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FDA Warns Against Using Young Blood As Medical Treatment (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday against using plasma infusions from young blood donors to ward off the effects of normal aging as well as other more serious conditions. Plasma, the liquid portion of the blood, contains proteins that help clot blood. The infusions are promoted to treat a variety of conditions, including normal aging and memory loss as well as serious conditions such as dementia, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and 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," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote in a statement Tuesday. "The reported uses of these products should not be assumed to be safe or effective," he added, noting that the FDA "strongly" discourages consumers from using this therapy "outside of clinical trials under appropriate institutional review board and regulatory oversight." Gottlieb said that "a growing number of clinics" are offering plasma from young donors and similar therapies, though he did not name any in particular.
"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," FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote in a statement Tuesday. "The reported uses of these products should not be assumed to be safe or effective," he added, noting that the FDA "strongly" discourages consumers from using this therapy "outside of clinical trials under appropriate institutional review board and regulatory oversight." Gottlieb said that "a growing number of clinics" are offering plasma from young donors and similar therapies, though he did not name any in particular.
Hopefully this will lower young blood prices, been awhile since I've had a good drink.
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Government needs to keep their nose out of my business. What next, are they going to tell me I shouldn't eat the hearts of my enemies to gain their powers?
Well, if the FDA is this quick to be adamantly against it, then it must be something good and beneficial.
>" FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote in a [statement] Tuesday. "
At this time, that link for the statement is broken.
Do be warned- there are, indeed, serious risks with infusing foreign blood. All kinds of blood-borne diseases can be transmitted, as well risk of injection site infections. You can also have severe allergic or other auto-immune reactions. At those *crazy* costs ($8k for just a single treatment of 1 liter), one would think you would be blood typed matched carefully to blood products that have been thoroughly tested and screened and all equipment is sterilized properly. But, who knows.
And there is no proof it does anything at all. Not yet, anyway. And I doubt such profit-motivated "desperation clinics" are performing any controlled studies to help change that.
One ridiculous medical quack cure after another, this one is from the *middle ages*, for God's sake.
Eat from the food pyramid, get some exercise, take medicine only when necessary, and you will maximize your chances.
"Well, the government tells me not to breathe cinnamon, but fuck that! Just the MAN keeping me down! No way, I'd rather fucking choke myself to death on camera than take sound advice..." - Republicans are literally this dumb.
Rob Liefeld's art was terrible. His proportions were madness and he couldn't draw feet to save his life. Why, the thought to using it to treat any medical condition is just absurd.
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I've been using this for at least two hundred years to prolong my existence.
I take geezer blood. I can kick kids off my lawn so fast now they're dizzy when they land. And my COBOL coding is faster.
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Wants cheaper blood for himself
I've been doing it for 3000 years. It's perfectly safe.
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If folks really find this 'treatment' beneficial, find someone with hemochromatosis, and offer them a low payment for regular donation.
For those that don't know, it's a condition where a persons gut is sort of out-of-control in terms of how much iron it absorbs, leading to a slight excess of iron. This slight extra iron can build up to unsafe levels if not removed for several decades- and the most convenient option for removal is simple: Draining about a blood donation worth of blood twice a week, until the levels are 'normal', then less frequently to maintain.
The body replaces the blood just fine, and the blood is perfectly find for almost every use, since a slightly elevated iron level is rarely an issue for 99% of cases.
Unfortunately, lots of blood organizations refuse to draw blood from folks with this condition for free - and want to charge for the regular blood donation as 'treatment' - and will even pour the blood out rather than use it to help anyone, with no clear reason other than unmentioned greed as motivations.
So, if this 'treatment' becomes fashion, then I hope it leads to a less crazy situation for folks with that condition - though it is still crazy to use blood this way too. Perhaps in this case, two crazy situations make a sane result?
Ryan Fenton
Like Constanza if everything you know is wrong then opposite must be right. And the FDA is always wrong.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like the sort of comically evil plot Montgomery Burns might try, sending Smithers to tap kids' arms while they sleep?
No mater how hard you try to be creimer you can never be creimer. Sad. Fucking sad.
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like the sort of comically evil plot Montgomery Burns might try, sending Smithers to tap kids' arms while they sleep?
You're probably subconsciously thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Feud_(The_Simpsons)
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Plasma infusions don't make you youthful. For that, you have to drink the blood while it's still warm, fresh from the source.
Doing so might make you very sensitive to sunlight, though.
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Rabbis abducted, tortured tge abductees to fil the youthful blood with adrenaline, bled the children dry and sold as a spring tonicvlike 4hr Energy Shot.
Medical quack cures during the middle ages spread via word of mouth among the clueless masses.
