Sixty is said to be the new forty. I personally find it more and more difficult to determine people’s ages as I age. People are looking younger and younger. Or am I getting older and older?

There are many new discoveries today to look younger, feel good and have a steady stream of energy. I am extremely energetic, however after a very long hike I have been known to steal a quick ten minute power nap. It is a treat I allow myself, being basically retired. I actually do work; I am writing all the time, but I am at home, and I can work when I want. What a great life!

The one thing people fear most about aging is the possible loss of their memory and cognitive ability. There are many ways to insure brain health as we age. And since people are living longer today they are faced with these possibilities. There are three categories each providing support to brain health:

1. Food and supplements

2. Brain usage (puzzles, games, learning new things)

3. daily exercise

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Desperate people do desperate things and surgery is one of those desperate things that aging Baby Boomers hope can “fix” their sagging faces.

This is exactly what the practitioners that dispense paralyzing and plumping injections along with surgeries of every kind hope you believe. Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching! Cha-Ching!

Recent reports disclose that many anti-aging modalities actually have the opposite affect; rather than slowing or stopping the aging process, some doctors now say that facial plastic surgery and injections may indeed speed up aging. Their reasoning is this: healthy skin that has been cut and sutured never really looks or acts healthy.

Faces that are injected and injected again and again may portray a freakish look that is not equated with youthfulness.

Once a face is either plumped up with fillers or paralyzed with Botulinum A that face may begin to appear distorted. It is difficult not to stare at a face that is distinctly different; the forehead does not move, the eyes have less expression and the overall facial prettiness has departed the scene.

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