Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones
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Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones
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Re: Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones
#2There were lots of headlines about this last year, most involving Peter Thiel[1]. It sounds a bit like a tabloid vampire headline.
"The Blood of Young People Won’t Help Peter Thiel Fight Death" https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/exkdee/peter-thiel-young-...
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#3I'm excited to see capitalists and oligarchs become literal blood suckers. Reminds me of the blood boy sketch in Silicon Valley.
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#4I'm excited to see capitalists and oligarchs become literal blood suckers. Reminds me of the blood boy sketch in Silicon Valley.
That was based on real events though, aren't Silicon Valley people also using Ketamine to cure depression?
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#5>... older animals may also benefit from having their blood scrubbed by young kidneys and livers, which mere blood transfusion would not offer.
What of transplant patients that receive a kidney or liver transplant from a younger donor?
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#6I'm excited to see capitalists and oligarchs become literal blood suckers. Reminds me of the blood boy sketch in Silicon Valley.
Too late, already happened: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/this-anti-aging-start...
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#7I'm excited to see capitalists and oligarchs become literal blood suckers. Reminds me of the blood boy sketch in Silicon Valley.
Alphabet's new company will seek to make vampire teeth implants.
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#8Soooo you're saying I should get a blood boy?
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#9Yup. This was the subject of a recent episode of the documentary Silicon Valley on HBO :p
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#10> ... older animals may also benefit from having their blood scrubbed by young kidneys and livers, which mere blood transfusion would not offer. What of transplant patients that receive a kidney or liver transplant from a younger donor?
I'd guess that side effects from the immunosuppressants that they have to take cancel out any positive effect. Also, typically you don't give organs to geriatric patients, they're too valuable, so any age difference won't be very large.