Body Building Progress with Pete Sisco’s Static Contraction Training
You may have noticed my addition of Pete Sisco under our Training Courses Category. He sells an eBook called "Train Smart : The Worlds Fastest Workout" (click the link on our site and we are blessed with a commission - same price anywhere; you might as well give us...
More on Leptin – Mastering Leptin
I finally spent money and bought Byron Richards' latest book "Mastering Leptin", and am nearly through it. The book is intensely well referenced and a read of some references leads me to the conviction that his interpretation of study results is correct - the...
An Engineering Approach to Health & Fitness
Frequently, I remind myself that I'm not a doctor of anything, nor a researcher in the pure sense. I am an engineer, of electronic circuit design background, with a near lifetime designing missile-borne Radar systems. I am focused on using technologies, techniques and...
My Test results on Life Extension’s Integra-Lean Irvingia
This week I got my blood lipid test results, after having been using Irvingia 150 mg/twice a day since January, and once again stopping Lipitor use. The literature and study results for Irvingia extract are really spectacular at 10 weeks of use at that dosage: Blood...
Inflammation and the chronic diseases associated with aging
Generally speaking, what we see in aging humans is, looking from the outside, a wrinkling and excess of skin with loss of elasticity, loss of muscle volume and accumulation of fat, particularly in the middle and lower body. Look under that and you will see a general...
Let’s go back to Wellness Resources
Let's go back to Wellness Resources and the topic of Leptin Resistance. I'm so impressed with the well-thought-out information and presentation of this website that I joined their affiliate program. This so I could freely post Byron's articles and product line on...
2008 was an Important Year for Anti-aging and Longevity
Three powerful truths came to the fore in 2008 that should make it far easier to stay disease-free into advanced age. The first of these was the understanding that Vitamin D is critical to optimum health and operation of the immune system. It has systemic benefit to...
A Great Website if You Wan’t to Live Well: Wellness Resources.com
A website called Wellness Resources.com has become one of my favorite reads in the last two weeks or so. It is run by clinical nutritionist Byron J. Richards, who has written several books, among them, "The Leptin Diet". The primary topic of the site is the set of...
Potassium/Sodium Dietaty Ratio and Your Health
If you ask a practicing physician specialized in kidney disease why aging humans experience rising blood pressure, you will get the idiopathic answer - we don't know at this time. They can explain that there are numerous factors involved, and the relationship of those...
Sleep – A Top Priority in Your Senior Fitness Program
In our Anti-aging category we discuss the impact of inflammation on the aging process, and how it seems to underlie many of the disease conditions that eventually take us down the final slope of life. Now there is word that even one bad night's sleep increases a major...
Top Strategies for Extending Health and Fitness into Old-age
Let's do a roundup of the top strategies for extending health and fitness into advanced age; it is a good thing to review what we know works on a periodic basis. Here are two numbered lists of the DON'Ts and DOs to help the average human to a long and healthy life. I...
Optimizing Senior Fitness
I've been pondering lately our strategies for optimizing fitness, and what that really entails. I think I have pretty well nailed the primary emphasis in our "6 Keys to Senior Fitness" categories. More and more though, I am troubled with the issue of measuring...