I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
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.
'Fountain of youth' is actually kind of ambiguous - does it mean a way to make everyone healthy and let them live indefinitely? Or are we talking about something that would reset you physically to the way you were in your youth, which for various reasons not all of us would be enthused about?
Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
People die at 100 years old now. When I was a kid, people died at 67.
I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.
Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.
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.
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.
I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.
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.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
Biological age is the key component of the aging process.
After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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.
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
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?
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
