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Chloe Mango

Chloe Mango

Founder of Draema and Chief Philanthropy & Development Officer at Africa For Health Non-Profit, writing about longevity and healthspan research on Substack.

Jul 28, 2026

20:10
She lives in New York, surrounded by exhaust, cigarette smoke, noise, stress, and she's trying to figure out how to combat that while pulling her family into the journey.
20:20
I'm half Congolese and then half Russian.
20:23
My family doesn't come from science or medicine, so they understand, but they don't fully get it.
20:32
Um, so they'll be like, "Eat this," and I'm like, "Does it have any oil? Did you fry it?"
20:49
And while she doesn't have the money to live the way she wants, doing the $2 million a year Bryan Johnson treatments, she's doing what she can and starting young.
21:00
In your 20s, that's what matters the most because that's when your body starts accumulating oxidative stress and your body starts accumulating those years and years and years of, you know, negative things that you do to your body, whether that's smoking, drinking, et cetera, so that when you get to 40, you won't be in the position as Bryan Johnson is in.
21:22
You know? Imagine if he started when he was 20.
21:25
What would he look like, and how even better would his body be?
20:10
She lives in New York, surrounded by exhaust, cigarette smoke, noise, stress, and she's trying to figure out how to combat that while pulling her family into the journey.
20:20
I'm half Congolese and then half Russian.
20:23
My family doesn't come from science or medicine, so they understand, but they don't fully get it.
20:32
Um, so they'll be like, "Eat this," and I'm like, "Does it have any oil? Did you fry it?"
20:49
And while she doesn't have the money to live the way she wants, doing the $2 million a year Bryan Johnson treatments, she's doing what she can and starting young.
21:00
In your 20s, that's what matters the most because that's when your body starts accumulating oxidative stress and your body starts accumulating those years and years and years of, you know, negative things that you do to your body, whether that's smoking, drinking, et cetera, so that when you get to 40, you won't be in the position as Bryan Johnson is in.
21:22
You know? Imagine if he started when he was 20.
21:25
What would he look like, and how even better would his body be?

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