While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
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… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
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… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share
