Anti-ageing, turn back the clock on disease, and all that.

[monkeybus]

I had one of my old posts come up on here as a related topic when I was searching.

healthunlocked.com/amneasie...

Two years ago, I wrote that. I'd forgotten all about it, and I am used to these popular science stories coming to nothing. But then, as if by magic there was a fresh article in The Guardian about the very same.

theguardian.com/science/202...

Good old Silicon Valley pouring eye-watering sums into anti-aging research. I am sure it isn't for the common good, and I won't pass comment on Jeff Bezos and the like living forever, but this is a very real thing and real progress is being made (with mice, mind you antioxidants reversed AMN in mice so I'll wait for human trials to bear fruit.).

I did mention before that one very simple method is to give blood transfusions of young, healthy animals to their old, diseased brethren. And the article links to that as well.

theguardian.com/science/201...

I said how I asked my doctor if I could have it done. He said no. But it has become so popular in The US that the FDA has issued a warning against it. Dangerous? Or healthy people using up all that precious plasma? I'll go for the latter

fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biol....

There was a human clinical trial on healthy people in 2016 (that you had to pay $8000 to join)

science.org/content/article...

And a limited trial to see if young peoples' blood would help people with Alzheimer's Disease (confusing result).

science.org/content/article...

And in South Korea there was a human trial using fresh human cord blood, frozen human cord blood and blood plasma (no results posted).

clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show...

The man behind it gave a TED Talk.

ted.com/talks/tony_wyss_cor...

youtube.com/watch?v=CsECS5q...(Not working as expected?)

I'll have some of that. Doesn't scare me one bit. I'll look into this further.

The Guardian did a podcast about it as well.

theguardian.com/science/aud...