Floss your teeth The gerontologist Dr Michael Roizen claims that flossing your teeth every day can add six years to your life.

用牙线清洁牙齿。 老年医学家迈克尔罗伊森博士称每天用牙线清洁牙齿能多活6年。

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But the 47-year-old gerontologist (who studies the process of ageing) says his belief that he might live to the very ripe old age of 1, 000 is founded not on faith but science.

不过这位47岁的老年病学家(研究老化过程者)表示，他相信自己有可能活到1000岁，是根据科学而不是根据信仰。

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Steven Austad, a University of Texas gerontologist who has been skeptical about resveratrol’s apparent longevity-enhancing effects, called the results “particularly significant.”

曾对白藜芦醇具有明显延长寿命的作用持怀疑态度的德克萨斯大学老年病学家Steven Austad称这一结果“特别显著”。

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"For the first time it is abundantly clear that aging in mammals can be slowed down, " says University of Michigan gerontologist Richard Miller.

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Demko, the Florida Atlantic gerontologist, says boomers are "rule-breaking nontraditionalists" who succeed in making their new ideas traditional in less than a generation.

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Steven Austad, a gerontologist based at the University of Texas, warns that such therapies are many years away and may never arrive at all.

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