The television show 60 minutes is a very educational television show that touches upon many issues that happen around the world today. This show has done an investigation on anti aging treatments and they discovered that there are many troubling things happening in the industry including the fact that drugs have been prescribed illegally to thousands of people.
There are many hidden dangers in them including hormones like testosterone, DHEA, and the human growth hormone that is used to increase the amount of hormones that we have that usually decrease in our body when they produce hormones as we age.
Different things have been shown by the supplementation of these hormones these things include the building of muscle mass, lower amount of body fat, the reduction of wrinkles and other signs attached to aging and even strengthening bones against the unfortunate osteoporosis.
Unfortunately there are many risks attached with the long term use of these hormones. In many places the use of these drugs are illegal, 60 minutes decided to take it upon themselves to speak with people who were injecting themselves with this.
All people that they spoke to said they were quite happy with using the products and the results that they were receiving from using this hormone. With patients willing to spend thousands of dollars a month on these products it is no wonder that this anti aging industry makes billions upon billions of dollars per year and is still increasing the amount of money that they make.
Unfortunately humans are a species that are now and probably forever will be rapped up in the theory of forever looking youthful and doing anything that they can to achieve that no matter what the cost might be short term, long term money wise or health wise.
Author: Munya Chinongoza
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