It’s a fact! Smiling makes you appear more attractive and more youthful. You might say, it’s like getting a free facelift. Better yet, science has shown the mere act of smiling can lift your mood, lower your stress, boost your immune system and possibly even prolong your life. How can this be true? As a pharmacist I know that smiling begins a chemical reaction in the brain releasing hormones like dopamine and serotonin. When you smile, your brain sees the muscle activity and assumes that humor is happening. Turns out, your brain is a sucker for a smile whether you’re grinning because your genuinely joyous or just pretending. Right here at the University of Kansas they proved that smiling can lower your heart rate and blood pressure reducing your stress. So smile and get a the added bonus of looking younger and more attractive! Smiling is a facelift I can afford.