The super rich are injecting blood from teenagers to gain ‘immortality’
If you’re a millennial, you might have felt for a while now that older generations are out to suck us dry.
But the bloodsucking appears to have become a whole lot more literal.
Because the super-wealthy are now pumping themselves with the blood of young people in an attempt to prevent themselves from ageing.
Over 100 people have participated in a clinical trial at a San Francisco start-up offering blood transfusions for older patients. Each procedure costs $8,000 (£6,200) and sees the patient injected with two and a half litres of plasma – the liquid element of blood that remains after other cells have been removed - taken from young people.
The procedure is being offered as an experimental attempt at rejuvenating the elderly. The median age of the patients is 60 years.
Jesse Karmazin, 32, a Stanford-trained scientist who founded the US clinic, told The Sunday Times that the initial results from his patients had been encouraging.
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