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Take your pulse. A resting heart rate should be between 60 and 80 beats per minute. Large variation can signal an underlying problem. HIT THEM GYM. Exercise improves your body and your brain. Research suggests it helps boost memory and keeps brain cells healthy. DO A CROSSWORD PUZZLE. Brain aging starts in your 20s,but mentally challenging tasks can help keep Aizheimer's disease at bay. FLOSS TOUR TEETH. People over 55 are four times more likely to floss daily than those between 18 and 29.Stacker.

BOOST YOUR BIG WORKOUTS with compound exercise to jack up testosterone production. Levels of the hormone begin to drop in your 30s, leading to a lose of energy and muscle, and increased risk of osteoporosis.

If you're having sex with more than one partner, get a test done." Men have been ignored in the push for STD screening "says David Bell.M.D.Most diseases will show up a few days to few weeks after infection, but biggest like HIV may take as long as three months, and some have no sympotoms.The good news: The tests are almost all urine-or salive-based,and most STD's when caught early, are curable or treatable with no lingering side effects.(Put off testing and you could end up shooting blanks or, you know,dying).

which may be asymmetrical, have irregular borders, change in size, and vary in colour. Anything black, bleeding, burning,or larger than a pencil eraser is suspect.

Sunburned a lot in high school?" it takes about 20 years for a skin cancer to develop.If you had a lot of sunburns as a teenager, we see the effects in your 30s and 40s,"says Clay Cockerell, M.D.,a dermatologist in Dallas

He may even have you rinse with an acetic acid solution, after which he'll use a special light that makes precancerous cells glow like E.T.'s finger. oral cancers is increasingly common in people younger than 40,strikes men more than women, and has a 50per cent mortality rate in the first five years."It moves ridiculously fast," says Howard S.Glazer, D.D.S.,a spokesman for the academy of General Dentistry. have a lesion that doesn't heal in a few days? say"aaaah"

"If it is high; and exercise or medication is applied, a patient's blood pressure will need more frequent monitoring, perhaps every three months or so, to make sure it's under control."says P.K.Shah, M.D., a men's health cardiology advisor.

If you have a family history of colon cancer. Other wise, hold off; the disease is relatively rare in people under 50,but belly up for annual digital exams, so the doctor can tell if your prostate is enlarged or has any ominous lumps.

If you have a family history of eye disease, start yearly ophthalmologist visits at age 35.Otherwise,after 40,go every other year." All the bad diseases tend to pop up after 40,"says Marguerite McDonald,M.D.,F.A.C.S

Every two years is enough to catch illness and diseases, as long as you don't have any major risk factors. If you're working with a new general practitioner, however, go yearly: In a recent survey,94 per cent of physicians said added face time allows for counseling on big-picture health habits

The test particularly important for anyone at risk of stroke, high blood pressure, or diabetes, irregularities can show whether those lurking health are surfacing. The retina" revels so much about the vascular system, including whether diabetes or high blood pressure has hurt the person," says Lucy Young, M.D.,a physician at the Massachusetts Eye an dear infirmary

VISIT YOUR DOCTOR FOR A FULL LIPID PROFILE-HDL,LDL,and triglycerides,if the latter two are hig,you"ll need more frequent screenings but if your levels look good,there's no reason to test every year.

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