S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

Don't get old, if you can avoid it.

How young can you die of old age?

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.

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.

Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.

Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.

If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.

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.

But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.

All diseases run into one, old age.