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***Nutrition - the Raw Material for Senior Health and Lifetime Fitness (Part 2)

Let’s recap the important concepts of the last article (Nutrition (Part 1)). The first important concept is that in order to optimally perform the daily process of repairing the body and meeting its energy demands; we must eat <u>REAL</u> foods and eat very little industrially altered, manufactured pseudo-foods. The second is that consistently eating too much and too often is the fast track to metabolic syndrome, a fat belly, type 2 diabetes, loss of health and function and a pain-filled old age.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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***Aerobics - To Recover and Maintain your Heart/Lung/Vascular Fitness.

When you push exercise to your aerobic limits, your cardiovascular/pulmonary system improves; it's called the 'training effect'. Your body adapts to the measured stress by becoming more efficient at getting oxygen to the cells, and the cells become more efficient in performing all their various functions. The bottom line is that the perceived effort in climbing a flight of stairs goes down; you don't have to breathe as hard to get to the top, and you recover from being out of breath faster.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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Nutrition - the Raw Material for Senior Health and Lifetime Fitness (Part 1)

Food, what we eat daily, provides the basic materials that build and sustain our bodies. In our prime we can seemingly eat anything and digest it, absorb it, assimilate it and utilize it. But as we age, stomach acid and enzyme production decrease, digestion worsens, absorption and assimilation of nutrients becomes less effective. Mechanisms for getting nutrients into our cells, and waste products out, become less effective. The basic starting point for any anti-aging effort is to eat so as to obtain all necessary nutrients and enhance the mechanisms for digestion, absorption and assimilation.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
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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).

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
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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.

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
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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!

Primary topic: Aging and Longevity
Aging and Longevity
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