"If you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself." ~ Albert Einstein

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From a study of more than forty-two thousand consecutive autopsies, centenarians— those who live past one hundred—were found to have succumbed to diseases in 100 percent of the cases examined. Though most were perceived, even by their physicians, to have been healthy just prior to death, not one “died of old age.”1 Until recently, advanced age had been considered to be a disease itself,2 but people don’t die as a consequence of maturing. They die from disease, most commonly heart attacks

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