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" If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from. "

S. Jay Olshansky

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" 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? "

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" Find a way to get a full-body massage every day. "

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" The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body. "

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" Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will. "

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" Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare. "

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" The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing. "

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" 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. "

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" Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease. "

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" In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" 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. "

S. Jay Olshansky

" The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science. "

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" I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life. "

S. Jay Olshansky