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Health
James Gamble

How Older People May Produce Younger Blood To Keep Them Healthier

IN FILE- Elderly residents exercise in a park in the early morning on May 13, 2010. China could see a 73 percent jump in heart disease by 2030 due to aging, smoking, high blood pressure and other risk factors. PETER PARKS/GETTY IMAGES

Vampires are said to keep youthful by drinking the blood of the young, but now scientists may have found a way for the old to produce ‘younger’ blood that will keep them healthier longer.

Tampering with blood cells in elderly people could provide the secret to us staying healthy, though, unlike Dracula, it won’t extend our lives.

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