Top 36 Quotes by Cynthia Kenyon

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.

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.

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.

You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

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.

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.