Scientists discover a Lance Armstrong-type blood transfusion approach is more effective than drinking from the fountain of youth. Instead of a joyful swim in the mythical fountain, it turns our injecting the blood of younger individuals into older ones may help to rejuvenate brain and muscle tissue! Well, in mice at least.
Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be rolling over in his grave for having got it so wrong. Sure, this means the idea of the fountain may sort of exist, but unfortunately it would have to flow not with magic H20, but with the blood of the young and healthy…
Hopefully this latest discovery doesn’t cause society to devolve into a Hunger Games situation where the Beverly Hills Housewives are hunting children for their medicinal properties…
Sr. Editor