You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't, you need a gene to be active for it.

- Cynthia Kenyon

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.

- Cynthia Kenyon

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 di…

- Cynthia Kenyon

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 …

- Cynthia Kenyon

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

- Cynthia Kenyon

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

- Cynthia Kenyon

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

- Cynthia Kenyon

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.

- Cynthia Kenyon

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

- Cynthia Kenyon