Funny how we pass mice off as dirty creatures – usually a sign of proximate decaying food (which probably fell between the counter and the stove last week when I was trying to cook).

But when we start to decay, they’re the ones who teach us how to help our demise go in slow-mo. For example, the most recent experiment they’ve done on these poor tortured rodents is for anti-aging (what else?) through blood infusion.

Yep, vampirism if f’real.

And just to make it darker, the blood has to be transfused from baby mice to older ones to work. The results, however, were significant enough to confirm: “further studies on humans are warranted”.

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Indeed, other experiments have been done at least one blood study related to aging recently on an actual person. That one woman (who lived to be like twelvteen hundred years old) donated her body to science and from her flesh flowed the youth fountain’s info about what roles telomeres and stem cells play in staying young.

In application, presumably, you’d need samples of your own younger blood to stay young.

With these mice, any same species sanguine elixir will do – so long as they’re mainlining premium neonate. Though they’re not exactly sure whether the baby blood introduces “pro-youth” factors or eradicate “pro-aging” ones (or both – which it could totally be), what happens that doesn’t happen in creatures receiving intravenous geriatric serum is an improvement in their brain meat and its function.

To be fair, poor Mr. P looks like he's had a few pints sucked outta him too - just in case.
To be fair, poor Mr. P looks like he’s had a few pints sucked outta him too – just in case.

The actual structures in the mice’s mind organ changed.

The parts that have to do with memory visibly morphed to allow more connections – which could end up being crucial when it comes to things like preventing early onset “Dude where’s my pants?” syndrome as you put Clorox in your coffee instead of creamer.

So, I guess the question between the human study and the mice study is – do you take samples from your younger self (which I’ve already suggested we could do by cloning ourselves as the nature of time includes no rewind function) and look young? Or go Alexander Skaarsgard (Skarsgaard? Scar’s guard?) in your local NICU for eternally clear cognition?

Well, as I always say a few moments before regretting nothing, is:

“I’ll take one of each, thanks.”

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