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Does this lend credence to the idea that blood transfusions from young people could make one healthier or extend one's life?
by Invictus0 6y ago
Does this lend credence to the idea that blood transfusions from young people could make one healthier or extend one's life?
- logfromblammo 6y agoYes, it does. The hypothesis is that "clock molecules" in the bloodstream provide a global age-clock for about five other tissue-specific age-clocks in the body. Spoofing the global clock signal for a long enough period tricks the subsystem clocks into thinking they are younger than they really are, including the native global age-clock mechanism. Completely replacing your own blood with a young person's blood, repeating if necessary, would also accomplish the same trick, more expensively. The real question is whether old tissues can function like young tissues when tricked into trying.