Celeb biohacker Bryan Johnson’s Rejuvenation Olympics – you win ‘by never crossing the finish line’ – draws people eager to reverse their biological clocks

Bryan Johnson, said to spend US$2 million a year to get younger, lays down gauntlet to other biohackers, who rank in contest based on diagnostic test results

Retired US systems engineer Dave Pascoe and Singaporean entrepreneur Tiat Lim, both, like Johnson, on the contest leader board, talk about their health regimens

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Celeb biohacker Bryan Johnson, who came up with the Rejuvenation Olympics to list people who have held back time the best. According to the leaderboard, the 46-year-old has a biological age of 37, putting him in seventh place. Photo: instagram.com/bryanjohnson

Published: 7:15pm, 15 Feb 2024

American multimillionaire entrepreneur and biohacker Bryan Johnson – the man reportedly spending US$2 million a year to reverse the ageing process – and his doctor Oliver Zolman, based in Cambridge in the UK, have come up with a unique competition: the Rejuvenation Olympics.

According to its website, the competition was created to have a public forum to share rules and validated results for age rejuvenation. Participants aim to grow younger.

Site visitors are told: “You win by never crossing the finish line.”

The game, in other words, is very much a matter of life – and not death, the ultimate finish line. The goal is to get as far from the end point as humanly possible.

Participants in Bryan Johnson’s Rejuvenation Olympics aim not to grow older, but to grow younger. Photo: instagram.com/bryanjohnson

In practical terms, this requires competitors to focus on reversing their biological clock – the equivalent age of cells and tissues, which can be quite different from chronological age, the number of years since birth.

A leader board shows the Top 20 contestants.