Keep Health Up

Rita Levi Montalcini became a Nobel Prize-winning scientist for discovering of growth factors in Physiology/Medicine in 1986. Today she celebrates her 100th birthday. Yeas, she is 100 years old and says that even though she is about to turn 100, her mind is sharper than it was she when she was 20!

So, today she shares with a secret helped her to stay healthy so long.

“Above all, don’t fear difficult moments,” she said. “The best comes from them.”

“I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom,” the scientist said.

Her white hair elegantly coifed and wearing a smart navy blue suit, she raised a glass of sparkling wine in a toast to her long life.