Senior Fitness.com - Anti-aging Strategies for Lifetime Health and Senior Fitness

Welcome to Senior Fitness.com! Your #1 source for lifetime fitness information; vital strategies for promoting senior health, life-long strength, vigor and independence. Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior health and fitness into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here. Begin by reading How to best use this site: Take the tour. Then act on the knowledge; you can improve health and fitness at any age by using the strategies on these pages.

The Latest Word on Senior Fitness News Roundup - Recent health news worth talking about Cancer Survivors: The Good News is that you can Fully regenerate ?your ZBody every 7 years 'HiCy' drug regimen reverses ms symptoms in selected patients Promising advances in islet cell transplants for diabetes Researchers important markers of high risk of type 2 diabetes. Bypassing the insulin highway (Appearing in JBC online April 25) The 6 Critical Keys to Dynamic Senior Living Anti-aging - Slowing the processes involved in aging, and delaying their consequences. The Fountain Of Youth Finding the Best Anti-Aging Lotion: Relieve Your Aging Fears You Can Have a Longer Life By Using An Anti-aging Diet The Skin Rejuvenation Tale of Beauty and the Beasties Fighting the Visible Signs of Aging Exercise - The primary driver for reversing age-related functional decline. Aerobics - to maintain and recover your heart/lung/vascular fitness. Weight Training - to trigger your anabolic, or muscle-building process; muscle you need to look good and move well, be stronger than you look and dissolve fat 24 hours a day. Yoga, Pilates, Stretching & Balance - Building poise, posture, flexibility, strength, endurance, balance and grace, while connecting with the spirit within - speed and power aren't the whole story. Exercises for golf Seniors Taking Calcium Supplementation Benefit From Reduced Bone Loss Motivation; Of course you care what others say about you! Papallacta: Rest, Relaxation, Health And Ecoturism Free Tattoo Course For Everyone! Nutrition - the Raw Material for Senior Health and Lifetime Fitness Eat Right For A Harder, Fitter, Leaner Body Eat smart Healthy Trans Fats vs. Unhealthy Trans Fats Revealed Joint health Benefits Of Garlic Rest, Recovery and Relaxation - Time for the body to repair and strengthen itself. Gardening - Profoundly spiritual – rest, recovery and recreation for the soul, mind and body. Insight Meditation Helps You to Bring Calmness In Your Mind! Gain 100% Control Over Your Relaxation and Sleeping Time Insomnia: Causes and Cures The Top Six Massage Techniques Marriage Counseling--Are You a Workaholic? Supplements - Exercise right, eat correctly; is that all it takes? Not as seniors! Supplements make up for the losses of aging. Anti Aging Natural Supplements And Natural Harmony And Vibration Anti Aging and Anti-Aging Supplements, Vitamins and Nutrition Fulvic acid N-Acetyl-Cysteine, The Anti-Aging Supplement! Knowing free radicals and antioxidant food : the way to stay young Thinking and Attitude - One person's junk is another's treasure; it's all a matter of thinking and attitude. Exercise can be an extremely pleasurable experience; you just have to get your brain to think so. Hypnosis for Change - Ancient and mysterious; a powerful modern tool for change. Do you wish to be somehow different, better than you were yesterday? Then make hypnosis a part of your strategy of improvement. Neuro Linguistic Programming - NLP - Strategies and tools for rapid mental and behavioral change that serve your goals. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - Rapid emotional and physical healing by melding acupressure meridian stimulation with linguistic suggestion Acceptance: Life on Life's Terms Think Positive! Set a Present Moment Agenda with Five Spiritual Steps The Power of Positive Thinking in the Date Pool With the Right Attitude, You Can End Binge Eating Overcoming Self-Defeating Thinking Special Concerns That Hamper Senior Living Brain Health - Mental Health - Your brain is a terrible thing to lose - its health is priority-one! Migraine, Brain Tumor and Seizure: A Differential Diagnosis Enhanced Classroom Learning with Brain Exercises & Brain Gym Some Skin Parasites Can Ruin Your Sex Life Seat Belt Use and Traumatic Brain Injury Traumatic Brain Injury and the Military Dental Health - Poor health of teeth and gums invite ills that may be killing you invisibly. A Simple Guide On What Is TMJ Electric Toothbrush: for Maximum Cleanse Cosmetic Dentistry Dental Bonding Charleston SC Dentistry - Some Facts For You Disease and Healing Protocols - Life Extension Foundation's comprehensive review of common diseases and their alternative protocols for healing and resolving the root causes. Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) Why Do We Never Hear About Low Blood Pressure Obesity And Heart Disease Are Related Types Of Heart Disease Signs Of Heart Disease Hormone Management - Hormones drive most bodily functions; learn how to manipulate your hormones to stimulate the fat-burning, anti-aging hormones while suppressing those that make you fat, sick, tired and old before your time. Adrenal Insufficiency Information Immunohistochemical evaluation of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 and estrogen and pr... Always tired - it could be adrenal exhaustion Adrenal Support The Roger Clemens Hearing: Is This Really About Him or The Young Ones Who Look Up To Him Immune Power - Empower your Immune System; it stands between you and certain death Some Simple Advices about Diet to Fight Rheumatism and Chronic Inflammation BilBerry - The Potent Antioxidant Understanding Your Immune System Don't Let Your Immune System Get You Down... Vitamin D -The Antibiotic Vitamin? Joint Health - Nothing works to make you fit if your joints give out; you can keep them healthy if you feed them the right nutrients and prevent needless damage. How to Find the Right Balance in Staying Fit. Part 1 - The Importance of Our Joints Work Better in Water DOES YOUR PAIN HAVE A HOLD ON YOU? The Seven Signs Of Arthritis Arthritis - Exercise can be any activity Personal Deportment and Hygiene - Staying fit to be around as we age. Hearing - A critical social sense, an important personal skill Halitosis: Cure Your Chronic Bad Breath Today How to Stop Hearing Loss? Skin Hygiene and Acne Control Good Oral Hygiene -- Preventive Care Varieties of Oral Hygiene Sexual Fitness - A broad look at sexual fitness - for both women and men. (Nothing erotic, sordid or graphic - just technology and strategies for staying sexually alive and youthful.) Sexual Fitness for Aging Men - Strategies for delaying, minimizing and even reversing andropause. Sexual Fitness for Aging Women - Staying vibrant through and post-menopause; keeping the fire alive. What Are Your Alternatives To The Gardisil HPV Vaccine Impotence - Who is More Prone to Suffer From Erectile Dysfunction Indium,Patented Power in a Drop! The Kombucha Tea, Millenary truth or many years old fantasy Good sexual intercourse lasts minutes, not hours, therapists say Skin Health and Care - So much more than beauty! Information on Generic Cephalexin Antibiotic Acne Program - Step 4: Adding Essential Fatty Acids To Your Diet Homemade Honey Beauty Recipes Don't be too bad to your sebaceous cysts! How Excessive Testosterone Leads To Your Hair Loss Weight Loss - Weight Management - The real issue is fat loss and fat management; your health, longevity and self esteem are dependent on managing the fat content of your body - the mirror, not the scale, tells the truth! Oolong Tea and Weight Loss Vitamins and Healthy Weight Loss Supplements Weight Loss and Other Benefits of Conjugated Linoleic Acid Beyond Diets Why exercise and diets don't work today. Part 1 of 3 Making it Happen - Taking Action to Change Your Life Fitness Courses - Age-specific training courses teach you how to stay at your peak for the long term. Will Brink - Solid wisdom on staying lean and strong as you age. Marc David - A course for beginners of any age. Vail & Colorado Golf Courses Weslo Exercise Bike Reviews - What You Get And Don't Get 5 sure fire tips to reduce cholesterol Cookbook 2008-Cooking Tips Mineral Makeup Tips Inspirational Gallery - A Photo and Video Gallery of Seniors in Great Shape and Living Very Well Frank Wilhelmi - Simi Valley CA: Striving to improve with age, with fairly consistent success. How to lead a smoke free and healthy life Progressive Overload Mastery 10 Top Tips to Getting Into Your Pants Exercising Our Four-legged Friends Sport-Specific Fitness - If sport comes first...you have to stay fit to stay in the game! Golf - A Passion for millions - a great blending of sun, sport and things social. Tennis - A glamorous sport, very gratifying when you win, very taxing on the aging body - train right to stay in the game. Something everyone should include in their weight loss plan Skills For Behavior Change-Fitness Five Simple and Effective Ways to Become a Better Football Player Cardioprotective Benefits of Soy Protein-Sports Preparing For Fitness Trainers Registry - Find Fitness Trainers in your area who specialize in training Seniors. Personal Trainer NYC has exercising techniques to keep you healthy Personal Training and How It Can Help You Selecting a Personal Trainer Getting Your Questions Answered Fairview Fitness Trainer

