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In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

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

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Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 22nd, 1954

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