This US Startup Is Injecting The Blood Of Teens Into Oldies For $10K A Pop

Today in that’s kinda fucked: A private clinic in (no prizes for guessing) California is offering blood plasma transfusions from teenagers and young adults aged 16-25 as an anti-ageing remedy.
The start-up, Ambrosia (in Greek mythology, this is the name of the food that keeps the gods young and hot), is offering clients a single infusion of a two-litre bag of plasma that’ll set them back a whopping $A10,500. 
The bizness’ founder Jesse Karmazin says people who suck back these $10k bags of blood “see improvements” within months.
While it sounds batshit crazy, the process of taking goodness from a PYT and syphoning it into a more mature individual is nothing new, and according to science, it checks out. 
Back in the ’50s, researcher Clive M. McCay stitched old and young rats together, and found that their circulatory systems became joined, which made the cartilage of the older rat appear younger.
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More tests in a similar vein have been conduced since, including a 2011 study that found young blood pumped into old rats resulted in a burst of new neurons in the hippocampus.

“I think the animal and retrospective data is compelling, and I want this treatment to be available to people,” Karzamin told MIT Technology Review.
While Karzamin’s heart is probably pumping in the right place, he doesn’t actually have a license to practice medicine (lol), so he’s teamed up with physician David C. Wright to administer the infusions lawfully.
As of December last year, the pair had treated 25 people with the young blood and they claim to have seen remarkable results – Karmazin noted one patient in particular, who suffered from chronic fatigue, “feels healthy for the first time” and “looks younger” after the treatment.
Not everyone’s jumping for joy over the controversial treatment though. Some experts are warning that the IV could open patients up to infections. 
Oh, and did we mention that it costs $10K a pop?! Ambrosia is keen to enrol 600 trial members, to the tune of a cool $4.6 million – and that, my friends, sounds snake oily af.
Source: News.com.au.
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