Modern social media is a way for the clueless masses to quickly spread (mis)information via word of mouth.
During the interim period, we had broadcasting - a few people communicating to many, via books, newspapers, radio, and finally TV. These forms of communication cost money, so they were only available to people or organizations willing and able to pay for it. That meant what they were saying usually had to first go through some sort of vetting process, to make sure it wasn't wasting their time and money.
Then the Internet happened. It's given us lots of great things, but it's also led to a regression of information dissemination. Social media costs nothing to use, meaning that the rumors and hearsay spreading among the masses are once again able to drown out the volume of information from authoritative sources.
People keep championing censorship as the solution (companies and organizations doing "fact-checking" and deliberately squelching info they deem to be incorrect). While that can work, it's incredibly risky. All a wannabe-dictator has to do is replace the fact checkers with people sympathetic to his cause, and the whole thing gets re-purposed into a system to control and subjugate the masses. The proper solution is to educate people, so they're better able to decide for themselves what's true and what's quackery. Unfortunately that's a lot harder than censorship, so lots of people who really should know better are advocating trading off some of their freedom for better security against quacks.
Meanwhile the high ranked Democrats "drink" all that kidnapped children's blood in satanic rituals.
Why?
The food pyramid we all learned in the 80s is totally wrong because it puts too much emphasis on grains / carbs.
Ryan Fenton
You'd think someone with the same name as the guy in the goatse photo would want to use a different pseudonym on the internet.
Let them suck the age right out of you.
I swear we're on the start of a great decline. It's like the fall of Rome.
R.I.P. Western Civilization. It was fun while it lasted. And thanks for all the fish!
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You conservative christian no-abortion type dudes are cool with pussy grabbing and divorcing the mother of your kids because she got old or cancer, or both in the case of Gingrich, wow that fuck..., but DAUGHTER FUCKING?
It's a new level of stupid nazi pedo treason, and you're in the parade wearing an oversized diaper, GOP children. Run for your motherfeckless lives, the Hindenberder is going bing bong, gyna's. No parole, full anal collusion.
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Eat the heart of your enemy to gain their strength type belief
It primitive bullshit
grow up people its the 21st century not the 14th!
Yet the bulk of the bubble heads on Youtube that made videos of self inflicted cinnamon injuries wouldn't hesitate to parrot any given tenant of your libtard group think on command.
You are one sick fucker.. Always with the pedophilia, ass rape, butt fucking... I guess we can assume you will finally be arrested for anally raping some 10 year old.
"Well, the government tells me not to breathe cinnamon, but fuck that! Just the MAN keeping me down! No way, I'd rather fucking choke myself to death on camera than take sound advice..." - Republicans are literally this dumb.
Democrats are dumb enough to bring up the regulation of inhaling anything when it was Republicans who insisted on locking up hippies for decades for simply inhaling a plant that they said you shouldn't inhale..
Here we are 20 years later and your dumb ass is actually promoting the government banning you from inhaling something. I know it's just a silly example, but you really need to think shit through... Maybe not everything the government declares to be dangerous really is.... Hrm?
The FDA prevented the use of beta blockers for ten years after their use in the EU.
About a hundred thousand people died prematurely, as a result.
Given the political environment, and their mission, they have to err strongly on the side of cautioun, or they get the blame. They are behaving rationally.
The opportunity cost, all those who die or suffer as a result, is invisible.
How many people will die of old age before research into preventing aging becomes legal?
Right now all medical research is banned, unless it is to prevent or cure a disease, and aging doesn't count.
Then leave society, go find a place where no government needs to operate, you whiny unrealistic idiot. You reap benefits currently. Don't like it? GET THE FUCK OUT LIBERTARIAN RETARDS, NOBODY NEEDS YOU HERE.
Sounds like someone wants their heart eaten.
In the meantime Democrats are eating Tide Pods.
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The blood of the young has more stem cells in it, that's what makes its healing property old organisms lack.
People die of old age due to organs failure as consequence of specific important tissues in those organs falling in disrepair.
However, while blood donation is a matter of sorting small number of compatibilities, because what you need it for is time-limited oxygen and carbon-dioxide carrying ability of erythrocytes, and you don't care that those erythrocytes will be soon killed off by acceptors immune system, stem cells need much better matching, on an organ transplant level, or better.
Therefore, while there is some theoretical foundation to the hypothesis, it doesn't work in practice.
However, long term auto-transfusion could work, if we could keep our own stem-cells viable across many decades.
Someone wanted their snake oil and patent medicines back.
