One cold and wet day in what passes for spring this year, I find myself standing on the doorstep of a neat bungalow off the A1 in Finchley, in north London. Cars rush by; I am lashed by rain. I am here for an appointment with Dr Neetu Nirdosh, self-styled celebrity skin doctor and one of the UK’s newest, most inventive anti-ageing gurus. Skincare products and supplements bear her brand name, along with a radical approach to the business of growing older.

Dr Nirdosh believes that ageing is a disease like any other, and that it should be treated as such. Furthermore, she believes that she has the knowledge and the means to do so, and has founded an empire on both. She wants to cure us – and specifically me – of ageing.

I have met Dr Nirdosh before. In February I attended an anti-ageing boot camp in Kent which was so exhausting that I came back looking 20 years older. This, however, was not the fault of Dr Nirdosh, who seemed like a source of comfort and a voice of reason among the other, less palatable aspects of the camp. There had been a power play between the hardline organisers, who wanted us out on drills every second of the day, and Dr Nirdosh, who tended towards the benefits of pampering baths and an hour of meditation over yomping up hills carrying a heavy metal pole.

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