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8 Part Antiaging & Restorative Medicine Series

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Coming up soon - an 8 part blog series on the latest in antiaging and restorative medicine.

Over the past few years there have been signficant advances in restorative medicine, and longer term findings on the various approaches to antiaging medicine and wellness.

This series will focus on different protocols such as: Caloric restriction – just what personal impact does it have on longevity Restorative medicine – how they grow your own replacement body parts in just a few weeks Oxygen therapy – a new use for old technology ….and many more.

Don’t miss out on this update series that gives you all the information on how to add decades to your life.

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Iron Man Nutrition Great For Antiaging Program

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I came across this very good video by triathlete Ben Greenfield on the nutritional requirements for athletes training for the Iron Man. As most of you would know, the Iron Man is the elite fitness event in the triathlon circuit. Whilst most of you will not be training for such an event, you are very likely to be preparing for a hiking holiday, skiing holiday, or other event requiring endurance. Quite frankly, even looking after children during the holidays can be an endurance test to some!!

During preparation for such an event, the body must be correctly nourished to build muscle, not fat, and to ensure that it receives sufficient antioxidants and anti-inflammatories to aid muscle building and damage to joints and muscles - all characteristics we try to achieve with an antiaging nutrition and fitness program.

I urge you to take a look – you can download a powerpoint slide deck to follow along – as the slides in the video are not easy to see, but Ben makes a great job of talking to each point.

 

Visit http://www.bengreenfieldfitness.com/ironman for the powerpoint.

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Super Brain Yoga Helps Prevent Alzheimers

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I just came across a really interesting video and concept called Super Brain Yoga, being used on young and old alike to help prevent and control various illnesses, including Alzheimers. Take a look:

This exercise is designed to pump up neuron and cell activity in the brain:

  1. Hold onto the right ear lobe with left hand
  2. Hold onto the left ear lobe with the right hand
  3. Now swat up and down, breathing in on the way down, and out on the way up.
  4. Continue building up to 5 minutes

Personally, I find the science behind it logical, and think it will benefit everyone. Just don’t do it where your neighbours can see you – they may think you have finally slipped over the edge!

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Get Fitter By The Hour

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

With a lot of us feeling like we have to put in more effort to keep our jobs and businesses from falling into the hands of the recession, it is easy to feel like there is no time for keeping fit. For those who feel they have no time to exercise and become strong and healthy…just read the following;

Total Hours Per Week = 168

  • Sleep at 8 hours a night = 56
  • Work = 40 hours
  • Travel = 10 hours
  • Meals [3 a day at 1 hour each] = 21
  • Personal & Household at 2 hours a day = 14 hours
  • Family time at 2 hours a day = 14 hours

A total of 155 hours. That still leave 13 hours a week for an exercise program or something else. Even if you work 50 hours a week, you still have 6 hours a week to spend on other activities.

Not convinced….well then take it hour by hour. Evey hour take 5 minutes to do some type of exercise. Desk workout, sit ups, squats, push ups [wall or floor], walking the stairs. Not only will you end up spending about 8 hours a week exercising, you will be less stressed from taking mini-breaks.

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Don’t Let Recession Hype Age You

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

With so much media attention on the recession, and possible depression – it is difficult for it not to have a rather demoralising impact. And with that comes all the normal downhill feelings and impacts such as stress, depression, over-eating, lack of exercise etc etc.

The current situation has been caused by nothing more that GREED! As consumers, we have been over indulging our consumerism in an unhealthy manner – and the financial institutions have been greedy by offering loans at low interest rates, to those whom they KNOW will most likely be unable to handle payments at the average or above interest rate of 7.5%.

So guess what – the empire struck back!  And it is forcing all greedy, over indulgent consumers and businesses into a forced diet program. Nothing more, nothing less.

So don’t look around for someone else to blame, and don’t blame the government. Anger is a very unhealthy emotion, and if you have lost on the stock market or your property investment – guess what, the only person to blame is yourself. So toughen up and determine the worse possible outcome, accept it and be grateful for anything more that you hold on to from that worst position.

Don’t buy into worrying about the future. YOu are more likely to rise from the ashes so to speak if you remain calm, concentration on one day at a time, and above anything else – LOOK AFTER YOUR HEALTH.

Exercise is a great stress breaker. Refuse to buy into a depression – Get a T-Shirt printed with those very words and wear it proudly. Start a support group to help each other out – you may just make some new deep friendships along the way.

Stress, poor diet, smoking, excessive alcohol and lack of exercise are the fastest way to age.

So don’t pay out twice – you may lose some money, some assets but you still have your most valuable asset – you and those you love.

Be strong and age slowly!

Nicola

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A New Perspective on Antiaging

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

In response to my last aging humor post, a reader sent us this Q&A to share with you – warning!! reading further could endanger your health….but it will give you a good laugh.

