The comment you're replying to suggest something slightly different. It suggests that you do things that will minimize the chances that you will look older than you are.
While I don't think it's a cure any more than locking your door is a cure for theft, it does improve your chances of getting hired in the world we live in today.
Great advice, if we could all look younger when we want, we would! A lot of it depends on genetics. We'd all exercise more if our knees and backs weren't grinding down from years of use.
Any over 50 female developers care to respond to this "look younger" advice?
Not developers, but I work with a lot of professional women and basically every single one who is old enough to have gray hair, colors her hair to hide the gray.
I've posted about this before but Ginni Rometty, who is 61 years old, has perfect blond hair with no gray; she obviously has it colored. She is the CEO of IBM and feels the need to do this... that gives you a sense of the amount of pressure on professional women to look young.
I do understand that women have a different experience than men in tech, and everywhere for that matter, regardless of age. I'm sorry for this, I didn't create the situation, but I live in it. I want to be part of that solution. That's not what I'm going to discuss next, though.
Working out with a bad knees and back is not that hard, and is really common with runners who started in high school. Extremely common in fact, especially with road runners. I see these people in the gym all the time lifting weights because it's so low impact, while at the same time being a primary defense against osteoporosis. Nothing that you do can replace it and I would strongly encourage it after talking to your doctor.
