“[Kessler is] an intrepid explorer of all things anti-aging.”—Psychology Today“Kessler is fun to read as she perkily pushes herself to become biologically younger.”—HARPER'S“...a one-woman guinea pig gamely trotting down a dozen different paths in search of the bubbling waters.”—New York Times Science Times"The human smile is an anti-gravity device. Kessler's delightful, witty book actually takes 20 years from your face!--Mary Roach, author of Stiff"Lauren Kessler's bold, badass take on aging solves one of our greatest modern dilemmas: how to stay young and vibrant without spending the rest of our lives obsessing over how to stay young and vibrant. I feel a decade younger just having read it."--Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women"Lauren Kessler has journeyed to the far frontiers of the anti-aging movement and, using herself as an ever-willing guinea pig, delivers insights that are at once funny, reassuring, practical and real."--Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter“Counterclockwise [a] smart, inspiring narrative [that] identifies the sensible, the ridiculous, and the dangerous and teaches that your birth date rarely reflects true age.”—Sally Koslow, author of Slouching Toward Adulthood