HEALTH QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION

Q: I’ve heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?

A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that’s it… Don’t waste them on exercise . Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that’s like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?

A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable). And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?

A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way. Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?

A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is one to one. If you have two bodies, your ratio is two to one, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?

A: Can’t think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain…Good!

Q: Aren’t fried foods bad for you?

A: You’re not listening…. Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they’re permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting a little soft around the middle?

A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger. You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?

A: Are you crazy? HELLO Cocoa beans! Another vegetable. It’s the best feel-good food around! !

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?

A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?

A: Hey! ‘Round’ is a shape! !

And remember: “Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways – Chardonnay in one hand – chocolate in the other – body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, “WOO HOO, What a Ride!”

Well – I guess that’s one perspective. Me I’ll keep the chardonnay and chocolate, but I think I will pass on the rest.

Nicola

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How To Turn Your Oatmeal Into An Antiaging Superfood

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I am a great fan of oatmeal for breakfast – summer and winter. I prefer to buy premixed museli and cover it with water then microwave it for 2 minutes. Its an easy and fast way to ensure that I get a good breakfast and helps to lower my cholesterol [something my family has a problem with].

However, what I didn’t know until recently was that including a glass of orange juice with my oatmeal breakfast doubles the nutrition power. It seems there is a special synergy between the two foods, based around the phenols in oatmeal and the vitamin C in the juice working together to make LDL more stable. In its more stable form – LDL is less likely to stick to the walls of ateries.

LDL is the bad side of the cholesterol ratio – the one that increases the risk of arteries clogging and leading to cardiovascular disease and strokes.

My oatmeal is just been converted from a great food to a superfood.

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Free Weights Trump Fixed Weight Machines

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Regular strength-training is a key element in your antiaging program.

For many people – ‘doing weights’ means slogging along to the gym at 5.30am and completing a round on weight machines. Yet you can get a really good workout without leaving the comfort of your home. Dumbbell weights or simple home gym cable-and-pulley machines allow freedom of motion and can actually give better strength gains than fancier commercial ‘fixed’ equipment.

Fixed machines such as the leg-press machine, loaded up a plate with weights uses a fixed plane of motion to push through. This does not bring into play other fitness functions such as balance and muscle control. And less effort, means lower results.

Studies have shown that those who used free-form equipment enjoy strength gains by 115 percent compared to just 57 percent for the fixed-machine users.

Even lifting weights for 10 minutes just 3 times per week can make a real difference.

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Athritis Suffers Find Comfort in Weight Loss

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Studies found that people with knee osteoarthritis experienced less pain and disability simply by losing weight:

  • A 5 per cent weight loss was enough to ease problems
  • A 10 percent weight loss resulted in ‘moderate to large’ improvements in physical ability

All good news for sufferers of this painful joint condition.  Researchers suggest suffers of arthritis lose 10 percent of their weight in a period of two months to gain the most benefit. Since mobility is often a problem for such patients, the emphasis must be on food intake. Once the pain starts to ease, and mobility improves, exercise will help with further weight loss

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Age Defying Human Biological Programming

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

In David Louis Edelman’s novel ‘Infoquake’ nanotechnology is injected into the human body to act as a carrier for programs that can be activated on demand to control emotions, to assist the host to sleep or stay awake, and the receive communications and partake in a virtual world, without external viewing interfaces. The process was coined ‘Human Biological Programming or Bio-Logic.

Human biological programming is an emerging medical science being heralded as the future to the self healing human. In reading through the programs used in Infoquake, it is hard not to ask oneself, are these not the very mechanisms that the body is designed to control itself, through our hormonal and neurological pathways. Could it be that living is evolving faster than life. The human body is not keeping up with the demands that merely existing in the world are placing upon it. Could it be that this accounts for the number of people who are:

  • Obese
  • Emotionally stressed
  • Physically wearing out
  • Sleep deprived
  • And so on

All biological systems exhibit adaptation and robustness in dealing with widely changing environments. By adopting these properties of biological systems, the medical world is aiming to design systems that operate adequately even in the presence of ‘catastrophic failures and large scale attacks’. Sort of like a utility system that can detect, repair and restore, akin to that of modern computers. Just as computers have built in fault tolerance, so too does the human body. However, when the level of toxins in our human environment escalate beyond the level with which our bodies can resolve on a daily basis, as residual of toxins builds up in the body, and illness follows. Back to our computer analogy, the same thing occurs in a PC. Every day, small indiscernible flaws build up in the operating system and memory, and in spite of regular cleansing and defrag programs, the hard drive is eventually deemed ‘corrupt’. At this point the only remedy is a complete reformat, and reload of programs. Biological programs could well act in the same capacity – allowing for mini restorations as our bodies become contaminated in any number of ways.

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