Did you know that our voices can age faster than the rest of our bodies? It can start happening in our 40s — oh my!

And almost anything — from what we eat and drink to the meds we take — can give us raspy and shaky voices that can make us sound much older than we are.

Here’s a blog on 50-year-old Lynne Wallis’ journey to sound younger. She did it!

Here are some great tips from AARP. It’s time to stop texting and tweeting, and start singing, whispering and reading aloud.

And if all else fails, you can try a voice lift. Yes — really, there is a surgery for that.

Pam Parker is the editor of Lake Erie LifeStyle, Her Times and House to Home at the Erie Times-News in Erie, Pa.