Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
Good News on the Heart Disease Front
I have had a battle with coronary artery disease, resulting in a quad bypass in 2001 and now stents in 2014. I have been looking for the real cause for a long time to avoid further problems. Now I have another insight that I think will make a big improvement; but...
More on vitamin K2 and Joint Repair
In my last article I said I was going to take 30 mg/day of the Metatetrenone form of VitaminK2(MK-4); well, I went for the broadside approach and have been using 15 mg/meal, 45 mg/day. At this writing, I have been through the first 30 days and can report considerable...
Hope For Joint Damage?
Ten years ago I started feeling mild discomfort when I squeezed my thumb and forefinger together (like plucking stray hairs, etc.), which has worsened over the years to the point of severe pain at times. Four years ago I had X-rays of both hands showing degradation of...
Fighting the Fatigue of Aging; Some Tips for Better Energy Production
How is your energy production? One of the hallmarks of aging is that energy production in every body cell decreases with age. How tired we feel most of the time is the barometer telling us how we are doing. The key thing to notice is that some people are toast in...
Heart surgeon declares on what really causes heart illness
By Dr. Dwight Lundell Dec 8, 2013 - We physicians, with all our experience, know how and authority often acquire a rather large selfishness that tends to make it hard to accept we are wrong. So, here it is. I openly admit to being mistaken. As a heart surgeon with 25...
Avoiding Heart Disease for Life
-esFor decades now the cardiologists have been telling us that the single-most important factor in heart/vascular disease is our Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL) count. For almost as long the awareness has been building that oxidized LDL is the stuff that...
Preventing Muscle Loss with Age
We can prevent muscle loss into advanced age; staying strong in late life has massive benefits, and most seniors can do it. Countless studies with men and women, even into their hundreds, show that resistance or weight training increases strength at any age. A...
Telomeres – Our Biological Aging Clock – New and Exciting Possibilities
The science of cellular aging has advanced in the last several years at a steady pace since the telomere, the repeating DNA sequence at the end of our chromosomes, was found to be the mechanism that keeps track of our cellular age and determines the number of...
A Controversial Perspective on Nutrition
I've had a recent jolt to my understanding of nutrition, particularly with regard to fats and oils. I went looking for a private gym to see if I could do a joint venture and film some training videos with the owners. One of them took a look at my writings and website...
Muscle versus Fat – Health Versus Disease
A key component of aging is the persistent loss of muscle paired with rising fat content. In a simplistic sense, muscle content gives us mobility, strength, speed, agility - the faculties of youth, while increasing fat content proves to be the source of most of the...