{"id":402,"date":"2011-01-11T16:20:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T21:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?p=402"},"modified":"2013-10-23T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T16:26:06","slug":"is-anti-aging-medicine-the-new-ageism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Is Anti-Aging Medicine the New Ageism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASA.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"405\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/?attachment_id=405\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASA.jpg?fit=160%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"160,251\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ASA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASA.jpg?fit=160%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASA.jpg?fit=160%2C251&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-405\" title=\"ASA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sellingthefountainofyouth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ASA.jpg?resize=160%2C251\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a>I wrote an Op-Ed for the latest edition of Aging Today, the newspaper of the American Society on Aging. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>Hormones are the cornerstone of the anti-aging credo, which one doctor described to me as rectangularization (mortality compression). The idea, he said, is that patients should not have to age like their parents did, suffering a gradual increase in frailty and a slow decline towards the nursing home&#8211;<em>triangularization,<\/em> if you will. Instead they can use hormones to stay strong and healthy throughout their lives and then &#8220;fall off a cliff fast,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I find that sad. The fact is, there are no long-term, placebo-controlled studies proving that hormones extend life and that they&#8217;re safe for healthy people to take long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an Op-Ed for the latest edition of Aging Today, the newspaper of the American Society on Aging. 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