I quite often spend time just shaking my head at folks. Grown adults that should know better and yet the crap that comes out of their mouths would fertilize a farm field.
Blood exchange, giving an older person a younger person’s blood to help invigorate them? Ok, seriously when they fired up the large hadron super-collider a few years ago; did something weird happen that ripped the fabric of time and create an alternative timeline where everyone loses their damn minds and only a few of us see it and are completely frustrated by it? Because, while not a conspiracy theorist by any means, I am beginning to wonder.
On the heels of a warning from federal regulators, a controversial startup that offered to fill a person’s veins with young blood for $8,000 said it had stopped providing the procedure.
On Tuesday, regulators with the Food and Drug Administration warned people against getting transfusions of young blood that purport to provide anti-aging and other health benefits.
“There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat, or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product,” the FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, and the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Peter Marks, said in a joint statement.
Eight grand? Dude. Those pesky researchers weighed in here:
However, researchers who study the procedure say it poses significant risks for patients, including an elevated risk of developing several dangerous conditions later in life, such as graft-versus-host disease, which can occur when transfused blood cells attack the patient’s cells, and transfusion-associated lung injury.
It has of course now suspended operations after the warning, but it raises a larger question, are people that desperate to prolong aging? You bet your sweet ass they are. Why do you think gyms, supplements, plastic surgeons, et al. exist? It sure isn’t because anyone likes it, but aging is a scary process. Especially after you start into it and start realizing you are not a teenager anymore.
The body ages, hell I am no spring chicken myself, but there is little that you can do other than yours and my favorite; sensible eating and sensible exercise. We all think we can still handle the workout when we were a teen or in our early twenties, but sorry to tell you even if are in ideal shape, those joints, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and muscles are going to stop working as efficiently and when you could run a mile one day, now walking that mile is sufficient to get your heart rate up and make you feel as though you have run a marathon. Unfortunately, try as much as you may, nothing slows aging (I mean I could bite you on the neck but being a day sleeper sucks sometimes).
Your best bet is caring for yourself. Realize it takes longer to do stuff and you may need to a lot more time to do things. Also, crossfitting yourself to death, may lead to your death. Swing by your provider and chat about a good and healthy level of exercise. When I say provider, I mean the one in the medical building with a lab coat, not the muscle head at the gym. You would be surprised the cool assed plan you guys will come up with and the help that we can give you.
Besides, I had to cut down on the neck biting; my Primary Care says cholesterol is not good for me right now.
The bats are taking the night off; apparently, there is a rave in town, and they are there.