Mysterious Matters: Archive - Dark Matter AM 2026 cover image

Price of Immortality and the race to live forever - Peter Ward

Mysterious Matters: Archive - Dark Matter AM 2026

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The Immortis Crowd and the Promise of Blood Transfusions

There is evidence to suggest that this could work. It's almost like a vampire. A lot of these films come with a huge caveat. So when we say like they've worked in mice they haven't made the mice necessarily live longer. But it has improved certain biomarkers within the mouse. I think one of the problems of the Immortis crowd is that they see these studies on mice on fruit flies and on certain types of worms and things and they believe that okay well that's going to work on a human. There's absolutely there's still a long way to go to get something to working on a human after it works on a mouse.

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