A British GP has revealed the methods he swears by to live a long, healthy life – including injecting amino acids derived from pig brains into his body to help his brain health.
Dr Mohammed Enayat, 41, who has been dubbed the UK’s answer to eccentric billionaire Bryan Johnson, has health constantly at the forefront of his mind.
‘As a doctor, I get to see many different states, patients that are 60 or 50 and have really bad health, they’re on many different drugs, they could be bed-bound, they’re poorly mobile, they could be depressed,’ he told the Daily Mail.
‘Once things go wrong, they tend not to get better.
‘I want to prevent myself as best as I can from having to experience what are very much preventable diseases.
‘I want to live as long as possible but the most important thing is, I want to live as healthy as possible.’
Dr Enayat, who runs HUM2N, a longevity clinic in South Kensington, has regular injections, takes numerous supplements and partakes in hyperbaric oxygen therapy to keep himself all in the name of preserving youth.
This includes breathing pure oxygen in a pressurised chamber to increase the delivery of oxygen to the body, which can help wounds that don’t heal and accelerate recovery.
His methods are not uncommon to that of American ‘biohacker’ Bryan Johnson, 48, whose controversial methods – including undergoing a ‘total plasma change’ with his son’s plasma – have given him the heart of a 37-year-old and the lung capacity of an 18-year-old.
Dr Mohammed Enayat has monthly IV vitamin drips, partakes in hyperbaric oxygen therapy and injects exosomes
When Dr Enayat was 38, he managed to get a biological age reading of 24 – a whopping 14-year difference.
However, his most recent test at 41 showed he had a biological age of 35 due to lifestyle changes.
‘I look back at what changed and I started commuting in that time, I do a two hour commute every day to work that I wasn’t doing before, meaning I prioritised by physical health,’ he said.
‘I had more stress over my business and that meant I had stopped making the best decisions on my diet and lifestyle.
Since his biological age has gone up 11 years, Dr Enayat said he has become determined ‘to get back to his twenties’.
He added: ‘I was doing therapies less frequently, like the hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which I used to do much more religiously.
‘I haven’t done it as much in the last 18 months. It put my rate of ageing down, so my bloods had shown my insulin going up a little bit.’
Dr Enayat will often have a blood test every year to give his body a full MOT and see which areas need targeting.
Dr Enayat goes through numerous processes to ensure his internal and external health is the best that it can be
He has regular injections of Cerebrolysin, which is a peptide that derives from pig brains, to help him keep his brain active and healthy, in a bid to cheat ageing.
He also has regularly hooked up to a super nutrient IV drip which fills his body full of magnesium and vitamin C to help fix any levels that may be lacking.
‘[I’m interested] in how we can slow down ageing because ageing as a process ultimately brings on disease,’ he said.
‘Disease is also basically poor quality of life and ultimately accelerates dying. So for me, I’m interested in improving my health and having as much help for as long as possible for myself and then also for my patients.’
While the NHS states that 6.5 million men in the UK suffer from male-pattern baldness, Dr Enayat is determined not to see any thinning of his hair.
He injects exosomes – small messenger molecules that allow different cells in the body to communicate – into his scalp to tackle his ‘receding hairline’.
Dr Enayat also administers exosomes, which have become somewhat of a ‘buzz word’ used by skincare fanatics, into his body, describing them as the ‘latest and most powerful innovation in stem cell medicine’.
He will also have radio frequency micro-needling with laser energy – a treatment he calls ‘an alternative to Botox’.
When asked if he wanted to live to 100, he said: ‘I’m not interested in the number. I’m interested in the quality of life. If I’m 100 and healthy, absolutely, if I’m 100 and unhealthy and living a debilitated life, then probably not, you know.’
Dr Enayat found out through one of his more extensive blood tests that he had ‘leaky gut’ syndrome, which is where the gut allows more water through than nutrients through.
To remedy his health condition, he cut dairy out of his diet temporarily and decided to take a cocktail of supplements from probiotics to digestive enzymes.
Dr Enayat said he noticed a change in his biological age due to the extra pressure of owning his own business
He also started taking a glutamine-based supplement to help assist the small intestinal wall as ‘leaky gut’ – also called increased intestinal permeability – can cause bloating.
Dr Enayat also takes a peptide called MOTS-c after he noticed that his ‘cortisol was rising and my adrenal glands were getting tired’.
He added: ‘We see that in CEOs, or people that are working very hard, it could be super mums, anyone – they’re under a lot of stress.’
The medic said that he has noticed a change in his biological age due to the extra pressure of owning his own business.
‘I’m addressing that as well as the root cause, through supplementation and through some lifestyle modifications,’ he said.
Although Dr Enayat said he was not in the ranges of insulin resistance, he acknowledged that rising cortisol levels can impact the hormone.
He said: ‘I noticed my insulin has gone up a little bit, so because it’s gone up, I want to make sure it comes back down. MOTS-c helps to bring it down and helps the body to draw on fat as an energy source and keep your blood sugar down.’
He is also taking the peptide for ‘operation belly must go’ after noticing that he was getting fat in the lower abdominal area, along with pairing with ‘supplements for my imbalances’.
The GP said: ‘We all age the same, but in different ways. I want to do my best, because science allows us to understand now what the process of ageing is and helps us identify those disease processes earlier through testing [which helps us] make interventions earlier.’
His biological age shot up by 11 years when he began commuting for two hours across London every day, so he has started practising meditation and breath-work exercises on the way to work and will often journal on his way back to get any stress out of his body and onto paper instead.
‘I’ve become more disciplined and started putting boundaries into my work regime, where I’ve been a bit stricter on times that I can take meetings and times that I can see patients so that I can get out at a reasonable hour,’ he said.
‘I’ve been reducing stimuli, including things that stimulate me like social media exposure,’ he added. ‘I don’t watch brain drain content as it kind of sucks you in and you just end up just watching it as a way to unwind.
‘I’ve been giving my head, my brain, time and space to just process the day and empty my thoughts and get more restful.’
As well as looking after his own health, Dr Enayat has also had celebrities at HUM2N (pictured here with Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett)
Along with attempting to help his mental health, Dr Enayat said he eats dinner at least three hours before going to bed, along with trying to get to sleep earlier.
He eats vegetarian twice a week in order to get his fibre up, but also likes to ensure he eats a gram and a half of protein per kilo of body weight a day.
After eating lunch, the doctor said he does not like to consume any carbs to allow his body to get into a fasted state as quickly as possible.
Dr Enayat said that he does intermittent fasting every morning and doesn’t have his first meal until lunch time, using his one and a half hour lunch break to go to the gym and have a healthy lunch – his first meal of the day.
Along with drinking at least a litre and a half of water a day, he also uses an aura ring to track his sleep and aims for two hours of deep sleep a day, along with at least one hour of REM sleep.
‘The benefits of sleep happen in those two phases, the deep sleep and the rem sleep,’ he said.
‘There are certain things you can do to improve those, which are not eating too late at least three hours before bedtime, reducing alcohol or stopping alcohol intake, exercising through the day will also help, having a cooler room and stopping exposure to blue light from your screen before bedtime too.’