Baby boomers would like to believe that terms like “over the hill” will never apply to them. And they could, in fact, be right. While there’s no stopping time, there’s plenty you can do to foil the aging process. “We now have a much greater understanding of aging mechanisms,” says Dean Ornish, professor of medicine at the University of California-San Francisco, “to the extent that we know which changes help you live longer but, more important, age better.”

How well you age depends on the intricate interplay between your genes and your lifestyle, which determines how quickly your cells divide, repair breakages in DNA, and die. Your chronological age doesn’t necessarily correlate with how old your body thinks it is.

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