He Made Them Young Again
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Sigismondo asked, “How long is the clinical study that you have
in mind?”
Giancarlo answered, “Six months.”
Sigismondo said, “How long will it take to administer the
intravenous solution?”
Giancarlo answered, “About two hours twice a week. The oral
substances will be taken every day.”
Sigismondo said, “I hate to tell you this, my friend, but I do
not think that your patients will take the intravenous dose twice a
week for six months, even if they have healthy veins. Patients fi nd
it diffi cult to stick to relatively easy therapeutic regimens, let alone
difficult ones.”
Giancarlo answered, “There can be a once-a-month remedy-free
holiday. These substances do not have to be given precisely twice
a week in order to get the job done. Also, we can give some by
intramuscular injection.”
Sigismondo said, “You know, Giancarlo, last night I was watching
a video celebrating Senator Strom Thurmond’s one hundredth
birthday. He certainly looked a hundred. But the crazy thing is that
I met him about three years earlier, and the guy was in real good
shape, both physically and mentally. He looked about seventy or
seventy-five. And then suddenly—wham! He aged rapidly.
“I believe aging, like growth in babies and teenagers, occurs in
spurts. It would be ideal to give your mixture just before the aging
spurt begins. Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing when this
happens.”
“We will see,” said Giancarlo. “Now, Sigismondo, I’m going to
do this study in only six medical doctors.”
Sigismondo commented, “Bravo, my friend. After thinking
more about your idea, I believe it is a good thing for doctors to do
for their patients. It just makes a lot of sense. Hopefully, six doctors
will be enough
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About the Book
An idealistic young medical doctor, Giancarlo Avellino, inspired by a radical colleague, Sigismondo Malatesta decides that the biological hands of time can be scientifically reversed in the elderly, making them young again! Convinced that a combination of pharmaceutical compounds and nutraceutical dietary supplements may be one of the keys to the fountain of youth, he boldly decides to prove it, clinically treating five aging physicians and a sixth surprise volunteer.
The results of the treatment at first seem promising, but then a mysterious death occurs, jeopardizing the program. The police and the FDA become involved, paving the way for the U.S. Congress to enter challenging the will of the young doctor to continue his couragous endeavor.
Primarily conversational, the bulk of the story is concerned with addressing how people deal with this bold effort, describing their thoughts and their individual reactions to the turning back of their hands of time.
About the Author
Stephen L. DeFelice, M.D., the founder and Chairman of FIM, the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine, has had a very long, distinguished and varied career in medical research and discovery. He was part of the team that brought lithium to the U.S., and it was thanks to his perseverance and research efforts that the life-saving substance, carnitine, first became available. It was back in the late 60’s that Dr. DeFelice first deemed aging to be a disease, and thusly treatable not only in terms of slowing it down, but actually reversing it—a radical thought until very recently. Dr. DeFelice is currently considering a clinical study to attempt to reverse some common mental and physical manifestations of the aging process through the use of a rational mixture of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.