I appreciate the comment about plastic surgery, something I have given thought to.

I think there is a qualitative difference between plastic surgery and hormone therapy. Plastic surgery, for one thing, only goes skin deep, so to speak. The idea of plastic surgery is looking younger, while the idea of hormone treatments is to a greater extend actually BEING younger.
Given no side effects, said degeneration should become slower - and potentially this positively affects your strenght, energy levels, mind, and so on, additionally.
You could say the hormones work from the "inside" in that they use normal processes  of regeneration instead of imposing order from the outside.
Also, plastic surgery is often rather useless - Ending up with scars and worse unnatural effects hardly qualifies as improving one's looks.

Either way. My basic point isn't about cosmetics. Looking young is a fairly insignificant thing compared to questions of strenght and hability. Of course, I'm no expert on those particular hormones and I don't know their exact effects - all the more reason for them to be tried, I think.
Another thing entirely is, I don't think it looked like that much of a bother to apply the hormones, so why not. The real wonder is how that woman can swallow so many pills a day without going insane.

by Sorenzo on 02/01/2009 11:19:41 PM EST