Interesting passages:
Comite left a tenure-track position at Yale because she became
frustrated with what she saw as medicine’s red tape and tunnel vision.
One galvanizing moment involved a woman named Vivian, who had a badly
scarred uterus and who had tried repeated in vitro fertilizations
without success. She came to see Comite at Yale, still hoping to have
a child, but failed to conceive. At wit’s end, Vivian consulted an
acupuncturist. She became pregnant after only a few treatments. “I
would swear on a stack of Bibles and all my oaths there was no way
that woman could conceive,” Comite says. “That experience turned me
into an open-minded skeptic.”
Every year, Life gets a new set of beefcake photos taken. Now 71, he
said he put on five pounds of muscle this past year by scheduling
extra tae kwon do practices and cranking it up a notch in the weight
room. He can bench-press 235 pounds and can do 10 pull-ups, “full
extension.” His age-management program could fill a spreadsheet. Life
began reciting from memory: 1,000 milligrams of calcium daily,
coenzyme Q10 pills twice a day, 5,000 units of vitamin D, 4 grams of
fish oil, 10 milligrams of melatonin at bedtime, a testosterone
injection once a week, human-growth hormone once a day. “That reminds
me,” he said, reaching into his desk drawer. “I’ve got to give myself
a shot.” He pulled out a syringe, loaded up on human-growth hormone,
raised a pants leg and stuck the needle into his left thigh.
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