Michio Kaku Quotes

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.

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.

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

Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field.

Well, we can study aging in people, but of course those studies take decades. So what we try to do is we use simpler organisms to try and understand the basic mechanisms and so in my laboratory, for example, we use things like simple baker's yeast that we use to make bread.

I thought that tackling aging and the mechanisms that promote life would be worth figuring out. I wanted to learn why it is that some people are healthier than others and why some people live to 110 and others only to 60 or 70.

I think everybody plays a role in their own aging. Some people accelerate it. Some people slow it down. Some people manage to reverse it. It all depends on how much you are invested in the hypnosis of our social condition. So if you believe that at a certain age you have to die and you become dysfunctional, then you will.

Some grow young, some grow cold...

[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.

Longevity is a big deal.

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.

When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

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

Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

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

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.