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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

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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?

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

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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.

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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.

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The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

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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.

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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: February 22nd, 1954

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