Longevity Fanatic praises billionaire Larry Ellison for looking youthful at 80

The biotech entrepreneur is best known for wanting to extend his life and look younger. At one point, Johnson, now 47, participated in a three-generation blood exchange with his then-teenage son, Talmage, and his 70-year-old father, Richard, to slow the process of his own and his father’s aging.

In a 2018 Quora thread, Gina Smith, the former head of one of Ellison’s startups, said that his more youthful appearance was due to a lot of exercise and a meticulous diet.

She said Ellison trained several hours a day when she worked with him in the 1990s and 2000s.

“He never drank anything but green tea and water,” Smith said, “and is a so-called ‘vegetable aquarist.’

She explained that this meant she ate vegetables, fish and fruit.

“Larry has been doing this since I first met him in the early ’90s,” Smith said, adding, “It shows.”

Some social media users wondered if Ellison had plastic surgery to maintain her youthful appearance, but still.

“Is this guy 80 years old?? He doesn’t look (plastic surgery can do so much), sound or move like an 80 year old. This guy looks more like 50,” one commenter wrote.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Ellison has a net worth of $174 billion and has donated millions to anti-aging research.

“Death never made sense to me. How can a person be there and then disappear, just not be there?” He once told his biographer Mike Wilson.