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We all age; we all get to die – the primary concern is: how much pain and disability will we have to endure on the way to our common end?
Today we know how to slow aging and delay the consequences of aging for decades, but to personally benefit we must learn about and practice strategies that work; that’s what we document on Senior Fitness – practical antiaging strategies that work!
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Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior fitness and health into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here. The sooner you apply these Youth-Prolonging Strategies, the longer you will enjoy pain-free vitality, vigor and independence into advanced age.
We continually research the latest science to formulate practical strategies for optimizing the aging process; letting us live longer, healthier lives, free of disease and pain into advanced age. We think life is precious and far more enjoyable and productive when we are in good health. Yes we all get old and die, but our thinking is that Later is Better, and pain and disability are to be avoided.
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Correlating the Onset of the Diseases of Aging with the Increase of Senescent Cell Population – Interesting!
A group of researchers has been building of model of aging, correlating the onset risk of the many diseases of aging (heart disease, cancers, dementias, organ failures, etc.) with with the now known increase of senescent cells as we age. When they tweek the variables...
Year-end Review of the Scientific Progress in Fighting Aging
Here is a very exhaustive review of scientific progress aimed at arresting and reversing aging from our friend Reason at FightAging.org; not yet accomplished, but there are many promising pathways leading forward. A Look Back at 2020: Progress Towards the Treatment of...
Update on Plasma Dilution as a Regenerative Strategy to Mitigate/Reverse Aspects of Aging – A Pivotal Outcome
Diluting blood plasma in old mice (or people) by 50% restores youthful functions in a broad range of systems, in both body and brain!
Adenosine Injections Regrow Knee Cartilage – (In Mice)
Adenosine Injected into Arthritic Joints Produces Cartilage Regrowth; so says the press release regarding a study cited at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68302-w. This is a promising outcome; between 50% and 35% regrowth in mice injected with a liposomal...
Could We Kill this Epidemic in a Month?
The world has been dealing with this Corona virus since late December 2020, and China before that. Data on the severity of outcomes has been gathered from around the world, showing that severity is highly dependent on Vitamin D status. We in the US typically use the...
Definitive Science on Covid-19 and Benefit of Vitamin D Supplementation
I've been harping loud and long about supplementing vitamin D3 for optimal aging and for preventing severe damage or death from Covid-19. I typically use 5000-10,000 IU in summer, (because I don't get much sun) and 15,000 to 20,000 IU in winter, and have been doing so...
An Update on Cartilage Repair
Can an 81 year old gym rat regrow knee cartilage? It seems so. In July 2020, I was ramping up my leg-press load to see if I could get back to 10 plates per side (1000 lb including the sled). When I got to 8 plates per side on my last set that day, my left knee really...
Frank Wilhelmi: Senior Fitness Specialist & Trainer
Add Decades to your Health-Span with my Coaching at Fitness19, Simi Valley: Exercise Training to build Strength, Stamina - Move with Grace and Ease Diet/Nutrition - for Optimal Health & Longevity Supplements - to Counter Functional Losses of Aging Better Sleep -...
Update on Potential Prostate Cancer Treatement
On September 18, 2019 I had an MRI that found two suspicious loci in my prostate, one of which was diagnosed as likely stage 1 Prostate cancer and the other as transitional, I chose to try an underground approach shown to be selective at killing cancer cells via 4...
Senolytic Therapy Improves Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy
Chemotherapy is well known for causing peripheral neuropathy - a tingling or burning in the hands and feet or perhaps simply numbness in extremities. Now there is evidence that this is caused by Cisplatin and other chemo-drugs inducing a state of senescent-like injury...
Study finds Hydroxychloroquine Reduces in-Hospital COVID-19 Mortality
August 25, 2020 Study finds hydroxychloroquine reduces in-hospital COVID-19 mortality by Istituto Neurologico Mediterraneo Neuromed I.R.C.C.S. An Italian observational study contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine in the current...
Fitness19 Reopened, Training Resumes
On Monday, 6/15 our Simi Valley Fitness 19 reopened, with heightened levels of cleaning and distancing and mask requirements for staff and clients. The first two weeks has been a trial run to make sure our anti-viral methods worked well enough to keep us safe, and as...
A New Way to Boost Energy to Youthful Levels
NAD+ is the hardest working enzyme involved in the body’s energy production, but by 70, we have under a third of what we had as young adults. It is rationed to do only the most necessary functions, and so everything involved in repair and upkeep of our bodies and...
My Results with an Underground Cancer Treatment
A Cancer Killer in Plain Sight? In August last year (2019) one of the newsletters I subscribe to wrote of a commonly used deworming medicine for pets (and humans, but requires a prescription, and costs far more) that kills virtually all cancer cell types, including...
Vitamin D3, Magnesium, Vitamin K2 Critical for Longevity & Senior Fitness
Vitamin D3 is a rampant deficiency in sun-phobic men and women; the further north you live (above the equator), the more likely to be deficient. Levels below 30 ng/dl cripple the immune system. Optimum number keeps going up; shoot for 70 ng/dl. That takes 5000 IU -...