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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar.
- Immortality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
- Exponential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020