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However, not all wonder drugs are created equal. Redux, despite the controversy that surrounds it, has a legitimate scientific pedigree. It has undergone thorough testing in animals and humans--including several large clinical trials--and has passed muster with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...said Redux might inspire vivid dreams, and was he ever right! As I was sleeping, I saw myself tooling around in a Volkswagen Beetle. Suddenly it jerked into reverse. I looked back, and there was Godzilla lifting the car and violently chomping away. It took a walk around the house and another glass of juice to shake the jitters...
That's how my first week on Redux went--deep thoughts about food without deep cravings. Though I didn't exercise much, I sensibly ate lots of chopped salads and grilled vegetables and avoided French fries and pasta. Midnight binges were limited to munching a few potato chips rather than pigging out on the usual half-bag. I didn't suffer any short-term memory loss, nor did I experience a Prozac-like up feeling. There were occasional headaches and a tingly, spaced-out sensation, as if my skull were tightening around my brain...
...that first week I had dropped about 5 lbs. and a belt notch. The catch is that my doctor prescribed only a month's supply of Redux. When I run out, I can't wait to order a cheese pizza smothered with pepperoni--just to see if I can still look at it lovingly, then push it away...
This seems to be the season for wonder-drug books. Even as The Redux Revolution hits the shelves at Barnes & Noble, two other breathless volumes--The Super-Hormone Promise, by Dr. William Regelson and Carol Colman, and The DHEA Breakthrough, by Stephen Cherniske--are promoting testosterone, DHEA and other hormones as medical miracles that can slow or even reverse aging...