Calorie restriction is quite intriguing, but in the end run, we will find a few things that make it of limited value, including the fact that we now have 68% obesity and overweight, in this country. We can’t even get to near ideal weight and now we are to tell people to restrict well below …
Several years back, there was quite a stir when a study suggested that Vitamin A, in smokers, was a bad thing. There was a small, but significant increase in lung cancer, in smokers who took vitamin A and in those with asbestos exposure. Since that time, those studies (there were actually 2 of them, dating …
The return of the Big Bad Wolf – lessons learned from Vitamin A studies Read More »
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 …
The ink had barely dried on the blog below when the following article came out by Dr Ron DePinho, a seminal researcher in the field of telomeres and telomerase. Dr DePinho helped put the nail in the coffin of the “Mitochondrial Theory of Aging” a year or so ago, when he showed that telomere length …
I have never been accused of adopting the “Popular Opinion”. Moreover, I make it a point to try to disabuse people of false notions. The problem is of course touched upon in the blog below, “The Connectivity Trap”, because we have created a totally open forum for human interaction. We have also created a totally …
We were in the middle of an important conversation when the call came in. Jack, I will call him, was a middle aged business man, who had a proposition for me that was supposed to revolutionize my business and my life. The call interrupted his presentation for about 2 minutes, but in that time I …
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, …
Myths and facts about weight loss – the current thinking Read More »
There are more and more questions about telomeres on the net these days. One appeared recently asking what happens when an 82 year old women dies of respiratory failure from the standpoint of her telomeres. The answer is long and complex but it does take you through the very basics of aging. So if you …
Sometimes I get pulled into discussions I would prefer not to have. Most times it’s a result of some stuff on the internet that has been designed to “engage” the audience in discussion. There never seems to be a lack of people ready to volunteer their opinion on things they have no knowledge about. A …
Let me be clear. I am a supplement guy; have been for years. I take supplements. I make supplements and I sell supplements, which have unequivocally improved the lives of a lot of people. As a supplement guy, the most exciting thing to come along ever, has been TA-65, the Astragalus derived compound that lengthens …
Telomere turf wars – Taming the Beast and the Blasco Fiasco Read More »