Max Marchione is aging backwards — and he has the bloodwork to prove it.
The Aussie native, 25, claims he managed to reverse his biological age from 35 to 20 when he was only 23, and he’s now founded a company that promises to deliver the same elite-level testing once reserved for billionaires — at a fraction of the price.
What’s more, he’s shared he’s revealing the “highly effective” secret weapon he says all the billionaires are using to stay health.
Marchione wasn’t always super healthy — in fact, for a decade, he went through a “challenging period of misdiagnosis” for troubling symptoms.
“Chronic migraines, chronic sinusitis — it would take me three hours to get to sleep every night. I used to play semi-professional soccer and did sprinting. I’d be asleep 10 minutes before a sprinting race,” he told The Post.
“I had no idea what was wrong with me. I was told to medicate for life. I had surgery. I saw over a dozen doctors and no one really knew what was wrong.”
Convinced that comprehensive testing and medial care should be more widely available, Marchione teamed up with Jacob Peters — who nearly died at 26 when specialists missed life-threatening conditions that cost him $2 million and half his intestines — to make it happen.
Together, they created Superpower, a subscription-based service that offers the kind of bloodwork analysis that would typically cost over $100,000 annually — starting at only $199 a year.
“We test over 100 biomarkers — five times more than a standard physical,” he said.
When his own tests came back, he was shocked at how much had flown under the radar for so long.
“I had pre-diabetes, I had mercury toxicity, I was in the 99th percentile of BPA,” he said. “There were all these things I had no idea about because I hadn’t done tests this comprehensive.”
Most surprising of all was learning he was biologically 35.
“It was really striking because I was otherwise healthy, but I think that the outside tells some of the story but you can have things wrong on the inside that today don’t necessarily cause obvious problems,” he said.
He tried exercising more and cutting out carbs to reverse his pre-diabetes, but that didn’t work.
Taking a high dose of thiamine with vitamin B1, on the other hand, got his A1C — the marker for prediabetes — down from 5.8 to a perfectly normal 5.3.
“I started using the sauna regularly and doing a whole detox protocol to remove mercury and mold from my body — which was really effective — and began donating blood, which reduces ferritine and iron,” he said.
But he believes the real secret may lie in something that “isn’t mainstream yet” but will be “all the rage soon”: peptides.
“GLP-1s are one example of peptides, but there are many other peptides that are illegal in the US, but they’re highly effective,” he said.
“They’re used in Italy and China and other countries. There’s a meme going around saying every billionaire has a Chinese peptide dealer and it’s really accurate. Every billionaire I know has a Chinese peptide dealer because of how effective these compounds are.”
Any other longevity secrets only the ultra-rich know about for now?
“Plasmapheresis is one example, where you draw your blood plasma out, you filter and clean it and then put it back in,” he said.
“Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is another — I’ve seen people reverse Crohn’s disease with that one. Some folks are doing gene editing, but I think it’s riskier.”
Whatever the future holds, Marchione believes it’ll take more than the usual lifestyle factors to push us into mega-longevity.
“I think that the reality is no amount of diet, exercise and sleep can reliably get you past 110,” he said. “The only thing that is going to really push the frontier is all of these interventions and therapeutics.”
