Big Quote by Elizabeth Blackburn

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

Cancer cells have had so many other things go wrong with them, genetic, non-genetic changes, that those cells, one of the things they then…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit…

— Rebecca Skloot

“People who exercise more and sleep better have longer telomeres.”

— Stefan Klein

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane and ill-advised, and the whole species' existence counts on them doing…

— Louis C. K

Studies of immigration show that this resistance to heart disease is not just something in African or Chinese genes. When people move from low-risk…

— Michael Greger

I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.

— Denise Austin

Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable…

— Dean Ornish

“Studies on high-fat diets have almost always been done in conjunction with a high-carb diet. We are now beginning to see that the mixture…

— Jimmy Moore