by Frank Wilhelmi | Dec 31, 2008 | Frank's Column
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...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Nov 16, 2008 | Frank's Column
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...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Nov 9, 2008 | Frank's Column, Sleep, Recovery and Stress Management
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...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Oct 19, 2008 | Aerobics, Frank's Column
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...
by Frank Wilhelmi | Sep 26, 2008 | Frank's Column
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...