Frank Wilhelmi
BSE, ME
Official Guide
Optimal Aging with Life-long Health & Fitness Expert
Frank Wilhelmi Quick Facts
Frank Wilhelmi - Retired/consultant electronic engineer researches and reports practical strategies for optimizing health and fitness into advanced age. "I have a passion for living life to the fullest, and helping others to do the same." A rapidly growing body of knowledge now enables us to extend our health and fitness decades beyond popular expectations.
The science is quite complicated and shifting, but some simple principles stand out. Primarily, diet, exercise and sleep control gene expression. We may be born with genes that favor longer or shorter lives, but a nutrient-rich diet, exercise that builds strength and endurance, and a high-quality sleep pattern promotes gene expression that fosters enduring health and longevity. What we put in our mouths, how we move our bodies and value our sleep has a massive impact on our health or the lack of it.
On the other side of the coin, some habits like smoking, recreational drugs, excessive alcohol intake and overeating always promote gene activation that shortens our years and fills them with ongoing pain. Stupidity or ignorance in youth leaves scars, but at any point we can change the course of our health by fixing the basics. Much damage can be reversed and new or renewed health can be acquired. Strength can improved at every age, joints rebuilt, mobility enhanced, energy revitalized. Nutritional and hormonal supplements can be used to compensate for metabolic changes that come with age.
We all age, and the changes are inevitable; we all (so far) get to die. "In my thinking, later is better, and being pain-free, mobile and energetic for as long as possible is well worth the research, time, energy and money invested. Now, at 73, I thoroughly enjoy the fruits of my research". Learn the details at http://www.seniorfitness.com/newsletter-signup.html
Frank Wilhelmi Books
Train Smart -by Pete Sisco
http://www.seniorfitness.com/Pete_Sisco.html?title=Pete,Sisco
Mastering Leptin - by Byron Richards, CCN
http://www.seniorfitness.com/Byron_J_Richards_and_Wellness_Resources.html?title=Byron,J,Richards,and,Wellness,Resources
The Leptin Diet - by Byron Richards, CCN
http://www.seniorfitness.com/Byron_J_Richards_and_Wellness_Resources.html?title=Byron,J,Richards,and,Wellness,Resources
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Sugar – A Primary Enemy of Optimal Aging
A Less-than-timely Admission: At the American Heart Association's 50th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, researchers reported that sugar-based drinks actually do contribute to heart disease and diabetes. That confession is about 50 years late in coming.
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Type-2 Diabetes, genes and gene expression
Two recent news articles announced discovery of 13 gene variants that make us susceptible to developing type-2 diabetes later in life. The point of this article is that you don’t have to be a victim of genetic variants; you may be more susceptible to some disease of aging, but you don’t have to accept it as your fate. The variants discussed are called Single Nucleotide Polymorphism variants or SNPs. SNPs are the simplest variation that a gene can have; only one letter in the code is changed in a place that changes the molecule produced from the gene.
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Essential Fatty Acids – A Key to Great Health But Needing Some 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 which are acidic); alpha-linolenic acid (LNA) – an omega-3 fat, and linoleic acid (LA) – an omega 6 fat. The term "essential" arises from the fact that the human body cannot make them from any other parent substance, and we must therefore get them from diet.
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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 processing removes nearly all of the LNA in any manufactured or processed foods, especially the cooking oils and salad oils you see in clear bottles on our grocery shelves.
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***Supplements for Optimal Aging – Part 3
More Antioxidants for Optimal Aging
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***Supplements for Optimal Aging - Part 4
Aging brings a general stiffening of tissues, loss of bone mass and density, shrinkage of the brain, joint cartilage and some organs’ size, and a slowing of energy production in all body cells. Part of this is because our immune system, an army of immune cell types that defend us from invaders, turns on our own tissues and leads to self-inflicted damage. The resulting chronic, degenerative, inflammatory-based diseases produce pain, debilitation and early death; diseases such as atherosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes or a bevy of other ‘itises’, cancer or Alzheimer’s.
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***Supplements for Optimal Aging – Part 5 Cellular Senescence – The Ultimate Cause of Old Age and Death
Cellular Senescence – our cells get old after dividing about 10 to 50 times for humans, depending on cell type, then they change characteristics and function and either commit suicide (apoptosis) or just quit functioning (stasis or senescence). Ultimately it is senescence that defines our maximum life span, thought to be about 120 years for humans.
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***Supplements for Optimal Aging (Part 1)
With age comes decreased capacity to repair cellular damage, to digest foods completely, to produce energy in our mitochondria, to recover from exercise, to take in and use oxygen, to circulate blood, repair cartilage, etc. Supplements are a primary strategy for getting around these limitations. (If you are young, before you know it this will all apply to you, so pay attention).
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***Supplements for Optimal Aging Part 2
In Part 1 of this Supplements article I explained strategies for maintaining healthy digestive function as we age by taking supplemental stomach acid (Betaine HCl), Digestive enzymes and Probiotics. When we are young to middle aged, we can take these as need arises, but the older we get, the more it needs to be a daily pattern; HCl and enzymes with meals and probiotics taken at night on an empty stomach. The point being that as we age supplementation needs change, generally increasing as we need to make up for functions of our bodies that are throttling back with time.
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***A Sure-fire Strategy for Giving Yourself Type-II Diabetes as You Age!
There is an epidemic afoot called Type-II diabetes.
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Staying Fit, Healthy and Strong for the Rest of Your Life
To optimize fitness for life, there are 6 key areas that should be attended to on a consistent, life-long basis. We can slack our attention for brief periods without much consequence, but get back on track quickly and the results are better.
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***Exercise - The primary driver for reversing age-related functional decline.
The key underlying principle to be grasped with regard to Exercise is this: The body is a demand-driven, adaptable, living system that requires movement and muscular activity to maintain its function. Observe what happens to someone bedridden in a hospital; muscle mass, flexibility, strength, bone density and range of motion all drop like a downed helicopter, in just a matter of days. The unseen effects are equally damaging; every organ reduces function and slows its activity. Lack of movement is devastating to the human body!
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