Can Shooting Up Slow the Aging Process?
Under Comite’s guidance — and at an annual cost of about $10,000, most of it not covered by insurance — Bellizzi has gobbled vitamins and prescription-strength Omega-3 fatty acids. He follows a low-glycemic diet, lifts weights and jogs, all of which is familiar-enough health-and-fitness fare. Comite asserts, however, that “lifestyle alone isn’t enough” to counter the corrosive effects of aging. Therefore, twice a week Bellizzi grabs a pinch of abdominal skin and injects himself with human chorionic gonadotropin, or H.C.G., a hormone distilled from the urine of pregnant women.
Full report on age-management medicine.
I can only think of one word for this: YUCK!
Even if it deserves a YUCK, the more interesting issue is: does it work?
I suspect most anti-aging promotions are a scam.
Hard to have much sympathy for this guy.
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