Woman with vagina in 'world's top 1%' doing $2m a year experiment avoids tampons 'at all costs'
According to the biohacker Bryan Johnson, his partner of three years has a vagina that is pretty much perfect.
He publicly proclaimed that his girlfriend Kate Tolo, who hails from Australia, ranks in the 'top one percent of all vaginas' and is essentially the female equivalent of him.
According to the tech millionaire's other half, being selective about what products you choose to use during your period is a crucial step to getting in the same league as her.
Tolo is set to become 'the most measured female in history' in an experiment that costs $2million a year, which she hopes will advance our understanding of women's bodies and health.
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She is the co-founder of Blueprint, which she launched alongside Johnson in 2021. They each want to define a 'protocol' for longevity and health-optimisation for others to follow.
The pair intend to find ways to delay and even reverse the effects of the hands of time - and although Johnson 'isn't suggesting immortality', he's hoping to find a way to guarantee humans have 'lifespans so long that we stop thinking about lifespans'.
We've heard a lot about the multi-millionaire's wacky experiments in pursuit of youth over the last few years - including how he injected his penis for 'rejuvenation' purposes, measuring the quality of his nighttime erections and scranned a load of magic mushrooms...all in the name of science.
The former Braintree Venmo owner then announced that Tolo is acting as his female counterpart in his biohacking experiment, as well as in a romantic sense.
Earlier this month, he announced the results of her 'vaginal microbiome report' and claimed that she had a '100/100 score'.
"Her sample is dominated by the single most protective bacterial species a vagina can host (Lactobacillus crispatus)," Johnson boasted.
"Only about 25-30% of reproductive age women globally are L. crispatus-dominant, and ‘dominant’ usually means above 50%. Kate is at 98.7%."
He went on to say that a lab didn't find anything 'bad', such as STIs, after further probing Tolo's microbiome sample.
Explaining what her results meant in practice, Johnson added: "This is linked to lower risk of BV [bacterial vaginosis], UTIs, yeast infections, HPV persistence, HSV-2 [genital herpes] and HIV acquisition, preterm birth, and improved IVF outcomes."
Tolo, who appeared in the Netflix documentary Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever which focuses on her other half's longevity mission, is supposedly the crème de la crème when it comes to vaginas.
And apparently, her reluctance to rely on tampons during her menstrual cycle is one of the major reasons why her private parts are in tip-top shape.
In March last year, she appeared on the Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin podcast to share some of her health hacks.
During the chat, Tolo said that she 'personally tried to avoid tampons at all costs'.
"I just am skeptical that as we continue to get more data, we'll just find more and more scary information," she said in reference to a string of studies suggesting the products expose women to toxic chemicals.
Explaining what she does instead, Tolo said: "I oscillate between just pads, or I also do occasionally use tampons in moments where I just want the extra security.
"Maybe I'm going to be out and about and I'm exercising, or I'm going to be in a situation where like I want more comfort and I'm not going to like bleed everywhere - then I'll use a tampon.
"I occasionally use cups as well. I kind of always felt a little uncomfortable about [using tampons]."
Tolo said she tries to use other period products instead as they are less 'invasive to her body'. Although she finds pads 'uncomfortable', she reckons they are the lesser of two evils in this case.
"I try and get like organic [pads]," she added. "I don't have any kind of scent associated with them and all the like nasty, synthetic stuff that you can get in pads as well."
Tolo essentially suggests keeping things as innocuous as possible down there if you want a vagina like hers.
Bryan Johnson’s wildest experiments in his quest to ‘live forever’
De-ageing his penis
While the thought of it may make you wince, Johnson has been putting his manhood through the wringer in the hopes of bringing back his '22-year-old penis'. From semen analysis and blood flow testing to Botox injections and shock wave therapy, he seems to have done it all.
The biohacker claimed to have been able to lower his 'erection age' by over half thanks to this long-winded ritual.
As well as keeping track of his own 'erection data', Johnson has also been controversially comparing the stats to his 19-year-old son's.
Injecting himself with his son’s blood
The biohacker went viral in 2023 after sharing that he'd come together with his then-17-year-old son and his 70-year-old father to take part in what he described as 'the world’s first multigenerational plasma exchange'.
The process saw Johnson have a litre of his blood removed and separated the plasma. He then had the same amount of his son's plasma infused into his veins.
However, after seeing 'no benefits', Johnson announced he was 'no longer injecting my son's blood'.
Instead, he said he 'upgraded' to 'total plasma exchange'.
Psychedelics
Last year, the biohacker documented his trip after taking 5g of magic mushrooms. Afterwards, he admitted he was 'happy to be alive', and the experience had 'changed' him, but 'probably not as you’d expect'.
Johnson also shared the effects of taking 27mg of the 'world’s most powerful' hallucinogenic, 5-MeO-DMT, which left him 'stunned beyond comprehension'.
An extensive morning routine
Johnson recently shared an update on what he does each morning, noting that it takes four hours and 46 minutes.
"My morning routine is always evolving as we update protocols. This is what I'm experimenting with right now," he writes on his website.
1. Wake up around 5 am
2. Oral hygiene
3. Light in eyes
4. Breath work
5. Pre-workout nutrition
6. Exercise
7. Sauna
8. Red/NIR light therapy
9. Focused shockwave therapy on joints
10. Shower
11. Hair growth serum
12. Skincare
13. Breakfast
Topics: Health, Weird, Bryan Johnson, Science
Olivia Burke