An ever greater number of our contemporaries will reach a very much greater age than their ancestors. Longevity is one of the most fertile fields for paradoxes: it is clear that the same causes do not produce the same effects at the age of ten and at the age of one hundred! On the subject of longevity, the "recipe book" is far from having been written. Nevertheless, the Fondation IPSEN has chosen a few of these paradoxes to discuss and try and explain them.

Longevity Without Aging: Possible Examples

Genes that Modulate Longevity and Senescence
How Mediterranean Fruit Flies Resist Aging, Live Long and Remain Fertile
Do the Oldest Old Grow Old More Slowly?
Resistance to Causes of Death: A Study of Cancer Mortality Resistance in the Oldest Old
Are Common Risk Factors Relevant in the Eldest Old?
The ?French Paradox? Nutrition and Longevity
Calorie Restriction: A Potent Mechanistic Solution to the Oxygen Paradox
Linguistic Ability in Early Life and Longevity: Findings from the Nun Study
Personality and Longevity: Paradoxes
Dying Healthy or Living Longer: A Society's Choice.