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“These wearable, embeddable, ingestible, and portable devices collecting your health data are not working alone. They are all connected in an Internet of Body (IoB), working to amass a 360-degree view of your health.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” —Woody Allen, Filmmaker”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“8.​Stem cell exhaustion:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“In the first section of this book, you will discover the amazing new technologies that will, within the next five to twenty years, without hyperbole, change everything that you currently know and think about lifespan and health care.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“But what if the number could be greater than that? Can you believe that it may be possible to live to age 200 or even longer? I can.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“After all, as Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD famously wrote, all we need to do is “live long enough to live forever.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Grain Brain and Brain Wash Dr. David Perlmutter) to manage my metabolism—at least until the TAME trial is completed!”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Every disease that’s with us is caused by DNA. And every disease can be fixed by DNA.” —Dr. George Church, Geneticist”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Terry Grossman, MD, regenerative medicine expert and author of multiple books on aging, including Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever, runs one of the few authorized stem cell therapy treatment centers in the United States.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“it took two hundred years from the first smallpox outbreak in 1595 before a vaccine was invented to prevent the disease. From the first instance of polio in 1895, scientists worked for more than fifty years before a successful vaccine was developed. But within just twelve months of the discovery of SARS-CoV-2, multiple highly effective vaccines were shipped around the world.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“THE NEAR HORIZON OF LONGEVITY: LIVING TO BE 150 YEARS OLD”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Ultimately, these drugs would treat one disease,” says David Sinclair, “but unlike drugs of today, they would prevent twenty others.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“At a minimum, you should have a complete annual physical exam that includes blood count and metabolic blood chemistry panels, a thyroid panel, and testing to reveal potential deficiencies in nutrients such as vitamin D, vitamin B, iron, and magnesium. If you are sexually active, you should also be checked for STDs.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“7.​Cellular senescence:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“In the years since these nine hallmarks were adopted, one more hallmark of aging has crept into consideration, and is believed by many to be an inseparable item on this list:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, written by one of my favorite authors, Jared Diamond.)”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“While the first genomic sequencing cost $3 billion and took fifteen years to complete, today a whole human genome can be sequenced in an afternoon for about $200.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“infant deaths decline from about 100 per 1,000 births in the year 1900 to about 0.1 per 1,000 today as maternal and neonatal care has improved.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“2.​Telomere attrition:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Ocean quahog clams’ lifespan can exceed 500 years;”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“One of my adventure-loving friends invited me to join him on an attempt to summit Mount Everest not long ago. It sounded exhilarating, but when I learned that up to 3.9 percent never make it home, I had to pass.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“On January 12, 2020, China publicly shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus, just twelve days after Wuhan Municipal Health Commission, China, reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Some ten to fifteen years ago that would have been completely unthinkable.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“Eric told me. “If we were to implement everything we know today, the average life expectancy should already be closer to one hundred—today!”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“You can live long enough to live forever.” —Ray Kurzweil, Inventor and Futurist “The first person to live to 150 has already been born.” —Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Biogerontologist “Until death, it is all life.” —Miguel de Cervantes, Author, Don Quixote”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“6.​Mitochondrial dysfunction:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“9.​Altered intercellular communication:”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“According to former US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, loneliness increases your risk of premature death as much as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day does.”
― Sergey Young, The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs that Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now

“And if you are not against saving some money, you will be happy to know that plant-based diets are estimated to cost $750 less per year, according to a study in the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition.”
― Sergey Young, 10 Simple Principles of a Healthy Diet: How to Lose Weight, Look Young and Live Longer