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This is an excellent documentary exploring the interaction between the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies in regards to youth enhancing drugs. Testosterone and estrogen replacement therapy have long been touted as the “fountains of youth.” Do these drugs really work or are they simply a means to sell a quick remedy to the age old problem of “aging.” Are there more problems using these drugs than the benefits? As the “baby boomers” come of age and have the resources to buy these remedies to offset old age, what are the risks involved? This video addressed these issues.

This film does an excellent job of delving into the history of sexuality--male and female--and into the problems of aging and the accompanying sexual difficulties that many people face. We have long known there is a female menopause but what about “a male menopause?” At the western division of the Canadian Andropause Society, an organization of doctors and pharmaceutical companies, who came together to build the male menopause movement, Dr. Clem Williams, one of the gurus of the movement, espoused that “the reason we are here today is because men’s medicine has been completely neglected. We’ve spent billions on women’s and children for years and nothing on men.” Interesting that Viagra, to address male dysfunctional problems is on the market well before a medical answer to women's sexual dysfunctions have been addressed.

This film is narrated by Ann Medina, an Emmy Award-winning journalist who is the host of History Television’s History on Film. The cinematography is excellent as is the narration.