Words matter. These are the best S. Jay Olshansky Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I’m hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
Just because someone looks old doesn’t mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There’s no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we’ll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don’t have reliable birth records.
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don’t have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
A lot of people are living in a dream world – they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn’t have to occur. They’ll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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 condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it’s free to everyone.
Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears – I could read stories like this endlessly.
You can open up a centenarian’s brain, and you’ll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don’t work.
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer’s?
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world… in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
We’re not trying to make us live forever; we’re not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we’re trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
