Young blood is not the anti

It sounds crazy, but the notion of infusing a young person’s blood into an older person isn’t entirely baseless. In fact, it’s been studied for over 100 years as a potential therapy for not only aging — but also metabolism, diabetes, and cancer. Parabiosis as a term refers to the joining of two organisms together by linking their circulatory system...

Young blood transfusions won't turn an old person’s body into a young one. Instead, it works to help rejuvenate tissues and help them repair damage, as stem cell researcher Amy Wagers of Harvard University notes.

Amazingly, the technique has been shown to be successful in rodents. “By joining the circulatory system of an old mouse to that of a young mouse, scientists have produced some remarkable results,” a 2015 Nature reportstates. “In the heart, brain, muscles and almost every other tissue examined, the blood of young mice seems to bring new life to agin...