Selling the Fountain of Youth

Wrinkles, fat, and low libido start to sound pretty good after reading this unnerving exposé of America's $88 billion anti-aging industry by journalist Arlene Weintraub. Her elixir of deep research and smooth storytelling delivers a sometimes-gag-inducing dose of reality about the seedy pseudoscience of growth hormones harvested from cadavers, injection spas in Mexico, and bogus anti-aging cocktails (urine, anyone?), as well as the physician entrepreneurs and whack Internet pharmacies now burgeoning to make a buck. Our advice: Take her medicine, not theirs. -- LC

Thu, September 02
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Selling the Fountain of Youth

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