Dr. Florence Comite

There are more and more people we know for a fact that are living beyond 100.

I do think 120 is possible in our lifetime.

And the way to do that is not how to worry about longevity, but rather the quality of your life.

think of it as genetics and what you've inherited in your DNA, which doesn't change, your DNA doesn't change, but there's also a field of how your DNA interacts with the way you live life.

And I think of it as your health story, meaning the way you sleep or don't eat, exercise, do anything restorative, like maybe yoga or Qigong, any of that affects the way your genes express themselves.

So there's an interplay between genetic makeup

and how you choose to live life.

That's why even identical twins are different.

So my twin and I like different things.

We have different taste buds.

I can live on sushi.

She doesn't like fish.

She's an amazing gardener.

I murder plants, not people, but plants.

And all along, there are other differences in the way our bodies express health and disease that we take care of in different ways.

There are certain medications she can take that I can't.

And all of us are made in that fashion.

So the real strength in understanding the path we're on is to look, if we can, to our parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, because they have expressed diseases that are written into their DNA.

But by living and making certain choices in life, you can stop that expression of disease.

You can actually turn a switch and change the way your body operates so that you don't have to get it's not inevitable.