Battling Artery Disease and Stent Restenoisis
I figured out that I had coronary artery disease (CAD) back in 2000, and received a 4-way bypass operation in late January 2001. That's what really prompted the creation of the SeniorFitness.com website; I wanted to pass on whatever I learned about how I clogged my...
Osteoporosis and Heart disease; Vitamin K2 Looks to be the Cure for Both
Hi All - In the years I have been researching to find the cause of my heart disease and how to reverse it, I've found nothing more incidental to the disease process than vitamin K2 deficiency. Vitamin K2 looks to be the missing link to both cause and reversal. I have...
UT Health research shows mushroom extract, AHCC, helpful in treating HPV
Frank's comment: This is the first study I've seen using the supplement AHCC to counter HPV. The important aspect of this is that our innate immune system, when supported to bring it to full strength, is capable of annihilating even the HP Virus. AHCC is not an...
Good News on the Heart Disease Front
I have had a battle with coronary artery disease, resulting in a quad bypass in 2001 and now stents in 2014. I have been looking for the real cause for a long time to avoid further problems. Now I have another insight that I think will make a big improvement; but...
Hypnotherapy For Weight Loss
Why is weight loss easy for some people and for others, it feels like pushing a golf ball up a hill with our nose? Many of us can start out with such good intentions, full of motivation and determination, but then lose our resolve, using any feeble excuse to justify...
More on vitamin K2 and Joint Repair
In my last article I said I was going to take 30 mg/day of the Metatetrenone form of VitaminK2(MK-4); well, I went for the broadside approach and have been using 15 mg/meal, 45 mg/day. At this writing, I have been through the first 30 days and can report considerable...
Hope For Joint Damage?
Ten years ago I started feeling mild discomfort when I squeezed my thumb and forefinger together (like plucking stray hairs, etc.), which has worsened over the years to the point of severe pain at times. Four years ago I had X-rays of both hands showing degradation of...
Fighting the Fatigue of Aging; Some Tips for Better Energy Production
How is your energy production? One of the hallmarks of aging is that energy production in every body cell decreases with age. How tired we feel most of the time is the barometer telling us how we are doing. The key thing to notice is that some people are toast in...
Heart and Periodontal Disease Linked
A while back I wrote on what I was doing to avoid another coronary artery bypass operation. The strategies I used were not enough it seems. Two of my grafts closed off after 13 years and in February I wound up on the Cath-lab table. One graft was stented while the...
Sugar and Glycation – A Primary Factor in Aging Badly
You might consider Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, Diabetes and Dementia as the leading causes of death and disability that accompany aging, but underlying all of these is a slow, subtle aging mechanism called Glycation. Glycation is the accidental bonding of sugars to...
Byron Richards – Requiem
March 11, 2014 Dear Clients and Friends, It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Byron Richards. On Wednesday, March 5, Byron collapsed during his regular jog. His death came much too soon and is a tremendous shock to everyone who knew him and...
Heart surgeon declares on what really causes heart illness
By Dr. Dwight Lundell Dec 8, 2013 - We physicians, with all our experience, know how and authority often acquire a rather large selfishness that tends to make it hard to accept we are wrong. So, here it is. I openly admit to being mistaken. As a heart surgeon with 25...