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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
There's also blood sausage[1], varieties of which are consumed all over the world. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage
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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.
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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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.
>wight loss technique wight