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...
Maintaining Muscle Mass into Advanced Age Reduces All-cause Mortality
The study that triggered this article is titled "Mechanisms by which Calorie Restriction Delays the Onset of Sarcopenia", which I think misses the point entirely. The article points out that CR is very effective at life extension in short-lived species, but not nearly...
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 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!
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...
Watch this 80 yr-old Best Leg Press
Watch This 80 YEAR-OLD Do His Lifetime-Best Leg Press How did I manage this? By using practical strategies to stay fit decades longer than most, and I want to show you how. Two weeks after my 80th birthday, I did my life-time heaviest leg press set: 900 lbs of plates...
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...
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...
Great Promise for Stem Cell Vesicles in Life Extension
Over a decade ago, stem cells were promised to repair virtually everything in our bodies, but over time researchers noticed that very few stem cells actually survive transplanting over the long term, and began looking at what stem cells (SCs) were doing to cause the...
Update on Knowledge of the Corona Virus
Strategies for Surviving Covid-19 I take six newsletters on health from Integrative Physicians – doctors who specialize in treating root causes of diseases, not just the treatment of symptoms with drugs, but focus on overall health and prevention of disease. Three of...