[ExI] Anti-aging young blood clinical trial

[Anders Sandberg]

The fun thing with the Simpsons and Futurama is that the creators are 
quite savvy on many research topics*. Parabiosis is *way* older; Paul 
Bert got a prize for it 1866.

While much interest is in some of the proteins being exchanged, I 
suspect the biggest effect is correcting homeostasis. We'll see.


* The Futurama mind-switching theorem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda#The_theorem
is another cool example.

On 2016-08-08 05:25, spike wrote:
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> It reads like the clichéd plot of a horror novel: by ingesting the blood of a younger person, you become younger yourself....
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> Oh my it will be such fun if it works: the scientific community will be in debt to a story line from The Simpsons from over a quarter of a century ago.  Mr. Burns becomes ill with hypohemia and needs a transfusion, but has the super-rare fictional type double O negative.  Bart is the only person in Springfield with double O negative.  The transfusion not only saves Burns' life but he feels wonderful, youthful again.  Chaos ensues.
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University