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We all age; we all get to die – the primary concern is: how much pain and disability will we have to endure on the way to our common end?
Today we know how to slow aging and delay the consequences of aging for decades, but to personally benefit we must learn about and practice strategies that work; that’s what we document on Senior Fitness – practical antiaging strategies that work!
7-Pillars of Senior Fitness
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Learn how to slow and reverse Age-related Functional Decline. We bring you the latest strategies to optimize senior fitness and health into advanced age. The time to start is now; the place to start is here. The sooner you apply these Youth-Prolonging Strategies, the longer you will enjoy pain-free vitality, vigor and independence into advanced age.
We continually research the latest science to formulate practical strategies for optimizing the aging process; letting us live longer, healthier lives, free of disease and pain into advanced age. We think life is precious and far more enjoyable and productive when we are in good health. Yes we all get old and die, but our thinking is that Later is Better, and pain and disability are to be avoided.
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Specific Tools to Promote Longevity and Long-term Health
Last month I got all excited about the Nrf2/ARE Pathway and it being the primary activator of our powerful antioxidant enzymes. Recall that the activity of these free-radical scavenging enzymes is the body's primary protection against aging and disease, including the...
Your Number One Mechanism for a Long Healthy Life
The human body is designed to last. The primary mechanism which insures our longevity is a system of antioxidant enzymes that squelch free radicals at a rate of about 2 billion per second, sopping up these destructive molecules as fast as they are generated,...
A Primary Cause of Our Current Obesity Crisis
In my last article I described the absolute essential nature of the two fats; linoleic acid (LA) and alpha-linolenic acid (LNA), how the human body cannot make these fats and requires them to have life at all, let alone health. I further described how modern food...
Essential Fatty Acids – A Key to Great Health; Some Needed Clarification
The news media and even many doctors refer to 'Essential Fatty Acids' (EFAs) and lump Fish Oils in with the discussion in a way that confuses the use of the term. Strictly, the term applies to only two unsaturated fats (which are fatty acids because they are fats...
Aging Optimally is Better Understood Today, With More and Better Tools to Help
It has been almost 7 years since I put up this website, and I find that today, the 6 Critical Keys to Senior Fitness still remain the most important aspects of living which need to be understood and attended to for maintaining excellent health into advanced age. We...
A More Useful Understanding of Antioxidants and Cellular Protection.
Sometimes useful knowledge evades even the most diligent searchers, and so it is with me on the topic of oxidative cellular damage and how to prevent it. We burn sugars, fats and protein with oxygen to produce energy. But in addition to energy, we make free radicals...
Some Thoughts on Caloric Restriction and Healthy Lifespan
We have an epidemic of obesity; a recent article Life Extension Magazine stated that the obesity numbers in the US are drastically understated - it is worse than the government is telling us. We eat too much, we eat too often and we eat the wrong stuff. There are now...
What I Do to Make Sure I Never Repeat My Quad-bypass
Atherosclerosis is basically an autoimmune disease, wherein the immune system is attempting to repair arterial damage. One of the most common causes is periodontal disease which chronically leaks bacteria into the vascular system, infecting the points of the system...
Autism: Gut Flora, Immune Development, Brain development – All Tied Together
Mercola.com sent out a youtube video of a phone interview with Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride (DrCM) on the topic of intestinal bacterial, fungal and viral population in our gut and the impact this population has on immune function and particularly on autism and related...
Some Recent Newsletter Items of Interest:
Dr David Williams' Alternatives Newsletter for April was a comprehensive essay on "The Dangers of Our Antibacterial Lifestyles", presenting the growing list of conditions related to disruption of our symbiotic relationship with this worlds bacteria, viruses and fungal...