How do you live to be 100 — or more?
Joe Binder, who turns 107 Saturday, is an elder statesman even among the city’s 360 men and 1,700 women who are centenarians, and he has some sound advice, much of it backed by science.
Stay active, Binder counsels. He jokes about how the other old men from his neighborhood would spend their days sitting around outside.
“I never sat on that bench,” he quips. “And I’m the only one left.”
Stay social, Binder also advises — and never carry a grudge.
“I got hurt a lot and I turned the other cheek and that’s what keeps me going,” he told The Post.
Great advice, says Dr. Holly Phillips, a New York internist and Prevention magazine contributing editor.
“People who [have] plenty of social connections [have] a 50 percent higher likelihood of living longer than people [who don’t],” she says.
Binder admits smoking from age 13 to 45, but he benefits from good genes, says his niece, Linda Galasso-Ward, 64.
“Uncle Joe comes from a sector of Russian Jews who have the longevity gene,” she told The Post. “Fordham University wanted to do a study on him, but it was too much involved; he didn’t want to be bothered.”
As for Binder’s final advice — to drink red wine every day — Phillips reasons, “He’s 107. So whatever he’s doing, he’s doing right.”