When you're a millionaire biohacker known for your out-there experiments and wild ambitions to 'live forever', we're sure it's hard to come up with your next idea to top the last one.
Many of you will have heard of Bryan Johnson, and while he's nothing if not controversial, his latest video could be his strangest yet.
Making a name for himself as the founder and former CEO of Kernel, Johnson is more recently known as the 'biohacker' who doesn't eat food after 11 a.m., measures his son's erection data, and
injects the plasma of his heir in some sort of Dracula-inspired ritual.
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While critics have called out Johnson's $2 million-a-year spending in his hopes of staying young, he does offer some seemingly sound advice on how you can potentially stave off the Grim Reaper.
In one of his most controversial stunts yet, Johnson explained how he was going to give himself a 'heroic' 5.43g dose of magic mushrooms and report his results in the interest of science. Considering that American philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna claims a 5g dose is used by people to experience a trip full 'ego death', there were obvious concerns about what Johnson was about to do to himself.
Johnson confirmed he'd survived the ordeal in a post-trip tweet, although an ominous warning that he was 'happy to be alive' suggests it wasn't all peace and love as he went on his wild ride. The six-hour stream is said to have 'broken' the internet, and as you can imagine, there are some inadvertently hilarious moments that have been highlighted online.
For starters, the image of Johnson sitting in one of his Kernel portable brain scanners is one that should be immortalized in the internet history books, looking a bit like Looney Tunes' Marvin the Martian.
Elsewhere, Johnson was mesmerized by a Slinky, laughed uncontrollably as Elon Musk's ex-wife serenaded him, and used some Alice in Wonderland-inspired graphics to get around the legality of showing someone taking magic mushrooms in the middle of a stream.
As reported by Business Insider, Johnson thinks we'll be able to stop aging in its tracks by 2039, with magic mushrooms being a potential aid to pushing us past 120. Some studies suggest they've already extended the lifespan of mice while reducing inflammation and increasing neuroplasticity.
In Johnson's six-hour trip, we also get a cameo from his son, as Talmage Johnson says he fully supports his father's endeavours and the pair share a moment of intimacy as Bryan says he loves him.
With entrepreneur and investor Naval Ravikant referring to Johnson as a "one-man FDA," we have to agree.
Even if magic mushrooms might not be the key to unlocking immortality, at least Johnson took one for the team, so we don't have to wig out in our living rooms. Not that it needs repeating, but it goes without saying, do not repeat the biohacker's experiment for yourselves.