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Young blood rejuvenates mice :sciencejak: :marseysoyhype: :marseydracula: :marseybloodpuddle: We're so close too immortality dramabros

https://old.reddit.com/r/longevity/comments/12r7yc0/young_plasma_rejuvenates_blood_dna_methylation/

								

								

Plus this one from /r/soyence

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/10v480m/arthritis_drug_mimics_young_blood_transfusions_to/

The paper in question

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/79/5/glae071/7618060#google_vignette

From the article: From Silicon Valley to Mad Max, the idea of powerful older people harvesting blood from the young pops up throughout pop culture, but it's not purely fiction

Oh my science is just like mad maxerino! :#marseysoyhype: :#marseyimmortanjoe:

!ifrickinglovescience !chemistry it's still an interesting paper so you guys should give it a read :#marseyreading:

Dramatards whose blood will you take? Can someone ping the vampires?

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IT'S BECAUSE LAB MICE ARE fricking TURBO INBRED AND THEIR KIDNEYS ARE fricking SHITTY SO GUNK BUILDS UP

THERE IS NO fricking MAGIC YOUTH GOO IN THE fricking YOUNG MOUSE BLOOD. THE fricking OLD MOUSE BLOOD IS fricking JUST STINKY

(IF THIS ALSO IS fricking TRUE IN HUMANS IT WOULD BE fricking VERY FUNNY BECAUSE THEN IT MEANS THE fricking OLD LEECH TREATMENT DOCTORS USED TO DO MIGHT HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN USEFUL)

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Leeches were pretty useful for leech sellers


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Leeches were actually useful in some cases, the issue was over prescription and misunderstanding of the core mechanic behind why they worked. They were, and occasionally still are, really good at restarting or helping blood flow, and getting rid of blood, they can even help with preventing clots.

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Leeches will make a BIG comeback when we have to filter out all the microplastics in our bodies soon! :marseyembrace:

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