Deepak Chopra Quotes

Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.

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

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.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.

We think there are lifestyle factors that boost telomerase naturally.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

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.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

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.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am.

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

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

I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.

Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

… the silent artillery of time

Progress of preventive medicine as a preservative, made more effective by the progress of reason and social order, will eventually banish communicable or contagious illnesses and those diseases in general that originate in climate, food, and the nature of work…a time will come when death would result only from extraordinary accidents or the more and more gradual wearing out of vitality….Cannot the span constantly increase between the moment he begins to live and the time when naturally, without illness or accident, he finds life a burden?

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.