These kinds of articles give me the creeps. As interesting as the science is, I imagine this also encourages a bunch of silicon valley millionaires and billionaires to essentially become vampires.
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Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice improves memory in old mice
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Re: Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice improves memory in old mice
#112Seems a perfect movie plot: A villain kidnaps children to extract brain fluid looking for the immortality :-(
This is basically the side-plot of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ascending
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#113On the other hand, just being able to rest whenever you need and get enough sleep and have time for exersize and great food (which rich people have) is already a huge competitive advantage. So a similar effect as this would produce is definitely already happening.
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#114There's a number of comments here poking fun at the "conspiracy theory" aspect of this. Do people really believe it is a "crazy idea" that ultra rich amoral people would fund research into controversial life and health extension, even at the expense at younger people?
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Was the cat checked for diabetes? Excessively drinking water, excessive urination, and renal failure are all co-morbidities for cats. Either way, kudos for helping them.
>Was the cat checked for diabetes? >Excessively drinking water, excessive urination, and renal failure are all co-morbidities for cats. Either way, kudos for helping them. Those particular symptoms are common (in cats at least) to feline hyperthyroidism, which is significantly more common than feline diabetes. Not saying it wasn't Diabetes, but Hyperthyroidism seems more likely.
possibly related: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cats+flame+retardant
Re: Transfusion of brain fluid from young mice improves memory in old mice
#116Haven't similar things been observed with blood transfusions of young blood into the elderly, which was then found to actually be unnecessary - even just diluting the blood with something neutral and clean produced similar results. "The solution to pollution is dilution"
Could it be this simple? Shit just builds up in the blood that the liver and kidneys and stuff are not 100% efficient at removing? So you just need to... get rid of it or dilute it? I mean that can't possibly be a full solution but could a major "win" on life span or at least health span be as simple as some kind of dialysis session? Could this also be a hidden mechanism involved in some of that hyperbaric oxygen cha…
I don't understand why dilluting it would work here - either its filterable and it would get filtered regardless (e.g. drinking water would be enough) or it wont be and the dillutant would just be filtered
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All the more reason to donate blood.
I believe there are good health reasons to donate. I forget the details, but it stimulates positive processes in the body. I think the effect is marginal, but it's nice to know you get a small personal bonus from doing something nice for other people.
I've actually been regularly donating for years for that very reason. I figured my body will just create new blood to fill in the gap and much like changing power steering fluid, after enough time it's mostly new stuff.
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#119Jeff will be harvesting the cerebrospinal fluid of his interns
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe there are good health reasons to donate. I forget the details, but it stimulates positive processes in the body. I think the effect is marginal, but it's nice to know you get a small personal bonus from doing something nice for other people.
I've actually been regularly donating for years for that very reason. I figured my body will just create new blood to fill in the gap and much like changing power steering fluid, after enough time it's mostly new stuff.
But your blood is created by cells dividing and they cannot do so unlimited. Your DNA shortens and you run out of room for mistakes proteins make while translating it.