Anti Aging Beauty Products

From almost the beginning of time, one of man's obsession has been to find the fountain of youth, usually via the anti aging beauty products of the time.

As a person ages, the skin begins to lose its flexibility, the face begins to show tiny wrinkle lines, the hair begins to go or to turn grey - in other words, beauty begins to fade. It is interesting, however, in all ancient belief systems, there always existed a mythical way to stop the process of aging and even restore beauty and strength to a younger period of time.

In reality, however, what usually happens is that the anti aging beauty products of the day do not stop the aging process. They merely hide or conceal it. In other words, the wrinkles are still in the face, but the anti aging beauty product fills in the gaps, giving the illusion of smoothness. The hair is grey, but the anti aging cosmetic hides it with color.

But all of those frustrations were in the past, right? Surely, today, with the advances in modern science and the studies of DNA and gene manipulation, we must finally have arrived at some anti aging beauty product that really works.

Can Man Really Become Immortal?

Well maybe he can. At least, Dr. Aubrey de Grey seems to believe so. His new book, "Ending Aging" argues that the technology is already in reach that will not only let us halt the aging process but even reverse it. In other words, using the ongoing biomedical technology discoveries, we can reverse the physical decay in our body that causes us to age and maintain a biological youthful body into the indefinite future. Of course, this would totally destroy our current Social Security framework.

To quote from his materials, "Dr. de Grey and his research assistant Michael Rae describe the details of this biotechnology. They explain that the aging of the human body, just like the aging of man-made machines, results from an accumulation of various types of damage.  As with man-made machines, this damage can periodically be repaired, leading to indefinite extension of the machine's fully functional lifetime, just as is routinely done with classic cars.  We already know what types of damage accumulate in the human body, and we are moving rapidly toward the comprehensive development of technologies to remove that damage.  By demystifying aging and its postponement for the nonspecialist reader, de Grey and Rae systematically dismantle the fatalist presumption that aging will forever defeat the efforts of medical science."

Dr. de Grey makes a persuasive case as he explains that the way to rejuvenate the body is to do it at the molecular and cellular level, much as you might rejuvenate an old car by first rejuvenating it's "inside" components like it's engine, belts, and so on. But, on the other hand, every generation has heard these stories before. The stories of the secret of the fountain of youth which is always just around the corner. Will this one turn out to be true? We can only hope and wait.