The scientific journal Nature recently published an article by the London geneticist Linda Partridge that experiments with transfusing the blood of young people to the elderly are not a joke, but a potential medical know-how.
There are dozens of projects around the world for the transfusion of young blood to the elderly. Basically, all these are startups, that is, it is believed that this is mainly a populist, not a scientific idea.
However, Partridge says such ideas are being considered by leading physicians as well and have the potential to become one of the most promising ventures in modern medicine.
It all started with an experiment on elderly mice in the 2000s, which were infused with the blood of young mice and they showed vigor and no signs of aging. The mechanism of this phenomenon is still poorly understood and it is necessary to thoroughly test in animals how the substances contained in the blood support physical health.
However, the results of this experiment have already convinced many people around the world of the special benefits of young blood. This practice has the potential to save the elderly from diseases such as cancer, senile dementia and heart disease.
Partridge analyzes various projects involving young blood transfusion. For example, a project in San Francisco called Ambrosia, in which young blood is injected into adults. The procedure costs about 8 thousand dollars.
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At the moment about 70 people over 35 have taken part in the project. They received plasma, the main component of blood, from volunteers aged 16 to 25.
The researchers noted an improvement in the health of the volunteers, including a 10% decrease in the amount of cholesterol in their blood. Also, the content of carcinoembryonic antigens, whose increase provokes cancer, decreased by 20 percent.
One 55-year-old patient with early-onset Alzheimer's disease began showing improvements in his condition with just one transfusion. Another patient, an older woman with more severe Alzheimer's disease, showed similar improvements.
