Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have found substances in the blood of old mice that makes young brains act older. The substances' levels rise with increasing age, and they seem to inhibit the brain’s ability to produce new nerve cells critical to memory and learning. When young mice were injected with plasma from older mice, they experienced increased inflammation, a reduction in the production of new neurons, and other symptoms typically associated with aging. It also turns out that older mice receiving blood from younger mice experienced a threefold increase in the number of new nerve cells being generated. 

So is this research the first step on the trail to the fountain of youth?

Watch as John C. Dvorak, Andrej Preston, Dorian Douglass and Eddie DaRoza discuss on this episode of Generation X3.