Australian luxury property and resort developer Tim Gurner is not only very wealthy (reportedly worth $989 million), but he also plans to live a long time to enjoy his wealth.
And he is following an extreme regime to stay young which reportedly involves taping his mouth shut every night to ensure he only breathes through his nose and sleeping in a bed that is cooled to 18 degrees Celsius.
Mr Gurner made international headlines in 2017 for suggesting aspiring homeowners in Australia had the wrong priorities, saying that when he was trying to buy his first home he “wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each”.
The 42-year-old “wants to live to 500,” according to one of the staff at his Melbourne-based anti-aging wellness clinic, Saint Haven.
While you don’t have to be a billionaire to join this exclusive club, which costs $23,000 a year, you do have to be wealthy and pass a five-stage interview process.
Since his father died of cancerMr Gurner wants to live the best and longest life he can, so much so that it has become “an obsession”, he told the BBC. The Sydney Morning HeraldGood Weekend Magazine.
He gets a shot of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) every morning and takes 40 tablets a day, which include boron, taurine, creatine and peptides that he says the Russian military invented in the 1980s to protect soldiers from radiation.
She also measures everything she eats, so it comes to exactly 3,300 calories a day, including “exactly the same amount of fruits and vegetables.”
Mr. Gurner sources all of these supplies, of course, from his Saint Haven facility in downtown Collingwood.
Australian luxury resort and property developer Tim Gurner (pictured) is not only very wealthy, but he also plans to live a long time to enjoy his wealth.
Gurner, 42, “wants to live to 500,” according to one of the staff at his Melbourne-based anti-ageing wellness clinic, Saint Haven. He is pictured with his wife Aimee
At home, where he lives with his wife Aimee and their three children, there is circadian lighting that shows what the color of the sun would be at different times of the day.
It is orange in the early morning, then yellow for most of the day, and turns orange again before sunset.
From 7:30 p.m. until bedtime, Gurner wears glasses with red lenses to block out blue light. About a third of all visible light is considered blue light, and most of that comes from sunlight, but smartphones and LEDs also emit blue light.
Some studies have found that blue light can affect sleep and potentially cause disease.
But the quest for eternal youth doesn’t stop when he goes to sleep. He sleeps with a Chilipad (also recommended to him by Oprah Winfrey’s sleep doctor) to keep his bed at 18 degrees.
Before going to sleep, he also covers his mouth with tape to ensure he only breathes through his nose.
He told journalist Tim Elliott that “mouth breathing is very bad… it has changed the structure of our jaws.”
Mr. Gurner’s desire to live a long and prosperous life dates back to the creation of his first business more than two decades ago and the traumatic event that occurred almost immediately afterward.
She founded My Well Being, which offered yoga, massage, pilates and personal training, when she was just 21 years old.
But six weeks later, his father died of multiple myeloma.
He began to fear death and has since lived his life trying not to get sick and die. He said his goal was, “How can I live the best life possible with the least amount of risk for the longest amount of time possible?”
Mr Gurner also has the phrase “stream of life” tattooed in Morse code on his left arm.
But his goal of living longer is not just a personal obsession for him and other billionaires looking for ways to spend some of their money.
He also firmly believes that living longer would benefit the entire country.
“If we could extend everyone’s age by 20 years, that would be the best thing for the economy,” he said.
“Twenty more years of taxation and spending, plus all the savings that would be made in the health care system. All those gains could be redirected to reducing poverty.”
As well as making a name for himself with his views on the price of avocado toast and his desire to live long, Gurner accused Australian workers of becoming “arrogant” after Covid.
“We need to see pain in the economy,” he told the Australian Financial Review’s Property Summit a year ago, adding that he wanted to see unemployment rise to between 40 and 50 percent.
“We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”
Mr Gurner (pictured with his wife Aimee) measures out everything he eats, so it equates to exactly 3,300 calories a day, including “exactly the same amounts of fruit and vegetables”.
Mr Gurner made international headlines in 2017 for saying that when he was trying to buy his first home, he “wasn’t buying mashed avocado (pictured) for $19 and four coffees for $4 each”.
Mr Gurner was particularly critical of manual workers, saying productivity had declined since the pandemic.
“People decided they didn’t really want to work as much during the pandemic and that had a huge impact on productivity,” he said.
“Manual workers have definitely lost their productivity. In recent years they have been paid a lot for doing very little and we need to see that change,” he said.
