Comment by d_silin
2 hours ago
There is an observation that donated organs sync to a biological age of the recipient.
https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-be...
2 hours ago
There is an observation that donated organs sync to a biological age of the recipient.
https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/can-transplanted-heart-be...
Yeah, this had me thinking. Does transplanting older organs into younger bodies force the body to rejuvenate the transplanted organ to the recipients age.
Edit: your article say so, neat.
I vaguely recall that it's the blood itself which has a big impact — to the point where blood transplants from younger blood could (temporarily) "rejuvenate" an older metabolism.
So in theory you could keep an organ alive perpetually if you kept transplanting it every fifty or so years?
Well the average kidney transplant works for 15-20 years... so probably not.