{"id":80123,"date":"2018-06-29T04:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/why-older-people-are-using-the-blood-of-teenagers-to-live-longer"},"modified":"2018-06-30T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T22:00:42","slug":"why-older-people-are-using-the-blood-of-teenagers-to-live-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/why-older-people-are-using-the-blood-of-teenagers-to-live-longer","title":{"rendered":"Why Older People Are Using the Blood of Teenagers to Live Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-older-people-are-using-the-blood-of-teenagers-to-live-longer.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The secret of life extension from vampires.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Getting older and dying is so inconvenient. Eating a healthy diet and exercising is a good start in warding off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/death\">death<\/a>, but if you\u2019re looking to truly up your immortality game, the answer is simple: teen blood. For a whopping $8,000, the old and the wealthy can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45255-how-to-live-forever-young-blood\">receive a blood transfusion from a teenager<\/a>. Yes, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambrosiaplasma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ambrosia\u2019s clinics<\/a> in San Francisco and Tampa, Florida, the wrinkled are receiving what founder Dr. Jesse Karmazin simply refers to as a \u201cyoung blood treatment.\u201d Patients are administered a transfusion of around 0.66 gallons of blood acquired from donors between the ages of 16 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like an entire set of new blood,\u201d Karmazin tells <em>Inverse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/46109-young-blood-transfusions?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=on_site&utm_campaign=article-top\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/46109-young-blood-transfusio...rticle-top<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secret of life extension from vampires. Getting older and dying is so inconvenient. Eating a healthy diet and exercising is a good start in warding off death, but if you\u2019re looking to truly up your immortality game, the answer is simple: teen blood. For a whopping $8,000, the old and the wealthy can receive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80191,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80123\/revisions\/80191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}