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There are businesses out there providing young blood transfusions for wealthy people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion https://en.wikipedia
by rdtsc 3y ago
There are businesses out there providing young blood transfusions for wealthy people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion.
They tried to recruit one of my acquaintances to work for for them in sales or something of that nature. The pay would have been decent but the company was "creepy as fuck" as my acquaintance put it.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoThe whole idea is super creepy, literally vampiric. What would be far better if the tech worked would be to archive your own blood when you're at an age that you like and use that 10-20 years down the road.
- manmal 3y agoBlood has a shelf life of a couple weeks, it’s probably easier to make these anti aging factors synthetically.
- rgrieselhuber 3y agoAssuming a completely understood and materialistic nature of the problem.
- krisoft 3y agoWhat would be even better if we would figure out what part of the blood does exactly the positive effect, if any, and replicate that.
- gumby 3y agoWhich is exactly what the authors of this paper are doing.
- thesaintlives 3y agoRead the article and you will know!
- krisoft 3y agoI was responding to rgrieselhuber's suggestion that we should store young blood for 10-20 years.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoTheres a man, Bryon Johnson who is a client of this sort of thing. His life reads like a Bond villain: rich billionaire with body dysmorphia issues who spends millions on it, now takes blood transfusions from his teenage son to feel young despite looking like an average person his age.
- worldsayshi 3y agoWasn't the blood transfusion more of a one, or few, time thing just to see if they could measure any effect?
- kiba 3y agoAFAIK, they didn't get any effect that they could measure. I think his bloodwork was already really good in the first place. If that's the case, then people don't need blood tranfusion to get healthy.
- knd775 3y ago> despite looking like an average person his age That's very charitable.
- magicpin 3y agoAfaik he only did it a few times and stopped when he didn't see a difference in his bloodwork.
- agumonkey 3y agoInteresting, parabiosis (merging vascular systems) between young and old mice did have large benefits.
- omginternets 3y ago"Creepy as fuck: doesn't even begin to cover it: A startup company, Ambrosia, has been selling "young blood transfusions" for $8,000 since 2016 under the guise of running a clinical trial, to see if such transfusions lead to changes in the blood of recipients.[1][14] As of August 2017, they had 600 people join.[15] The clinical trial has no control arm and so is neither randomized nor blind. As described, whole blood collected by blood banks that had passed its 42-day storage limit was centrifuged to remove cells, the resulting cell-free plasma pooled from several donations and intravenously transfused into recipients.[15] The company was started by Jesse Karmazin, a medical school graduate without a license to practice medicine.[16] David Wright is the licensed doctor overseeing the clinical trial; in his practice he administers intravenous treatments of vitamins and antibiotics for nontraditional purposes and was disciplined by the California Medical Board for the latter in 2015. Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist from McGill University, suggests that Ambrosia is running this as a trial as they would be unable to get FDA approval to sell this treatment otherwise. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion#Ambrosia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion#Ambros...
- neovialogistics 3y agoIt's a lack of imagination amongst policymakers that has resulted in this business being treated differently than a hypothetical business selling kidneys for $8k.
- mbg721 3y agoOr that your body makes more blood in a relatively short time. It's pretty harmless for the donors, except for the recipients' use-case being creepy and batshit-insane.
- ribosometronome 3y agoIsn't their use case borne out somewhat from this study?
- jostmey 3y ago
- NDizzle 3y agoYep. Keeps one of the many conspiracy theories about the Clintons in the front of my brain.
- candiddevmike 3y agoOther people's blood is one of the worst things you can inject into your blood stream, it contains so many unknowns. It blows my mind that rich people take that kind of risk. If you need a transfusion, the risk doesn't matter, but to willingly do it is really foolish.
- ulnarkressty 3y agoThat's precisely why you use the blood of a virgin.
- downboots 3y agoAlso, a simple blood donation would make your body create new blood...