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 Sex hormones link to heart risk by Maciej Tomaszewski Post Date: 08/31/2008 Global study shows telmisartan reduces outcome of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke... by Susan Emigh Post Date: 08/31/2008 Independent Medical Examinations - What To Do When Your Insurance Company Orders An Adverse Ex... by Blake Vanderhyde Post Date: 08/04/2008 Researchers design model for automated, wearable artificial kidney by Enrique Rivero Post Date: 07/13/2008 Magnolia Compound Hits Elusive Target in Cancer Cells by Vincent Joseph Dollard Post Date: 07/13/2008 The 6 Critical Keys to Dynamic Senior Living Anti-aging - Slowing the processes involved in aging, and delaying their consequences. Anti-Aging Vitamins by Judith Emardel Post Date: 09/02/2008 The Top of the Line in Anti-Aging Products by Judith Emardel Post Date: 09/02/2008 Great Tips for Anti-Aging Skincare by Judith Emardel Post Date: 09/02/2008 Great Info on Anti-Aging Wrinkle Creams by Judith Emardel Post Date: 09/02/2008 The News on Anti-Aging Serums by Judith Emardel Post Date: 09/02/2008 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. Fit over 40 by Doug Setter Post Date: 09/04/2008 Childhood Obesity as a Result of TV and Video Games by Terry Lile Post Date: 09/01/2008 Senior Fitness - The Key to a Pleasurable Retirement by Donald Arson Post Date: 07/28/2008 Ab Workouts and Core Exercises: A Circuit for Fat Loss and Strength by Nathan Long Post Date: 07/09/2008 The New Era Of Personalized Nutrition & Skin Care by Johnmark Ridings Post Date: 06/30/2008 Nutrition - the Raw Material for Senior Health and Lifetime Fitness GeneWize Breakthrough by Robert Bell Post Date: 09/03/2008 Losing weight fast with apples! by Mike Lombardy Post Date: 09/02/2008 What Is Genewize Life Sciences? by Robert Bell Post Date: 08/29/2008 LeVive Juice The Super Health Drink by D. Grace Pruitt Post Date: 08/30/2008 What is Calcium? by Angelica Vrablic Post Date: 08/29/2008 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. The Art of Relaxing and Restoring Your Health by Todd Durkin Post Date: 08/20/2008 Hidden Dangers at the Gym for your Back and Body... by Steven Hefferon Post Date: 07/31/2008 The Art of Relaxation by Esther Kane Post Date: 07/28/2008 Five things you can do to stop your migraine headache. by Dr Raeburn Forbes MD(Hons) FRCP Post Date: 07/24/2008 The Healing Power of a Great Night's Sleep by Steven Hefferon Post Date: 07/12/2008 Supplements - Exercise right, eat correctly; is that all it takes? Not as seniors! Supplements make up for the losses of aging. Role of Anti Aging Supplements in Health Longevity by Francis Adam Post Date: 08/22/2008 Feed Your Spirit! by Stephen Rogers Post Date: 08/22/2008 A Solution for Stress Eating and Weight Management by Stephen Rogers Post Date: 08/22/2008 Powerful Stress Relief! by Stephen Rogers Post Date: 08/22/2008 How Using Collagen Restores Your Face's Vitality and Attractiveness by George Collagenelife Post Date: 07/30/2008 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 Every Failure Is An Opportunity In Disguise by Richard Saldan Post Date: 06/30/2008 "True Customer Service in your ML*M - Are You Providing It or Thinking You Are?" by Carol Ann Wagner Post Date: 06/30/2008 Positive Expectancy - A Must-Have Ingredient for Success by David Schaefer Post Date: 06/27/2008 How to Turn your Negative thoughts into Positive Opportunities and Personal Growth by Lynn Zingel Post Date: 06/27/2008 Study shows that chronic grief activates pleasure areas of the brain: findings could change ho... by Mark Wheeler Post Date: 06/20/2008 Special Concerns That Hamper Senior Living Brain Health - Mental Health - Your brain is a terrible thing to lose - its health is priority-one! Developing your Power of Concentration utilizing Powerful Brain Exercises by T. Lavon Lawrence Post Date: 09/03/2008 Mind over Matter (body) - The Path to Wealth by T. Lavon Lawrence Post Date: 09/03/2008 The Key to Mental Fitness Mastery is in Determining the TYPE of Learner you are by T. Lavon Lawrence Post Date: 09/03/2008 Brain Tumors - Symptoms of Brain Tumors by John Smith Post Date: 09/02/2008 Tips To Handle Behaviours Of Autistic Children by Mike Selvon Post Date: 08/31/2008 Dental Health - Poor health of teeth and gums invite ills that may be killing you invisibly. Why You Should Get a Teeth