Also From that article:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/blood-transfusions-from-teenagers-start-up-charging-8000-apiece.html
About 100 people have signed up to receive an infusion, founder Dr. Jesse Karmazin said Wednesday at the Code Conference.
Anyone over age 35 can become an Ambrosia customer, said Karmazin, but most of the early adopters tend to be of retirement age. He also stressed that it’s a range of people, and not just Bay Area technologists, who have signed up.
The donated blood typically comes from teenagers, although anyone under age 25 is eligible. The company buys its supply from blood banks, which also sell blood to pharmaceutical companies. So high-schoolers donating their blood are not aware that it might be used on healthy adults.
These studies are far from definitive, and scientists have spoken out about the ethics of such a study, which they see as taking advantage of the public’s excitement and lacking much evidence. But the concept has seen a recent resurgence in interest because well-known Silicon Valley investors like Peter Thiel have spoken out about its promise.
Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Palantir, which we have discussed.
(Just wanna keep that name alive in the group consciousness.)
Carry on.
How old are these teenagers who are donating blood?
No one under 18 should be legally allowed to donate blood, I wonder if they are. Most teenagers are still growing, they NEED their own blood!
So teens donate blood to be helpful and the blood banks sell it to the rich who are afraid to grow old...
Didn’t Q say “BLOOD”?