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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

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Post by pizza »

smt88 wrote: post #11
had2makeanacct wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was based on real events though, aren't Silicon Valley people also using Ketamine to cure depression?

No one is using ketamine to cure depression, but some doctors and some "body hacker" types are using it to treat depression with mixed success. For now, it seems to be most useful as a rapid-onset suicide prevention treatment.

For what it's worth, my experience is that almost all ketamine use I know of personally erased that person's depression for a week or so. I think it's less uncommon more and more.

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Post by pizza »

had2makeanacct wrote: post #4
robobro wrote: post #3

I'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?

There are ketamine clinics opening up across the whole USA nowadays

http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/

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Post by trhway »

rl3 wrote: post #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?

>... older animals may also benefit from having their blood scrubbed by young kidneys and livers, which mere blood transfusion would not offer.

so in near future the use of a blood boy wouldn't be just transfusion, instead it will be more like dialysis where the blood boy plays the role of dialysis machine.

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Post by FeepingCreature »

RachelF wrote: post #2

There 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-...

I mean so turns out apparently it will?

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Post by option_greek »

sundvor wrote: post #23

Side note: Speaking as a male blood donor, donating blood has benefits for the donor as well. Particularly because we're not regularly performing blood regeneration, there's a number of benefits related to it. And that pint is fresh, new stuff. :)

Is there any research that confirms this. I ask because I hear it everywhere. But it feels too convineant an excuse to make people give blood :) (voluntarity in most cases)

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Post by tazjin »

cgb223 wrote: post #17
had2makeanacct wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was based on real events though, aren't Silicon Valley people also using Ketamine to cure depression?

There's all sorts of lore about constructive drug use in Silicon Valley start up culture but it's not as prevalent as people say it is I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise. It's just that weird drug use makes headlines and headlines makes money

> I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise.

Or maybe they don't tell you.

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Post by RangerScience »

sundvor wrote: post #23

Side note: Speaking as a male blood donor, donating blood has benefits for the donor as well. Particularly because we're not regularly performing blood regeneration, there's a number of benefits related to it. And that pint is fresh, new stuff. :)

Go on?

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Post by mmjaa »

tazjin wrote: post #28
cgb223 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's all sorts of lore about constructive drug use in Silicon Valley start up culture but it's not as prevalent as people say it is I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise. It's just that weird drug use makes headlines and headlines makes money

> I've never seen anyone microdose LSD or take Ketamine for Depression, hell, most of my coworkers don't even smoke marijuana recreationally or otherwise. Or maybe they don't tell you.

Or maybe he just doesn't have much exposure to the drug-using classes in this world, because anecdotally over 30 years of involvement in the computer world, I've met far, far more people who think they are enhancing their performance through drug use than those who don't.

Its extremely common in the hackrrspace scene to encounter developers who are using 'smart drugs' to stay up for 3 or 4 days at a time, or who think that a bump of speed at the right moment can make all the difference in the world to the codebase. Of course, I'm yet to see a case where this so-called boost in productivity is actively achieved, but it seems this isn't as important a fact to the guys in the lab coats ..

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