# Signs of aging **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-of-aging/372373 "2006-09-12T04:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-of-aging/372373/41 "2006-09-14T07:19:56Z")
[QUOTE=mbh] Well, you can clean _my_ artifact any time you want. [/QUOTE] So you have a really old artifact,…right? ---
**Author:** ![Marienee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Marienee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marienee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-of-aging/372373/42 "2006-09-14T09:19:45Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Really? Will this make them go away or prevent new ones? Thanks. [/QUOTE] It made mine entirely go away; they appeared when I was in my late 30s. I gathered then that age spots are caused by one of three things – aging (which seems unlikely in your case); problems with liver function (some people call them liver spots and that’s why); and mineral deficiency. However at that time anyway I couldn’t get ay kind of handle on which mineral/s were the problem. Which seems like it should be easy to find out but wasn’t. I did narrow it down to those three, though to be entirely honest I do not recall why I settled on them. Aging’s effect on my memory no doubt. Anyway, mine went away entirely with a liquid trace mineral supplement. Then it occurred to me that if I had a trace mineral deficiency I probably ought to consider…so then I started taking a mineral supplement with trace minerals. Now we have moved to a place with a very high mineral content in the water and I don’t take them any more. Spots haven’t come back yet. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-of-aging/372373/43 "2006-09-14T13:14:39Z")
Well, I just bought my first automatic transmission car. No more popping the clutch and burning out of the bank parking lot for Gramma Woo. Damn. I just can’t handle the standard shift in traffic these days. It makes me cranky. But then, so many things make me cranky . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signs-of-aging/372373.md?page=2)