Brain Age

I think the people at Nintendo are onto something here.

If you wanted to live forever (or at least for a considerable amount time), you have three options:

1) drink from the fountain of youth
2) slow down or reverse the effects of aging
3) become a vampire

If you are searching for the fountain of youth, then you are watching too much TV. If you are considering becoming a vampire, then you are watching too much TV, day walker. Most of us are pretty much stuck with #2. Let's take a closer look.

Cosmetically: If you want to look younger, you have an army of products that will support your cause. Anti-aging skin cream, botox, spa-treatments, plastic-surgery, lotions, potions and the list goes on.

Physiologically: If you want your body to feel younger, you've got nutritional supplements such as Usana, Market America, etc...

So what is missing? You can look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, possess a clean bill of life but all of that don't matter if you have senior moments as often as you go to the washroom on any given day. However, staying ahead of the baby-boomer demographic curve, we now have:

Brain Age

The premise is that you can train your brain to be younger through repetitive yet entertaining exercises (on math and reading). This game is aiming straight at you, baby-boomer. Take a look at pictures of all the people on the website. Not Generation X. Not Generation Y. Perhaps I should shell out and prudently invest in a Nintendo DS, for the sake of a sharper mind.

Regardless, when I retire, I look forward to the daily ritual of Mah Jong to prevent alzheimer's. Hopefully when I am at that point in life, my age (65 years old) would equal to my age in looks (45 years old) and in thinking (21, I mean 20 years old, j/k).