“We’re still down to diet and exercise,” said Dr S Mitchell Harman, a former Johns Hopkins researcher who is now director and president of the Kronos Longevity Research Institute.
Experts say that with medical advances, we should continue to live longer. “There’s a feeling that with improved health care, humans will one day be living to 100,” said Siu Sylvia Lee from Cornell University, a researcher who studies the genetics of ageing. “I think it’s possible, but there’s no data to support it. We’ll have to wait and see.”
—Dennis O’Brien / LATWP