There has been a lot of focus on “Long slow distance” (LSD) exercise and telomere health. I have oft quoted the “German Runners Study” which was actually a paper presentation and not a fully published work at the time that it got so much press. That study showed that men who ran at high levels (50 miles …
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Warning: this blog is long, somewhat complicated, very controversial, likely to make me enemies, likely to be 100% true and an honest reflection of my personal experience and likely to alienate anyone with a different agenda! So be it. Try to focus long enough to read it all, because it will do your telomeres a …
I will use the standard marketing style — “Yes, but it’s not what you think!” In order to effectively answer your question, I think we’d need to define fanatic and that of course is subject to interpretation. The obituaries are peppered with athletic superstars dying before their age. Grete Waitz died at 57 of cancer. …
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I hope I am not confusing you with my stance on epigenetics. Ever since we wrote our book The Immortality Edge (Wiley 2010) I have stressed the role of things like diet, meditation, supplementation, exercise and sleep regulation, as a way of influencing your future health, wellness and longevity. In my Longevity Now talks last …
Your mother always told you not to exercise late at night, as it would disturb your sleep. Of course, she was right and nowadays, with the sophisticated sleep studies and the ability to measure hormone levels, including melatonin (the sleep hormone), we can find out all the reasons why. The simplest explanation may be the …
Because there is so much misinformation on the internet, I occasionally engage in Yahoo! answers. This one, by yours truly, was chosen as the best description of epigenetics. While I probably just did someone’s term paper for them, it may be useful to you as well, especially in keeping with my prior blogs on the …
We do have a real live matrix in our bodies. It is known as the ECM or extra cellular matrix. It also falls under the heading of the broader term “fascia”. For most people, fascia means the Saran wrap like lining of many body cavities and joints, but emerging science suggests that functionally, even cartilage …
Since I train year round, I cannot help but notice the huge increase in people on “my” trails and “my” equipment, at the gym. I have been spoiled by having them all to myself. While it’s been 5 years since I wrote “Six Weeks to Super Fitness” and 2 years since our last fitness boot …
As you may have guessed from the phrase “the current thinking”, this stuff is subject to change. Much like diets, the actual testing of exercise routines is based far more on “personal experience”, than science. Even when science gets involved, it gets difficult to find a series of studies that support one thing or another, …
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Just a few short weeks ago our host Greta Blackburn held one of her fabulous FITCAMP events in Cancun, Mexico. If you missed it, you missed a great one! At that event several presenters, including top Scientist Bill Andrews — co-discoverer of the HTERT gene and leading scientist at Sierra Sciences LLC — and top …
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