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by exratione 4422 days ago
Current thinking I've been privy to is that the factors in question are short-lived.

In any case, this will never turn into cross-generation blood transplants on a regular basis. The present system of medical regulation is heavily biased towards demonstrating mechanisms. If you can't explain your mechanism you are not getting approved by the FDA, or at least not until such time as everyone else in the world is already doing it and the bureaucrats are made to look bad - see the last decade of stem cell transplants for the way in which that happens.

So the attempts at therapies that result from this will likely be delivery of proteins or interference with proteins to put a thumb on the scales of metabolic machinery. At which point it lasts for the period of time in which you are getting regular injections.