TLDR;<p>The article is bit of a link bait. It's not about drinking blood but obtaining some of the blood factors via medical process.<p><i>After being given plasma — the main component of blood — from volunteers ages 16 to 25, researchers noted improvements in biomarkers for various diseases.</i><p>The study was done in mice funded by Peter Thiel. However people doing study have commercial interest. They are in business of selling teenage blood plasma to customers at a cost of $8,000 for 2½ liters.<p>Original Nature article link here: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0457-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0457-8</a><p>Silicon Valley episode was very much inspired from this :).
I find it extremely unsettling to see this type of headline over and over again in tech/science journalism and HN. Someone has come up with a new way to make a buck and are on the process of making it widely know. The silicon valley hype cycles has started. The problem is that there is no strong independent evidence.<p>When you're dealing with people's health Money making needs to take a backseat to strong well-defined science. Move fast and break things is not the mantra we need to follow here.