Forever Young - Body and Mind and Spirit

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Talk to any one of the 78 million baby boomers in this country, and each may tell you a different secret for maintaining a youthful, long life.

LOOKING FOR MIRACLES

Where else but to the internet would folks turn when they are looking for others who are fighting the aging thing? On meetup.com, a group of local fortysomethings and beyond has formed an anti-aging group. (Meetup.com has chapters throughout the world.) Some of the members say they joined the group to share their strategies for maintaining that youthful glow. Others want to learn new strategies.

Kyle Mansfield, 43, who recently moved from Sacramento to Clear Lake for improved air quality, joined the meetup group to help spread the word about Himalayan goji juice, which he calls the “strongest anti-aging food on the planet.”

Mansfield sells goji juice for a company called Freelife.   He says he’s seen the goji fruit work miracles for people by countering internal imbalances and giving them renewed energy.

“The baby boomers like myself, you find you have a certain amount of financial security. You start to accumulate toys, and you want to have the youth and the energy to still play,” Mansfield says.

And untraditional ways of looking for a healthy lifestyle are becoming, he says, more mainstream. “Ten years ago, if you talked about organic foods, you were more of a fringe dweller,” he points out. No longer.

Many experts on aging view the increasing popularity of unregulated anti-aging products such as goji juice as a problem. Gerontologists fear that boomers will turn to unregulated products in their quest to remain youthful and eschew traditional medications and health regimens that are FDA-approved and prescribed by licensed physicians. This could result in some bad medical outcomes, not to mention the possible waste of money. But not all baby boomers are looking to juices and pills for that youthful glow. Del Marie Samson, of West Sacramento, who says she’s in her late 40s, and is a member of the meetup group, claims she found her secret to youthful energy through yoga. The practice of yoga, she says, has given her gifts that are “indescribable.”

“It always refreshes me. It balances me inside and out, internally, spiritually,” she says. Samson also believes that aging, in general, is a good thing. It gives people spiritual gifts after years of enduring life’s hard lessons. “You are more forgiving, more patient,” she says.

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