I am stupefied by this.<p>Many, many times I have considered:<p>"what would happen if I banked my own blood and transfused it back to myself 40 years later"<p>And of course, my next thought was "of course that has been thought of, and tried, and the reason we don't all know about it is because it must not be helpful."<p>But you're telling me that, in fact, nobody thought to try this ? It is 2014/2015 when someone got around to trying this out ?
This reminds me of a PostSecret submission from several months ago:<p><a href="https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.jpg?w=526&h=350" rel="nofollow">https://postsecretdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/blood.j...</a>
Carl Zimmer published a piece on this in the NYTimes almost a year ago (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-hold-key-to-reversing-aging.html?_r=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/science/young-blood-may-ho...</a>).<p>Here's the HN thread on that topic: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7695621</a>
Heck, any Heinlein fan could've told you this would work. In the "Future History" series (specifically, <i>Methuselah's Children</i> ), we learn that the first effective rejuvenation technique was to transfuse in younger blood. It didn't become practical, however, until they developed a way of growing new blood <i>in vitro.</i> I imagine that's the <i>next</i> thing scientists will be working on...if successful, we'll get rejuvenation quite a bit earlier than Heinlein's timeline predicted it.
You don't need a transfusion to do this. You just need to work on your blood health.<p>Excerpt:<p><i>“I thought, 'Hey wait, they're sharing blood,'” says Michael. “'This could answer that question we've been asking for years.'” At the end of the presentation, he ran up to Irina and Rando. He had not even finished his pitch before Rando said: “Let's do it.”</i><p>It was when I read up on how the body reacts to high altitude that I had my aha! moment that the blood was the common denominator between the gut and lung issues in people with CF. When you go up in altitude, you pee more. Well before you see altitude sickness, the body starts dumping wastes via the kidneys that it can't breathe out due to thin air.
The leaders of the Chinese communist party have already found this long time ago. As I known the old leaders of the chinese communist party change their blood of PLA periodical to keep them health. one article could find here: <a href="http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395" rel="nofollow">http://app.secretchina.com/node/472395</a> (in Chinese)
To state the obvious :<p><i>Aging billionaire keeps a dozen healthy athletic vegetarian teenagers on hand for weekly blood transfusions.</i><p>No joke. It's happening right now.<p>So is this a bad thing?
The secret of Dick Cheney, the Dark Lord, Himself, has been revealed! For decades, He has been kept alive by the blood of the young, and, until now, only His doctors knew the truth. Expect His vengence to be swift and severe!