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TLDR; The article is bit of a link bait. It's not about drinking blood but obtaining some of the blood factors via medical process. After being given plasma —
by sytelus 8y ago
TLDR;
The article is bit of a link bait. It's not about drinking blood but obtaining some of the blood factors via medical process.
After being given plasma — the main component of blood — from volunteers ages 16 to 25, researchers noted improvements in biomarkers for various diseases.
The study was done in mice funded by Peter Thiel. However people doing study have commercial interest. They are in business of selling teenage blood plasma to customers at a cost of $8,000 for 2½ liters.
Original Nature article link here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0457-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0457-8
Silicon Valley episode was very much inspired from this :).