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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth. - S. Jay Olshansky
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We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly. - S. Jay Olshansky
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work. - S. Jay Olshansky
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Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure. - S. Jay Olshansky
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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. - S. Jay Olshansky
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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
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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life. - S. Jay Olshansky
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way. - S. Jay Olshansky
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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. - S. Jay Olshansky
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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
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Find a way to get a full-body massage every day. - S. Jay Olshansky
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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare. - S. Jay Olshansky
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Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. - S. Jay Olshansky
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone. - S. Jay Olshansky
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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself. - S. Jay Olshansky
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I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. - S. Jay Olshansky
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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. - S. Jay Olshansky
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