S. Jay Olshansky Zitate auf Englisch

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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?

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.

S. Jay Olshansky

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

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

S. Jay Olshansky

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

S. Jay Olshansky

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.

S. Jay Olshansky

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

S. Jay Olshansky

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

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

S. Jay Olshansky

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

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

S. Jay Olshansky

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

S. Jay Olshansky

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

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

S. Jay Olshansky

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

S. Jay Olshansky

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

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

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?

S. Jay Olshansky

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