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.
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We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.
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If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.
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The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
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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.
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
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Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
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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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Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.