Steven Gundry Quotes

I am in control of how I age, and I am in control of my health.

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.

I want to age with some dignity.

Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

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.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

One bit of advice someone gave me - which I haven't yet tried - is that if you go to an area where you might pick up a tummy bug, you should seek out the local probiotic yogurt. Eating it will introduce you to the local gut flora, apparently.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

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!

I've been amazed to learn all of the links between microbial health and our general health. This all started by trying to understand fermentation. The fermentation outside your body, and its relation to the fermentation inside your body. The key to health is fermentation, it turns out.

A 70-year-old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a 40-year-old. Conversely, a hard-living 30-year-old who has been inattentive to his health and well-being may have the biology of a man many years older.

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

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.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.

All would live long, but none would be old.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

In my opinion, everybody is getting older and older. We have a great deal of dementia because nobody grew old enough to get it.

I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.