The secret of Dracula: young blood rejuvenates

Can transfusion of young blood actually rejuvenate the human brain? The researchers believe that this "vampire" therapy is very effective anti-aging.

This technique seems to be sketched in the book about Dracula, but its effectiveness has been proved by science. Young blood actually makes the old brain again "ignite". Scientists gave elderly mice blood significantly younger rodents, leading to rejuvenation connections between brain cells, and to improve memory.

The therapy was so effective that month-mouse cope with the memory test as well as the four-month. The average life span of mice is between 18 months and two years. If this technique will be as safe and effective in humans, it will in the near future may start regularly used to slow the aging process and Rejuvenation .

Regular injections can be performed for people of middle age. Blood will be taken from young donors, and it would be helpful in the prevention of age-related ailments certain dangerous brain, including Alzheimer's disease. This was discussed at the annual conference of the Community of neurosurgeons United States, which was held in New Orleans.

"Do I think that the injection of young blood can have a positive effect on people, including rejuvenation ? - Said investigator Saul Villeda. - I am more and more inclined to this view. After a blood transfusion is not the drug of their severe side effects. It's only blood. Yes, we are constantly emptied it. "

The authors of this discovery were scientists from Stanford University. However, the first studies in this direction were made back in the 1920s in the Soviet Union. They did not give any results.

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