Age and ageing are natural phenomena. Unfortunately, a lot of people are not very excited about it. That is why so many of them try to hide it as it comes along. Hence, the use of anti aging creams. But do these anti aging creams work? Many do and most don't. It's important for you to find those that actually work and avoid the rest that don't work.

The ability to reverse or back pedal the aging process is what makes anti aging such a trip. Even if you weren't interested back when you first heard about it, you would be now when you hear of those who have lived to be a hundred when they would and should have died at fifty. Or most importantly, those who still "look" and "feel" thirty or forty when they are actually up to sixty of even seventy years old.

Anti aging comes at a time when people have begun to see even the impossible as possible. Now with genetic engineering and tissues engineering, coupled with life extension, you can live longer and beat some diseases that would have seemed impossible only a few short years ago.

Anti-aging is not restricted to physical measures only; there is a psychology involved. Here you must learn to condition your mind such that you see yourself as indeed being younger - such that all the aging in your limbs, all that tiredness, and the lines on your face are not really there. When you find success with this, then you have overcome the first and biggest hurdle to aging.

You might call them heroes, but I'd call them losers. Those who have championed the cause of extreme anti aging over the years. Yes they have accidentally found a few helpful things that help to cure diseases of those who really suffer from them, but the ulterior motive, that of cheating death, defeats the whole purpose. Anti aging should be for the purpose of looking younger for a very long time and not trying to defeat death - because that's impossible, at the moment.

Andrew Weil works holistic health and alternative medicine for the purpose of anti aging and life extension. They also delve into herbal supplements for food and health. The Life Extension Foundation on the other hand focuses of general supplements and overall research, while the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine specializes in medical practitioners who carry out various technical and practical steps that solve aging problems in human beings.

Some of the most horrifying practices have been tried for centuries while attempting to solve the riddle of old age. A certain compound derived from the olive leaf was thought to procure longevity, so it was tried. Gold, because of its relative perpetuity has been injected into human veins. Also animal parts were consumed, all in the hopes of getting people to live longer.

There are reports of many people who have lived longer than a hundred years. They are referred to as centenarians. Although there are claims of some who live beyond a hundred and thirty, or even more, the oldest documented record is of a woman, Jeanne Calment, who in France lived up to 122. Studying her life, there is sure to be a lot you can learn about old age.