News Roundup
News Roundup
Update on Knowledge of the Corona Virus
Strategies for Surviving Covid-19 I take six newsletters on health from Integrative Physicians – doctors who specialize in treating root causes of diseases, not just the treatment of symptoms with drugs, but focus on overall health and prevention of disease. Three of...
My daughter, who publishes Gardenerd.com resides in Santa Monica CA, and recently with helicopters overhead signalling the unrest of massive protests against the indefensible injustice that caused the death of George Floyd, she felt strongly complicit of...
Covid19 and Vitamin D status
What might be the correlation between Vitamin D blood levels and Covid19 severity? That question has been ringing in my brain since I noticed the death rates in New York vs those in Florida - is it a latitude issue like seen in MS and other autoimmune disease, meaning...
Why Belly Fat Ages Us Faster, Kills Us Sooner & How to Fix That
New information about how fat cells age, and how they function after they stop dividing (senescence), is illuminating how aging belly fat drives chronic inflammation in our later years. Increasing chronic inflammation then leads to a long list of "Diseases of Aging",...
Resistance Exercise Reduces Cognitive Decline
Frank's Comments: This article (from May Life Extension Magazine) is must-know information if we hope to stay strong and smart up to our last days on earth. Strength Training is the most important form of exercise for we seniors - I Have been doing this for 45 years,...
Plasma Dilution Removes Pro-Aging Blood Factors – Results in Rejuvenation
For may years, a process of joining the circulatory systems of young and old mice together in a procedure called Parabiosis, could make the young mouse appear to age and the old mouse get younger. The dilemma - is it "young blood" factors that rejuvenate the old mouse...
Resistance Training Doubles NAD+ in Muscles of Middle-Aged, Overweight Subjects – Ten Week Study
Readers know that I promote Weight (or Resistance) Training as the most Anti-aging form of exercise known. Now comes a ten week study that shows a more than doubling of NAD+ in muscle tissue in middle-aged men and women, bringing them to levels equivalent to...
Corona Virus and IV Vitamin C
Reports from China are coming in about their protocol to prevent death in the elderly. This includes 24 gram/day Vitamin C give by IV over a 24 hr period. The details are missing beyond that, but this has been verified by several sources. See report by GreenMedInfo...
The Difference: Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed
The Health Benefits of Grass Farming Author: Jo Johnson “Why Grassfed is Best!” Consumers have been led to believe that meat is meat is meat. In other words, no matter what an animal is fed, the nutritional value of its products remains the same. This is not true. An...
To lose weight, and keep it off, be prepared to navigate interpersonal challenges
Frank's Comments: There is a principle in human relations that "People like like people", sort of the counter to "Opposites attract". Gym rats hang together and fat people tend to run with fat friends and families. If you strive to get lean and your social circle...