Ever since the days of Ponce De Leon, people have sought the mythical fountain of youth, with their search usually proving to be fruitless. There are many variables to maintaining a youthful appearance (and demeanor). It has as much to do with what you put in your body as it does with what you dab on your skin. Diet and exercise are healthy habits that will help in this regard; smoking and being a night-owl are not.

Vim and Vigor

Beauty, as they say, may indeed only be skin deep, but the vigor and excitement that seems to fade with age are things that lie considerably deeper within us all. Maintaining your synapses and neurons is just as important to feeling as young as your aesthetician (or plastic surgeon) can make you look. There are no injectable substances which can reverse or delay the effect of aging on your brain – at least not yet – but there are methods which are readily available that can attain the desired effect.

Dodging Deterioration

Believe it or not, the same games and puzzles that intrigued us when we were children seem to hold the keys to staving off such maladies as dementia which are prevalent among the elderly. Stimulating the brain, forcing it go through the rigors of thinking and evaluating and performing equations, turns out to be a critical factor when it comes to avoiding the kind of mental degradation that is associated with aging.

Crossword puzzles, word searches, even jigsaw puzzles can jog important functions in the brain which can deteriorate without use – just like our muscles do. Other games, which stimulate hand-eye coordination and motor functions, are of tantamount importance. Had the puerile Ponce De Leon known any of this back in his time, he may well have saved himself an awful lot of time and trouble looking for a magic elixir of youth… Someone could have told him that it was all in his head.

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