So this is not intended to be a blog about aging and it's probably not even in my top-10 most fascinating subjects, but I just realized that after this post, half my entries are about aging. Maybe it is just because the New York Times has excellent features on it. Or maybe I am subconsciously afraid of aging.
Anyway. This week Tom Dunkel, who often writes for Sports Illustrated and occasionally the Washington Post Magazine, wrote a piece for the Times entitled “Vigor Quest,” about the effort to overcome the frontiers of aging.
The profile centers on the firm Cenegenics, a Las Vegas- based, $50 million “age management” medical company founded by a doctor and amateur body-builder and his workout partner. While it employs doctors with flawless credentials, the safety of its more extreme methods of testosterone-boosting hormones has been met with controversy.
Dunkel described some of the before and after photos as looking like a photo of a bodybuilder with a grandfather’s head superimposed on it (Dr. Jeffry Life- look up the photo its gross!).
And it’s true! It’s kind of creepy- but I think these are valid points in the future of medicine that ultimately have mass potential.
(The book Radical Evolution also touched on this- I can’t remember exactly what he said though, so I will leave that for a future post!)
