Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.
From Cynthia Kenyon
Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.
Life's too short to not be around nice people.
I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.
Sugar is the new tobacco.
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.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it.
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