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= A User's Guide to Cheating Death (TV Series) = A User's Guide to Cheating Death is a Canadian documentary TV series that first aired in September 2017 in VisionTV. It had been televised in over 60 countries and contains 2 seasons and a total of 12 episodes. The show's host and one of its executive producers is Timothy Caulfield, the author of the book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? The TV series aims to show the scientific community's opinion on many alternative medicine therapies, and controversial health advice. It also correlates these health trends to many social issues and the influence that the media and celebrities have on people's perception of health.

Plot Summary
Each episode of the TV series follows a similar format, where the host Tim Caulfield introduces a health misconception, trend or alternative medicine therapy and shows the science behind these by bringing in experts that explain the facts for each topic. The host also tries many of these therapies and talks to people that are in favor of them, without being disrespectful. He asks many of the believers of these practices whether they would still follow them if they knew it was a placebo and they explain their opinion on the topic.

Celebrity Influence in Health
The TV series explores how celebrities and the constant exposure of their life through social media affects the public's perception of health. It examines the validity of therapies recommended by many celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Gwyneth Paltrow through the opinion of professionals with experience on the different fields. It also shows how the image that these celebrities portray affect the standards of beauty and leads many to have cosmetic surgery in order to look similar to them. According to the series, celebrities also implement trends about what foods and diets are the best, which might not be the case from a health perspective.

Advances in Science and Market Products
In episodes like Scienceploitation, the last episode of season 1 of the TV series, the themes of science and its advances are very present. Caulfield along with other professionals of the scientific field explore the advances that science has made over the past years such as the discovery of stem cell s. However, they also discuss how many products on the market claim to have miraculous cures to diseases and use stem cells as their way of marketing. Caulfield is very skeptic about this products and along with his guests in the show, he exposes that most of this products are not as effective as they claim to be.

Reception
The TV series has received multiple reviews and many of them claim that the show does an excellent job in portraying these issues in health. The series has a rating of 8/10 in the online database IMDb and the highest rated episodes are "Vitamins and Supplements" with a rating of 9.7/10, "I'll sleep when I'm Dead" with a 9.3/10, and "Germs" with a 9.2/10. Some of the reviews include the article "Review: A User’s Guide to Cheating Death" by McGill University that says "a show like A User’s Guide to Cheating Death—so rare in our landscape of ideological documentaries and hyperbolic science shows—manages to merge accurate science with lavish production values. Appealing in its content and elegant in its presentation, the show itself deserves to cheat death." Other reviews include the article "A User’s Guide to Cheating Death: Detox — how does Timothy Caulfield approach this?" which claims that the show does not take a strong enough stance on the issue by claiming "A User’s Guide to Cheating Death looks as if it will be an interesting review of many forms of elective health fads, with enough encouragement of critical thinking to keep from being a sell-out, but if you took the last two minutes off of this first episode, it might be difficult to tell which side of the issue it’s serving."

Other articles are not so positive about the show such as the article "Investigative Fact or Bias? A User’s Guide to Cheating Death" which mentions that the shows "uses medical science to distort perception of the natural world".

Awards
Realscreen Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction/Science & Technology, January 2019