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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.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Wednesday February 20 2019, @04:45PM
Oxygen levels would rise most likely. For old people and those on blood thinners to control pressure there issues with oxygen delivery that makes them sleepy and if they're low enough, too fat and/or old enough they can even see dementia and alzheimer-like symptoms. This is usually where CPAP masks and even oxygen tanks come into play.
On there other end of the spectrum young endurance athletes deliberately sleep in high altitude chambers to condition their bodies to oxygen deprivation and then switch to high-oxygen high-pressure chambers shortly before a competition to mimic the effects of the now banned Erythropoietin. Another less safe approach was to deposit and store blood packs that were then "condensed" as much as 2:1 blood cells and then replace as much of your blood with the packs at the day of the competition.
Not sure how much any of this is allowed or not in the competitions. And I have no idea about the medical implication long term or the risks for complications. But it's almost certainly has beneficial short-term gains.
Disclosure: I'm neither a doctor nor do I play one on TV...
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