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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 to trying this out ?
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 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 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…
https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.j...
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…
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4215333/
There is a human trial for transfusion of young blood to Alzheimer's patients but this is probably not going to tell us much, because it is so specific, and because the mouse transfusions didn't work.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329831.400-young-blo...
This reminds me of a PostSecret submission from several months ago: https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.j...
What benefits does parabiosis have over taking HGH? The effects of parabiosis in mice sounds almost exactly like the effects of growth hormone
If I'm reading the article right, it was neither, but actually just the plasma:
> Plasma alone had the same effects. “We didn't have to exchange the whole blood”
Did they remove the growth hormones from the plasma? It doesn't say...
Heck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, Methuselah's Children ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blood. It didn't become practical, however, until they developed a way of growing new blood in vitro. I imagine that's the next thing scientists will be working on...if successful, we'll get rejuvenation qu…
They have already identified one candidate--GDF11--and there will likely be others. So it may be a matter of injecting yourself with a mix of appropriate synthetics every day or two.
