The Secret is in Protein Levels

More and more scientists have been focusing on the battle against aging. Some of them are looking into the blood of young people for solutions. Recently, we covered ongoing human trials of blood plasma transfusions from young people into Alzheimer’s patients. This process was found to improve physical performance as well as cognitive functions in mice, and performed better than a preceding experiment where old and young mice were stitched together.

In another study published in Nature Communications, University of California Berkeley professor Irina Conboy insists that the secret lies in regulating the protein levels in blood—that young blood in itself does not have rejuvenating properties, and the positive effects seen in blood plasma transfusion merely coincided with the dilution of old patients’ blood as an effect of adding healthy blood in.

In short, they hypothesize that there’s no need to harvest blood from younger individuals, they just need to modulate protein in the blood to normal levels. They believe abnormal levels of these proteins are responsible for deterioration and aging.

More here: https://futurism.com/scientists-target-protein-imbalance-in-blood-to-slow-aging/