to learn more about the mind’s inner workings. Researchers are using the helmets to try to quantify the impacts of meditation and hallucinogens and find ways to lessen chronic pain.
Zolman, a generation younger than Johnson, has experienced his own kind of medical wake-up call. In 2012, his first year of med school in London, Zolman hurt his back playing basketball. The injury proved bad enough that for about a year he struggled to walk properly and sometimes had to use a wheelchair after visits to the hospital.
In Cambridge, Zolman spends much of his time reading research papers and synthesising their findings into something Johnson can try. While he’s effusive and optimistic about his program, Zolman also tries to strike the tone of a realist. He concedes that it will take years to know if he’s chasing the right things and just how well any of this works.
He blasts his pelvic floor with electromagnetic pulses to improve muscle tone in hard-to-reach places and has a device that counts the number of his nighttime erections. Of late, he’s been presenting as a teenager in that regard, as well. He has, however, rejected many of the internet’s favourite health fads, including resveratrol, ice baths and high doses of testosterone.Bloomberg Businessweek
Usually, the early adopters of this procedure harvest the fat from other parts of a patient’s body, but Johnson, who doesn’t have the fat to spare, received his from an undisclosed donor.
Self obsessed....obscene. Great example of the need for tax reform so the ultra rich aren’t so.