“It’s
more or less what we would expect. The blood of young people must have
something in it that’s important for keeping them young”
Dr. Victoria Bolotina
Boston University in Massachusetts, commenting on the presentation by Dr.
Sakura Minami of biopharmaceutical company Alkahest at the Society for
Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego on Monday November 14th 2016
It
seems we've found the fountain of eternal youth: the blood of teenagers.
California-based
biopharmaceutical company Alkahest injected older mice with the blood plasma
take from teenagers as reported in the article “Blood
from human teens rejuvenates body and brains of old mice”, published 15
November 2016 by Jessica Hamzelou, New
Scientist.
Their test on 12 month old mice, the equivalent of 50-year old humans, was compared to a control group that received no injections. They discovered that the plasma, taken from 18-year-old teenagers and injected into 12-month-old mice over a three (3) week period twice daily, produced improvements in the following areas for the test subjects:
1.
Memory
2.
Cognition
3.
Physical activity
The
mice performed remarkably in maze tests as if they were much younger mice. The
team led by Dr. Sakura Minami then examined the brains of the treated and
untreated mice. They discovered that the new neurons began growing in the
hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with learning and memory.
Previous
studies such as those done by Stanford University School of Medicine as
explained in my blog
article entitled “Stanford
School of Medicine discovers Younger Mice's Blood makes Older Mice Brain Young”,
has indicated that Blood plasma seems to rejuvenate the following organs:
1.
Brain
2.
Liver
3.
Heart
4.
Muscle
Good
to note that the study was presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual
meeting in San Diego ion Monday November 14th 2016; no peer review
has been done and it hasn’t even been published in a scholarly journal as yet
as noted in the article “Scientists
have rejuvenated old mice with the blood of human teenagers”, published
November 16th 2016 by Peter Dockrill, Science
Alert.
Already,
Alkahest, has already started a trial of young blood in people with Alzheimer’s
disease. Still I’m not surprised as Dr Sakura Minami points out that it's
generally known that people do indeed benefit from blood transfusions; their
experiment has merely narrowed it down to blood plasma, quote: “There’s
anecdotal evidence that people experience benefits after blood transfusions”.
Interestingly,
this discovery has other implications.
Adding
blood plasma may actually be thinning out the blood, in much the same way
adding engine oil to a car can make it run as if it were a new car. This means
research into Artificial blood can be used to reverse the affects of ageing as
pointed out in my blog article
entitled “Scottish
National Blood Transfusion Service clones Type O Negative Blood for Cheaper
Transfusions in 2016”.
This
implies that humans may be nothing more than biomechanical robots that can
benefit from regular oil changes i.e. blood. It may also lead to a better understanding
of human blood and even the developement of better blood filters i.e.
artificial kidneys than our natural kidneys.
Immortality,
my dear reader, is in the blood of the very young people walking around us. Combined
with father research into the role of blood plasma and the rejuvenation effect
on older humans, immortality may truly be in our grasp!!!!
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