The Food Chain4 Aug 2024

Ep. 1353 A Fountain of Youth Diet

Dr. Michael Greger, Author, How Not To Age

(Diet, Nutrition, Aging)

We have been searching for that proverbial fountain of youth for as long as we have been capable of searching. Though we have searched in many places, and spent many fortunes doing so, we still grow old. This leads us to ask:

Can we maintain what we have, so we can retain what we want?

As we grow old, we begin resisting the fact that we are growing old. And so we begin our resistance by searching for a fountain of youth in a package.

According to one industry group, 60 percent of those above the age of 65 buy products that promise to maintain one’s youth, so one can retain one’s youthfulness. Solve the problem, sell the product.

However, few if any, anti-aging products do what they promise to do. As described in Dr. Michael Greger book How Not To Age, many of these products exploit scientific breakthroughs to package fraudulent anti-aging products.

For example, nineteenth-century advances in magnetism led to ads asserting, “[t]here need not be a sick person in America . . . if our Magneto-Conservative Underwear would become a part of the wardrobe of every lady and gentleman,” Less comically, more tragically, public interest in Marie Curie’s work led to a range of radioactive products said to “revitalize” and “energize.” As one Wall Street Journal headline read, “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off.”16

Today, we can see these so-called “scienceploitation” cures being sold on almost every street corner, but as the headline in Scientific American reads, there is “No Truth to the Fountain of Youth.

And so today we pause to ask:

Can we eat to maintain and retain the youthfulness what we want?

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