Quotes by S. Jay Olshansky - Page 2

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Aging
Duration
Humans
Inevitable
Life Span
Mice
Recognizing
Life Work Focus
Dogs
Enhancing
Span
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Cancer
Disease
Heart Disease
Return
Sensory
Additional
Stroke
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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 / Researcher
Aging
Disability
Frailty
Medicine
Public Health
Unhealthy
Extend
Time Period
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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 / Researcher
Ageing
Cures
Immortality
Prophetic
Warning
Would Be
Bought
Claiming
Extended
Nigh
Pill
Slow
Search
Sold
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Birth
Cancer
Cholera
Decades
Expectancy
Increase
Life Expectancy
Miraculous
Old Age
Smallpox
Welcome
Life Age Old Age
Added
Chronic
Cure
Diseases
Vast
Three-Year
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Age
Accompany
Accustomed
Artificial
Body
Born
Clean
Clean Water
Died
Disease
Engineering
Genetic Engineering
Humans
Joints
Majority
Plumbing
Remember
Should
Surgery
Water
Much
Before
Vast
Ever
Genetic
Grown
Indoor
Infectious
Laser
Longer
Wonders
Parts
Replacement
Vast Majority
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The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
S. Jay Olshansky / Researcher
Atrophy
Damage
Dna
Havoc
Hips
Humans
Joints
Lifetime
Loss
Mass
Prehistoric
Muscle
Accumulate
Bodies
Bone
Cell
Cope
Extended
Worked
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