Cynthia Kenyon Quotes

• 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.

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  Numbers, Risk, Age

  "Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is heading to Google" by Stephanie M. Lee, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2014.

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• Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

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  Powerful, Data, Brain

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• 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.

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  Running, Country, People

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Pasta, Sugar

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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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  Thinking, Mutation, Needs

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

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  Principles, Understood, Ifs

  "Finding the Fountain of Youth / Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us?" by David Ewing Duncan, www.sfgate.com. May 29, 2005.

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• Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

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  Aging, Imagine, Slow Down

  "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Heart, Healthy

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

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  Nice, People, Too Short

  "Finding the Fountain of Youth / Where will UCSF biochemist Cynthia Kenyon's age-bending experiments with worms lead us?". Interview with David Ewing Duncan, www.sfgate.com. May 29, 2005.

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• A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.

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  Beautiful, People, Tree

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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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  Sweet, Chocolate, Too Much

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• You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

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  Careers, Two, Healthy

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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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  Long, Mutants, Normal

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• It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

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  Made, Escalators

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I loved the idea that biology was logical.

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  Ideas, Biology, Logical

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• The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

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  Age, Disease, Increase

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• If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

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  Use, Way, Aging

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

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  Mutation, Normal, Worms

  "Sugar Shortens Life Span in Worms", abcnews.go.com. November 4, 2009.

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• I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

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  Thrill, Kicks, Learning New Things

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• The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Ideas, Unexpected, Ageing

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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