Taos, NM: Aging isn’t what we’ve been led to think, according to Ellen Wood, Age-reversing Pioneer, columnist and author of The Secret Method for Growing Younger. “You don’t have to become weak, lose your faculties or stop living your dreams as you age. That’s just an idea we’ve all come to believe. It’s a powerful belief with negative results because what we believe can have a profound effect on the cells of our bodies, according to epigenetic scientists. This new science is also proving that we can change our beliefs and therefore change our biology,” says Wood.

Wood, speaking at the Carson Valley Arts Council in Minden on June 17 at 6:30 pm, will share the science behind her amazing success at growing younger and many of her personal practices. Admission is free; donations welcome.

At 73, Ellen Wood is living proof that it’s possible to grow younger and reverse the symptoms of aging most people accept as normal. After watching her mother waste away with Alzheimer’s, Wood expected the same to be her fate. Before long, this vibrant, retired marketing executive began to experience short-term memory loss and other distressing signs of progressive deterioration. Then something happened. Ellen Wood, at age 67, decided not to go that route. She made up her mind to grow younger and got busy finding out how she might do that.

Her own program, involving body, mind and spirit action steps, turned her life around. Wood regained her mental acuity; a stronger, more flexible body and the stamina and energy she’d had 30 years before. That’s when she knew she had to share her findings and help others grow younger as well.

After publishing her first book, Wood began speaking professionally for corporations and conferences as well as sharing her tips through a newspaper column, blog and newsletters. To find out more go to www.howtogrowyounger.com.