Monks Anti-Aging Cream

Monastry hopes it upmarket face cream will help it continue charitable work

A few years ago, members of the Teresian Carmelites monastery had nearly run out of ways to raise money for their charitable work.
For a group whose members pray up to six hours daily, the worries prompted a lot of extra supplication. That’s when one of what Brother Dennis Wyrzykowski calls “God-incidences” connected them with a medical school professor, whose work included patented research into a compound in the human heart that has been found to also fight wrinkles.
With the professor’s blessing, the religious community recently started selling a high-end skin cream online based on the compound.
The US$65 per tube face cream, called Easeamine, is a far cry from the more traditional offerings that some monasteries sell.
Easeamine and the Carmelites’ path towards selling it, started at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where Dr James Dobson Jr has spent years studying a biological substance known as adenosine.
While researching how the heart ages, Dobson and collegue Michael Ethier discovered several years ago that adenosine - a natural substance that’s plentiful in older hearts - triggers the skin’s dermis to produce more elastin and collagen. Through that discovery was irrelevant in their cardiovascular studies, they recognized its potential value in skin care products and patented the technology.
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