Entrepreneur spends $2 million a year on anti-aging regimen: Why does God allow death?
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🗓️ 7 January 2025
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Summary
Despite the obvious reality of human finitude and mortality, tech millionaire Bryan Johnson says he spends upwards of $2 million a year on an anti-aging regimen he believes is enabling his body to “achieve the lowest possible biological age.” Johnson’s story, coupled with the other news of the morning, raises a question for me: Why does an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow death?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, January the 7th, 2025. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, |
| 0:15.3 | Dr. Jim Denison. Nothing lasts forever, as they say. The U.S. Congress certified Donald Trump as our nation's 47th president yesterday, |
| 0:24.5 | but he cannot run again per the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. |
| 0:29.1 | Justin Trudeau stepped down as party leader and prime minister in Canada. |
| 0:33.8 | The 134-year-old sanctuary of First Baptist Church in Dallas is being demolished after a devastating fire last July. |
| 0:41.9 | This is especially nostalgic for me. |
| 0:44.4 | I once preached in this historic worship center and attended numerous services and events there. |
| 0:49.9 | A Washington Post writer commenting on an unimaginable AI future notes. It's no longer clear how much of |
| 0:58.1 | ordinary life will survive the next 25 years. Louisiana reported yesterday the first bird flu related |
| 1:05.7 | human death in the U.S. officials are watching the escalation of H5N1 cases with concern. |
| 1:13.4 | The killing of 14 people on New Year's Day in New Orleans is the latest sign of a resurgence |
| 1:19.5 | in radical Islamist terrorism around the world. |
| 1:22.8 | Despite the obvious reality of human finitude and mortality, tech millionaire Brian Johnson says he spends |
| 1:30.3 | upwards of $2 million a year on anti-aging regimen he believes is enabling his body to, quote, |
| 1:37.7 | achieve the lowest possible biological age. Netflix's new documentary Don't Die, the man who wants to live forever, was released on |
| 1:46.5 | January 1st and tells his story. Johnson takes over 100 supplements and pills a day and engages in |
| 1:54.1 | daily medication scans, blood draws, a rigorous and restrictive diet, and exercise regimen, and various experimental medical procedures. |
| 2:03.7 | I hope he doesn't die in a car wreck. |
| 2:05.8 | Johnson's story, coupled with the other news of the morning, raises a question for me, |
| 2:10.7 | why does an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow death? |
| 2:16.0 | If the Lord could take Enoch in Genesis 524 and Elijah in 2, |
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