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. S. Jay Olshansky ageassociatedecline share on social
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life. S. Jay Olshansky extendforeverhealthy Change image and share on social
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 archipelagocaloriejapanese Change image and share on social
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 agingfieldgrow Change image and share on social
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure. S. Jay Olshansky curedeathgame Change image and share on social
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 ageattackbasic share on social
