Someone as highly intelligent as you I simply can't believe you fall into the trap every single time, and not only do you fall into the Thiel/Trump trap, you embrace and embolden it by adding the word virgin blood that simply wasn't described by Thiel or the researcher.
"Aside from the gruesome historical and occult background of such practices, there is a lack of data that suggests the process even works. Despite Karmazin's claims that "young blood is causing changes that appear to make the aging process reverse,” scientists have yet to identify a link between blood transfusions from the young and any tangible health benefits.
"There‘s just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial], and you‘re basically abusing people‘s trust and the public excitement around this,” Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who conducted a 2014 study of young blood plasma in mice, told Science magazine last summer, as reported by Vanity Fair."
You had to get all the way to the bottom of the article to find that disclaimer, which doesn't surprise me as the intent was keep the pressure lid on the embarrassment on the fifty percent of republicans who have a brain.
You mischaracterize me, and fall for the fake news corrupt scientists are paid to proclaim.
Elizabeth Bathory didn't publish any papers you have read, but she took the blood of virgins. Neither was she first, nor are vampires merely a literary gimmick. There is definitive research that shows infusion of young blood retards aging. Perhaps you should consider other literary sources than the one link to modern scientific research I provided in the OP. There is significantly more material, but it is unreasonable to provide more than one link on an issue peripheral to the post. The blood of virgins is an ancient meme that long predates the scientific method, in fact, so playing pedantic because virginity is merely synonymous with youth isn't constructive, but obfuscatory.
Stanford's disclaimers in Vanity Fair notwithstanding.
Edit: criticize me harder than that. Pedantry doesn't do it for me. Give me real reasons to change my mind, not just a little snark. Also, regarding pedantry, note the quoted statement in your comment refers to '...making the aging process reverse...' This isn't at all the same as retarding aging, but is the mythical Fountain of Youth. Not a pedantic difference but between living longer better and immortality, a difference that could not be more substantial.
The real skinny to the matter is that anyone with enough money at hand can go to China and get all the blood or new body parts they desire, including if they have to yank a heart out of a young person to obtain one. I'll stand by the fact that this is yet just another masterful way that Thiel and company endeavor to make republicans look stupid. There are way more things that are foul going on here on this earth than the voluntary donation of blood from virgins.
I doubt even a majority is voluntary.
....and now that I thought about it for a moment longer, I highly doubt Thiel is having any infusions at all. You do know Israel has some sort of hyperbaric chamber or something of that nature that supposedly has proven to turn back the tide of aging. Right after they made that announcement, Nancy Pelosi all of a sudden took a trip to Israel, lol.
Hyperbaric chambers don't have any claimed potential to reverse aging IIRC. What they do is increase 02 levels, which increases metabolic rate. This actually would accelerate aging since that is a result of using the metabolic processes to live, as I understand the aging mechanism.
However, restoring the presence of the blood markers of youth indeed retards aging, which is characterized by decreasing collagen, which makes skin less elastic causing wrinkles, for example, but across many and diverse suites of factors that enable younger individuals to heal, grow, and perform faster and better than the aged. I am as certain Thiel uses young blood as I am that the sun will rise in the morning.
Maybe I got the name wrong, you'd have to google for it. Don't believe I saved that one. It's some sort of chamber people spend time in and it reverses aging.
Well, no matter what they call any such thing, It's a scam.
Young blood isn't a scam at all, terrifyingly.
I highly doubt Thiel is having infusions of black market blood not having any idea of where it came from. The man managed to buy the presidency (Trump) and maybe even the vice presidency if Trump and Vance wins, and you really think he's going to take a chance on some bootleg blood. Give it up, Ralph, give it up, some parents will do anything for a dime.
Why would he care? What he's after are the factors in blood that improve performance that degrades as aging decreases those factors in blood, amongst other things. He doesn't actually even need whole blood, I believe, because plasma contains the parts he wants. I bet he can afford to tailor the factors he receives, to fine tune his anti-aging regime by dialing in just the blood factors he wants at specific levels he wants them at. These things can be centrifuged and otherwise filtered to be commingled from many sources into a custom aging retardation cocktail per his precise specifications.
It's not like he meets his victims/hosts, and cares who they are or what they want.
If it doesn't matter he may get blood from the vaccinated, unless he got vaccinated and just doesn't care. But there is a new, I believe done by the Japanese, study done that, if I recall right, said that people receiving the blood of the vaccinated can have side effects similar to those vaccinated. I don't know if I seen it here or another blog site, or media source. I probably did save it though. I'll have to look for you.
My understanding is that pseudouridination of mRNA is done to prevent mRNA from being quickly metabolized, and this causes it to continue to hijack cells to produce spike proteins. Blood from vaccinated persons is likely to contain spike proteins indefinitely, and thus is dangerous to anyone receiving it, because spike proteins are toxic. This doesn't even take into account the myriad claims that there are self-assembling nanotechnological devices besides the mRNA in LNP's (Lipid NanoParticles), which today are being alleged to be destroyed by nicotine. With no peer reviewed research into such nanotech devices in the jabs, I am unable to confirm they are there, but there is damn sure a lot of research into such devices and any other means of testing them on people would cost many $M's, at least, so I lean towards those claims being credible, just on economic grounds. There are sure no ethical barriers to pharmaceutical companies injecting people with anything.
Were I him I'd stick to purebloods for my transfusion sources.