S. Jay Olshansky Quotes

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age.

Aging is mostly the failure to repair.

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.

We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.

Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his own case the phenomena of precocious old age should turn to study the causes of it.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

We know that people who are born with shorter telomeres than normal also have a shorter lifespan. We know that shorter telomeres can cause a shorter lifespan.

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

Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

You get old, you slow down.

In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.

Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.

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

Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.

Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.

How young can you die of old age?

Telomeres are the ends of our chromosomes that control how long we live. As telomeres become shorter, then cells age and die more quickly. In simple terms, as your telomeres get shorter, your life gets shorter.

Telomerase Activation is the single most promising approach to reversing the effects of aging.