Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
A New Beginning in a New Year, and Some Words About Synergy
It is the New Year! 2007! The possibilities are endless; one only needs to set goals and start taking action to accomplish them. As Tony Robbins says, "Personal power is the ability to take action". The second part is to avoid "paralysis by analysis". It doesn't...
Year-end Lapses of Fitness and the Promise of a New Year
'Tis the week before Christmas (or thereabouts) and the start of Hanukkah; lights are up or going up all over the neighborhood, and I am counting the days to getting the tax stuff together. Putting our place into Christmas mode takes literally 7 weekends in a row, and...
Winter Approaches and Flu Season is Bearing Down Upon Us; Time to Think of Boosting Immune Function.
The big push for this year's flu vaccine is on - to get one or not? My choice is not! Alan Ingles, M.D. in his Health Revelations newsletter has this to say: "I can't promise it'll prevent the flu in everybody, because there's no good proof it does, in spite of the...
More on the ability to heal from surgeries and a very informative site I ran across
More on the ability to heal from surgeries and a very informative site I ran across I went for a 2-month evaluation on Friday11/3 for the shoulder surgery I described last time , and was told that my expectations were somewhat unrealistic - that I should be fully...
Shoulder Surgery Outcome and A Three Day/Week Workout Plan
On 9/5 I had shoulder arthroscopy to remove a 9mm loose body. It turned out that the loose body was a big chunk of cartilage off the end of the humerus, and not the only chunk. It seems that nearly all of the cartilage had fallen off and collected in the axillary...
Frank’s Arthroscopic Surgery of 9/5/06 and breasts for men?
Many months ago I wrote of shoulder injuries and healing, using Wobenzyme to get this strange injury to feel much better over a few months time. But I did have a 9 mm loose body in the joint, and while I recovered almost full range of motion and most of the strength,...
Update on Digestion, Heartburn, Belching, Reflux and the Impact of Aging on Such.
Two people I know, one a friend at work, and my brother, have both had rather remarkable changes in this whole heartburn - acid indigestion problem. I had repeatedly tried to explain that the cause was reduced stomach acid production, and the ensuing inability to...
New Features on the Senior Fitness.com Site and Some Exciting News on Heavy Metal Chelation
We have added a couple of new features on the site readers should find interesting: We put up a Gift Shop specializing in one-off, personalized, somewhat high-end gifts for people you love, want to impress, or just hope will remember you as a great gift giver. I'm...
A New Personal-Best Lift, and a New Supplement that Rocks!
I hope you will check out the latest video clip of me playing in the gym. It represents a personal best at 66 years of age. I have never made 5 reps with 8 plates per side before. The last time I attempted 720 lb was about 8 years ago, and I made 4 reps and knew I...
Life Extension Foundation – Your Top Resourse In Health Information
I have been a busy boy for the last month with Easter's approach and celebrating Holy Week; too wrapped up in it to write Frank's Column. I have spent a great deal of time trying to understand how Senior Fitness.com suddenly lost search engine favor and traffic from...