S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years.

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

I think anyone who wants to live past 100 can do it.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

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

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

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.

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.

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance of keeping people so healthy that at 90 they'll carry on waking up in the same physical state as they were at the age of 30, and their probability of not waking up one morning will be no higher than it was at the age of 30.

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!

Whatever I can do for the longevity of my life, I'm going to do.

People assume that they will retire at 60 and die when they are 70. If you can think positive, live a healthy life, listen to your body and follow a regime, then you can live for 100 years, healthy and happy.

Live to 97 and you can do anything.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

Life expectancy in America is about 79, we should be able to live to 92. Somewhere along the line, we're leaving 13 years on the table. So my quest is -- how do we get those extra 13 years? And how do we make those extra 13 years good years?

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!

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

In a long and healthy life, which is what most of us have, there is plenty of time.