Frank’s Column
Frank’s Column
Risk involved with Atrial Fibrillation – or Afib as the commercials call it!
I'm one of those with bouts of irregular heart beats that fall in this category. Mine are typically a skipped beat follow by a chest-thumper of a beat, that happens every 4-11 beats or so. Fibrillation, to me, means a fluttering of the atrial chambers, wherein the...
At What Age Should We Start battling the Aging Process?
Well, I would call it the Age of Awareness - it's that first time we look in a mirror and realize things are a-changing for the worse. Usually it shows as a slow buildup of mid body fat for men - they haven't yet noticed loss of muscle, but it's happening. For the...
A Brief Wrap-up of 2011 for Senior Fitness
Here it is half-way through January, the decorations are back in storage, tax season is beginning, and it seems like the last thing I have time for is writing about health and aging well. But it has been a long time since I did a Frank's Column and the search engine...
Growing Muscle, Getting Stronger in Our Senior Years
Good Morning Healthy Seniors - and those who want to be later in life: Exercise Recovery Time is the key to becoming progressively stronger! I have been using the Static Contraction Training method now since 7/10/09, and I am stunned by how effective it is at growing...
Body Building Progress with Pete Sisco’s Static Contraction Training
You may have noticed my addition of Pete Sisco under our Training Courses Category. He sells an eBook called "Train Smart : The Worlds Fastest Workout" (click the link on our site and we are blessed with a commission - same price anywhere; you might as well give us...
More on Leptin – Mastering Leptin
I finally spent money and bought Byron Richards' latest book "Mastering Leptin", and am nearly through it. The book is intensely well referenced and a read of some references leads me to the conviction that his interpretation of study results is correct - the...
An Engineering Approach to Health & Fitness
Frequently, I remind myself that I'm not a doctor of anything, nor a researcher in the pure sense. I am an engineer, of electronic circuit design background, with a near lifetime designing missile-borne Radar systems. I am focused on using technologies, techniques and...
My Test results on Life Extension’s Integra-Lean Irvingia
This week I got my blood lipid test results, after having been using Irvingia 150 mg/twice a day since January, and once again stopping Lipitor use. The literature and study results for Irvingia extract are really spectacular at 10 weeks of use at that dosage: Blood...
Inflammation and the chronic diseases associated with aging
Generally speaking, what we see in aging humans is, looking from the outside, a wrinkling and excess of skin with loss of elasticity, loss of muscle volume and accumulation of fat, particularly in the middle and lower body. Look under that and you will see a general...
Let’s go back to Wellness Resources
Let's go back to Wellness Resources and the topic of Leptin Resistance. I'm so impressed with the well-thought-out information and presentation of this website that I joined their affiliate program. This so I could freely post Byron's articles and product line on...