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“Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“Thanks to Blast data, researchers now know that natural walking speed is one of the most accurate predictors of mortality that we have. The slower you walk, statistically speaking, the sooner you are likely to check out.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“If you could put the benefits of exercise in a pill, it would be an astonishing pill,” says Simon Melov, a researcher at the Buck Institute who has studied exercise extensively. “The data is now coming out on the effects of chronic exercise, and it is astonishing in terms of its ability to prevent all sorts of age-related disease, everything from cancer through to neurodegenerative disease to heart disease, even arthritis. All of these things have vastly lowered risk in people who exercise regularly—and if that was in a pill, it would be insane.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“For a typical North American, their fat tissue is their biggest organ,” says James Kirkland,”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“1. Hipertensión arterial (>130/85). 2. Concentración alta de triglicéridos (>150 mg/dl). 3. Concentración baja de colesterol HDL (High Density Lipoproteins, o lipoproteínas de alta densidad) (<40 mg/dl en los hombres o”
― Bill Gifford, Sin límites: Outlive

“If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. —George Burns”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“Nuestras tácticas en la Medicina 3.0 se dividen en cinco grandes ámbitos: ejercicio, nutrición, sueño, salud emocional y moléculas exógenas, es decir, fármacos, hormonas o suplementos.”
― Bill Gifford, Sin límites: Outlive

“The problem is that most older people aren’t expected or encouraged to do much of anything, and it often hurts when they do, so they don’t. “For some generations, exercise has a stigma. You say ‘exercise,’ it turns people off,” says LeBrasseur, whose research center is connected to a senior living community. “The most striking thing to me is how people are building their world around the La-Z-Boy. They have their medication around them, and the TV, and their food. They’ve engineered the physical activity out of life.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“In a sense, exercise helps the body clean house. Intense activity triggers a cellular cleaning process called autophagy, from the Greek words for “self-eating.” Autophagy is crucial to our cells’ survival. Without it, our cells would quickly fill up with garbage and become dysfunctional, just like your house would if you quit taking out the trash. “Exercise is an incredibly effective mechanism to drive protein turnover, kind of flushing out the old proteins,” says LeBrasseur. It helps our cells clean house, so they can function better for longer.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“In the United States, rejuvenation fever exploded in the 1920s, when a patent-medicine salesman named John Brinkley popularized an operation that basically involved implanting fresh goat testicles into the scrota of worn-out middle-aged men.”
― Bill Gifford, Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever [or Die Trying]

“se descubrió que las personas mayores que se sometían a un programa regular de ejercicio cambiaban a un patrón de expresión génica más joven al cabo de seis meses.”
― Bill Gifford, Sin límites: Outlive