Category: Health

Chapter 7 of How To Live Forever The establishment calls it “Hormone Replacement”, but the word “replacement” contains a concession. It implies that something has been lost permanently and must be substituted from outside. Testosterone replacement therapy. Thyroid replacement. Hormone replacement therapy. The language of replacement accepts decline as a fait accompli and offers a…

Chapter 9 of How to Live Forever The fear is not death. Everyone dies and most people have made some peace with that. The fear is arriving at the end with the lights already off — body still running, brain already gone. A decade of accumulated confusions, lost threads, names that won’t come, thoughts that…

Chapter 3 of “How to Live Forever” In 1996, Larry Clark published the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He had enrolled 1,312 patients and given half of them 200 micrograms of selenium per day. The trial was stopped before its scheduled completion. The reason a…