Was on an airplane flight recently.

There was a full-page ad in the in-flight magazine:

“Live forever. Take HGH!”

I couldn’t possibly make that up.

The whole ad extolled the virtues of HGH

If you’re wondering, HGH (human growth hormone) is one of the substances on the banned performance enhancing drugs list for most sports.

Yet here was this magazine ad saying it’s the greatest medical advancement since antibiotics.

Some say that at some point down the road most humans will take some form of what sports consider “performance enhancing drugs” as a way to live longer, healthier lives.

I’m not sure I’m buying that. The long-term consequences of putting any kind of drug in my system scares me. I avoid taking aspirin for headaches, much less anything stronger, unless I absolutely must.

It was just funny to me that we vilify athletes who take HGH, but the makers of HGH say we should all do it.

Maybe we’re not far from an athlete suing an airline, saying they only failed a drug test because they saw the magazine ad.

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