Weird Gerontological Science

Instapundit posts a link to a research report in the UCBerkeley newsletter Berkeley News.  The research concerns efforts to reverse the effects of aging in mice.

In the study, the team found that replacing half of the blood plasma of old mice with a mixture of saline and albumin — where the albumin simply replaces protein that was lost when the original blood plasma was removed — has the same or stronger rejuvenation effects on the brain, liver and muscle than pairing with young mice or young blood exchange. Performing the same procedure on young mice had no detrimental effects on their health.

This discovery shifts the dominant model of rejuvenation away from young blood and toward the benefits of removing age-elevated, and potentially harmful, factors in old blood.

I imagine centers like dialysis centers where us older citizens would go and have the crud filtered out of our blood, walking out the door with a spring in our step. At my age, it can't happen too soon, faster please.