Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
Aging Reversal – Really?
If we found a strategy for actual aging reversal, even if temporary - like taking 15 years off your current age and giving you the physical and mental capabilities of 15 years back - would you jump on it? What about the cost - would you pay $100/month for 3-4 months?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...