Whoops, wrong "Youngblood". My bad.
Posted on 05/05/2014 1:16:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains. As ghoulish as the research may sound, experts said that it could lead to treatments for disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease.
“I am extremely excited,” said Rudolph Tanzi, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research. “These findings could be a game changer.”
The research builds on centuries of speculation that the blood of young people contains substances that might rejuvenate older adults.
In the 1950s, Clive M. McCay of Cornell University and his colleagues tested the notion by delivering the blood of young rats into old ones. To do so, they joined rats in pairs by stitching together the skin on their flanks. After this procedure, called parabiosis, blood vessels grew and joined the rats’ circulatory systems. The blood from the young rat flowed into the old one, and vice versa.
Later, Dr. McCay and his colleagues performed necropsies and found that the cartilage of the old rats looked more youthful than it would have otherwise. But the scientists could not say how the transformations happened. There was not enough known at the time about how the body rejuvenates itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I don’t even want to think about where this is going to go wrong.
Just better hope that the blood you get in a transfusion comes from a young donor.
Whoops, wrong "Youngblood". My bad.
Better yet, drain the blood from the baby while it is still in the womb!
That’s what I thought when I first heard this - and I speak as a near senior.
Oh I foresee dark days ahead as the liberal elitists now demand that babies that were going to be aborted are now required to be brought to term so that they can be “farmed” for their blood. I know it sounds extreme, but think about the people I am referring to, admit it you could see them doing this, it’s that one extra step into evil that would bring a smile to their faces.
Why can’t we just all go quietly into the night? Or, as an alternative, rage against the dark? I mean, why can’t we leave our children alone and just accept death as an inevitable?
George Soros probably already has a couple hundred children “donating” to him.
I don’t see anything about it in his Wikipedia article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Youngblood
"It consists largely in replacing the entire blood tissue in an old person with new, young blood. Old age, so they tell me, is primarily a matter of the progressive accumulation of the waste poisons of metabolism. The blood is supposed to carry them away, but presently the blood gets so clogged with the poisons that the scavenging process doesn't take place properly." [Chapter 7 of novel]
Just create a “bone marrow” clone. I am pretty sure cloning organs is very doable at this point.
Keep your own clone and get a transfusion from it on a monthly basis.
(BTW - now I know how Keith Richards has managed to stay alive.)
If, in fact, he actually is. I've often wondered about that...
A new use for aborted fetuses!!
Liberals can eat them to regenerate.
Can there be any other logical next step in their further descent into hell?
I can guarantee that it’s already happening. The blood-youth link has been known for quite some time
Forget the debt, wars, Obamacare, unfunded entitlements, opportunity lose in general...NOW...baby boomers can literally eat their young. They deserve it! /sarc
The Coasters will be glad to hear it.
PP has a new health drink coming out? Solent babies?
Wasn’t there an old medieval “superstition” that blood held either good or bad “humors”?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.