*Our Stolen History*
In geological time Gaia is entering menopause. It spins slower, It's getting wider around the middle, tilting and wobbling a bit, rebounding up at the poles, low on magnetic charm, drying up in the mainlands, being gouged on the coasts, and popping out in volcanoes while having severe hot flashes. Imagine a falling droplet of water pulsating and you'll get the picture. Having slept with a menopausal woman, I can tell you our rest is in trouble.
I remember when laptops didn't bend. We have a fridge made in 1946, it still works. Maybe always has.
The billionaires stole the missing pentagon trillions for several post-collapse billionaire bunkers underground worldwide.
You will never see the 1%'s bunkers on a video screen, but not even the pentagon can spend that much on child porn.
Banks stole public credit 100 years ago to fight a war on the unwhite.
After the civil war, the railroad barons got rich shipping oil.
The banks got rich rich off railroads and oil.
The banks formed a cartel in 1913 and privatized public credit.
The banks funded WW1 and got rich investing in transport and arms.
The banks crashed 1929.
The banks funded WW2 to beat communism and depression.
Propaganda is 100 years old. So is feminism and socialism.
It takes 50 years to complete energy and social systems worldwide without incentive.
Everybody is unequal due to race sex nature and nurture, that is why we must tax the rich to help the poor.
The top 20% produce 70% of emissions.
We have 10 years to reduce emissions 50% or earth dies.
100 year old fantasies will not do this.
Banks are real, 100 year old fantasies are not.
Video phones won't be around forever. We have to prepare.
Unhiding money is a social multiplier of goals. Make money private and public with nowhere to hide.
We can rule ourselves with private money and public regulation. It values policy over greed.
The only way to survive is to tax the rich and start a universal 100% private basic carbon income with 0% for corporations, NGOs and governments phased in over 10 years worldwide.
The current public/private banking partnership is inimical to life on earth,
This partnership is based on killing the unwhite for oil.
Oddly enough, I only have to take on corporations, NGOs and governments to do it.
It's easier than you think. We don't need them to do it.
The rest is history.
Sounds to me like he's praising his genetics. I doubt anyone brags about how ugly their children are.
However, kudos on the mental gymnastics, are you trying out for the "Extra Special Olympics" this year?
Just wondering.
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Plasma is actually not in short supply but the medicine made from it is. It takes 100-1000 people donating plasma to make one dose of IVIG. Intravaneous-immune globulin
It is for very rich people or very very sick individuals with children's Medicaid or severe disability. Most people dont even know it exists because of prohibitive cost and difficulty qualifying otherwise.
It demolinates your cells. Molecular-level type shit. It's the closest thing to a real fountain of youth we will ever have.
Yeah, that's what America needs. More self-righteous, overconfident narcissists.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It definitely worked for the Skeksis.
-Dave
... either ban the practice or shut the fuck up.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
FDA says GMOs are fine, do the opposite, eat organic
FDA says flouride is fine in the water source , do the opposite and not get cancer, drink RO water
And finally..
When the FDA says don't use young people's healthy blood as a medical treatment, do the opposite, and take the treatment to remain vigorous.
The FDA has absolutely no interest whatsoever in maintaining current population levels. They are in bed with the Rockefeller controlled and owned CDC (do your homework)
If you were using random blood products for the past 200 years, you never would have survived the AIDS epidemic. You would have been among the first infected in the 1960s or 1970s, and died a horrible death years before effective treatments were even on the horizon. You might have even died before anyone had any idea what it was that actually killed you.
If somehow you got lucky with HIV, there's the matter of leukemia... something even kids are known to get, and can absolutely spread via blood transfusions. Or other metastatized random childhood cancers. They're rare, but they exist.
And if you went anywhere near the UK in the 1980s or early 1990s & used the blood of anyone who wasn't a militant vegan, you would have probably ended up having your brain literally self-destruct into spongy ooze. Even NOW, anyone who spent more than 3 months in the UK between 1980 and 1996 is banned from donating blood in the US (admittedly, it's kind of silly at this point since anyone who WOULD have gotten BSE has already developed it and probably died, but given the relatively few actual potential donors who get turned away by the policy in the US, nobody really wants to be the one who pushes for a policy change & ends up being proven horribly wrong).
In fact, AFAIK, even in the UK, blood supplies are segregated... blood donated by people born after 1996 is kept separate from blood from older donors, and blood from older donors can be given to a patient born after 1996 ONLY in a dire emergency (and usually, with the employee who allowed it to happen getting sacked unless it was truly an unforeseen, catastrophic emergency).
The point is, you really DON'T want to have blood from random strangers coursing through your veins if you can help it. Obviously, sometimes you just need it in order to survive... but if you roll the dice enough times, you're eventually going to lose.
i hope this people arent force now to get plasma the old dracula way
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