by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Mar 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I’m asked about the secret to exceptional longevity – a question I get often – my usual answer is to “choose long-lived parents”. Upon making this statement to a well known scientist in the field of aging, her glib answer was that she was then going to buy a...
by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the last quarter of 2022 I was invited to Australia to advise the Queensland Government on a global health issue that is particularly problematic in their State – childhood obesity. The reason I was invited was because of an article my colleagues and I published in...
by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Life expectancy is an actuarial/demographic metric that reflects the survival and longevity dynamics of a population based on their observed death rates at all ages – usually in a given calendar year. That’s the formal definition, which is unintelligible to many....
by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you had asked me in early September whether I would be invited to testify before the U.S. Congress in mid-September on any topic, I would have laughed it off, but that is exactly what happened. On the 15th of September I testified before the U.S. Congressional...
by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Sep 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
When I give a formal talk on aging at a conference, one of the more interesting attributes about human longevity I mention that tends to shock the audience is the predictability of the survival distribution. My colleague and I have referred to this consistently...
by S. Jay Olshansky, Ph.D. | Aug 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
A story appeared in the news on August 14, 2022 suggesting that science is one step away from enabling people to become immortal. There are several proponents of this view, but the most prominent is Ray Kurzweil. Don’t worry, there is ZERO science to support this...
