John Mackey Quotes

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

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

I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

We are living longer, and we need to live better.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

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.

There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

As we get better at reversing aging it will be possible to take one medicine and within weeks feel and even look younger. Imagine going to a doctor to get a pill for diabetes, and this same medicine will prevent heart disease, Alzheimer's, cancer, and will give you more vitality too.

I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.

[Anti-aging therapies will] never be perfect, but we'll be able to fix the things that 200-year-olds die of before we have any 200-year-olds, and the same for 300 and 400 and so on.

In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.