John Cameron Quotes

At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

Longevity is a big deal.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Well, we all age, but I'd been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

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.

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

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

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

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

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

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?

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

My doctor told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.

I just don't have time to get old!

I'm a strong believer in modern medicine. I think it has its use in society. I think it adds longevity to our life expectancy.

It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success.

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.