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In the 1992 [[documentary]] ''Never Say Die: The Pursuit of Eternal Youth'', Antony Thomas interviewed Pearson and Shaw, and criticised the anti-aging movement as misguided.<ref>{{cite news| title=The often gruesome search for perpetual youth |first=Virginia |last=Mann |publisher=The Record newspaper|date=1992-08-17 |accessdate=2007-03-01 |url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:BRCB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB2778DA83E3DCC&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815 }}</ref> A review in ''[[JAMA (journal)|JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' by researchers with the Harvard School of Public Health advised that “Some of the "health" advice contained in this book would be humorous if it was not so dangerous” and that “Potential readers of this ridiculous book would be wiser to take only the antacids—as we felt the urge to do after the realization that we had spent $22.50 on an unscientific, impractical, and potentially dangerous health fraud that literally made us ill.”<ref name="Stare & Aronson, 1983">{{cite journal|last=Stare|first=Fredrick J.|author2=Aronson, Virginia |title=Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach|journal=JAMA|date=November 23, 1983|volume=250|issue=20|pages=2862–3|url=http://jama.jamanetwork.com/pdfaccess.ashx?ResourceID=526884&PDFSource=13|accessdate=2 June 2012|doi=10.1001/jama.1983.03340200094043}}</ref>

[[Stephen Barrett]] of [[Quackwatch]] wrote that the adviseadvice in the book was impractical and unscientific. For example the authors recommended more than thirty supplements and prescription drugs and for the subject to take a medical examination with more than fifty laboratory tests. The authors made inaccurate statements about [[Multivitamin|vitamin supplements]] and their "presentation of experimental data is biased and uncritical."<ref>[https://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/NegativeBR/le.html "Book Review: Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach (1982)"]. [[Quackwatch]]. Retrieved November 22, 2018.</ref>

Nutritionist Kurt Butler has described the book as a [[hoax]] and has written: