Jillian Michaels Quotes

We know that people who are born with shorter telomeres than normal also have a shorter lifespan. We know that shorter telomeres can cause a shorter lifespan.

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.

Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

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

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.

People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

Aging and its evidence remain lifes most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

The ears are the last feature to age.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

...what makes you older is when your bones, muscles and blood wear out, when the heart sinks into oblivion and all the houses you ever lived in are gone and people are not really certain that your civilization ever existed.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

The only thing some people do is get older.

There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.