Name: How Far Would You Go To Stay Young? - Elizabeth Báthory's Story
Uploaded: 2026-01-24T17:01:22.000Z
Duration: 3 min 32 s
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You might be reading the title of this video and going, umm, huh?

For centuries, people have been looking for ways to live longer and have come up with some pretty wacky ideas along the way.

But there's one ancient remedy for aging that may hold a small vampire bite sized bit of truth.

Scientists have found evidence that young blood can reverse the effects of aging.

If you're living in 17th century Hungary, you may try bathing in virginal blood.

At least that's what one noblewoman may have done.

Elizabeth Bathory, who some believe to be the inspiration for Dracula, was accused of brutally murdering over 600 girls.

And according to legend, she bathed in the blood of her virgin victims in an attempt to recapture her lost youth.

Though there isn't any evidence to back up this claim.

I really hope this video doesn't get demonetized.

Um, anyway, even if she did have evidence, a bloodbath wouldn't be enough to turn back the clock.

And before you vampire wannabes get any ideas, drinking blood won't do it either.

In order for your body to gain any benefit from young blood, it has to make its way into your circulatory system so it can come into contact with your cells and organs.

The surgical technique called parabiosis, was invented by the scientist Paul Burt.

This technique joins together two living things, which Paul did, to see if he could create a shared circulatory system.

And after decades of tinkering, scientists can successfully join together two mice without them dying in or shortly after the operation.

Now scientists are using parabiosis to link the circulatory systems of young and old mice.

In order to see how young blood affects aging, we actually did a video about it a while back.

They found that this process rejuvenates the cells and organs.

Their muscle, liver and brain cells began dividing and growing again, which is something that slows down with age.

These results made it clear that the blood of the younger mice contained components associated with aging.

So they set out to find out what they are.

Through just a blood transfusion, scientists found that the blood plasma taken from umbilical cords and young people led to improved brain activity in old mice and further investig to the two proteins within it that were directly responsible.

These could one day be used to treat brain diseases related to aging, such as Alzheimer's.

More importantly, their results were achieved by using human plasma, which provided the validation needed to move on to human trials.

And some companies are already well on their way to seeing how young blood will reverse aging in human participants does all this sound very weird and extremely unsettling?

There really is no getting around that while vampires are not real, there are people who bloodthirsty.

Doesn't really make it any less unsettling, but oh well.

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Or tell me what do you think of all this blood swapping business?

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