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Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by serf »

wallaceowen21 wrote: post #48
electromagnetic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd just like to say: Simpsons did it first. July 11, 1991, episode "Blood Feud", the last episode of season 2. The scene is around the 7 minute mark. The implication is that the blood transfusion has made him feel young again. There's actually a few references like this throughout the seasons of the simpsons. It's honestly weird to me this wasn't tried in the early days of performing blood transfusions. I mean hones…

No, Simpsons wasn't first. See the movie "Being there" with Peter Sellers - the wealthy but aged and ill king-maker in this imagined U.S. gets regular blood infusions of 'young blood'.

goes back further than that! [1]

[1] : How to live forever: lessons of history http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119261/

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by serf »

spitfire wrote: post #12
rsync wrote: post #11

I am stupefied by this. Many, many times I have considered: "what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later" And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful." But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around…

Well, Lance Armstrong thought of it. Worked or him pretty well. Sort of.

blood doping has been a cycling past time since the 70's. Lance's novel approach was the medical write-off on drugs which were OK'd due to their use in his then ongoing cancer treatments.

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by anigbrowl »

bambax wrote: post #33
zxcvcxz wrote: post #2

As if I need another reason to kill babies. Perhaps there is some truth to gaining life energy by eating your opponents heart.

What a great plot for a sci-fi/noir novel; an evil old man captures babies and infuses their blood into himself. With a variant: the babies don't just vanish, they disappear for a while, and then come back. But alas, inexplicably, once they're back they begin to age very fast. Maybe they don't disappear at all, they just start to age and that's how the inquiry starts. People notice the disease and think it's some kin…

We could call it...Dracula!

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by chc »

kbenson wrote: post #46
maaku wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mao means hair. That is his name.

Interesting, it's able to infer that Mao is a name about half the time. (I still consider it a mistranslation, as it's a name. I wouldn't expect John Smith to translate to another language with "Smith" being replaced bu the equivalent in the other language either).

But in English we capitalize names and put articles before common nouns, whereas in Chinese both are just "mao." It is a mistranslation, but a more understandable one than translating "John Smith" as "John a metal-worker".

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by [deleted] »

rsync wrote: post #44
dangrossman wrote: post #14

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Is there a method to store blood and have it still be viable for transfusion after that long? I know refrigerated blood only lasts a few weeks...

Is that true ? Whatever controlled freezing method they propose for cryogenics ... although they also propose draining all the blood out first, so ... perhaps that's not relevant ?

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Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by spyder »

rsync wrote: post #11

I am stupefied by this. Many, many times I have considered: "what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later" And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful." But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around…

It is 2014/2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?

Sure you are "stupefied" if you don't read the article:

Clive McCay, a biochemist and gerontologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was the first to apply parabiosis to the study of ageing. In 1956 ...

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by mvaliente2001 »

rsync wrote: post #11

I am stupefied by this. Many, many times I have considered: "what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later" And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful." But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around…

I'm not sure about the veracity of this story, but aparently pope Innocent VIII tried boold tranfussion from young boys to kkep him young in 1492. The pope and donor died in the process, probably by incompatibility.

Re: Scientists have shown that young blood rejuvenates old tissues

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Post by ams6110 »

wallaceowen21 wrote: post #48
electromagnetic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd just like to say: Simpsons did it first. July 11, 1991, episode "Blood Feud", the last episode of season 2. The scene is around the 7 minute mark. The implication is that the blood transfusion has made him feel young again. There's actually a few references like this throughout the seasons of the simpsons. It's honestly weird to me this wasn't tried in the early days of performing blood transfusions. I mean hones…

No, Simpsons wasn't first. See the movie "Being there" with Peter Sellers - the wealthy but aged and ill king-maker in this imagined U.S. gets regular blood infusions of 'young blood'.

There was also the classic "All in the Family" when Archie Bunker learns he's received blood from a black donor.
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