Please don’t pay $8,000 for an infusion of young blood
There are so many better ways to spend your money.
By Nicole Wetsman January 17, 2019
There’s still no evidence that young plasma can actually improve health.
If you live in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Omaha, or Houston, have a spare $8,000, and are dead-set on trying an unproven, possibly dangerous medical procedure—you’re in luck. Ambrosia Medical, a start-up that aims to treat the effects of aging by infusing blood plasma from young people into older people, has clinics in those cities up and running, according to its website and reports from Business Insider.
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Ambrosia, a startup founded in 2017 by Jesse Karmazin (who went to medical school, but isn’t licensed to practice medicine), promotes its treatments based on the idea that young plasma can counteract aging and rejuvenate old organs.
The problem is, there’s still no evidence that young plasma can actually do that.
https://www.popsci.com/infusion-young-blood-science