Whitening Treatment by Nupur Das Post Date: 09/03/2008 Important facts of Dental Implants or Teeth Implants by Ravish Jain Post Date: 09/02/2008 Top Tips for avoiding bad breath.... by Fraser Hendrie Post Date: 09/02/2008 Family Dental Plan Insurance - Avoiding delays in Insurance Claim by Paul Smith Post Date: 09/02/2008 Brace Yourself For a Better Smile by Lauren Knight Post Date: 09/02/2008 Disease and Healing Protocols - Life Extension Foundation's comprehensive review of common diseases and their alternative protocols for healing and resolving the root causes. More miners and subcontract workers getting mesothelioma by Scott Hendler Post Date: 08/26/2008 Causes, Symptoms, Prevention and Treatment for Common Cold by Alexander Chong Post Date: 08/26/2008 Bush Administration trying to weaken EPA asbestos standards by Scott Hendler Post Date: 08/25/2008 The Disease Diabetes in Cats by Omer Ashraf Post Date: 08/24/2008 Acid Reflux - What is Silent Reflux by Bertil Hjert Post Date: 08/24/2008 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. Benefits of HGH — How Human Growth Hormone Puts the Brakes on Aging by Susan Nickerson Post Date: 07/24/2008 Anti-Aging Pills by Carson Danfield by Carson Danfield Post Date: 07/17/2008 Anti-Aging and Human Growth Hormone by Carson Danfield by Carson Danfield Post Date: 07/17/2008 Aging - It All Comes Down to Hormones by Carson Danfield by Carson Danfield Post Date: 07/17/2008 Acne and Hormone: When do females have raging hormone and acne breakout? by Jason Lee Post Date: 06/04/2008 Immune Power - Empower your Immune System; it stands between you and certain death Fighting Fatigue by Sandra Powers Post Date: 08/11/2008 Create a Healthy Immune System Naturally by Joe Peters Post Date: 07/14/2008 Immune System Builder with Interferon Builds Better Health by Vicki Zerbee Post Date: 06/30/2008 New Discoveries Of Hiv And Aids Prevention. by ponn nac Post Date: 06/26/2008 Don't Let Your Immune System Get You Down... by Joan Bailey Post Date: 04/23/2008 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. Tart Cherries - The Super Fruit Gout Relief by Russ Anderson Post Date: 08/29/2008 The Super Fruit Handbook: Sleep Better with Tart Cherries by Russ Anderson Post Date: 08/29/2008 Gout Home Remedy - Save Hours of Pain, Hundreds of Dollars and Your Joints with this Treatment... by Joe Barton Post Date: 08/21/2008 Soothe Arthritis Pain with Hot and Cold Temperatures by Russ Anderson Post Date: 08/12/2008 Alternatives to Antibiotics for Prostatitis by Mitamins Team Post Date: 08/11/2008 Personal Deportment and Hygiene - Staying fit to be around as we age. Hearing - A critical social sense, an important personal skill The Secret Migration by John Kaduwanema Post Date: 07/23/2008 Searching For The Best Female Personal Hygiene Product by Andrew Beene Post Date: 07/16/2008 PERSONAL HYGIENE AND YOUR HEALTH by Eze ThankGod Post Date: 07/10/2008 Lethal Office: Are you dying at work? by claire stokoe Post Date: 07/07/2008 Laser Hair Removal - What you need to know by Ellen Alexander Post Date: 07/05/2008 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. How To Slash Your Healthcare Costs by Michael Coleman Post Date: 08/22/2008 How many people in the US have herpes? by Joseph Phillips Post Date: 08/20/2008 What is the difference between shingles and cold sores? by Joseph Phillips Post Date: 08/20/2008 Who should not take Valtrex? by Joseph Phillips Post Date: 08/20/2008 What is Valtrex and how can it help? by Joseph Phillips Post Date: 08/20/2008 Skin Health and Care - So much more than beauty! Choosing The Right Dietary Supplements by Liam Derbyshire Post Date: 09/04/2008 Skin Care - Vital Need for Human Being by Rising Sidekick Post Date: 09/03/2008 Home Spa Treatments by Dr John Anne Post Date: 09/03/2008 Glycolic Acid - "Fountain of Youth" in a bottle by Francis Adam Post Date: 09/02/2008 Vitamins and Polyphenols in Skincare by Francis Adam Post Date: 09/02/2008 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! Abs Diet by John Brenner Post Date: 09/05/2008 Quick Flush Drug Detox Products by John Brenner Post Date: 09/04/2008 Detox Change Diaper by John Brenner Post Date: 09/04/2008 Detox Machine by John Brenner Post Date: 09/04/2008 The Master Cleanse by John Brenner Post Date: 09/04/2008 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. Easy weight loss, tips to get your weight