At one stage in his younger years, Dr. Jeff Gunter, a powerful pediatrician who claims to be the” America First” member, appeared in shaky late-night infomercials selling anti-wrinkle skin cream, which at least one person claimed in a lawsuit caused him to become infected with a bad condition.
Gunter is now vying against furnished combat veteran Captain Sam Brown for the Republican nomination for the Magic State. He made thousands in his dermatologist practices over the years. He later served as the United States ambassador to Iceland during his first term.
According to previous reports from Breitbart News, Brown has a third-degree burn to the top of his system from a roadside bomb that went off while he was protecting his own soldiers in Afghanistan, which left him severely injured several years ago. Although Brown has surpassed Brown in the polls to become the most significant Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate this period, the primary is still being funded by Gunter, who is self-funding in large part, who is still spending millions in the key.
On May 30, 2022, at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, Nevada, Republican member for U.S. Senate Sam Brown shakes hands with a senior. ( Bill Clark/CQ- Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images )
Gunter’s recent appearances in infomercials, which have not previously been reported, raise serious questions about whether or not he is as easy as he claims to be on the campaign road or if this strategy is just another “scam” as some people have referred to his hawking of dubious anti-wrinkle blood in the wee hours of the morning.
The website for the business where Gunter was selling this stuff is really difficult to locate online, just like the video of the advertisements. An online library search , for the videos found that it aired on NBC in Baltimore between 5 and 6 a. m. southeast time on Sept. 16, 2013. The video, applicable in minute- extended snippets, has been pulled from there by Breitbart News into a broader, somewhat- more than seven- minute- long clip uploaded around.
The” Youthology 90-second wrinkle removing serum,” which was developed at Youthology Research Institute with Dr. Jeffrey Gunter, who is the head of research and a board-certified dermatologist with centres throughout Southern California, is a “more appropriate alternative” than Botox shots or” expensive and invasive plastic surgery,” is a female number of the informercial for a few minutes.
Gunter is standing behind her on a set with three women test subjects who are about to use Gunter’s serum, and it alternates between that and a white-collar B-roll of Gunter walking around in a white coat and engaging in the behaviors one would expect from a doctor.
Then Gunter himself appears on television to speak. ” That’s right, Ann- Marie”, Gunter says. Our goal was simple: to scientifically and naturally assist our patients in ignoring age’s visible signs and turning them away from routine medical care.
Gunter continues as images of a woman’s face with a chart displaying these signs of aging, which” can frequently make people appear older than they are” and that” there are essentially three major indicators that the skin is aging”
As Gunter and the on-screen experiment’s host and the host of the infomercial stage the women he and the others have set up, Gunter says,” Let me show you what I’m talking about.” He refers to the first woman’s “fine lines and wrinkles” and the second woman’s “deep lines and wrinkles” as” commonly referred to as crow’s feet,” as well as “fine lines and wrinkles underneath and around the eyes” and “deep lines and wrinkles on the corners of the eyes.” Then, on the third woman, he points to” sagging skin or bags typically found underneath the eyes”.
” These are all very common occurrences — they happen naturally, but they very much make us look older than our years”, Gunter continues.
After that, he moves on to the three women’s faces for the next few minutes while a camera is trained on each for 90 seconds to observe the serum’s supposed effects in real-time while he applies the product he is selling in the infomercial. When showing the before and after images on the first subject, for instance, Gunter then says, “you can see the fine lines and wrinkles have literally vanished”!
Gunter claims that there are no longer any wrinkles or crow’s feet evidence when he confronts the second woman. ” They are completely gone”!
” The wrinkles and creases that formed the crow’s feet have disappeared”, he added.
With the third woman on screen, he made similar comments saying the bags under her eyes have been “lifted, tightened, and have completely disappeared” thanks to the serum.
Later in the infomercial, too, another narrator says over footage of people applying the serum that “it’s even perfect for men who want to look years younger, just like that”!
One man claimed in a lawsuit that the Youthology serum he was purchasing caused him to lose. David Schumacher, a California man, filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court in 2009 alleging that Gunter’s miracle serum was really a nightmare for him.
” Plaintiff, while using defendant’s product Youthology, Clinical Essentials, 90 second wrinkle eye serum, contracted necrotizing fasciitis, sepsis, and permanent disfigurement, internal organ injury, and scarring around plaintiff’s eyes, and other injuries”, the lawsuit document reads. ” Defendants and each of them manufactured or assembled, designed, or manufactured component parts and/or processes, marketed, advertised, failed to test, and warranted the product to be safe for public use”.
Gunter is named as one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Gunter was dropped from the lawsuit and Youthology and the plaintiff settled, according to later court filings. Other filings document the horrors that Schumacher experienced while suffering from necrotizing fasciitis and the various doctors who treated him in an emergency room to have his facial tissues removed for the first-degree removal of the infection’s spreading. The entire set of documents, dozens of pages long, tells the horrifying story of what this poor man went through.
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While not everyone had the same gruesome experience as the man who claimed to have contracted necrotizing fasciitis in the Youthology settlement lawsuit, many online reviews on a number of websites labeled the product a “ripoff” or “scam”
Gunter, for his part, is proud to have filmed these infomercials, but he does not contest that. The Gunter campaign responded to an email from Breitbart News asking for comment, saying that anyone who responded to the press inquiry on his campaign website was attributed to the campaign. However, the statement’s final phrase makes reference to Gunter in the first person and says his campaign is” not a scam”.
According to the Gunter campaign,” Dr. Gunter conducted a clinical trial and was a spokesperson for a colleague’s product that was extremely successful and patients loved.” He also advises using 30 SPF sunblock, avoiding radioactive waste sites like Yucca Mountain, and avoiding peak sun hours between 10 and 2 to help others feel better in their own skin. Unlike my opponent, this is not a scam”.
Whoever manages the press inquiry email for the Gunter campaign emailed back an updated statement that stated,” Unlike his opponent, this is not a Scam,” when asked about the inconsistentness and whether the statement was from him or the campaign.
Whoever wins between Brown and Gunter will face Sen. Jacky Rosen ( D- NV ) in November.
