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Researchers Discover Promising ‘Young Blood’ Anti-Aging Drug: An anti-inflammatory drug can rejuvenate the body and possibly increase the human lifespan by decades.
Nation and State ^ | 02/08/2023 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 02/08/2023 8:59:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Young blood plasma transfusions for anti-aging are popular with some wealthy elites. There are claims that young blood rejuvenates the body's organs. But turning back the body's clock with transfusions might not need to be done anymore following research from Columbia University in New York that states an anti-inflammatory drug can rejuvenate the body and possibly increase the human lifespan by decades.

"An aging blood system, because it's a vector for a lot of proteins, cytokines, and cells, has a lot of bad consequences for the organism," Emmanuelle Passegué, Ph.D., director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, who's been studying how blood changes with age, said in a statement.

"A 70-year-old with a 40-year-old blood system could have a longer healthspan, if not a longer lifespan," Passegué said.

Instead of a liter of plasma from younger donors that might cost thousands of dollars, researchers found young blood could be produced in pill form.

That pill is an anti-inflammatory drug called anakinra , already approved for use in rheumatoid arthritis. Passegué and graduate student Carl Mitchell discovered anakinra reverses some of the effects of age on the hematopoietic system of mice.

"These results indicate that such strategies hold promise for maintaining healthier blood production in the elderly," Mitchell said.

What didn't work, and explained by Passegué and her team in a 2021 study in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, was:

to rejuvenate old hematopoietic stem cells, in mice, with exercise or calorie-restricting diet, both generally thought to slow the aging process. Neither worked. Transplanting old stem cells into young bone marrow also failed. Even young blood had no effect on rejuvenating old blood stem cells.

Her team then discovered the benefits of anakinra in mice:

Mitchell and Passegué then took a closer look at the stem cells' environment, the bone marrow. "Blood stem cells live in a niche; we thought what happens in this specialized local environment could be a big part of the problem," Mitchell says

With techniques developed in the Passegué lab that enable detailed investigation of the bone marrow milieu, the researchers found that the aging niche is deteriorating and overwhelmed with inflammation, leading to dysfunction in the blood stem cells.

One inflammatory signal released from the damaged bone marrow niche, IL-1B, was critical in driving these aging features, and blocking it with the drug, anakinra, remarkably returned the blood stem cells to a younger, healthier state.

Even more youthful effects on both the niche and the blood system occurred when IL-1B was prevented from exerting its inflammatory effects throughout the animal's life.

The researchers are now trying to learn if the same processes are active in humans and if rejuvenating the stem cell niche earlier in life, in middle age, would be a more effective strategy.

Meanwhile, "treating elderly patients with anti-inflammatory drugs blocking IL-1B function should help with maintaining healthier blood production," Passegué says, and she hopes the finding will lead to clinical testing.

"We know that bone tissue begins to degrade when people are in their 50s. What happens in middle age? Why does the niche fail first?" Passegué says. "Only by having a deep molecular understanding will it be possible to identify approaches that can truly delay aging."

Of course, the research is still very early, and results have yet to be tested on humans. But that might not stop people from Googling the drug as a possible anti-aging solution.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: antiaging; drug; lifespan; mfl
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1 posted on 02/08/2023 8:59:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh. Well, I guess I owe an apology to those teenagers I have locked in the basement...


2 posted on 02/08/2023 9:03:11 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind

Cool! I can stick around and watch our country turn into South Africa! /s. No thanks.


3 posted on 02/08/2023 9:03:20 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Too bad the vax wrecked the heart.


4 posted on 02/08/2023 9:05:54 PM PST by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: SeekAndFind; ransomnote

And, just how are these elites obtaining the “$1,000s of dollars/liter” youth plasma, to begin with?

Who would allow their child to donate plasma???

Ask Hildebeast.

Sick.


5 posted on 02/08/2023 9:09:20 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Article says:
“...young blood could be produced in pill form...”

Then it shows an image of a medication package that says:
“...prefilled glass syringes...subcutaneous use only...”


6 posted on 02/08/2023 9:09:38 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is the best anti- inflammatory I have found. Jarrow MSM https://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-Strengthens-Joints-1000/dp/B0013OSJ7S

Take with vitamin C aka sodium ascorbate. Yes I buy only the one kilo size.


7 posted on 02/08/2023 9:13:26 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: SeekAndFind
“That pill is an…”

Posted graphic says it is injection.

8 posted on 02/08/2023 9:20:12 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another option to stay young....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL9WKdYGnIM


9 posted on 02/08/2023 9:21:34 PM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: toddausauras

Did not stockpile ammo?


10 posted on 02/08/2023 9:22:31 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: Jane Long
Who would allow their child to donate plasma???

Most places that buy plasma do not allow anyone under 18 to donate.

11 posted on 02/08/2023 9:22:33 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this article trending in Translyvania?


12 posted on 02/08/2023 9:23:48 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Billthedrill
Oh. Well, I guess I owe an apology to those teenagers I have locked in the basement...

Don't get rid of them too soon the stuff is $4500 per month in its current injectable form

13 posted on 02/08/2023 9:28:57 PM PST by stig
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like a Disney movie.

Adrenachrome anyone?


14 posted on 02/08/2023 9:36:53 PM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: SeekAndFind

So Count Vlad was correct


15 posted on 02/08/2023 9:44:04 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Azeem

Or not


16 posted on 02/08/2023 9:44:32 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Correct

At a blood bank ( which is where it is donated) you MUST show proof


17 posted on 02/08/2023 9:46:19 PM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Jane Long

>> Who would allow their child to donate plasma???
A parent too desperate to object.


18 posted on 02/08/2023 9:48:45 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: entropy12

Beautiful!

I was just listening to that last weekend, probably that song about 5 times. I have the “pop” (red) version of the album, and it is incredible. I about burned up my Chicago live DVD years ago, I think my wife hid it. Thanks for posting!


19 posted on 02/08/2023 9:57:08 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow, how interesting!
The blood system is marvelous! Intricate and complex.
I wonder how it evolved?

Or... maybe it was created by a masterful Creator.

Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 17:11-14, Deuteronomy 17:23

and of course John 6:53-54


20 posted on 02/08/2023 10:06:01 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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