Joel Fuhrman Quotes

If I'm not hungry and I'm busy, I am quite happy to skip a meal. It's informal intermittent fasting. I feel strongly that this is one of the strongest areas of longevity research.

You want to shock the body and not be constant. Intermittent fasting is an increasingly popular way: Skip breakfast, for example. Also lifting weights, losing your breath from exercise and alternating between hot and cold temperatures. We think these measures will only get us to 100 to 122 years old. That's our natural lifespan.

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

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

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

Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

We all try to increase our length of life, but we all have to pass. It's highly interesting as a lyricist.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.

That there is as yet no drug for immortality - or, for that matter, for muscle growth in the infirm - does not mean that immortality is theoretically or even technically impossible.

I fast all the time - daily. It's such a counterintuitive thing because, my whole life, I've been training to get bigger.

Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that's what we all want.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

The worthless usually live long.

There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

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.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.