Supplements

Don’t top athletes take supplements? Maybe some do. Does that make taking supplements right? In Aging Health journal (2010), Dr. Thomas Perls, leader of The New England Centenarian Study, wrote an editorial, Antiaging medicine: what should we tell our patients? Dr. Perls used 109 references of books and journal studies to explain why hormones and anabolic steroids, the current rage in trying to reverse aging, are not in our best interest. Annual sales of such supplements now represent a billion dollar industry: everyone wants to have a slice of this lucrative market.

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