S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

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• Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
• In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those…
• Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like…
• Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
• The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period.…
• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer…
• Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
• 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…
• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
• We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
• The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the…
• Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the…
• People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
• In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
• The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle…
• 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…
• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
• The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
• When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart…
• Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your…

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