Protein Requirements for Optimal Aging
Study shows that Protein Requirements increase with age: When you see advise for protein intake in the popular press, numbers are all over the place, and there seems to be wide disagreement on amounts and sources. The popular position for aging seniors has long been...
Resistance Exercise Reduces Cognitive Decline
Frank's Comments: This article (from May Life Extension Magazine) is must-know information if we hope to stay strong and smart up to our last days on earth. Strength Training is the most important form of exercise for we seniors - I Have been doing this for 45 years,...
To lose weight, and keep it off, be prepared to navigate interpersonal challenges
Frank's Comments: There is a principle in human relations that "People like like people", sort of the counter to "Opposites attract". Gym rats hang together and fat people tend to run with fat friends and families. If you strive to get lean and your social circle...
Sleeping well in spite of aging
Let’s Talk About Why We Get Weak and Frail With Age
Look around at really old people and we see the sobering future of our own bodies - then we blank that out and move on with living today. Typically our bodies change very gradually and we just adapt and tolerate the limitations as they show up. Frailty comes on slowly...
Frank’s Recent Medical Happenings – Strategies for Repair of Aging Parts
About 3 years ago, in an ego-driven gym moment, I put enough strain on my left shoulder to peel off some cartilage and jamb the joint so I couldn't do outward rotation over the full range of motion. And, every time I ramped up my effort it got sore as hell. That also...
Why Eating Fat Makes Us Fit
Way back in 1995 Dr. Mauro DiPasquale published a blueprint for Professional Bodybuilders to get Big and Ripped (a term for shedding nearly all body-fat); he called it "The Anabolic Diet". It was a bucket of strategies for switching the body from primarily burning...
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...