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Questionable 'Young Blood' Transfusions Offered in U.S. as Anti-Aging Remedy |
2017-06-02 |
[MIT] Just off a winding highway along the Pacific coast in Monterey, California, is a private clinic where people can pay $8,000 to have their veins pumped with blood plasma from teenagers and young adults. Jesse Karmazin is the entrepreneur who made the practice possible, by launching a clinical trial on the potential of "young blood" through his startup Ambrosia. He says that within a month, most participants "see improvements" from the one-time infusion of a two-liter bagful of plasma, which is blood with the blood cells removed. Several scientists and clinicians say Karmazin’s trial is so poorly designed it cannot hope to provide evidence about the effects of the transfusions. And some say the pay-to-participate study, with the potential to collect up to $4.8 million from as many as 600 participants, amounts to a scam. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#6 Dumped a quart of new Pennzoil 10w-30 into the ol' JD and WOW!!! wsa able to plow 13 rows at a time, got 50% better corn yield. A-frickin-mazing....... and at the next oil change time I held back the last quart of what I drained and reused (since it just HAD to be the newest that went in). Morons and California; what can't they do??? |
Posted by: USN, Ret. 2017-06-02 16:04 |
#5 p.s. Look at bone marrow progenitor cells, morons. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-02 11:58 |
#4 Paging Mr Gunn, Mr James E. Gunn please come to the courtesy phone. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-02 11:57 |
#2 This post needs the picture of Gary Oldham as Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-06-02 08:15 |
#1 Wait! Wait! I saw this movie! (It does not end well...) |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-06-02 07:44 |