Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
Essential Fatty Acids – A Key to Great Health; Some Needed Clarification
The news media and even many doctors refer to 'Essential Fatty Acids' (EFAs) and lump Fish Oils in with the discussion in a way that confuses the use of the term. Strictly, the term applies to only two unsaturated fats (which are fatty acids because they are fats...
Aging Optimally is Better Understood Today, With More and Better Tools to Help
It has been almost 7 years since I put up this website, and I find that today, the 6 Critical Keys to Senior Fitness still remain the most important aspects of living which need to be understood and attended to for maintaining excellent health into advanced age. We...
A More Useful Understanding of Antioxidants and Cellular Protection.
Sometimes useful knowledge evades even the most diligent searchers, and so it is with me on the topic of oxidative cellular damage and how to prevent it. We burn sugars, fats and protein with oxygen to produce energy. But in addition to energy, we make free radicals...
Some Thoughts on Caloric Restriction and Healthy Lifespan
We have an epidemic of obesity; a recent article Life Extension Magazine stated that the obesity numbers in the US are drastically understated - it is worse than the government is telling us. We eat too much, we eat too often and we eat the wrong stuff. There are now...
What I Do to Make Sure I Never Repeat My Quad-bypass
Atherosclerosis is basically an autoimmune disease, wherein the immune system is attempting to repair arterial damage. One of the most common causes is periodontal disease which chronically leaks bacteria into the vascular system, infecting the points of the system...
Autism: Gut Flora, Immune Development, Brain development – All Tied Together
Mercola.com sent out a youtube video of a phone interview with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride (DrCM) on the topic of intestinal bacterial, fungal and viral population in our gut and the impact this population has on immune function and particularly on autism and related...
Some Recent Newsletter Items of Interest:
Dr David Williams' Alternatives Newsletter for April was a comprehensive essay on "The Dangers of Our Antibacterial Lifestyles", presenting the growing list of conditions related to disruption of our symbiotic relationship with this worlds bacteria, viruses and fungal...
Risk involved with Atrial Fibrillation – or Afib as the commercials call it!
I'm one of those with bouts of irregular heart beats that fall in this category. Mine are typically a skipped beat follow by a chest-thumper of a beat, that happens every 4-11 beats or so. Fibrillation, to me, means a fluttering of the atrial chambers, wherein the...
At What Age Should We Start battling the Aging Process?
Well, I would call it the Age of Awareness - it's that first time we look in a mirror and realize things are a-changing for the worse. Usually it shows as a slow buildup of mid body fat for men - they haven't yet noticed loss of muscle, but it's happening. For the...
A Brief Wrap-up of 2011 for Senior Fitness
Here it is half-way through January, the decorations are back in storage, tax season is beginning, and it seems like the last thing I have time for is writing about health and aging well. But it has been a long time since I did a Frank's Column and the search engine...