In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically,… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it. — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
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 Image
