S. Jay Olshansky Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.”

“The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.”

“What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.”

“A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.”

“Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.”

“Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?”

“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.”

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

“Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.”