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We all age; we all get to die – the primary concern is: how much pain and disability will we have to endure on the way to our common end?
Today we know how to slow aging and delay the consequences of aging for decades, but to personally benefit we must learn about and practice strategies that work; that’s what we document on Senior Fitness – practical antiaging strategies that work!
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Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior fitness and health into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here. The sooner you apply these Youth-Prolonging Strategies, the longer you will enjoy pain-free vitality, vigor and independence into advanced age.
We continually research the latest science to formulate practical strategies for optimizing the aging process; letting us live longer, healthier lives, free of disease and pain into advanced age. We think life is precious and far more enjoyable and productive when we are in good health. Yes we all get old and die, but our thinking is that Later is Better, and pain and disability are to be avoided.
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We recommend only products and suppliers we use; Life Extension Foundation is second to none for understanding the science of optimal aging and life-long health – My favorite supplier and info source. LEF funds research to discover the mechanisms of aging and means for slowing and eventually halting/curing aging. When they discover compounds that slow aging and extend healthy lifespan they formulate a product and bring it to market; they are the cutting edge of optimal aging technology and supplements.
Could We Kill this Epidemic in a Month?
The world has been dealing with this Corona virus since late December 2020, and China before that. Data on the severity of outcomes has been gathered from around the world, showing that severity is highly dependent on Vitamin D status. We in the US typically use the...
Great Promise for Stem Cell Vesicles in Life Extension
Over a decade ago, stem cells were promised to repair virtually everything in our bodies, but over time researchers noticed that very few stem cells actually survive transplanting over the long term, and began looking at what stem cells (SCs) were doing to cause the...
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...
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...
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...
Fitness19 Reopened, Training Resumes
On Monday, 6/15 our Simi Valley Fitness 19 reopened, with heightened levels of cleaning and distancing and mask requirements for staff and clients. The first two weeks has been a trial run to make sure our anti-viral methods worked well enough to keep us safe, and as...
A New Way to Boost Energy to Youthful Levels
NAD+ is the hardest working enzyme involved in the body’s energy production, but by 70, we have under a third of what we had as young adults. It is rationed to do only the most necessary functions, and so everything involved in repair and upkeep of our bodies and...
My Results with an Underground Cancer Treatment
A Cancer Killer in Plain Sight? In August last year (2019) one of the newsletters I subscribe to wrote of a commonly used deworming medicine for pets (and humans, but requires a prescription, and costs far more) that kills virtually all cancer cell types, including...
Vitamin D3, Magnesium, Vitamin K2 Critical for Longevity & Senior Fitness
Vitamin D3 is a rampant deficiency in sun-phobic men and women; the further north you live (above the equator), the more likely to be deficient. Levels below 30 ng/dl cripple the immune system. Optimum number keeps going up; shoot for 70 ng/dl. That takes 5000 IU -...
Frank’s New Max Leg Press
Two weeks after my 80th birthday, at Fitness19 in Simi Valley, while coaching a client I sometimes take the liberty to work in with, I "showed him" how to go for a new max. The idea is to warm up with something light, then in about three intermediate loads (like...
Training Results at Fitness19 in Simi Valley CA
It's been about 10 months since I started as a Fitness Trainer at the Simi Valley Fitness19 Gym. I've had about 15 clients over that time and I have seen some remarkable recoveries of clients who started with me in various conditions, some pretty severely disabled....
Training at Fitness19 in Simi Valley
In December I was hired as a trainer at the new Fitness19 Gym in Simi Valley CA. If you're tired of sliding down-hill toward infirmity, let me help you on a new path to strength and stamina with a renewed outlook on growing older with class and grace. I guide you...
Reasons Not to Use Industrial Seed Oils – P. D. Mangan
Frank's Comment: P. D. is a health writer I subscribe to with great insights on staying healthy and fit long-term - read & heed! Vegetable oils are better termed industrial seed oils, since they're not made from vegetables and require an industrial process...
Update on My NMN Body Transformation Project
I completed the 3 months of taking Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) at 1 gram/day at the end of October. I'm quite pleased with the results, but I wish I had done it at a time when I could have used the gym and weight training to to make the progress better visually...
Intermittent Fasting as a path to long-term Health and Longevity
Long a practice for those seeking God and spiritual connection to Him, Fasting has very real benefits for health and fitness. The most productive and simplest form of fasting is termed Intermittent Fasting, and I explain the easiest way to do this below, but first...