Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
Fighting the Fatigue of Aging; Some Tips for Better Energy Production
How is your energy production? One of the hallmarks of aging is that energy production in every body cell decreases with age. How tired we feel most of the time is the barometer telling us how we are doing. The key thing to notice is that some people are toast in...
Heart surgeon declares on what really causes heart illness
By Dr. Dwight Lundell Dec 8, 2013 - We physicians, with all our experience, know how and authority often acquire a rather large selfishness that tends to make it hard to accept we are wrong. So, here it is. I openly admit to being mistaken. As a heart surgeon with 25...
Avoiding Heart Disease for Life
-esFor decades now the cardiologists have been telling us that the single-most important factor in heart/vascular disease is our Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL) count. For almost as long the awareness has been building that oxidized LDL is the stuff that...
Preventing Muscle Loss with Age
We can prevent muscle loss into advanced age; staying strong in late life has massive benefits, and most seniors can do it. Countless studies with men and women, even into their hundreds, show that resistance or weight training increases strength at any age. A...
Telomeres – Our Biological Aging Clock – New and Exciting Possibilities
The science of cellular aging has advanced in the last several years at a steady pace since the telomere, the repeating DNA sequence at the end of our chromosomes, was found to be the mechanism that keeps track of our cellular age and determines the number of...
A Controversial Perspective on Nutrition
I've had a recent jolt to my understanding of nutrition, particularly with regard to fats and oils. I went looking for a private gym to see if I could do a joint venture and film some training videos with the owners. One of them took a look at my writings and website...
Muscle versus Fat – Health Versus Disease
A key component of aging is the persistent loss of muscle paired with rising fat content. In a simplistic sense, muscle content gives us mobility, strength, speed, agility - the faculties of youth, while increasing fat content proves to be the source of most of the...
Specific Tools to Promote Longevity and Long-term Health
Last month I got all excited about the Nrf2/ARE Pathway and it being the primary activator of our powerful antioxidant enzymes. Recall that the activity of these free-radical scavenging enzymes is the body's primary protection against aging and disease, including the...
Your Number One Mechanism for a Long Healthy Life
The human body is designed to last. The primary mechanism which insures our longevity is a system of antioxidant enzymes that squelch free radicals at a rate of about 2 billion per second, sopping up these destructive molecules as fast as they are generated,...
A Primary Cause of Our Current Obesity Crisis
In my last article I described the absolute essential nature of the two fats; linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (LNA), how the human body cannot make these fats and requires them to have life at all, let alone health. I further described how modern food...