Step by Step
The heart falls from branch to branch
"The heart falls from branch to branch" so Céline, in one of the final scenes of Voyage au bout de la nuit.
About ruinous falls of the heart, Céline experienced during the war and throughout the course of his entire life – as we can read it in The Selected Correspondence -.
The first post of Waves - Onde was dedicated to the news on the use of blood "self-withdrawals", for aesthetic purposes.
There is among some rich ones a trend in America, to obtain blood from young people by cyclical transfusions. The startup Ambrosia sold the treatment for $ 8,000 per transfusion. Because of costs, we can immagine the practice as a prerogative of the highest social classes - such as the surrogacy -.
Known as parabiosis, in the 1960s it was introduced in sciences, with animal experimentation. Studies however denied its efficacy and stressed the danger, so much so that the research was abandoned in the 1970s.
It was yet possible in the US to offer it to buyers, as an elixir of youth, until February this year.
When, finally, the FDA - American Food and Drug Administration - denounced the practice as completely devoid of scientific evidence and dangerous to health, bringing Ambrosia to closure.
SOURCE: Waves — Onde, translation ©VitaNova on Medium, Waves — Onde
AMBROSIA
Startup with core business based on transfusions. The suggestive name associates human blood to the greek "nectar of the Gods".
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fda-warns-dont-give-these-companies-your-young-blood
