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Fortune
Erin Prater

Tech CEO defends using his 17-year-old son's blood plasma in pursuit of youth, despite it not working

Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell, right, speaks with Blueprint CEO Bryan Johnson on Wednesday at the magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. This year Johnson conducted what he refers to as the "world's first multigenerational plasma exchange," involving his 17-year-old son and 70-year-old father. (Credit: Fortune Magazine)

A tech CEO who infused himself with a liter of his son’s plasma in a quest to reverse the aging process is defending the move, calling criticism “a trap in time and place.”

“You and I live in a previous generation’s crazy, and every generation falls for the same trap,” self-proclaimed “professional rejuvenation athlete” and Blueprint CEO Bryan Johnson told Fortune’s editor in chief Alyson Shontell.

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