Hi, welcome back to the show.
Our society pressures people, especially women to never age.
It's a tale as, old as time going
all the way back to Cleopatra who was
said to bathe in Donkey milk.
It was a habit that required 700 donkeys and one guy who liked
milking them way too much.
But today, everywhere we look someone is telling us,
we need to look young forever.
You don't want to look your age,
you want to look younger than your age.
This Palm Beach USA, Janelle Raffa
is here to share some strategies to slow
down the body's natural clock.
This is the no pain, no gain technique.
After you wash your face in the morning with hot water,
warm water, you can dunk your face
in a bucket of ice water, a big Bowl
of ice water, 10 to 15 seconds.
It is an old Hollywood technique, movie stars do it.
That's why Walt Disney froze his whole head not
to preserve his brain, but to give
his cheeks that youthful glow.
Celebrity culture is at the center
of the anti-aging industry, stars are constantly
praised for their youthful looks and Paul Rudd
has even become a meme for looking exactly,
like, he did in the 90s.
But trust me, it stops being funny once you
see his baby photos.
Somewhere along the way, the expectation
became that if celebs can look as good as they age,
then all of us should.
But the truth is we can't and that's
completely, OK, because frankly, there's only
room for one J.Lo on Earth.
Although, if there were two J.Lo's we
could get the cell to double trouble.
Celebrities have far more resources
than the average person.
But when they're asked about how they
keep their faces looking, like, a baby's ass,
many seem to omit that fact.
Sleep and water, maybe are the most important things.
You have to drink tons of water.
Warm water with lime juice.
Water out of a big ass jug.
- Water. - Water.
Water.
Lot's of water.
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All a sudden you're just like, your eyes fill up with water,
your nose gets moist, your whole body just sort of like,
vibrates with moisture.
Wow!
Turns out Hollywood's best kept secret
is actually just waterboarding.
Of course, drinking water and getting enough sleep
are great tips for living a healthy life.
But the reality is, drinking water has no clear link
to your skin's hydration and there
is no amount of sleep, that can make me look like Kate Hudson.
I'll just have to live with the fact,
that People Magazine called me, the "Less Hot Kate Hudson."
It was an honor just to be mentioned.
It turns out that the most effective skincare trick
is just being rich.
And if you really want to look young forever,
you need to be born hot.
We have to remember, that part of the reason why these people
have become so famous is because they're good looking,
they're blessed with good genes.
So let's not forget that factor, too.
They've been in the spotlight for years
and they seem not to age.
What they've probably done is little steps along the way.
Yes, looks are important, but they aren't
all you need to make it in Hollywood,
you have to have a famous dad, too.
In addition, to being blessed with binging genetics,
celebrities can afford expensive procedures, like Botox
and fillers or facials, that involve Bee Venom, live,
leeches to suck your face blood and even bird
poop to combat acne.
I know that sounds great, but you
might change your mind once you see,
which bird it's coming from.
I'm just saying, he eats his weight and food every six
hours, it's going to take you a couple
of days to get through it all.
Celebrities have access to the best
cosmetic surgeons, nutritionists,
and personal trainers.
But many still feel the need to hide it
because not only does society demands that people not age,
it also demands that they not age naturally.
That's how Brad Pitt went from looking, like this to this.
The life extending styles of the rich and famous
go beyond, just good jeans and surgical intervention.
Some in Hollywood are even resorting
to an anti-aging treatment that is unproven and illegal.
We've done shows on HGH, it's controversial.
I know a lot of folks in Hollywood use it.
That always makes me a little wary, I got to say--
Well, I do my research, I don't
just because the doctor says here, why don't you have this?
The hormone system is like, a symphony.
HGH is expensive and it's determined by lab work,
if you have a deficiency.
It builds bone, it builds muscle,
it is a strengthens the heart, the pumping power of the heart.
Although, you'll want that extra heart power,
when you're an 8 foot 2 bird taking dumps.
He literally has dumps like, a truck.
HGH, which stands for human growth hormone is a naturally
occurring hormone that fuels childhood growth and helps
maintain tissues and organs.
As we grow older, our body begins to produce less of it.
Instead, it starts producing the hormone
that makes you always have a purse
full of worthless and tissues.
In the last decade, HGH has become a popular, but secretive
anti-aging treatment.
And only a few celebrities have admitted to using it,
such as Suzanne Somers who wrote a book
that touted the effects of HGH.
And in 2007, Sylvester Stallone was found guilty of importing
HGH into Australia, it was a crime
Australian parliament somberly decreed a didgeri-don't.
But here's the thing not only is HGH
illegal to use for anti-aging purposes,
there is no evidence that it even works.
Furthermore using human growth hormones like,
the fountain of youth is dangerous.
I would not take growth hormone because it's unsafe.
And as a physician, I would certainly not
recommend to my family or my patients
that they take growth hormone unless they
have a proven indication for pituitary damage.
An article in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, warned doctors and health care professionals that
the distribution or marketing of growth
hormone to treat aging or aging-related
conditions is illegal.
Punishable by up to five years in prison.
But by the end of those five years,
you'll look 10 years younger.
Researchers found that HGH could lead to diabetes
and possibly cancer.
And unethical physicians have learned to skirt the law,
by diagnosing their patients with made up hormone
deficiencies and selling the vials at marked up prices
upwards of 1,000 a month.
It's just like the Hippocratic oath states,
patients get money.
Many anti-aging procedures also come with potential side
effects and health risks.
It's led some celebrities to Express regret about treatments
they've had while others have had to suffer
horrible consequences.
Recently, supermodel Linda Evangelista filed a lawsuit,
alleging that coolsculpting, a treatment that
uses cold temperatures to freeze and eliminate fat cells,
left her quote "permanently deformed."
That's awful, nobody should have to go through that just to meet
impossible beauty standards.
Look, there is nothing wrong with wanting to look your best,
a lot of us have spent almost two years
looking at unflattering angles of ourselves on Zoom.
So it's not surprising it's led to surges
in appointments for procedures or a so-called Zoom boom.
But we have to remember, that our bodies are designed to age
and we need to embrace that and normalize looking older.
We've got to stop comparing ourselves
to people who can pay doctors to blast their pause into space.
And maybe we can start being more
honest about what it really takes to look the way we do?
I'll start, I mean, I am on TV.
Let's not get crazy.
In 1992, I made a deal with Satan himself to keep it
right and tight for as long as I live, which means,
I may have died five years ago.
We'll be right back.