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Startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood to defeat aging

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Lol, I guess this company is actually becoming a thing.

I remember a few years ago when a bunch of companies such as gawker[1] and vanity fair [2] were writing about this because it was rumored that Peter Thiel was a vampire for "WANTING TO INJECT HIMSELF WITH YOUNG PEOPLE’S BLOOD".

It was just a rumor and is quite hilarious because the company in question CEO stated this when questioned about Thiel:

>'"But the story that took shape, that Thiel was looking to harvest the blood of the young, simply isn’t true according to Karmazin, who told us when asked that he was never contacted by Thiel or anyone associated with Thiel Capital. “I wish I did know Peter Thiel,” he said. “He’s not even a patient. If he were, I would have to say ‘We can’t disclose that information.’ But he’s not even a patient so I can tell you, he’s not a patient’.” [3]

[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...) [2](https://gawker.com/peter-thiel-is-interested-in-harvesting-t...) [3](https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/14/no-peter-thiel-is-not-harv...)

The studies mentioned in this article had no control arm - neither was double-blind, and only one was randomized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_blood_transfusion#Ambros...

Since blood is being continually destroyed and regenerated what then is so "young" about young blood? What makes it different? Since blood is a precious resource of which is already in limited supply is this really a good use? Are we setting up a situation where people actually needing the blood to live will die due to someone's vanity obsession with getting young blood? Seems like a bad development to me.

Its not about the blood but rather what is disolved in the blood and what it is carring. Those hormones and aminoglobes really revitalize the older body.

Not much in a single injection but a lot in a continues one - read a paper about it but i cant find it now. The idea tho is to know what causes that and produce only that and deliver via injections.

"Those hormones and aminoglobes really revitalize the older body."

Citation needed.

This is the research i read:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3569.epdf

Yeah, because it worked great when Ceaușescu did it!

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/08/world/upheaval-in-the-eas...

Because they will completely not test the blood they wanna inject and their laboratory is a decaying spew of poverty..

Even if money were no object, things evolve. AIDS was a surprise. It won't be the last.

You understand that transfusions exist for more than a century ? And there are ppl who need transfusions pretty much wewkly or monthly (rare but they exist)

I think this only works when you also have young organs to process the blood...

Ok so growing blood in the lab would be a good thing - clean and young and available. Instead of for instance artificial chicken etc.

Another sign of the end times. Fall, mountains ...

Sounds interesting, it's like an oil change.

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