For Clemens, the fitness fanatic, it is about longevity more than a logo.
With that in mind, could Clemens's most prevailing mantra to Pettitte be that the measure of the man will be his longevity more than his logo?
Through our own mortal ingenuity, we are reaching a historical phase when we are beginning to fear old age and longevity more than we fear death.
Like other super-centenarians (110 or older), the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves had her own explanation of her longevity – more than 10 hours of sleep a night and lifelong abstinence from alcohol and cigarettes.
While many studies have emphasized the benefits of red wine to cardiovascular health and longevity, more than 100 studies in 25 countries have linked these benefits to moderate consumption of any type of alcoholic beverage.
According to William C. Dement and Christopher Vaughan, the authors of The Promise of Sleep, "Healthful sleep has been empirically proven to be the single most important factor in predicting longevity, more influential than diet, exercise, or heredity".
Moreover, if we are to learn from the two manipulations most reliably known to increase mouse lifespan, loss of GH / IGF-I signals and dietary restriction, we'd walk away the notion that, at a systemic level, decreased expression of certain HSP-encoding genes (e.g., Hsph1) is associated with longevity more so than increased HSP expression [ 28, 39].
In the sensitive Kisumu line, the microsporidian decreased longevity slightly, but in both resistant lines (RS Pand ZANU), infection decreased longevity by more than a third: from 9.9 to 6.0 days for ZANU and from 10.4 to 6.7 for RSP, respectively (Table 2).
Dr. Guarente and Dr. Sinclair were ridiculed when they first started looking for longevity genes more than 15 years ago, because aging was then considered to be an intractable problem.
One of the little-discussed issues in this is that forging a career in the media, having longevity, requires more than luck: it needs graft, aptitude, networking and reinvention.
Bentley ([1979]) reported trees in an understory with leaf longevity of more than two years.
