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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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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...
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",...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Science Turning its Attention to Aging
For an update on the current efforts in science to halt aging, and the diseases of old age, watch this lecture by David Sinclair PhD. He and his projects are at the forefront of life-long health. This is well worth watching today!