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The beauty industry—which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty—has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and “bio-identical” hormones—all promoted as “cures” for getting old. Acclaimed BusinessWeek science reporter Arlene Weintraub takes us inside this world, from the marketing departments of huge pharmaceutical companies to the backroom of your local pharmacy, from c… More >>
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To quote Weintraub: “I could not have wrapped my brain around this topic without the help of many academicians”. Clearly Weintraub is writing about a subject which she does not understand.
Many people would prefer to continue growing old and suffering horrible diseases rather than taking responsibility for their own health, Weintraub is one of them. This book is garbage and it’s amazing Weintraub could write this in good conscious. Maybe she was handsomely paid by the pharmaceutical companies? I’d like to think that I would not be willing to write this garbage even if they offered me a staggeringly huge bribe.
Yes, every industry has some shady business dealings and people taking advantage of other people. But Weintraub has completely overlooked the good science upon which anti-aging health care is based. How can she ignore the impressive credentials, experience and results of these expert doctors? I suppose many people will not accept how much healthier they can be until they have experienced it themselves.
Rating: 1 / 5
Sad, but true. According to Businessweek (8/30/2010), the anti-aging industry has an answer for every attack: Big Pharma is just jealous and would sell these products if they could, or Big Pharma is trying to hide the miraculous effects of HGH . . . personally, I prefer wrinkles over cancer.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have seen the ads showing before and after photos of men – before with a flabby mid-section, positioned next to an after shot of the same person- robust, and vigorous.
Just like many men, I wondered if the treatments promised in the ads really worked.
Thanks to Ms Weintraub, I now have the answers. The promise of youth is a hoax!
Read the story behind the clinics, and learn from the the author’s carefully researched and clearly written report on the billion dollar business built on hope and promise but shattered in a risk to one’s health and failure in achieving the elusive goal of “the fountain of youth”.
Rather than reaching for a handful miracle pills, reach for, “Selling the Fountain of Youth” and call me in the morning.
Rating: 4 / 5
…someone has corralled all this information in a highly readalbe book. Are bio-identical hormones safe? According to Suzanne Summers (still very attractive), they are safe. Of course, poor Suzanne got breast cancer after taking these supplements but refuses to see a connection. Male Menopause? An invention of pseudo doctors to get cash-paying customers. Ms Weintraub has researched extensively this almost non-regulated industry.
Maybe Human Growth Hormones are safe, but maybe it’s causing cancer cells to accelerate too. The knife cuts both ways. I’m curious to know if there are doctors prescribing HGH in minute amounts and for just a few months.
Rating: 5 / 5
The “Anti-Aging Industry” uses bio-identical hormones as one of its corner stones. It is distressing that Ms. Weintraub wants to throw this life saving therapy in with hucksters selling snake oil. For me, this therapy was absolutely revolutionary. I suffered for 15+ years with chronic daily migraine headaches. Nothing offered by traditional American medicine and Big Pharma helped correct the root cause of my problem, which was a hormonal deficiency. Within days of beginning my bio-identiccal hormone treatment, prescribed by an M.D. who has dedicated his life to this type of treatment, I began to improve. Now, thanks to my doctors, and bio-identical hormone therapy, I am able to live a normal life. The fact that I sleep better, have more energy, and still look at least 5 years younger than my biological age is just a bonus.
Should consumers beware? Of course. But if you find a doctor you trust, with impeccable qualifications in the field of Anti-Aging Medicine, give it a try. You just may find that you no longer need drugs, and that you will look and feel better than you have in years.
I question whether Ms. Weintraub’s years as a reporter for Business Week has tainted her objectivity towards emerging therapies which do not benefit her cronies in Big Pharma?
Rating: 1 / 5