Cryogenic banking does cost money; I know from sperm/egg banking that it’ll run at least $100 a year. If you bank a bunch when you’re 20 and need it when you’re 50… Also, that’s a lower bound; sperm and eggs are compact on a volume basis, but how much young blood would you need to bank to make a difference later in your life?
Not to mention that you’re paying up front. If there is anything to this research (it would not be the first spectacular results to flame out), it sounds like it may be due to a relative handful of substances in the young blood, and once identified, can be produced in a more efficient fashion than ‘young people sucking blood out of themselves and storing for decades’. If in 10 years there’s a standardized formula, the cost of extracting & storing your blood will be effectively wasted.
ilzolende seemed to think there was a decent chance of their blood being worth something soon. I argued that if there really is a large chance of that, they should be preparing for it now.
Cryogenic banking does cost money; I know from sperm/egg banking that it’ll run at least $100 a year. If you bank a bunch when you’re 20 and need it when you’re 50… Also, that’s a lower bound; sperm and eggs are compact on a volume basis, but how much young blood would you need to bank to make a difference later in your life?
Not to mention that you’re paying up front. If there is anything to this research (it would not be the first spectacular results to flame out), it sounds like it may be due to a relative handful of substances in the young blood, and once identified, can be produced in a more efficient fashion than ‘young people sucking blood out of themselves and storing for decades’. If in 10 years there’s a standardized formula, the cost of extracting & storing your blood will be effectively wasted.
ilzolende seemed to think there was a decent chance of their blood being worth something soon. I argued that if there really is a large chance of that, they should be preparing for it now.