In this case, it's the biohacker trying to beat death, not the AC/DC frontman, and his current issue is that he's been diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune illness. Apparently his stomach is "eating itself" with autoimmune gastritis.
(side note; since my sources indicate the lead singer of AC/DC is an atheist, please be encouraged to pray for him, too)
Now, of course, there is some irony in the case of the world's preeminent biohacker coming down with an incurable disease, just as critics of Nathan Pritikin were prone to crowing about his case of leukemia (and tragic suicide). Those of us who remember the Scriptures note that it is appointed for man once to die, and then to face judgment (Hebrews 9:27). We can remind ourselves that while we can improve our odds for avoiding certain maladies by avoiding smoking, making prudent dietary choices, and making sure we move, in the end, absent the rapture, we all end up dying.
But that said, it's also worth noting that Johnson's self-experiment is in many ways welcome for all of us. I myself try some things that are not proven with a double blind study, but nonetheless I hope will improve my odds for having more good years as I advance out of my fifties in a few years--fish oil, aspirin instead of acetominophen, exercise regimes, and the like. The one significant criticism I have is that with the array of supplements and therapies he does--over 100 if my sources are correct--that he's going to have trouble differentiating the effects of one versus the other, especially since his sample size is himself-- a classic "n= 1" case where you have no meaningful standard deviation for the purpose of comparisons.
And it is therefore my hope and prayer that people who have been blessed financially like Mr. Johnson will start to do some of the studies that a pharmaceutical company likely will not, the ones where the therapy is inexpensive and unpatentable, and as often as not, the results are subtle and not spectacular. It's horrendously expensive and financially unrewarding to do this, but if he's really motivated to help people delay their purchase from the Batesville Casket Company, that would be a great approach.
And again, prayers for him. What he's going through cannot be fun, though it may drive him to the Gospel.
