European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 2, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From left or. Christiaan Barnard or. Michael Debakey and or. Adrian Karl Rositi Emetics peddle Barnard was reimbursed by tha government or his travels. Sir. He compares his Homeland s apartheid policy Wilh nazism. He says he is against  in any form and once considered running for the South afr Len parliament As part of the opposition. He Laler became. Disillusioned Wilh politics announcing that the right part had not yet been invented for him. And turned to writing. Books. To me suffering of human beings is Tho same. Whether h s discrimination  of skin discrimination of religion or anything like that. It s the same he says. Barnard once transplanted the heart of a while Pinto a Black kenyan Man. At groote Schur Many of his patients were Black or mixed race. The Hospital billed on the basis of income and those Able to afford it were siphoned off to private institutions. There was absolutely no difference in me Standard of treatment for Whites and other races he says. It was. Never an Issue. We treated people and whether they were while or Black did not come into consideration.". Over a facades of medical practice Barnard has changed his View of the profession. Fresh out of medical school he believed his role was to save life against All. Odds now it is to improve the Quality of life. This View has led him o outspoken stands in favor of euthanasia in cases where extraordinary Means can Only prolong suffering. He is against permanent implantation of the artificial heart because it cannot give the seme Quality of life that a transplant can give Quality of life has As muh to do with How people feel about themselves As physical health and this is How a explains his involvement in the Lycell venture. It s nol a Placebo. It works. All the experimental work proves that it works he says. He also needs the Money. He considers his involvement in the venture a Job that was going to give me an  his Hospital pension amounts to $400 a month he says. His lop pay after taxes while at groote Schur was about $25,000. He has losses from two arms in South Africa has two restaurants in Cape town Are enough to provide what a Calls a moderate income Tor retirement but this he says is nol enough. While at the posh la Prairie clinic in Switzerland to try Oul arthritis treatments Barnard heard of a substance called  and started research to investigate its use in postoperative wound Healing  or gel is a fatty us balance with a sugar molecule attached. Everyone is born with a finite amount and it diminishes with age Barnard says. In studies at Ine Schweier Institute a commercial biotechnology firm. Barnard and other researchers found that it promotes Healing in wounds in rats it also stimulated genetic activity and protein production in immature connective tissue cells and in skin cells. Barnard said he bowed out at that Point. Further studies were conducted showing the substance was capable of rejuvenating in appearance Al least human skin Ceils. There was no evidence cell function was improved. Schaeter developed a cosmetic line Wilh gel As the Active ingredient and sold it so Allan fragrances based in new York City. At that Point. Barnard signed a service contract permitting use of his name and face in connection with the product. For this he earned $160,000, plus a guarantee two lengths of 1 percent of wholesale he and Alfin say. The _ Lycell line Wilh products ranging in Price from about $25 to $75, hit Iha Market with a million in Advance orders. Allin has projected $20 million in sales Tor the first year. Financial analysts announced the obvious that Barnard s participation would stimulate interest in the product. V2, 1986 curiously in Narri and even Allin Havo downplayed his role in development of the product Barnnrd admits he did not discover it. But Lycell tool Las say he did. The surgeon has Boon on a promotional Lour of major . And Canadian cities accompanied by Salzkorn. Who now works Tor Allin. Does Barnard use Lycell they want me always to say that i use it. Bul i Danus it he laughs. Throughout Barnard and Schaefer have been. Accused of subverting Basic science by failing to publish lest results in a reputable journal where it would tie subject to scrutiny arid verification by other researchers. The food and drug administration and Barnard s Peers insist there has t been any cosmetic yet that can penetrate skin cells and perform any unction other than moisturize which something As simple As vaseline can do. If a substance actually did retard the effects of age it would have to a classed As a drug and regulated As such. If he has something he is certainly going about it in the wrong Way said or. Arnold Figman professor of dermatology Al the University of Pennsylvania. One wonders what it is that brings him to this. He has not committed a crime but this is a. Dishonourable behaviour for a professionally trained Man of his stature. We re a flawed species we human beings. I m sorry to see thai a Man of such Talent is hawed Barnard undeterred throughout my career 1. Have always tried to do one thing always be honest. Maybe the experimental findings Are incorrect but those Are the experimental findings. H s not something i sucked Oul of my thumb. Fifty years ago people would have said there is no Way that you can kill the pneumococcus in pneumonia it s just got to run its course. Then we discovered penicillin and antibiotics inc it Bickmo possible in pm the bacteria he say s. So everything is impossible Wilif some Marjy finds something which makes it possible some have commented Hal Bart had s involvement in an anti aging Enterprise my reflect his own. Accumulator of decades on a drive to Tho University of Oklahoma Laboratory where to is participating in research on gel partially Tibia cod by Allin. In annulled thai one thing he particularly dreads is aging. Oil in i times he has Lauri a about it. By one Day. To Snyr. I May be possible to fight it. People say aging is inevitable and it  Lifa. H s not. It s a disease and As Wilh any other disease it Chin be ire aled. Maybe not cure ii but As we Sny in Medicine it can be  one lorm of palliation he s considering Lor himself is plastic surgery. I think i will have a minor lace life or something a says smiling fingering the ski under his Chin. One thing about myself the transplant has l changed me. I be always been that Way. I be always been interested to be with people. I be always been interested in he company of  in 1970, at the age of 47, Barnard married again. The Bride Barbara Zoellner daughter of a wealthy Johannesburg industrialist was 19. The honeymoon was briskly combined with speaking engagements. Remarks were made about such an age difference and some wondered who would grow up first the surgeon or his Lovely dark haired Wile. He insisted the Bond was based on personality. He and Zoellner had two children Belore the marriage broke up in 1382. Me blamed in part the fact his wife had bought a boutique and was working had developed new interests and had less time to spend with him. Barnard Livet with Model Korin Setzkorn who in 41 Yean hit Junior. The stars and stripes Page 13