Direct Quote by David Perlmutter

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend…

— Cynthia Kenyon

It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule…

— Cynthia Kenyon

Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules…

— David Andrew Sinclair

If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the…

— Andrew Niccol

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were…

— Michio Kaku

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”

— John J. Ratey

“There’s no doubt that your genes contain very important information, but 65% of the influence can be attributed to the environment and your lifestyle…

— Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

“It isn’t genes alone that determine our health destiny, but instead it’s our food and lifestyle choices. Genes do not control us, they respond…

— Anonymous

The environment can actually affect gene expression.

— Michael Marmot

“This exciting new field of epigenetics--meaning literally "around" the gene--allows us to see how environmental factors alter our gene expression in a specific place…

— Woodson Merrell

“epigenetic marks are the remote control not only to your health and longevity but also to how you pass your genes on to future…

— David Perlmutter