A Comprehensive Longevity Supplement Worth Considering – “Core” by Novos Labs
There are many individual supplements on the market claiming to promote Longevity and extended Healthspan, but I have been waiting for a product that would package key nutrients known to synergistically thwart the significant aging mechanisms at a reasonable price....
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...
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...
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...
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...