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Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones

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Post by ptha »

posterboy wrote: post #65
etatoby wrote: post #54

I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be be…

I recently read that ancient mongoles would drink their horses blood in dire need.

The Maasai people in Africa have and still drink cow's blood as part of their diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maasai_people#Diet

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Post by HarkMamilton »

gutnor wrote: post #108
jessaustin wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not immoral to sell one's own blood, so long as one is not left unable to fulfill other moral obligations.

The moral bit is choosing between 2 competing blood donations service - one that is run publicly to save life, the other to extend the life of healthy individual. I make the assumption that the remuneration of the second one will be most likely way bigger than in the first case. The only reason people would chose to donate to the first one is morality which is unfair. The morality of the remuneration is orthogonal. I…

You can still use blood from a private company for the treatments you would use "public" blood for.

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Post by maxerickson »

etatoby wrote: post #54

I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be be…

That would be quite amazing.

I tend to think the stories are cover for warnings about people that did have power. The prince sucking the very blood of the villagers is a nice metaphor for the prince taking the resources they need to thrive.

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Post by maxerickson »

flukus wrote: post #35
option_greek wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I've always wondered if it's a viable wight loss technique. There must be a certain amount of energy that goes into blood production. And losing wight by sitting still for a while is the holy grail. Market it right and the billionaires might even be able to charge us to give them blood.

Someone quoted a calorie figure. It isn't large enough for it to be a viable technique, the body takes some time to restore the lost cells so there needs to be a decent period between blood lettings.

Even if the figure were low by 10x it would be a pretty bad way to lose weight.

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Post by dave_sullivan »

maxerickson wrote: post #113
etatoby wrote: post #54

I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be be…

That would be quite amazing. I tend to think the stories are cover for warnings about people that did have power. The prince sucking the very blood of the villagers is a nice metaphor for the prince taking the resources they need to thrive.

Also based on Lord Byron and (arguably) high functioning sociopaths. https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physi...

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Post by jbmorgado »

etatoby wrote: post #54

I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be be…

Hum, no. If you you drink someone's blood it goes trough your digestive system and it's processed that way, it doesn't become your blood, just provides you some nutrients.

Besides you do that almost everyday, i.e. eat animals younger than you and in certain cuisines part of their blood.

This here is something very different, allowing the blood to be used as is from an young individual in an older one.

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Post by pmoriarty »

jessaustin wrote: post #82
dynofuz wrote: post #59

This was shown to be an inaccurate conclusion from the study. Since the animals were sewn together, more than just blood was shared. Organs, motility, behavior, etc. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/11/22/young-blood-does-not-rev... a new study must be done where only blood is transmitted periodically without those other factors in the picture.

Haha, based on all the complaints above about selling blood, people are unlikely to accept sewing humans together.

Is it really so different than blood transfusions, which are not even blinked at by most people anymore?

Some might be squeamish about it at first, but they'd probably get used to if they saw a pressing medical need for the procedure, just like they got used to so many other medical procedures that were controversial when they were first introduced.

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Post by jbmorgado »

erikig wrote: post #31
not_that_noob wrote: post #14

Perhaps UberEats can pivot to UberBlood? Fresh young blood of the right type on demand via app. Blood boys can be regular Uber drivers when blood demand is low. You're welcome Uber.

Genius!

No, that's Apple, he is talking about Uber.

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Post by Danihan »

etatoby wrote: post #54

I think older civilizations may have discovered something like this and put it into practice, giving rise to the myth of Vampires. The Vampires of lore are described as very old people who suck the blood of youngsters to stay alive. The parts about them fearing sunlight, or garlic, or whatever, might just be based on side-effects of this cure for ageing. The inaccuracy of "sucking" instead of transfusion, might be be…

Reminds me of this.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel
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