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      <description>A strong retinol taught me a lesson. What I read about copper and skin repair taught me a lot more.</description>
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      <description>It sounded like a marketing word at lunch. By that evening I had read the studies and changed my mind.</description>
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      <description>My bloodwork was fine and my doctor shrugged. So I started reading about how cells make energy, which is a funny thing to do at midnight.</description>
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      <description>Telomeres, the little caps on your DNA. I went down that hole and came out with a much better filter for hype.</description>
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      <description>The internet makes this topic a mess. The actual research is calmer and more interesting than that.</description>
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      <description>It smelled like a quantity over quality gimmick. The actual research made me think differently.</description>
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      <description>One line in a study showed me how much I had been simplifying. Here is the plain version of what I learned.</description>
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      <description>I ignored lab test reports because I did not understand them. Then a friend walked me through one.</description>
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