S Jay Olshansky Quotes

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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?
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
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.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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.
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
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