Frank's Column Energy production, Thyroid Function and Iodine (06/22/2008) NEW! See the video illustrating form, intensity, start and finish for a power set of barbell shrugs. (Video 1) and incline dumbell press. (Video 2) Heavy Set of Pseudosquats. (Video 3) A set of medium intensity Lat Pulls. (Video 4) A set of medium intensity, narrow-grip Cable Rows. (Video 5) Frank Playing in the Gym - A personal best at 66; 720lb on the incline leg press (Video 6) It has been a long time since I put up a new Frank’s Column. I pretty much gave the website a pass for the last two months while I got my act together around the old homestead – lots of stuff falling behind in upkeep and only so much time and energy to do it. Actually, that’s part of the issue – Energy or the lack thereof. The workouts in prep for the contest are leaving me pretty hammered, and yet I don’t see enough progress to think I am ready for that in a month.(7/19/08). I see plenty of improvement, but not what I had planned for. Along the way, I have taken some action to boost energy production. I suspected that my thyroid might be showing the strain, so did a basal temperature test to see where I was – I came up with an average over several days of 97.0 degrees upon awakening. That is on the low side, so I picked up some Pituitrophin PMG, Drenatrophin PMG and Thytrophin PMG from Standard Process, Inc. and took them on an empty stomach 3x a day for a month. These are specialized extracts (Protomorphogens) of those respective (pituitary, adrenal and thyroid) animal organs that many health practitioners use in clinical practice to rebuild patients glandular function. I also bought some Kelp tablets (an excellent source of iodine) and took enough to give me 1.5mg of iodine/day. After a month of that my basal temperature is up to 97.6, which clearly indicates better thyroid function, and have been feeling more energetic, and experiencing quicker recovery from workouts. I signed up for an excellent newsletter, The Brownstein Report, and the first three installments focused generally on thyroid function and energy production. It seems I would do better to increase the iodine intake to more like 10 mg a day. Brownstein says: "My clinical experience has shown that the most effective doses of iodine vary between 6 ¼ milligrams and 50 milligrams a day. Generally, sicker patients — including those with cancer of the breast, prostate, uterus, ovaries and thyroid — require larger amounts of iodine. More information about iodine can be found in my book “Iodine: Why You Need it, Why You Can’t Live Without It, 3rd Edition” or my DVD on iodine (available at www. drbrownstein.com)." The other interesting fact in this newsletter was that in the early 70s the baking industry started replacing iodine in flour and dough with bromine – with no objections by the FDA. Now bromine is a halide in the same family as chlorine and iodine, but competes with iodine wherever iodine is used in the body. It is highly toxic to the thyroid and the brain and a known carcinogen. If you are low on iodine in the first place, and a big pasta/bread lover, the odds are raised you will have an impaired thyroid, with a tendency toward hypothyroidism and reduced energy production. Isn’t that just swell! Good Living - Frank (526029) Past "Frank's Column" Articles Progress with Training and More on the Lipitor/Thumb Pain Story (04/20/2008) Depression – A Serious Threat to Senior Fitness – Tied to Chronic Inflammation (04/06/2008) Frank in a Contest and More on Muscle Damage by Statins (02/22/2008) The Case for Losing Faith in Cholesterol Drugs (02/09/2008) Gardening - Recreation, Meditation, Exercise (01/13/2008) The power of bio-identical hormones in medicine (01/02/2008) Surrender the things of youth(?) - more injury and healing. (11/25/2007) Let’s talk about aging and attitude. (11/18/2007) More changes coming to the SeniorFitness website (11/10/2007) An Invasive, Disturbing Thought Eliminated with EFT – A First Hand Experience (10/17/2007) Brain Health - Mental Health: a new Category added to the site (09/09/2007) Critcal Thinking and Risk Taking (08/29/2007) An ISSA Seminar at Total Woman Gym and Day Spa (08/12/2007) Another Bodybuilding Supplement of Great Interest (07/01/2007) Want to See Real Reverse Aging? Try this Combination of Supplements. (05/28/2007) I'll Have the Chicken, With traces of Arsenic Please (04/29/2007) More on Vitamin D3 and Some Websites to Bookmark (04/18/2007) Too Much Of A Good Thing Drug and Vitamin Overdose (04/18/2007) Resveratrol – A Promising Strategy for Health and Life Extension (03/31/2007) Vitamin K2 - Crtitical Factor in Heart Disease and Osteoporosis (03/11/2007) The Very Best Ways to Start Changing Your Health for the Better (02/11/2007) A New Beginning in a New Year, and Some Words About Synergy (01/17/2007) Year-end Lapses of Fitness and the Promise of a New Year (12/15/2006) Winter Approaches and Flu Season is Bearing Down Upon Us; Time to Think of Boosting Immune Function. (11/28/2006) More on the ability to heal from surgeries and a very informative site I ran across (11/05/2006) Shoulder Surgery Outcome and A Three Day/Week Workout Plan (10/15/2006) Frank’s Arthroscopic Surgery of 9/5/06 and breasts for men? (09/07/2006) Update on Digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Reflux and the Impact of Aging on Such. (08/16/2006) New Features on the Senior Fitness.com Site and Some Exciting News on Heavy Metal Chelation (07/17/2006) A New Personal-Best Lift, and a New Supplement that Rocks! (06/19/2006) Life Extension Foundation - Your Top Resourse In Health Information (04/23/2006) Women, Fitness and Weight Training (03/15/2006) Wobenzyme to the Rescue? (02/26/2006) More Joint Healing Mysteries (02/15/2006) Joint Health and Joint Healing (02/05/2006) Immune Power and an Update on Shoulder Healing (01/29/2006) An Aging Mechanism you can minimize easily - Glycation! (01/15/2006) Start Again; Goals, Resolutions - Focus on Fitness (01/02/2006) More on Injury and Healing (mine, unfortunately). (12/18/2005) Making Incremental Progress in Becoming Stronger (11/27/2005) Injuries and Healing for Seniors (11/20/2005) Hormones, hormone levels and hormone balance - a very complex topic that impacts how well we age in very big ways. (11/08/2005) Strength Training and Physical capability (10/31/2005) My Rant on Hydrogenation (10/24/2005) Frank's Column (10/10/2005)

