Maybe one day we will be able to take a pill that keeps us young and healthy much longer. I believe in my heart that this will happen.

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.

If I were a worm, I would rather be the long-lived mutant than the normal worm, that's for sure.

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.

Life's too short to not be around nice people.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.