Fountain of Youth

Season 2, Episode 8, Aired
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From nutty diets to expensive facial creams that don't do anything, the magicians blow apart the efforts by those who are living longer than ever to turn back the clock, whether they are lining up for Botox injections or extensive plastic surgery.
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''Special Guest Experts include:
''Dr. Renee Garfinkel: (Clinical Psychologist)
''Dr. Dean Edell: (Medical Journalist)
''Richard Linnett: (Reporter, Advertising Age Magazine)
''Dr. Ron Kennedy: (Anti-Aging Specialist)
''Paula Begoun: (Consumer Expert, Author)
''Dr. S. Jay Olshansky: (Professor of Public Health, U. of Illinois at Chicago)
''Dr. Edward Schneider: (Dean of the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology at the University Of Southern California)
''Cindy Jackson: (Human Barbie)
''Miles Kendall: (Himself)
''Dr. Rod Rohrich: (President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and Chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at the U. Of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center)
''Dr. David Rahimi: (Dermatologist and Plastic Surgeon)
''Dean Parmelo: (Salad Lover)moreless
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  • Penn and Teller get to the bottom of the so-called fountain of youth.

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    By xplush86x, Apr 29, 2007 Report Abuse
    I didn't particularly like this episode simply because i'm bored with the whole fountain of youth thing but i still think this was well written. It'll never get old when they interview people who are so far gone and are not connected to the real world like the woman who had around 100 grand in surgery. She said that she will always look 10 years younger than she really is. Just looking at her you can tell she if fake looking. Why would you do such a stupid thing? Lets not forget the idiot who decided that maiming yourself by castration was a good idea. Or the guy who at the age of 35 is suffering form ostioperosis because he only eats greens that he grows. STUPID!moreless

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    • The ingredients on the back of the cosmetics box shown in this episode, in order: Water, denatured alcohol, glycerin, cyclopentasiloxane, capric triglyceride, silica, butylene glycol, orange fruit extract, tocopheryl acetate, vaccinium myrtillus extract, licorice extract, hydrogenated polyisobutene, padina pavonica extract, sodium hyaluronate, phenoxyethanol, stearic acid, PEG-100 sterate, sugar cane extract, sugar maple extract, triclosan, triethanolamine, wild yam root extract, polysorbate 80, yellow 6, yellow 5, ammonium polyacryloyldimethyl taurate, lemon extract, xanthan gum, ginkgo biloba leaf extract, isohexadecane, propylparaben, parrafin, acrylamide/sodium acryloyldimethyllaurate copolymer, disodium EDTA, rose centifolia flower extract, cetyl alcohol, methylparaben, hexyldecanol, glyceryl stearate, soybean protein, and fragrance. Edit

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    • Dr. Garfinkel: The person who says to themselves "I hate myself and my life, and when I have this plastic surgery, that's all gonna change", THAT person, has a problem. Edit
    • Dr. Schneider: Nature makes a lot of things that are, frankly, very dangerous. Nature makes arsenic, nature makes lead. Nature makes lots of materials that are dangerous, toxic, and can kill you! Just because nature makes something doesn't mean you should take it! Edit
    • Dr. Kennedy: Okay, so if some scientist say "maybe growth hormone is dangerous to human health", then they have some explaining to do. What's nature doing making it in the first place? Dr. Schneider: That is absolute nonsense! I cannot believe he would say such a stupid thing. Edit

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