"How long you live is less important than……" — S. Jay Olshansky
"How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way."
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36 Quotes by S. Jay Olshansky
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the…
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Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears -…
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy…
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body…
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old…
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others,…
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The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite…
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Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the…
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