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The Youth Doctors Whatever aging people say to the contrary, we all regret our youth once we have lost it. The famous wisdom that is supposed to be ours in age doesn't help a bit. Marlene Dietrich To find out what is being attempted in the name of helping people to live longer, more vigorous lives, I have just completed a two-year investigation into rejuvenation which took me somé twenty thousand miles across America and Europe. I visited twelve countries and tracked down every promising clue to the whereabouts and identities of the great youth doctors and their celebrated patients. I have ransacked medical libraries, attended scientific gatherings, read thousands of papers and books, reconnoitered dozens of cocktail parties in Hollywood, New York, Paris, London, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Barcelona, the Riviéra, Vienna, and Geneva for leads, and interviewed on tape hundreds of rejuvenators, academicians, gerontologists, physicians, biochemists, famous rejuvenates, and doleful rejuvenates manqués. While I am fully aware of the limitations of the various rejuvenation therapies now being practiced around the world, I find myself quite enthusiastic about much that I have seen. The rejuvenation art, now nearly the exclusive province of the great Fingerspitzen-