The youth is a 'side-effect'(if you can call it that..), the complex mixture of hormones, enzymes, nutrients and chemicals that is tied together by the adrenochrome in the real stuff(synth doesn't work because all the other stuff isn't there) is more than likely what causes the rejuvenating effects, would explain why they age rapidly when they are no longer on it as it is likely to suppress the body's natural production of things in the same way that steroids do...
And with this stuff being highly addictive when they do it a few times they are likely to stay on it constantly for years so anything in their bodies that could do something to keep them young and healthy is likely to completely atrophy from that constant use.
Young-blood transfusions is definitively another thing that these 'people' do but my guess is that the effect is milder but one that lasts longer as far as the youth and vitality bit is concerned...
If there was publicly available documents of this particular drug interaction it would be out there already.
But big pharma spends millions on drug interaction research for a reason, quite a few examples of the individual components in a drug cocktail having no effect on their own against a disease but when combine being very effective, hell even chemistry has examples of this(Long Island Ice Tea...)....
It's literally the blood of tortured youth, no matter how much it may be a religion for them I doubt they would avoid the synthetic stuff if it worked(and anyone that have tried the synthetic stuff say it has no effect) and I doubt it would be a known quantity for sale very cheap(it is used in blood-clotting agents) if it had anywhere near the effect of the real stuff.
Drug interaction is the likely reason for the real stuffs effect and why they pay more than 1k pr gram for it, its too complex and no matter how rich or religious someone are, people in a general sense are cheap and will opt for the less costly alternative if they can but there are not even rumors of that happening...
The youth is a 'side-effect'(if you can call it that..), the complex mixture of hormones, enzymes, nutrients and chemicals that is tied together by the adrenochrome in the real stuff(synth doesn't work because all the other stuff isn't there) is more than likely what causes the rejuvenating effects, would explain why they age rapidly when they are no longer on it as it is likely to suppress the body's natural production of things in the same way that steroids do...
And with this stuff being highly addictive when they do it a few times they are likely to stay on it constantly for years so anything in their bodies that could do something to keep them young and healthy is likely to completely atrophy from that constant use.
Young-blood transfusions is definitively another thing that these 'people' do but my guess is that the effect is milder but one that lasts longer as far as the youth and vitality bit is concerned...
If there was publicly available documents of this particular drug interaction it would be out there already.
But big pharma spends millions on drug interaction research for a reason, quite a few examples of the individual components in a drug cocktail having no effect on their own against a disease but when combine being very effective, hell even chemistry has examples of this(Long Island Ice Tea...)....
It's literally the blood of tortured youth, no matter how much it may be a religion for them I doubt they would avoid the synthetic stuff if it worked(and anyone that have tried the synthetic stuff say it has no effect) and I doubt it would be a known quantity for sale very cheap(it is used in blood-clotting agents) if it had anywhere near the effect of the real stuff.
Drug interaction is the likely reason for the real stuffs effect and why they pay more than 1k pr gram for it, its too complex and no matter how rich or religious someone are, people in a general sense are cheap and will opt for the less costly alternative if they can but there are not even rumors of that happening...