Yoga might make us feel more youthful, but a new yoga class promises to get rid of wrinkles, frown lines, and crow's feet.

I once believed that a facelift was an easy non-invasive procedure that many women of a certain age chose to undergo. I was young and naive and dating a guy who had a one such woman as a grandmother. We would visit her in Florida during our vacations and she'd great us at the door with smooth, wrinkle-free cheeks and eyelids pulled back taught and tight. At the country club in her retirement community other septuagenarian beauties would cut in front of me on the buffet line. Each year I'd notice that the few who once looked, well, their age, were now also boasting the tight cheeks and wide eyes that made them look continually surprised.

The Emerging Researchers in Ageing conference was held this week in Brisbane and things aren't looking good.

Mair Underwood, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Queensland has found that older members of the Australian population are determined to delay and even reverse the signs of aging with the usual weapons: cosmetic surgery, botox, etc.