Just when you think you’ve heard it all in the way of bizarre beauty trends, one comes along that really has you scratching your head.
Californian clinical trial clinic Ambrosia is offering its patients transfusions of blood plasma from people aged 16-25. It’s believed the injection of fresh blood helps slow down the ageing process.
Ambrosia Founder Jesse Karmazin, a Prinston graduate who does not have a license to practise medicine, tells MIT Technology Review his patients, which are all over the age of 35, are given a one-time transfusion of two-litres of young blood with most participants seeing improvements “within a month.”
The pay-to-participate trial has the potential to collect up to $6.3 million from the 600 spots available, which has scientists questioning the study which they put down to nothing more than a scam backed up by non-proven scientific claims.
However Karmazin says the fees only cover running costs and stands by his belief that this new treatment works. He says he was inspired by a number of studies including one where an older and younger rat were joined together in a process known as parabiosis. Eventually their circulatory systems became one and the older mice eventually appeared younger.
Medical experts have also reportedly warned that anyone who engages in this trial is putting their life at risk for the sake of vanity, with side affects including hives, lung injury, or even deadly infections.
