million a year into longevity protocols—an unlikely figure is ahead of him: 61-year-old Dave Pascoe, boasting a mid-30s biological age. How does he do it? From Stress to Success: Daily Rituals for Rejuvenation More than two decades ago, Mr. Pascoe cared for his cancer-stricken parents—a very stressful period in his life, he told The Epoch Times. Exercise became his coping mechanism. B...

Novak Djokovic, age 35, sometimes hangs out in a pressurized egg to enrich his blood with oxygen and gives pep talks to glasses of water, hoping to purify them with positive thinking before he drinks them. Tom Brady, 45, evangelizes supposedly age-defying supplements, hydration powders and pliability spheres. LeBron James, 38, is said to spend $1.5 million a year on his body to keep Father Time at bay. While most of their contemporaries have retired, all three of these elite athletes remain marvels of fitness. But in the field of modern health science, they’re amateurs compared to Bryan Johnson. Bryan Johnson, 45, is an ultra-wealthy software entrepreneur who has more than 30 doctors and health experts monitoring his every bodily function. The team, led by 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman , has committed to help reverse the aging process in every one of Johnson’s organs. Zolman and Johnson obsessively read the scientific literature on aging and longevity an...