Dr. Valter Longo, also a gerontology professor and head of the U.S.C. Longevity Institute, believes the key to living past 100 is to start eating much less food.

The band's majority adhered to the live-fast-die-young philosophy. But following gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, Roxy, and other West Coast clubs, the band's guitarist, Valter Longo, an Italian Ph.D. student who was obsessed with longevity, struggled with a lifetime addiction to longevity drugs and alcohol.Currently, decades after ...