'Young blood' and 'own blood' therapy for CFS?

[Wonkmonk]

Therapies with young (teens) people's blood and even patients own blood shows encouraging results for treating Alzheimer's and reversing some effects of aging. Studies being done in Stanford and elsewhere:

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2...lood-from-teenagers-to-reverse-aging-process/

I am wondering if this could also be an option for CFS. CFS is rare among teens and when they get it, their chance of recovering is much higher than for adults.

Since CFS is a terrible disease, I think it would be ethically OK to try it, because it would be rather similar to giving a blood transfusion to a severely injured person. Also donating blood doesn't harm young people when done and supervised properly and it would be done on a voluntary basis.

Own blood therapy also seems to have some positive effects according to the article. No ethical problems would exist here.

 

[Seven7]

I have heard good things is this what they called blood doping? What is funny is the
Sports people do all kind of crazy things and is “allowed” or sports turn the heads but for a bunch of sick propel which really need it for functioning is unheard off. We need to
Figure how this sports people do this enehancenents so we can do it!!!

 

[valentinelynx]

I'm not yet impressed with the study of giving blood plasma to Alzheimer's patients. It was a small study (18 patients) funded by a biotech company. This will need much more study. Funny that the article you linked to misspelled the lead researcher (a neurologist)'s name: it's Sharon Sha, not Shaw. Here's a more complete description of the trial (it is intriguing): Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising

As for blood doping, it's similar: it involves either blood transfusions (not plasma) to increase hemoglobin levels, or injections of erythropoietin (to increase RBC production) or injection of synthetic oxygen carriers. The point of all of these is to increase the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood. And they are most definitely NOT allowed in sports: this is considered cheating, and will disqualify you from any official competition.

How do they do it? They pay some shady characters for it! If you really wanted to, and had the funds, I'm sure you could find a source. I'm not recommending it.

 

[Wonkmonk]

I think as an experimental treatment, it would definitely not be illegal. It's not like we try to win the Olympics

 

[Gemini]

I am wondering if this could also be an option for CFS.

Nancy Klimas used EPO a while back, I believe.

Cort posted in 2016:

https://www.healthrising.org/forums/threads/more-oxygen-by-epo-how-in-natural-way.3511/

 

[Wonkmonk]

No one tried 'young blood' so far, right?

 

[Gemini]

No one tried 'young blood' so far, right?

Not that I know of.

In his book "Faces of CFS" Dr. David Bell describes the case of a woman who had standard blood transfusions, improved, then relapsed. Treatment was not curative. Unknown if her transfusions were "young blood."

In 2015 Cort and Invest in ME Research posted Dr. Bell's discussion of the case:

https://www.healthrising.org/forums...blood-volume-in-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.234/

With Ron Davis' finding of "something in patients' blood," blood is an area of interest for sure.

 

[Wonkmonk]

Unknown if her transfusions were "young blood."

They certainly included a fraction of young blood, but perhaps only a very low fraction from teens.

 

[knackers323]

@Abdallah says he got benefit from having blood taken in this thread.

I wonder how it ties in with the finding that there is something in cfs patients blood

https://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/hi-from-jordan.62107/page-2#post-1018735

 

[lauluce]

I wonder if my son could give me some of his blood... uhm..