Topic of the Day: Autoimmunity

Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts (down to the sub-molecular levels) as self, which results in an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease. Prominent examples include Coeliac disease, diabetes mellitus type 1 (IDDM), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), Sjögren's syndrome, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, multiple sclerosis (MS), Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Graves' disease, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). See List of autoimmune diseases.

The misconception that an individual's immune system is totally incapable of recognizing self antigens is not new. Paul Ehrlich, at the beginning of the twentieth century, proposed the concept of horror autotoxicus, wherein a 'normal' body does not mount an immune response against its own tissues. Thus, any autoimmune response was perceived to be abnormal and postulated to be connected with human disease. Now, it is accepted that autoimmune responses are vital to the development and functioning of vertebrate immune systems, and central to the development of immunological tolerance to self-antigens. The latter concept has been termed natural autoimmunity. Autoimmunity should not be confused with alloimmunity.

While a high level of autoimmunity is unhealthy, a low level of autoimmunity may actually be beneficial. First, low-level autoimmunity might aid in the recognition of neoplastic cells by CD8+ T cells, and thus reduce the incidence of cancer.

Second, autoimmunity is likely to have a role in allowing a rapid immune response in the early stages of an infection when the availability of foreign antigens limits the response (i.e., when there are few pathogens present). In their study, Stefanova et al. (2002) injected an anti-MHC Class II antibody into mice expressing a single type of MHC Class II molecule (H-2^b) to temporarily prevent CD4+ T cell-MHC interaction. Naive CD4+ T cells (those that have not encountered any antigens before) recovered from these mice 36 hours post-anti-MHC administration showed decreased responsiveness to the antigen pigeon cytochrome C peptide, as determined by Zap-70 phosphorylation, proliferation, and Interleukin-2 production. Thus Stefanova et al. (2002) demonstrated that self-MHC recognition (which, if too strong may contribute to autoimmune disease) maintains the responsiveness of CD4+ T cells when foreign antigens are absent.^[1] This idea of autoimmunity is conceptually similar to play-fighting. The play-fighting of young cubs (TCR and self-MHC) may result in a few scratches or scars (low-level-autoimmunity), but is beneficial in the long-term as it primes the young cub for proper fights in the future.