This sounds like some Alex Jones stuff at first but it's very real and it may have medical value. That said, what will it do to the price of blood transfusions for people who need it to survive. Would any of you do this if you were rich and felt like getting a boost? https://www.siliconvalley.com/2019/...ck-to-juicing-up-the-old-despite-fda-warning/ Despite a Food and Drug Administration warning that draining blood from young folk and infusing it into older people might be harmful, startup Ambrosia says it has resumed doing just that. The exsanguination enterprise earlier this year stopped selling young blood by the liter to old people and filling them up with it, immediately after the FDA issued an advisory that blood-plasma transfusions offered in the U.S. “should not be assumed to be safe or effective” and that consumers should be strongly discouraged from “pursuing this therapy outside of clinical trials under appropriate institutional review board and regulatory oversight.” Ambrosia was founded in 2016 by Stanford Medical School graduate Jesse Karmazin, who has never been licensed to practice medicine. His company was reported to have been selling transfusions — at $8,000 per liter of plasma or $12,000 for two liters — at the start of this year in five cities including San Francisco.
Feels dirty. Actually, don't have much issue with old people receiving such blood transfusions (so long as there are no deceptive practices in the marketing etc). But, I don't like the economics for the donor. If the donor was willing to supply blood (even for pay) on the understanding that it would go to a recipient on an emergency basis, it should not be used for an elective procedure, especially one with unproven benefit. They should buy from donors who understand how it will be retailed and are properly compensated for the meta-properties that come with their blood (the relevant meta-property being the age of the donor which is the basis of the company's marketing). I wouldn't fault the company so much as the blood banks who agree to sell to them -- they betray their donors.
So how much extra work can you get done after a young blood transfusion? Perhaps the "fountain of youth" has been found!
