Kenneth Scott is 81 years old, and on his biohacker quest for immortality he travels internationally for experimental treatments, doesn’t use soap, and spends well over $70,000 a year trying to DIY his way into reversing aging.
You may be familiar with the name Bryan Johnson, he seems to appear in the news every few months, he is the centimillionaire tech entrepreneur who is spending outrageous amounts of money in his quest to remain young called Project Blueprint. This biohacker once had his 17-year-old son’s plasma infused with his blood (young blood) as well as his father in an attempt to reduce age-related brain decline in what he calls the “world’s first multigenerational plasma exchange”.
Quest to prolong youth
However, as intriguing as Johnson’s biohacker quests to prolong youth by any means possible are to follow, he is not the only person spending large amounts of money in pursuit of prolonged youth. Much like Johnson, Kenneth Scott is a biohacker heavily investing longevity and reversing aging. However, he argues that it is not enough to just slow the aging process, he is working towards being functionally immortal and is part of an anti-aging movement that has generated a litany of conferences and experimental treatments.
“When your heart stops beating, you’re guilty of mass cellular genocide,” Kenneth Scott, an 81-year-old biotech investor and real estate developer, said in an interview with Quartz “Our culture has the mentality that we were born to die. From childhood, we were taught that we’re going to die. But I suggest that that culture is out of date.”
Journey to reverse aging
At 81, nearly twenty years into his DIY biohacker journey, he asserts that he feels like he is back in his twenties and is living life to the fullest, dancing like he did when he was in his teens, has youthful skin, is fitter and mentally sharper that he has been in decades, and biological testing reveals his age to be 18 years old.
“I feel so young now and my mind is just going all the time,” he said. “My thinking is that you really need to believe that you are here to live and that you are going to live, so that’s where I put my efforts.”
He estimates that he and his wife spend over $70,000 a year on personal biohacker treatments trying to reverse aging on top of the estimated $500,000-$750,000 he invests in various biotechnology companies that are researching anti-aging interventions and technology.
“It sounds like a lot of money, but compared to what is wasted on people our age trying to keep them alive from chronic diseases, it’s really very small,” Scott said.
DIY rejuvenation biohacker
Scott reports that in his biohacker routine he follows a plant-based diet, routinely gets platelet-rich plasma facials (known as vampire facials), walks 10,000 steps a day, and makes his own shampoo using a combination of the drug Dasatinib with Quercetin. He said that he was inspired to use this duo in shampoo because they were shown to improve wool production in sheep. He also said that he doesn’t use soap because he does not want to expose the largest organ in the body to toxins.
“Have you ever seen a deer out in the wild go to Walmart to buy some shampoo,” Scott asked. “The reality is, wild animals don’t put these things on their body, and we didn’t evolve to do this either.”
The rejuvenation biohacker and seasoned biotech investor also gets some more clinical treatments regularly such as getting amniotic exosomes injection at a clinic in Miami where the procedure is legal. Scott also said that he spends around $500-$600 a month on anti-aging peptides, but he said that it is hard to measure exactly what the benefits are of some of his biohacking efforts.
His commitment to pushing the boundaries of longevity in pursuit of groundbreaking solutions “stems from a firm belief that rejuvenation holds the potential to redefine the limits of human longevity.”
Traveling for experimental treatments
Much like Johnson, Scott also travels for some of his biohacker treatments that aren’t approved or available in America, such as gene therapy injections from Minicircle, a biotech startup. After this treatment Scott said that he was able to run through the Miami airport when just two months earlier he had to pause from exhaustion after making the same trip.
While some experts caution people from traveling to get treatments that are not approved by the FDA, Scott asserts that at his age he does not have time to wait for companies to traverse the lengthy procedures required for FDA approval to get the age-reversing treatments that he needs to achieve his goal of immortality. He was quoted in an interview with Inverse as saying, “We’re letting people die while we continue to cure mice of conditions.”
“My concern is me, not the regulations which have been created,” he said. “I have a life expectancy of seven years at this point. I don’t really have a lot of interest in five-year trial programs, so I just get on and do it.”
Unlocking the secrets of immortality
Scott believes that in a decade or two mankind will have unlocked the secret of immortality. He reiterates that we will not be able to prevent aging, rather the cellular consequence of aging will be treatable and reversible via scientific intervention. Meaning that every so often humans will be able to turn back their biological clocks.
“You just keep doing it again and again,” he said. In this scenario, someone may have lived for 150 years but they will have the cellular age of a 30-year-old. You become functionally immortal, and that changes the way we look at things,” he said.
With an understanding of age-related infirmities Scott dares to challenge “conventional notions of lifespan and healthspan, envisioning a future where rejuvenation transforms our understanding of longevity.”
His dedication to anti-aging, longevity and rejuvenation is not just a professional pursuit, it is also “a personal mission to redefine the limits of human longevity and inspire others to embrace a future where every chapter of life is as radiant and energizing as the last.”
“I would say that what we’re pushing is the regulatory envelope, not the science envelope,” he said. “Just because something isn’t approved by the FDA doesn’t mean it isn’t approved by other governments. So, I don’t have that kind of a worry.”
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https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/longevity-biohacking-feature
https://qz.com/this-biohacker-spends-70-000-a-year-to-reverse-aging-1851681815
