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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…
• Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could…
• 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…
• We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and…
• 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…
• 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…
• The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold…
• Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician…

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