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Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:31 pm  |
Found this on Netflix:
Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain
About the anti-aging industry (surgery, shots, creams, etc.)
I am seeing the other side now. wow.
Think this is an important view
Thanks, BFG |
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Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:49 pm |
Haven't watched the documentary, yet, but, for a quick-clip summary, here's, also, a trailer for the production:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pJCSnjHa4Q
I'll watch full-length when time allows. Looks interesting.
ETA-"An age-obsessed daughter of a plastic surgeon takes a journey through America's $60 Billion a year anti-aging world. In this Alice-in Wonderland tale, McCabe spends 2 years traveling across America visiting doctors, experts and lives with a cross-section of characters from Minnesota to Texas who've gone to varying lengths to "beat the clock", to paint a funny but troubling portrait of a country that desperately needs to stay young." |
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Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:03 am |
Very interesting. After watching the trailer,
I have to see the whole thing! |
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Wed Aug 21, 2013 8:48 am |
I just finished watching it on Netflix. I think it's a must see for all EDS members...
They showed a microcurrent party!....and Fraxel and several people in the topical serum business admitting their products are not any more effective than Crisco.
BFG |
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Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:25 am |
I watched it, very interesting. The narrator was a bit on the Eoyore side I thought, but it made for an entertaining documentary.
I would like to see more documentaries on this industry and the newer gadgets. |
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Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:26 am |
I've watched it now a couple times and have a different take on it...
I think this is a film producer hoping to resolve some of her personal issues with her father (him being a plastic surgeon, her obsession with aging) via finding, interviewing and befriending others in the industry and consumers just as obsessed with aging as she appears to be.
Nevertheless, it still makes for good information in my opinion....
Yes, she is a bit droll P)
BFG |
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Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:41 am |
The character of Sherri was very fascinating to me. Her long road of surgeries and weight-loss/gain was quite a roller coaster!
Yes, I found it very interesting.
Thanks for passing this on! |
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Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:59 pm |
| Sounds really interesting! |
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:53 pm |
It amuses me when people call it "anti-aging" and "turning the clock back". People are still getting older even when they have a face lift, botox and fillers and no clock gets turned backwards. The cells of the body have a finite life, they replicate themselves only so many times in our lives and then we die. It doesn't matter what we do to the skin, we're still aging.
Exercise, good eating habits and low stress are more anti-aging than fillers and face lifts. I have fillers in my face and I'm not kidding myself in the least. It makes me look younger but I'm not actually getting younger. Sorry to be so blunt but it's true. |
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 3:59 pm |
| Tiptoedancer wrote: |
| It amuses me when people call it "anti-aging" and "turning the clock back". It makes me look younger but I'm not actually getting younger. |
Yah, Tiptoe, speak for yourself. :P JK
Seriously, I prefer to call all of what we're after here "rejuvenation". The term implies nothing about the progression of time or our chronological ages (as "anti-aging" does), but instead speaks to what we're able to do about the visual symptoms of it. |
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:36 pm |
Yes, it's very much a semantics game, but I doubt anyone is kidding herself/himself except maybe those who have body dysmorphic syndrome or whatever it's called...
Yubs nailed it.
My high school class holds an annual happy hour - the first Friday in June of every year. It's kind of interesting to watch the aging in people your exact chrono age.
So sure, everybody is the same age, but some people look like they're about to fall on the floor out of pure exhaustion and others look like they still have energy.
Take your pick.
BFG |
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:41 pm |
| Barefootgirl wrote: |
Yes, it's very much a semantics game, but I doubt anyone is kidding herself/himself except maybe those who have body dysmorphic syndrome or whatever it's called...
Yubs nailed it.
My high school class holds an annual happy hour - the first Friday in June of every year. It's kind of interesting to watch the aging in people your exact chrono age.
So sure, everybody is the same age, but some people look like they're about to fall on the floor out of pure exhaustion and others look like they still have energy.
Take your pick.
BFG |
That's very true too. When I see people my own age there are some who can hardly walk because they are so overweight, others are doing fine. Some of it is genetics, some of it is unfortunate events of life. My husband and I have a friend who's 6 year old son was killed in a car that ended up in a river and the father couldn't get the little boy out though he tried several times. In six months the parents have aged years. There is nothing cosmetic that will reverse that. It was so heartbreaking.
I like to approach life with a more holistic approach and work on the inside and the outside. Though once in a while I throw caution to the wind and eat a nice big ol' piece of cream pie!  |
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