Let’s face it, we – and that means you and me, and everyone out there – all want to have youthful appearance for eternity. But since Ponce de Leon, et al., died of trying to find the Fountain of Youth and failed, we are left with the less elusive age-defying options, which are myriad according to an AP report.
Diet and exercise seem to be the common duo when you want to have a young-looking body. There are the cosmetic procedures – Botox, wrinkle fillers, collagen – you name it and any place nowadays, from Hollywood Hills to Timbuktu, seem to have clinics offering cosmetic reconstruction. You can also go for the bizarre and potentially fatal ways – inhaling radon gas, fetal cell injections, and – hear this – cutting off your own testicles! There are, of course, the synthetic compounds that can provide youthful appearance – anabolic steroids and human growth hormone.
The last category – of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones – has been opted for Dr. Jeffry Life for him to shape up and look young. Face up, you’ll have no doubt that Life is indeed nearing his septuagenarian years – he’s got bushy and white eyebrows beneath his reading glasses, he’s getting bald and the tufts of hair that remained are white. But from the neck down, he looks like a 30-year-old gym rat instead of 69-year-old doc.
If you see his pic, you’d say it’s been photoshopped or airbrushed like Jessica Alba’s post-baby calendar photo. But Life’s body is legit and he said he owed it to his strict diet and exercise regimen plus his testosterone and human growth hormone injections.
From the AP report:
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.
“If I were stooped over and bedridden, what kind of quality of life is that?” asks Detwiler, a real estate developer in suburban Las Vegas who says he’s doing this, in part, for his wife, who is nine years younger. “If I can get out and be active and travel and see the world and be able to make a difference in other people’s lives, then yes, I would want to have as long an existence as possible.”