Better Beauty Through Science Doesn’t Mean We’re Not Aging
It seems that there might be confusion when it comes to aging versus looking younger. The advertisers have naturally used words that are commonly associated with being young. Youthful, anti-aging, and of course, the common phrase, ‘turn back the hands of time.’ Looking young isn’t the same thing as being young.
Health and age go hand in hand. You can’t escape it. While it is true that a younger looking, younger feeling body is healthier than an overweight body, there are some things that boil down to age. After liposuction you might not recognize your over 40 body. The best skin care products can create a youthful face. Yet your heart has still been beating for more than 40 years and you still need to make sure you get annual screenings for breast cancer. You can’t put off the important annual exams until you feel a little older.
We all know that a good muscle workout routine can tone up your body and help improve the way your body functions over all. This, in fact, has helped many people feel and act as though they are in their thirties well into their fifties. Yet over time, those lost early detection tests that are designed for women over 40 become too late.
Fortunately, thanks to science, not only can we look perpetually younger but we can also keep our aging insides healthier with early detection. Early detection increases survival rates of just about every potentially terminal disease out there. Without the benefit of knowing early, treating early, and beating it early the survival rate goes down considerably.
It’s cool to be cool. You’re hanging out with the under 40 crowd and you fit in physically and socially. It can actually help you forget your own age as you plunder forward into a life that may even be healthier as well as more fun than when you were younger. You just can’t forget that the inside is still affected by age.
It has been said that the ability to strive for a wrinkle free, anti sun spot, perfectly toned face is a wonderful scientific achievement. The fact that breast cancer survival has increased by over 80% over the last ten years is also a wonderful scientific achievement.
Youth is in our blood. We all want it. And if we want to hang onto it we have to remember to go to annual screenings and check ups.
