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Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.

All that matters is that I stay healthy.

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.