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Beware of Using Young People's Blood to Halt Aging, FDA Says

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the Vamp-ire? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Taking a young person's plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging -- a therapy that's fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley -- has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and Drug Administration said.

The agency issued a safety alert on Tuesday about the infusion of plasma from young donors for the prevention of conditions such as aging or memory loss, or for the treatment of such conditions as dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease or post‐traumatic stress disorder.

"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 said in a statement from Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, head of the agency's biologics center.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/beware-of-buying-young-people-s-blood-to-prevent-aging-fda-says

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:06PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:06PM (#804016)

    I remember there used to be quacks in Germany injecting cells harvested from lambs into rich people, so that the "young cells" of the lamb would fix the "old cells" in their body. Here's a German Wikipedia link: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frischzellentherapie [wikipedia.org]

    Lunacy. But a fool and their money are soon parted.

  • (Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:23PM (1 child)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:23PM (#804027) Journal

    Ah! But what about "Goat Gland Science" [wikipedia.org]? Nothing like transplanting some goat testicles into your own to make you live forever! Of course, may develop a chin beard, devilish pupils, and an urge to eat almost anything.

    The word for all this is Symapthetic Magic [wikipedia.org], like putting a knife under the mattress of childbirth, to, you know, "cut" the pain.

    Correspondence is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship or resemblance to another thing. Many popular beliefs regarding properties of plants, fruits and vegetables have evolved in the folk-medicine of different societies owing to sympathetic magic. This include beliefs that certain herbs with yellow sap can cure jaundice, that walnuts could strengthen the brain because of the nuts' resemblance to brain, that red beet-juice is good for the blood, that phallic-shaped roots will cure male impotence, etc.[2]

    • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:45PM

      by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday February 20 2019, @10:45PM (#804261)

      Thanks! Now I know how to describe Homeopathy in one phrase.

      Because "like cures like". Don't ask me how, it just does, OK?