American - Scientist | February 22, 1954 -
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
S. Jay Olshansky
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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