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Feeling old? Got a spare 8000 bucks?
Apparently this is legal. Apparently people are buying it. No doubt the economic climate provides many willing sellers but I see nothing in this article about how much the donors are paid or how they are vetted.
"[h=2]'THE RESULTS LOOKED REALLY AWESOME'[/h]Nevertheless, Karmazin is optimistic that blood has a range of benefits. He got the idea for his company as a medical student at Stanford and an intern at the National Institute on Aging, where he watched dozens of traditional blood transfusions performed safely.
"Some patients got young blood, and others got older blood, and I was able to do some statistics on it, and the results looked really awesome," Karmazin told Business Insider in 2017. "And I thought this is the kind of therapy that I'd want to be available to me."
So far, no one knows whether young blood transfusions can be reliably linked to lasting benefits."
Apparently this is legal. Apparently people are buying it. No doubt the economic climate provides many willing sellers but I see nothing in this article about how much the donors are paid or how they are vetted.
"[h=2]'THE RESULTS LOOKED REALLY AWESOME'[/h]Nevertheless, Karmazin is optimistic that blood has a range of benefits. He got the idea for his company as a medical student at Stanford and an intern at the National Institute on Aging, where he watched dozens of traditional blood transfusions performed safely.
"Some patients got young blood, and others got older blood, and I was able to do some statistics on it, and the results looked really awesome," Karmazin told Business Insider in 2017. "And I thought this is the kind of therapy that I'd want to be available to me."
So far, no one knows whether young blood transfusions can be reliably linked to lasting benefits."