Aleks Krotoski

that he himself was not as vigorous as he described it.

And so what he did was he decided through investigating whatever research was available at that time, that if you extracted semen from the testicle of a younger entity, and that in his case, it was a weird mix of dog and guinea pig.

And I think monkey was probably in there as well.

This is,

And you inject it into yourself.

This sounds like a terrible idea, but okay.

It sounds like a terrible idea, but the guy was convinced that it actually was effective.

And he said that his previous vigor returned within a week, and he was sort of gobsmacked by this.

And this became known as the Brown-Sick-Out procedure.

After he announced this to a room full of learned scientists, all of whom were absolutely floored, also a little bit skeptical, they did investigate this.

They started to do what we would today describe as loose clinical trials and found that it was all placebo effect.

But by the time that finding emerged out of the research, the brown saccade procedure had been performed not just on brown saccade himself, but on hundreds of men around Europe.

Oh my God.

Just the stories of people's desires, the stories of people's belief are really humbling, you know, because all of these things, people get carried away.

They think that they know what they're doing, but ultimately the story comes back to this really elemental human experience of running away from the beyond.

And to do that, they'll just put any old thing in their bodies.

So Brian is a really interesting character in this story because Brian sees himself as a guinea pig.

What he's doing is he claims to, with a group of medical experts, is they claim to go through all of the research literature about anti-aging, rejuvenation, longevity.

And systematically, they have created a kind of a baseline of health for Brian so that they know

If they input any new intervention, they can see the effect of that intervention.