At 87, Helga Sands could be forgiven for spending her twilight years embracing the quiet life and making peace with what is to come. Instead she’s on a quest to live forever.
Next month she will board a plane and fly to Panama where she will receive a £300,000 “rejuvenation” cocktail that is forbidden in the UK. If effective, it will revitalise her mind and body — and very possibly extend her lifespan, she claims.
When she’s not travelling the globe she takes an estimated 70 supplements a day, washes her hair with sheep shampoo, sleeps on a silver-threaded bed sheet to reduce inflammation and injects herself with microscopic molecules sourced from amniotic fluid. In total, she’s spent half a million pounds on anti-ageing therapies over the last five years.
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