For $ 25,000, you can be guinea pig from a bloodthirsty youth source
In the United States, 40, 000 blood transfusions are performed daily. People who have had surgery or major trauma are the main recipients of this vital fluid. Now, have you thought about receiving the blood of a very young person just to see what it will give? A new North American startup is providing this experience.
The company is called Ambrosia and is selecting adults who want to undergo this transfusion that would make Count Dracula proud. According to Jesse Karmazin, founder of this business, the idea is to find out if juvenile blood can rejuvenate or slow aging.
Karmazin studied medicine at Stanford University and did an internship at the National Institute on Aging; Even so, he is not yet licensed to practice his career. This did not prevent him from doing a study on people who received blood from younger and older to analyze the behavior of the human body in these two situations. According to him, the differences are striking.
Believing that blood transfusion can be a rejuvenating therapy, Karmazin has put his plan into practice and is looking for people to experiment with. But neuroscientist Tony-Wyss, also of Stanford University, is more cautious: he coordinated a similar experiment with mice and found no clinical evidence to support what Karmazin proposes.
High cost
Another detail is that the experiment is not voluntary: each person willing to receive juvenile blood must pay $ 8, 000 for the procedure, the equivalent of $ 25, 600! For 2 days, 1.5 liters of blood will be collected from people between 16 and 25 years to be injected into who invest this money for something still uncertain.
Nevertheless, Karmazin expects at least 600 applications from people interested in this supposed youth formula. The transfusion itself will be performed at the licensed physician of David Wright, located in Monterey, California. According to Karmazin, 30 people would have gone through the experience and reported some benefits, such as muscle toning and rejuvenated appearance.
Of course, it may all be a placebo effect, as people expect this kind of result. Only with a larger sample will it be possible to determine if blood can become a new anti-aging "drug". Would you dare to submit to something like that?
