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S. Jay Olshansky
American
Scientist
Born:
Feb 22
,
1954
Age
Aging
Life
Live
People
You
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Smoking
Alcohol
Once
Sun
Obesity
About
Excessive
Consumption
Like
Accelerate
Done
Influence
Process
Much
Your
Avoid
Aging
Exposure
Things
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
S. Jay Olshansky
Life
Technology
Harmful
Members
Out
Adopting
Habits
Advances
Missing
Sure
Least
Educated
Behavioral
Shorten
Much
Population
Medical
Medical Technology
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
S. Jay Olshansky
Time
Health
You
Science
People
Medicine
Frailty
Disability
Longer
Period
Make
Nor
Goal
Time Period
Itself
Want
Unhealthy
Public
Public Health
Should
Aging
Ever
Extend
Thing
Extension
Last
We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.
S. Jay Olshansky
People
Some People
Field
Older
Others
Rapidly
Some
Slowly
More
Tend
Know
Than
Aging
Grow
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
See
Some
Variation
Area
Open
Like
Look
Parts
Brain
Up
Same
Different
Process
Body
Different Parts
Aging
Basic
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
Physician
Ancient
Arabic
Immortality
Seductive
Physical
Sought
Hindus
Greek
Century
Believed
Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
S. Jay Olshansky
Time
Age
People
Old
Some People
Skin
Spend
Rapidly
Outdoors
Some
Someone
Seems
Only
He
He Or She
Look
She
Looks
Because
Lot
Very
Just
Just Because
Mean
Who
A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
S. Jay Olshansky
People
World
Lifetime
Come
Calories
Japanese
Low
Naturally
Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.
S. Jay Olshansky
History
People
Rare
Older
Throughout
Always
Were
Existed
May
Older People
Researchers have been looking for biomarkers of age for a long time and have failed. People sell tests out there to measure your biological age, and none of them work. There's no evidence that you can measure biological age with any reliability.
S. Jay Olshansky
Work
Time
You
Age
People
Long
Long Time
Looking
Evidence
Reliability
Out
Failed
None
Been
Tests
Sell
Any
Them
Your
Measure
Researchers
Biological
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Better
Car
Filter
Run
Exercise
Makes
Equivalent
Lot
Oil
Roughly
When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Heart
People
Attacks
Take
Know
Because
Effects
Begin
Hit
Die
Notice
Your
Aging
The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.
S. Jay Olshansky
Money
Slow
Field
Research
Sold
Claiming
Characters
Would-Be
Immortality
Prophetic
Bought
Pill
Cures
Hands
Ageing
Working
Warning
Full
Search
Extended
Nigh
Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.
S. Jay Olshansky
History
Will
Medicine
Hunt
Someone
Advances
Longevity
Greatest
Pill
Been
Achieved
The History Of
Succeed
Eventually
I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.
S. Jay Olshansky
Life
Will
Delay
Doubt
Way
Find
More
Likely
Little
Avoid
Eventually
Extended
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
Best
Live
Our
Everything
Out
Possible
Potential
Disability
Disease
Little
Right
If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Will
Other
Stroke
Find
About
Five
Person
Die
Died
Who
Things
I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
S. Jay Olshansky
Death
Fear
Aging
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
Long
Important
Healthy
Live
Way
Along
How
Than
Less
The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. Jay Olshansky
Work
Say
Vast
Vast Majority
Supplements
Studies
Majority
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
You
World
Protection
Rare
Long
Animals
Live
Enough
Our
Once
See
Only
Protected
Very
Laboratory
Ageing
Create
Organisms
Pets
Humans
Basically
External
Zoo
External World
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
Time
Problem
Think
Other
Way
Independent
Attack
Itself
Model
Disease
Diseases
Modern
Going
After
Process
Ageing
Medical
Basic
Designed
Basically
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.
S. Jay Olshansky
Life
Religion
Culture
Long
Live
Every
Society
Dramatic
Failed
Longer
Course
Always
Existed
Extension
Humans
Desired
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works.
S. Jay Olshansky
Other
Intervention
Evidence
Though
Soon
Come
Scientists
Handful
Up
Selling
Begin
May
Influence
Aging
Works
Shown
Even
Species
Humans
There is no empirical evidence to suggest that ageing in humans has been modified by any means, nor is there evidence that it is even possible to measure biological age. And nothing has been demonstrated to be true when it comes to anti-ageing medicines.
S. Jay Olshansky
Age
Be True
Nothing
Evidence
Possible
Has-Been
True
Empirical
Been
Nor
Any
Ageing
Modified
Means
Measure
Even
Biological
Humans
Suggest
Medicines
There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.
S. Jay Olshansky
Today
Somebody
Birth
Alive
Possibility
Out
Reliable
India
Records
Never
Over
Come
Know
Likelihood
Because
Either
China
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