Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Quest for Immortality
Stuart Jay Olshansky · 2002
84/100
👍 Worth It
Olshansky and Carnes wrote one of the clearest, most credible takedowns of the anti-aging supplement industry ever aimed at a general audience, and the New England Journal of Medicine agreed. The evolutionary biology framing is still sound even if some specific genetics has moved on. Readers wanting to understand what aging science actually says — and what it doesn't — will find this genuinely useful.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety95
substance88
craft82
originality78
accuracy74
hype85
age-fit90
human-eye83
Penny’s verdict84
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