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Selling the Fountain of Youth

How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old-And Made Billions

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By Arlene Weintraub

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The beauty industry — which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty — has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and “bio-identical” hormones — all promoted as “cures”; for getting old. Acclaimed BusinessWeek science reporter Arlene Weintraub takes us inside this world, from the marketing departments of huge pharmaceutical companies to the backroom of your local pharmacy, from celebrity enthusiasts like Suzanne Somers and Oprah to the self-medicating doctors who run chains of rejuvenation centers, all claiming that we deserve to be forever young — and promising to show us how.

Weintraub reveals the shady practices that run rampant when junk science and dubious marketing meet consumer choice. She shows for the remarkable economic and cultural impact of anti-aging medicine, on the patients who partake and on the rest of us. It’s not a pretty story, but Weintraub tells us everything we need to know to avoid being duped by this billion-dollar — and dangerous — hoax.

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On Sale
Aug 24, 2010
Page Count
256 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780465021338

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Arlene Weintraub

About the Author

Arlene Weintraub has over fifteen years of experience writing about health care, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. As a reporter for BusinessWeek, she explores both the science and business of health. She lives in New York City.

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