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It's apparently a thing now. Peter Thiel has purportedly invested millions in anti-aging. A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with you

by aleem 9y ago

It's apparently a thing now. Peter Thiel has purportedly invested millions in anti-aging. A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions. While this study may or may not work with humans, the Ambriosa project does seem to have legs.

melling 9y ago
The company is called Ambrosia and the technique is parabiosis: https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h... They've started a clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02803554 https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02803554
tacomonstrous 9y ago
Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.
- slv77 9y ago
  "And there once was a generation so selfish they even harvested the blood of their own children to prolong their own lives." "Grandma, you're telling stories again. That couldn't possibly be true!" "I swear on my husbands grave that it was true! They even levied a tax on them and made them pay for the treatment."
  - nojvek 9y ago
    We are all equal but some are more equal than others. Those who are more equal have more money therefore they can officially buy bodies and rent their blood to others.
- pcrh 9y ago
  For one, too frequent transfusions results in toxic excess levels of iron in the body, as humans cannot actively remove excess iron. This occurs in people with thalassemia treated with blood transfusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/
  - o_____________o 9y ago
    So extract some of the recipient's blood before they receive a transfusion? This could be donated to a blood bank.
    - therein 9y ago
      Or reduce the iron concentration in the blood you are transferring.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
If the studies on humans works you could put to use the amount of blood that goes bad based on the shelf life of 49 days. That blood could go to good use .
tetrep 9y ago
> A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions. All sorts of interesting setups could come out of this, with the rich paying the (compatible) poor for their youthful blood. Especially if compatibility is genetic, you'd potentially have multiple generations of a poor family existing specifically to support an aging rich person (and potentially the rich person's offspring). Depending on how time consuming the blood contributions are, this could turn into a vampire-esque caste system, with the poor being blood cattle.

by aleem 9y ago

melling 9y ago

The company is called Ambrosia and the technique is parabiosis: https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.h... They've started a clinical trial: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02803554 https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02803554

tacomonstrous 9y ago

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

slv77 9y ago
"And there once was a generation so selfish they even harvested the blood of their own children to prolong their own lives." "Grandma, you're telling stories again. That couldn't possibly be true!" "I swear on my husbands grave that it was true! They even levied a tax on them and made them pay for the treatment."
- nojvek 9y ago
  We are all equal but some are more equal than others. Those who are more equal have more money therefore they can officially buy bodies and rent their blood to others.
pcrh 9y ago
For one, too frequent transfusions results in toxic excess levels of iron in the body, as humans cannot actively remove excess iron. This occurs in people with thalassemia treated with blood transfusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/
- o_____________o 9y ago
  So extract some of the recipient's blood before they receive a transfusion? This could be donated to a blood bank.
  - therein 9y ago
    Or reduce the iron concentration in the blood you are transferring.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

If the studies on humans works you could put to use the amount of blood that goes bad based on the shelf life of 49 days. That blood could go to good use .

tetrep 9y ago

> A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions. All sorts of interesting setups could come out of this, with the rich paying the (compatible) poor for their youthful blood. Especially if compatibility is genetic, you'd potentially have multiple generations of a poor family existing specifically to support an aging rich person (and potentially the rich person's offspring). Depending on how time consuming the blood contributions are, this could turn into a vampire-esque caste system, with the poor being blood cattle.