Dr. Jeff Gunter, a rich dermatologist operating for the U.S. Senate in Nevada claiming to be the “America First” candidate, at one level in his youthful days appeared in sketchy late-night infomercials peddling anti-wrinkle pores and skin serum that at the very least one man mentioned in a lawsuit led to him getting contaminated with a horrible illness.
Gunter, who made hundreds of thousands in his dermatology practices over time and would later grow to be former President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Iceland in Trump’s first time period, is now operating for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in the Silver State in opposition to adorned fight veteran Captain Sam Brown.
Brown, as Breitbart News has reported beforehand, has most of his physique coated in third-degree burns as a result of a roadside bomb that went off whereas he was defending his fellow troops in Afghanistan leaving him severely wounded a number of years in the past. Brown has emerged as the most important Republican candidate for U.S. Senate this cycle in Nevada, however the race just isn’t but over as Gunter who’s self-funding in an enormous method remains to be spending hundreds of thousands in the first regardless of trailing Brown considerably in the polls.
Nevada Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Sam Brown shakes arms with a veteran on the Memorial Day Ceremony on the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Boulder City, NV, on May 30, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by way of Getty Images)
The emergence of those infomercial appearances by Gunter, which haven’t been beforehand reported, elevate critical questions on whether or not he’s as easy as he claims to be on the marketing campaign path or if this run for workplace is one other “scam” as some individuals known as the sketchy anti-wrinkle serum he was hawking in the wee hours of the morning.
The video of the infomercials is extraordinarily tough to seek out on-line, as is the website for the agency for which Gunter was peddling these things. An web archive search for the video discovered that it aired on NBC in Baltimore between 5 and 6 a.m. japanese time on Sept. 16, 2013. The video, accessible in minute-long snippets, has been pulled from there by Breitbart News right into a broader, slightly-longer than seven-minute-long clip uploaded right here.
Several minutes into the video, a girl host of the informercial says that the “Youthology 90-second wrinkle removing serum” is a “more acceptable alternative” than Botox injections or “costly and invasive cosmetic surgery” that was “developed at Youthology Research Institute with Dr. Jeffrey Gunter who is the head of research and a board-certified dermatologist with clinics throughout Southern California.”
While she is saying these items, Gunter is standing behind her on a set with three ladies take a look at topics who’re about to make use of Gunter’s serum, and it cuts backwards and forwards between that and B-roll of Gunter strolling round in a white coat partaking in the actions one would count on of a health care provider.
Then Gunter himself comes on display to speak. “That’s right, Ann-Marie,” Gunter says. “Our goal was simple: To scientifically and naturally help our patients defy the visible signs of aging, to have them look many years younger without undergoing surgery or relying on periodic injections.”
“When you look at the human face, there are essentially three major indicators that the skin is aging,” Gunter continues as graphics seem on display of a girl’s face with a chart displaying these indicators of getting old, “that can often make people appear older than they are.”
“Let me show you what I’m talking about,” Gunter says as he walks over to the ladies he and the host of the infomercial have staged on-set for the on-screen experiment. He factors to “fine lines and wrinkles underneath and around the eyes” on the primary girl, then the “deep lines and wrinkles on the corners of the eyes” of the second girl, which he says are “commonly referred to as crow’s feet.” Then, on the third girl, he factors 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 proceeds for the following a number of minutes to use the serum he’s promoting in the infomercial to the faces of the three ladies whereas a digital camera is skilled on each for 90 seconds to see the supposed results of it in real-time. When displaying the earlier than and after pictures on the primary topic, for example, Gunter then says, “you can see the fine lines and wrinkles have literally vanished!”
When Gunter bought to the second girl, he exhibits the earlier than and after footage then says there isn’t any longer has any wrinkles or crow’s toes proof. “They are completely gone!”
“The wrinkles and creases that formed the crow’s feet have disappeared,” he added.
With the third girl on display, he made comparable feedback saying the baggage below her eyes have been “lifted, tightened, and have completely disappeared” due to the serum.
Later in the infomercial, too, one other narrator says over footage of individuals making use of the serum that “it’s even perfect for men who want to look years younger, just like that!”
One man who says he did find yourself shopping for the Youthology serum that Gunter was promoting mentioned in a lawsuit that the expertise was a catastrophe for him. David Schumacher, a California man, filed a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court in 2009 alleging that Gunter’s miracle serum was actually 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 doc 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 known as as one of many defendants in the lawsuit. Later filings in the courtroom case be aware that Gunter was dismissed as a defendant from the lawsuit, and Youthology settled with the plaintiff. Other filings present the varied docs Schumacher noticed as he handled necrotizing fasciitis and the horrible processes he went by way of as he introduced on the emergency room the place docs took him in for instant surgical procedure to take away elements of his face the place this an infection was spreading. The whole set of paperwork, dozens of pages lengthy, tells the horrifying story of what this poor man went by way of.
Complaint by Breitbart News on Scribd
Doctors Notes by Breitbart News on Scribd
While not everybody had as horrifying an expertise as the person who mentioned he contracted necrotizing fasciitis in the lawsuit that Youthology settled, many critiques on-line on a number of internet sites called the product a “scam” or “ripoff.”
For his half, Gunter doesn’t deny filming these infomercials and really stays pleased with doing so. When reached for remark from Breitbart News, the Gunter marketing campaign despatched again an announcement that whoever responded to the press inquiry electronic mail on his marketing campaign web site mentioned was attributable to the marketing campaign. The final sentence of the assertion although refers to Gunter in the primary particular person, and insists his marketing campaign is “not a scam.”
“Dr. Gunter ran a clinical trial and was a spokesperson for a colleague’s product that was incredibly effective and patients loved,” the Gunter marketing campaign instructed Breitbart News. “He is proud to help others feel better in their own skin and also recommends 30 SPF sunblock, staying away from potential radioactive nuclear waste sites such as Yucca Mountain and avoiding the peak sun hours between 10 and 2. Unlike my opponent, this is not a scam.”
When requested in regards to the inconsistency, and whether or not the assertion was from him or the marketing campaign, whoever runs the press inquiry electronic mail for the Gunter marketing campaign emailed again an up to date assertion that modified that final sentence to: “Unlike his opponent, this is not a Scam.”
Whoever wins between Brown and Gunter will face Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in November.
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