Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Fitness19 Reopened, Training Resumes
On Monday, 6/15 our Simi Valley Fitness 19 reopened, with heightened levels of cleaning and distancing and mask requirements for staff and clients. The first two weeks has been a trial run to make sure our anti-viral methods worked well enough to keep us safe, and as...
A New Way to Boost Energy to Youthful Levels
NAD+ is the hardest working enzyme involved in the body’s energy production, but by 70, we have under a third of what we had as young adults. It is rationed to do only the most necessary functions, and so everything involved in repair and upkeep of our bodies and...
My Results with an Underground Cancer Treatment
A Cancer Killer in Plain Sight? In August last year (2019) one of the newsletters I subscribe to wrote of a commonly used deworming medicine for pets (and humans, but requires a prescription, and costs far more) that kills virtually all cancer cell types, including...
Vitamin D3, Magnesium, Vitamin K2 Critical for Longevity & Senior Fitness
Vitamin D3 is a rampant deficiency in sun-phobic men and women; the further north you live (above the equator), the more likely to be deficient. Levels below 30 ng/dl cripple the immune system. Optimum number keeps going up; shoot for 70 ng/dl. That takes 5000 IU -...