Wealthy Vampires Lust For Fountain of Youth

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This is a big one. They were paying a couple hundred bucks for college students to donate blood to "special companies" that then sold it for massive profit to the people who do this. 

FDA cracks down on companies claiming young blood as the fountain of youth

https://www.tmc.edu/news/2019/03/fda-cra...-of-youth/


BUT, There is something new:

Anti-inflammatory drug turns back time, makes aging blood young again

https://studyfinds.org/anti-inflammatory...ood-young/

the anti-inflammatory drug anakinra, approved for use in rheumatoid arthritis cases, reverses some of the effects of aging on the hematopoietic system. The drug is available under the brand name Kineret.

Young blood studies have been focusing on infusing older patients with the blood of their younger and healthier peers. While these transfusions show promise at turning back the clock, a new study finds scientists may be able to do this without using someone else’s blood. Researchers from Columbia University in New York say an anti-inflammatory drug can rejuvenate the system which makes blood — possibly increasing 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,” says Emmanuelle Passegué, PhD, director of the Columbia Stem Cell Initiative, in a university release. “A 70-year-old with a 40-year-old blood system could have a longer healthspan, if not a longer lifespan.”