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Can Blood from Young People Slow Aging? Silicon Valley Has Bet Billions It Will
- da4id 6y agoWow. This was straight out of the Silicon Valley TV series.
- throw1234651234 6y agoIt was based on real research. I didn't see conclusive results confirmed though. Thiel is really into all of this afaik, which I actually applaud him for.
- Nasrudith 6y agoSilicon Valley did that as a satire of Peter Thiel in the first place.
- arkwin 6y agoNice, I can't wait to see billionaires live longer by paying for blood from babies. (only half sarcastic)
- 1B05H1N 6y ago"Are you really not familiar with parabiosis?" (https://youtu.be/hBA0AH-LSbo https://youtu.be/hBA0AH-LSbo) There is no way I can separate this research from 'The Blood Boy' episode of Silicon Valley.
- riggsdk 6y agoDidn't the exact same team who first discovered this later realize that they had similar (if not better) effects by simply diluting the subject(=mice)'s blood with a saline/albumin mixture? If I recall correctly it was simply a matter of removing a buildup of waste in the blood that the body had lost the ability to remove itself.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoYes, more recent work indicates that just replacing the old blood plasma is enough to show the effect. See: https://www.aging-us.com/article/103418 https://www.aging-us.com/article/103418 (kudos to this journal for not being behind a paywall!) So, as you suggest, it now appears to be more a matter of "bad stuff" being in old blood rather than "good stuff" being in young blood. Apparently there is bad stuff that the kidneys, liver, etc. just cannot remove from the bloodstream, and this bad stuff builds up over time. I suppose one analogy might be that no matter how good your oil filter is, your car still needs an oil change once in a while.
- erentz 6y agoSo frequent plasma donations would be a better approach for these billionaires. It’s just such a difficult/uncomfortable/time consuming process.
- deesep 6y agoOne could simply donate blood often and have the body generate new red blood cells.
- grawprog 6y agoSo, I guess we're one step closer to a world where we're ruled by immortal billionaire elites who harvest the blood of the underclass to sustain them??
- redis_mlc 6y agoNot immortal, but by replacing organs, CCP retirees plan to make it to 150 years.
- fatjokes 6y agoBoy... QAnon is gonna love this.
- atat7024 6y agoForget Q. We've known about adrenochrome etc...
- someonehere 6y agoI had read somewhere once this is where the concept for vampire like demons in folklore came from. That at some point in history drinking the blood of the young kept you youthful longer.
- lqqq 6y agoI am waiting for (YC22) BloodySell: Auction Your Blood Online
- Borrible 6y agoBlood for the Blood Gods isn't exactly new news, isn't it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12214772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12811044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12811044 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18929943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23566404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19247090 ... ... ... So the really interesting question is, why does newsweek.com revive old news this week? Do they need fresh blood?