The brutal reality about aging is that it has only an accelerator pedal. We have yet to discover whether a brake exists for people.

The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.