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Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
- djmips 6y agoI've heard that just donating blood can have some healthful benefits. Perhaps that was primarily lowering your blood pressure but I wonder if there is any other benefit despite the volume not being replaced by saline and albumin.
- sjg007 6y agoIt seems so.
- sjg007 6y agoSo basically we need an oil change.
- robotnikman 6y agoSounds too simple... there must be a catch
- storedbox 6y agoThe catch probably has something to do with vampires.
- vondur 6y agoIsn't that what Keith Richards would do when he had like every drug in his system?
- coldelectrons 6y agoMaybe a catch-basin
- Apotheos 6y agoAlso discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24075560
- pmiller2 6y agoI can't think of much to say that wasn't already said in the article, except that it's great we have this study clarifying the whole "transfusions in mice can make them younger" phenomenon.
- rapjr9 6y agoSo does this mean that blood-letting actually does improve the ability to fight disease? Has blood-letting ever actually been studied in randomized controlled trials? If it has perhaps those trials would contain data relevant to this new finding.