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“The study reported a 24 percent relative increase in the risk of breast cancer among a subset of women taking HRT, and headlines all over the world condemned HRT as a dangerous, cancer-causing therapy. All of a sudden, on the basis of this one study, hormone replacement treatment became virtually taboo. This reported 24 percent risk increase sounded scary indeed. But nobody seemed to care that the absolute risk increase of breast cancer for women in the study remained minuscule. Roughly five out of every one thousand women in the HRT group developed breast cancer, versus four out of every one thousand in the control group, who received no hormones.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“Unfortunately, in today’s unhealthy society, “normal” or “average” is not the same as “optimal.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“Our tactics in Medicine 3.0 fall into five broad domains: exercise, nutrition, sleep, emotional health, and exogenous molecules, meaning drugs, hormones, or supplements.”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. —BISHOP DESMOND TUTU”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity: The Million-Copy Bestseller
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity: The Million-Copy Bestseller
“I never won a fight in the ring;
I always won in preparation. —MUHAMMAD ALI”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity: The Million-Copy Bestseller
I always won in preparation. —MUHAMMAD ALI”
― Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity: The Million-Copy Bestseller
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