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The health benefits of being a vampire
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LONDON (Reuters) - Maybe Dracula had a point. The term Young Blood -- meaning an injection of youthful vigor -- could have a medical origin.
Scientists at Stanford University found that wiring up an old mouse to the blood stream of a young one gave a major boost to muscle recovery time in the older one.
By contrast, when old blood was pumped round the body of a young mouse, muscle recovery time became more prolonged, they said in the science journal Nature.
It was not just muscles that benefited. The same was true of the livers of older mice.
Researchers said the results suggested that the aging process lay less with the organs themselves than with the tired blood off which they fed.
Sounds like Elizabeth Bathory was really onto something. 
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
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I've never been so let down after clicking a thread title. 
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Me too!
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Clinically Insane
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Originally posted by Cubeoid:
I've never been so let down after clicking a thread title.
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Originally posted by Cubeoid:
I've never been so let down after clicking a thread title.
Hey, I don't write this stuff, I just report it. 
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Mar 2001
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So vampires aren't really immortal... they just found the fountain of youth and it happens to be the youth!
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There was good blood and bad blood. Now there is tired blood!
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