off, the easy way. by Jerome Wharton Post Date: 09/04/2008 How A valuable Online Stock Trading Tip Can Help You by David Jose Post Date: 09/04/2008 Weight Loss Tips For Obese Kids by Kenneth Snodin Post Date: 09/03/2008 5 Positive Tips To Encourage Your Kids To Lose Weight by Kenneth Snodin Post Date: 09/03/2008 2 Easy Ways to Lose Weight Fast by Detoxifying Your Body by Joel Riley Post Date: 09/03/2008 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. Creating the Space of Having by Sheevaun Moran Post Date: 08/29/2008 From Congestion & Clutter to Prosperity & Wellness by Sheevaun Moran Post Date: 08/10/2008 Improve Productivity: Go For A Run by Daniel O'Connor Post Date: 07/28/2008 Affirmations - Useful or waste of time? by Dimitri Papalexiou Post Date: 07/15/2008 What is Colonics? by Shannon Law Post Date: 05/31/2008 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. Train Better with Friends by daniel zoleta Post Date: 08/26/2008 Why People Should be Running More Often! by yousef julaidan Post Date: 08/26/2008 Shiatsu Massage Chair Recliner Review of the Panasonic EP30003 TU by James Knolan Post Date: 08/10/2008 Become shapely Without worrying What Your Weight Is by Robert Bell Post Date: 08/08/2008 Reduce Total Stress with a Foot Reflexology Massage by a Massage Chair by Steve Esquire Post Date: 08/07/2008 Trainers Registry - Find Fitness Trainers in your area who specialize in training Seniors. Fitness Professionals Need to Diversify by Dr. Kareem Samhouri Post Date: 09/23/2007 Why use a Personal Trainer for Weight Lifting Training by Richard Train Post Date: 09/07/2007 Fitness Myth Busting by jeannie callen barat Post Date: 08/23/2007 How To: Find the Right Personal Trainer for You! by Tim VanRavenswaay Post Date: 08/23/2007 The Top 10 Leg Exercises by Terri Walsh Post Date: 08/21/2007

Frank's Column Dad Made it to 95 - Good Genes Realy Helps! (08/24/2008) 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 crazy two months, July and August. The big disrupter was my father’s passing on the 18th of July, which led to a number of unexpected trips and activities to sort out the estate, grieve and properly celebrate his life, talents and accomplishments. Dudley Wilhelmi lived 95 years, with many chapters in his story, with the only woman he ever loved, my mother Marian, who died almost six years earlier. Throughout all the chapters, for me the continuity was his music. Dad was a pianist, and wherever he went, if there was piano, he played. He was one of those bigger than life people who seemed to take command of the room or the situation wherever he found himself, and his music was part of his mystique. He charted his own path in life, starting his own business during the depression in our basement – Marine Cabinet and Display – which eventually became the Tacoma Fixture Co. He was a bit of a daredevil and a risk-taker. I have some very old 8-mm film of him doing a swan pose on one leg while perched on the bow of the beautiful, mahogany-decked inboard speedboat he built at fifteen, at about 30 knots with mom at the wheel. On the same reel is a scene of he and his younger brother diving in Puget Sound with their home-made helmet and compressor setup, and an underwater camera they made for themselves. He believed that everything he did should leave the world and the people he dealt with better off. He was truly a man of honor, and his word was sacred to him. He always paid his workers more than scale, and taught them trade and success skills. A clear example of this is that his youngest apprentice, at the time he sold the business, eventually became President of Tacoma Fixture and oversaw its growth to be one of the largest cabinet companies in Washington State. The business was built around the modern, at that time, look of the ‘overlay’ style of cabinets, which he pioneered and patented the first hinge for. He used to travel the USA setting up other cabinet shops with the tooling and assembly system, and then sell them the hinges. He was 42 when he sold the company and opened an Organ sales studio in Santa Monica CA, which promptly went broke. After working for a couple of cabinet shops he built his own really beautiful shop (Streamerline Cabinet Co.) in Venice CA, and tried to put his two sons to work (to keep them off the streets of course). We didn’t pan out, and eventually he sold the shop and hired on at