NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

re: NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

Lynn46 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:24:29 GMT

Dr. Mercola,
While I am not a detractor of Doctors Goldman and Klatz who founded American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, I agree with the position of Dr. Andrew Weil, who thinks that the term "anti-aging" is a misnomer and a term constituting confusion to the vast majority of people.

Dr. Weil's assertion, with which I agree, is that everyone ages whether or not they accept it, period. Aging is inevitable and unavoidable. The real issue is one of healthy and graceful aging so that one is healthy and active well into old age (80-90 plus?). The ultimate goal is to live one's life following a healthy lifestyle so that "compression of morbidity" is squeezed down into just the last few weeks of one's life. To this end, Dr. Weil's position is the same as yours: maintain a balanced emotional and spiritual mind, eat an appropriate diet, exercise, and take nutritional supplements to counteract the slowing and increasingly inefficient metabolic processes of the older human body.

In summary, my issue is the use of the proper terms (correct semantics) when discussing the aging human body.

re: NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

The Herb Doc — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:47:01 GMT

What a contrast when you look at this NY Times article from 1933!

re: NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

Josh Rubin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:08:01 GMT

These are my thoughts and perceptions of life. There is no such thing as right and wrong, just what works for you. Of course they own and have their perceptions and experiences of the anti-aging field. It does not mean it is right or wrong. The thing that we usually do is own their experiences of our field. Which we think is wrong. When we come to a place of compassion and empathy, we realize that their ego is not letting them perceive the duality of life. We realize and should not shame their experiences, because then we would just be defending, which is fighting unfair. What we should be doing is realizing that in life most people get their needs met through making others responsible for their own personal judgement, shame and blame for self. You have to ask yourself, what part of them wants to heal and what part does not?

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Russ Bianchi — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:07:34 GMT

On Thursday, The Washington Times reported, and some of the wire services picked up the story, like UPI, from some dubious research at Rutgers University (physically near Johnson & Johnson's corporate headquarters and many funding connections between them) that over use of dietary supplementation can be "toxic", "chromosomal" damaging, "trigger fetal leukemia", from "dietary phytochemicals".

This is but one more clear indication, in my opinion, more and more market share, and therefore revenue, is being LOST by large pharmaceutical companies, and their broken reactive and dangerous side effect brands, daily/weekly recalled at FDA for BODY COUNT, and they have resorted to spin and scare tactics, which have zero foundation in empirical fact, practice, or truth, to try to CONFUSE consumers.

A modern example of THE BIG LIE, from BIG Pharma, in action, yet again.

re: NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

Bridestein — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:54:39 GMT

Why Dr. Mercola, you're not actually criticizing a liberal newspaper are you? ;-)
I worked for newspapers for over 10 years and what most amused me was that the editorial department looked down on the advertising department as a base means to finance their 'art', whereas the advertising department considered the editorial department to be nothing more than a filler generator since it was really all about the money.
I wonder who was right? (I know what I think!)

re: NY Times Incorrectly Slams Anti-Aging Experts

Lloyd Fielder D.C. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:49:58 GMT

Distortions from omissions can be more powerful than anything that is actually brought to light. That reminds me of this story from a long time ago when they used to have a person who would stand upon the road where trains passed and at night would hold up a lantern so that people on the road would be able to see there was a train. Well this one time a person got run over and the authorities investigated and questioned this lantern holder. "did you in fact hold up the lantern on that night?" and he answered them diligently "Yes I did!" The man was free to go. When telling his friend about it he stated how lucky he was. At hearing that statement his friend was puzzled since he had held the lantern up for the people to see. In response the man said "Yeah but I thought they were going to ask me if the lantern was lit!"