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cnn.com — Like many baby boomers over 50, Beth Lothamer was feeling her age. "I just didn't feel good any more. I wasn't sleeping. I just didn't feel right," she said. She took her concerns to Kansas City, Kansas, endocrinologist, Dr. Jackie Springer, who prescribed replacement hormones, including a daily injection of human growth hormone, or HGH, after two

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  • dbyrne02, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Big Pharma's Bad Nightmare

    By Fintan Dunne, MyLongLife.com

    Imagine, if you will, a world where gerontological hospital wards lie half-empty. Where our seniors are not enfeebled and in the care of nursing homes, but living active lives along with us. Where health and longevity are the natural fruits of aging.

    Sounds like a pleasant dream? It's the nascent promise of the anti-aging movement. But it's also the worst nightmare of a pharmaceutical industry bent on easing us into senility and premature death with a plethora of profitably-expensive medications.

    There is battle on for your right to a long, vital and healthy life. The war is raging from highbrow and lowbrow. From the somber pages of medical journals to the sound-bite seconds of mass media. Billions of dollars of pharmaceutical spend are at stake, along with the future of medicine itself....

    FULL ARTICLE:
    http://MyLongLife.com/articles/Big-Pharma-Nightmare.htm

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