The AP carries a story today of one of the physicians who looks like he discovered the fountain of youth: Dr. Jeffry Life, a typical Nevada Anti-aging doctor. These dudes manipulate lax medical boards in Nevada, juice themselves up with HGH (and likely testosterone) then tout their magnificent physiques as the 'Fountain'.
The exercise and diet part of the message is good; the anti-aging hormonal treatment is hype. That hype will cost you 3000.00, which for some baby boomers is money wasted well spent. And Life's serial photos show that in part exercise is well worth the effort in shaping up the physique.
Life's physique is incredible, but obviously the HGH doesn't regress the effects of aging on the face 
(there is always plastic surgery for that absolutely fake and phony look. Wonder if fitness buff Jack Lalane takes HGH -- photo right at 93)
It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.
The photo regularly runs in ads for the Cenegenics Medical Institute, a Las Vegas-based
clinic that specializes in "age management," a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. Life, who swears that's his real last name, also keeps a framed copy of the photo on his office wall at Cenegenics.
"He's the man!" patient Ed Detwiler says teasingly, pointing to the photo of the doctor who, in many ways, has become his role model.
Detwiler, 47, has been Life's patient for more than three years. In that time, he has adopted the regimen that his doctor also follows — drastically changing his exercise and eating habits and injecting himself each day with human growth hormone. He also receives weekly testosterone injections.
He does it because it makes him feel better, more energetic, clear-minded.
He does it because he wants to live a long, healthy life.
Except for one of the founders of the hype, Dr. Alan Mintz (really you could not make up these names), who died at age 69 (and not saying that's chopped liver to live to be 69) of a brain hemorrhage during a biopsy.
Dr.
Alan Paul Mintz, whose controversial efforts to prolong and improve
peoples' lives drew national attention, died Sunday at the age of 69. "He was a visionary, dedicated to helping people live the most vital
lives they could," said his wife of 47 years, Rabbi Yocheved. "He was
the most loving husband, father, and grandfather." Mintz was famous largely because
his Cenegenics Medical Institute based in Summerlin promoted the use of
steroids and human growth hormone as an anti-aging therapy for some
patients, and he showcased his own bodybuilder physique as evidence of
the benefits of the regimens he espoused. Mintz died Sunday from bleeding during a biopsy, Yocheved said.
Mintz had been suffering from problems with his brain, possibly because
of a stroke, she said. She said many of his patients were flying in from all over the world
for his service today at 10 a.m. at King David Memorial Chapel, 2697
Eldorado Lane, near Eastern Avenue. So many people are better because for having known him," she said. Mintz's company, founded in 1998, grew to include offices in
Charleston, S.C.; Boca Raton, Fla.; Tokyo; Hong Kong and Seoul, South
Korea, and claimed to have more than 12,000 patients.
The anti-aging docs all seem like rich nice old dudes. However, they certainly come up short when producing scientific evidence of the effectiveness of the HGH and other hormones for anti-aging. Testosterone can clearly contribute to rippling muscles and less fat in older men; however it can also clearly increase risk of prostrate cancer, and likely stroke and other problems. The weight training is good stuff. Weightlifting can increase endogenous testosterone, strengthen bones, and reduce fat. However, adding the hormones to get that entirely buff look is not only bogus, it could be dangerous. Who cares when you can life fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse at 69?
An earlier piece on Life also looked at the HGH Anti-aging medicine phenomenon. With his six-pack stomach, bulging chest and bull-like shoulders,
the muscleman in the newspaper advertisement displays the sort of
rippling torso that adorns the cover of men's fitness journals. But there is one difference. From the neck up, Dr Jeffry S Life is a balding 67-year-old physician. His
physique is the product not of a computer touch-up but a controversial
American "ageing management" technique, that often includes a cocktail
of human growth hormones and testosterone. Some 13,000
clients have so far spent thousands of dollars on a technique known as
Cenegenics (from the Greek for "new beginning"). As post-war baby
boomers enter their 60s, it promises to boost performance from the
office to the gym to the bedroom. The initial one-day
$2,995 evaluation at the Cenegenics Medical Institute (CMI) in Las
Vegas, has already attracted a handful of unnamed Britons seeking the
secret of Dr Life's remarkable torso... After the initial
evaluation, clients spend up to $13,000 on exercise and diet regimes,
supplemented by vitamins and, in most cases, hormone replenishment such
as testosterone. Approximately 20 per cent are also
prescribed injections of human growth hormones if they are diagnosed as
demonstrating adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD). (The AGHD is fairly bogus, but so what?) Critics
say that it is unproven and potentially dangerous. Tom Perls, a
professor of In
an interview outlining his philosophy last year, Dr Mintz listed a
panoply of positives that he attributed to human growth hormone. They
include a decrease in fat and skin wrinkling, an increase in muscle and
improved mood. "Next year does not have to be worse
than this year," Dr Mintz said. "How about good sexual activity with
your loved one once a week, twice a week, feeling good about it?" Yeah, you would hate to feel really bad about it...and you're getting all that coin too...
medicine at Boston University, expressed surprise at the
number of Cenegenics clients diagnosed with AGHD, as he said the
condition normally affects three people in 10,000.
Hi,
Very nice post. Of course HGH is a natural supplement. It produces hormones for the body to develop the body building and increasing muscles especially for youth.
Thank you
Nancy.
Posted by: HGH | 12/08/2008 at 00:21
There has been lots of stuff on HGH...and I know many who have taken it..so far to my knowledge...NO FOUNTAIN of youth!!!
Posted by: Carol Stanley | 12/09/2008 at 10:32
Life's physique is incredible, but obviously the HGH doesn't regress the effects of aging on the face Jackllbig (there is always plastic surgery for that absolutely fake and phony look.
Posted by: Ron | 12/27/2008 at 02:29
Now a days early aging is the main problem to everyone . As you age, some of the changes you will go through can make you feel and look older than you are before you have even passed middle age.
Rose.
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