‘I had never known that the world was beautiful until I reached old age.”  Alvise Cornaro (1467 – 1566) in The art of living long.   The Fountain of Youth, a myth persistent in the human imagination throughout the ages,  was at times a river, or a spring, or any other water source that reversed the aging process and cured sickness when drunk or bathed in. We can’t blame Herodotus for dreaming about it, as did the Chinese and the Arabs (who created the word “elixir”). You can’t blame people for dreaming, and you can’t blame the Chinese emperors for sending explorers to look for the fountain of youth. Whoever … Continue reading So now you know that the fountain of youth and HGH were mirages. Next snake oil, please.