Rocketdyne as a model maker. He stayed with the company until it became Boeing and about a year after retiring, he and Mom bought a house on Harstine Island and moved back to Puget Sound near Shelton WA. He bought a 21 ft inboard speedboat and resumed his childhood. They had a rich and full life with family and new friends until mom succumbed to lung cancer (dumb doctor had treated her for about 4 years for recurring bouts of pneumonia, but never realized she had cancer). Dad was in bad shape at the time and my brother Tom and I decided to move him to Carson City NV where Tom has a growing cabinet business (Thomas-Built Cabinet Co. - the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree). As soon as Dad was settled, someone realized his heart rate was 28 beats/minute; they installed a pacemaker and he came back to life. He and brother Tom had great fun together for the next 6 years until he surprised us all and died. My wife Jo remembered he had sent us a tape of his piano playing and some organ works, so we had a CD made from it and it was the highlight of the memorial service we had on August 9th. I have been playing the CD in my car for weeks, dredging up old memories and feelings. For me, the music is still alive. When it comes to longevity, there is no accounting for Dad. He smoked 6 cigars a day from the time he was 24 until he was 75; they were always lit in his mouth with the hot-end smoke curling up his nose – he was always breathing the stuff. He played hard, drank too much and stayed out late doing jam session with other musicians. He did quit drinking altogether at about 60, and that may have helped; and his favorite breakfast was trout and fried eggs which mom always cooked with bacon grease. He ate eggs nearly every day of his life; I’m convinced eggs are truly a health food, depending on the lifestyle of the chicken of course. Good Living - Frank. (591937) Past "Frank's Column" Articles Energy production, Thyroid Function and Iodine (06/22/2008) 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: Essential fatty acid

Essential fatty acids, or EFAs, are fatty acids that cannot be constructed within an organism from other components (generally all references are to humans) by any known chemical pathways; and therefore must be obtained from the diet. The term refers to those involved in biological processes, and not fatty acids which may just play a role as fuel. As many of the compounds created from essential fatty acids can be taken directly in the diet, it is possible that the amounts required in the diet (if any) are overestimated. It is also possible they can be underestimated as organisms can still survive in unideal, malnourished conditions.

There are two families of EFAs ?-3 (or omega-3 or n-3) and ?-6 (omega-6, n-6.) Fats from each of these families are essential, as the body can convert one omega-3 to another omega-3, for example, but cannot create an omega-3 from scratch. They were originally designated as Vitamin F when they were discovered as essential nutrients in 1923. In 1930, work by Burr, Burr and Miller showed that they are better classified with the fats than with the vitamins.^[1]

In the body, essential fatty acids serve multiple functions. In each of these, the balance between dietary ?-3 and ?-6 strongly affects function.

Fatty acids are straight chain hydrocarbons possessing a carboxyl (COOH) group at one end. The carbon next to the carboxylate is known as a, the next carbon ß, and so forth. Since biological fatty acids can be of different lengths, the last position is labelled ?, the last letter in the Greek alphabet. Since the physiological properties of unsaturated fatty acids largely depend on the position of the first unsaturation relative to the end position and not the carboxylate, the position is signified by (? minus n). For example, the term ?-3 signifies that the first double bond exists as the third carbon-carbon bond from the terminal CH₃ end (?) of the carbon chain. The number of carbons and the number of double bonds is also listed. ?-3 184 (stearidonic acid) or 184 ?-3 or 184 n-3 indicates an 18-carbon chain with 4 double bonds, and with the first double bond in the third position from the CH₃ end. Double bonds are cis and separated by a single methylene (CH₂) group unless otherwise noted. So in free fatty acid form, the chemical structure of stearidonic acid is