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If You鈥檙e Getting Old, You Can Blame Klotho

29 Sep 2023

There is no shortage of stories professing the existence of a Fountain of Youth somewhere in the world, always just out of reach. Bathing in its water was claimed to undo the damage of old age....

Trying to Slow Down The Clock

3 Feb 2021

Perhaps the oldest formula for trying to beat the aging process can be found in an Egyptian papyrus dating back to circa 1500 B.C. The 鈥淓dwin Smith Papyrus鈥 features a 鈥淩ecipe for Transforming an...

So You Want to Pop Into a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber to Rid Yourself of Wrinkles?

16 Jan 2020

Would you step into a pressurized cylinder to get rid of your wrinkles? A writer for The Daily Mail did in 2018 and her report, which reads more like an ad for the centre offering the service,...

The Fountain of Youth and Alligators

18 Oct 2019

Funny the things one remembers. Like 鈥淒on鈥檚 Fountain of Youth,鈥 a short cartoon I saw some time back in the 60s. 鈥淒on鈥 was Donald Duck and the story was all about taking his nephews on a Florida...

Is It True That Perfumes Contain Aborted Fetal Tissue?

22 Mar 2019

This is not to say that fetal material, specifically fetal cells, do not play a role in the manufacturing of some products. They often do. But it鈥檚 not as simple as vaccines containing crushed-up...

The Only Magic Out There is On A Stage

20 Mar 2017

Magical Mystery Cures" with Bob McDonald on "Doc Zone," the excellent CBC program looked at the 'anti-aging" industry. We were treated to a spectacular array of quacks outdoing each other with...

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