30 WILL NEVER BE THE NEW 29½
Telomere decreases as we age. We tend to face aging with "FEEL GOOD SLOGANS", bringing platitudes to a knife fight. "I'm 30 years young!" we say ignoring the fact that, going by average age life expectancy it wont be long before we're 98 years dead. "Thirty is the new 20", we tell ourselves when the mathematical reality is no, it's not. 30 will never be the new 29½ BOOM! Then comes a bit of wisdom that, if anything seems like the most shopworn of all, you are only as old as you feel and as sentiments go, it has the twin flaws of being both banal and blaming-as if feeling old is your own fault. It turns out however, that whoever coined the one may have been unto something big. It's also no secret anymore that the familiar mind-body divide, with your head home to abstract and ethereal and your flesh home to messy and mechanical is nonsense. Your moods, feelings and thoughts all influence your physiology. Learn to relax and your bl...