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by boomboomsubban 1518 days ago
>Human young blood perfusions have potent rejuvenating properties. Is there scientific evidence that eating human flesh/organs would provide additional benefits over raw blood?

With a blood transfusion, the "better" qualities of the blood would largely remain as it gets treated like all the other blood in the body. When eating young flesh, it gets the same treatment as any other random piece of meat. It'd need to be vastly superior to something like pork to even be worth considering, and it just isn't.

The real parallel with transfusions would be growing organs for transplant, something that is researched.

Plus, I think "young blood transfusions" are largely snake oil.

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> and it just isn't

According to your mind

But yes obviously eating human meat is probably not very potent. However doing human peptide extracts out of human meat (or out of human blood, urine, milk) like we already successfully do for cerebrolysin with cattle brain extracts could yield revolutionary health or nootropic results. Indeed again, I am not advocating for immoralism.

> think "young blood transfusions" are largely snake oil. I have extensive erudition in pharmacology and gerontology and young blood has m a n y explanative factors that make it a very promising therapeutic.

"The Food of the Gods",Arthur C. Clarke.