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Cynthia Kenyon
American
Scientist
Born:
1955
Aging
Better
Could
Life
People
You
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Sugar is the new tobacco.
Cynthia Kenyon
Sugar
New
Tobacco
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
Cynthia Kenyon
You
Age
Single
Enormous
Beneficial
Range
Postpone
Risk
Factor
Effects
Disease
Diseases
Essentially
Then
Aging
Whole
Largest
Wide
Wide Range
Number
It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
Cynthia Kenyon
Science
Made
Could
Stepping
Like
Escalator
Just
Anything
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
Cynthia Kenyon
Life
Worms
Mutations
Life Span
Could
Discovered
Normal
Normal Life
Span
Double
Early
Life's too short to not be around nice people.
Cynthia Kenyon
Life
People
Nice
Too
Around
Short
Nice People
One thing that's likely: How you look as you age is hereditary. Some of my family members, for example, look younger than their real age. And people have mistaken me for 30, even 25.
Cynthia Kenyon
Family
Me
You
Age
People
Example
Members
One Thing
Some
For Example
Look
Likely
Mistaken
How
Real
Than
Family Members
Younger
Even
Thing
Hereditary
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
Cynthia Kenyon
Life
Change
Our
Rule
Out
Possible
Gene
Life Span
Could
True
Know
Human
Span
Double
Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.
Cynthia Kenyon
Day
Heart
Will
Healthy
Young
Believe
One Day
Able
Take
Longer
Pill
Maybe
Happen
Us
Much
Keeps
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
Cynthia Kenyon
Life
Speeds
Run
Had
Genes
Perhaps
Because
Clock
Did
Different
Process
Spans
Different Life
Organisms
Regulate
Aging
Regulatory
Species
Universal
Set
The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
Cynthia Kenyon
Hope
Increase
Postpone
Diseases
It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.
Cynthia Kenyon
Changes
Worm
Unlikely
Only
Divide
Dividing
Adult
Most
Because
Becomes
Cells
Stop
Influencing
Shorten
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
Cynthia Kenyon
Speed
Worms
Our
Way
About
Similar
Higher
Study
Learn
Controlled
Process
Then
Organisms
Use
Aging
Humans
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
Cynthia Kenyon
Food
Day
Fruit
Every Day
Too Much
Every
Too
Stay
Eat
Some
Per
Except
Almost
Cent
Processed
Chocolate
Much
Sweets
Away
You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.
Cynthia Kenyon
You
Healthy
Would
Would-Be
Stay
Could
How
Different
Fascinating
Two
Careers
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