Athletics: Improving Your Performance with Nutrients III

There are several nutrients and prescription drugs which cause GH release. These include the amino acids arginine and ornithine and the prescription drugs L-Dopa (another amino acid), bromocriptine (Parlodel®, by Sandoz), and vasopressin (Diapid®, Sandoz nasal spray). In one study, 1/2 gram per day of L-Dopa increased the growth hormone output of men in their […]

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Athletics: Improving Your Performance with Nutrients I

I want to be the best-built man in the world, I said frankly. —Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder There are two different types of athletic performance: 1) stamina, and 2) peak output. Stamina depends on the ability of your muscles to put out energy for a prolonged period of time. Peak output, […]

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Revitalizing Your Brain Power V

The body has natural processes by which it removes lipofuscin from cells, involving detergent-like compounds. However, the rate of removal falls farther and farther behind the rate of accumulation. (Even a 3-month-old fetus may have some lipofuscin in some of its nerve cells!) The cholinergic drugs Deaner® and centrophenoxine have been experimentally shown in animals […]

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Some Immediate Benefits of Life Extension Measures II

Let’s think about the effects of aging on OUR APPEARANCE. Under natural conditions, the skin shows age in a variety of unattractive ways, including wrinkling and loss of resiliency, both due to the damage mechanism called crosslinking. Cross-linking is the process in which proteins are linked together by bonds which prevent them from functioning properly. […]

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Factors Which Correlate with Natural Longevity II

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Our Subversive Free Radicals VII

Santoquin antioxidant, more familar as a commonly-used feed ingredient by its generic nickname of ethoxyquin, is feed- grade: 6-ethoxy-1,2-dihydro-2,2,4-trimethylquinoline. The structural formula looks like this: H NW CH, CH, CH;CH,O a CH; One of the most familiar (and perhaps important) antioxidants that Mother Nature provides living bodies is Vitamin E. Its most potent isomer, -tocopherol […]

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Our Subversive Free Radicals IV

where: R is an organic molecule ROOH is an organic peroxide R:R are two organic molecules which have been cross-linked to- gether Oz is oxygen Cu is copper, Fe is iron *is the unpaired electron H is a hydrogen atom HO* is a superoxide free radical RO,* and R* are organic free radicals Note that […]

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Aging and the Immune System I

… just as the pigment of the hair is destroyed by phagocytes, so also the atrophy of other organs of the body, in old age, is very frequently due to the action of devouring cells which I have called macrophages. —Elie Metchnikoff, The Prolongation of Life (1908) Instead of preventing diseases only by protecting the […]

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How Aging Kills I

Old age must be resisted and its deficiencies supplied. —Cicero We know that as we grow older, our chances of continued survival decline. How does aging kill us? The answers to this question lead directly to the big payoff—how to slow or partially reverse these deadly processes. The accumulated result of the unrepaired or imperfectly […]

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Overview of Some Theories of Aging

We cannot retard senescence or reverse its direction, unless we know the nature of the mechanisms which are the substratum of duration [basis of longevity]. —Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown, 1935 In this set of posts, we take an overall view of what we are up against in the way of aging mechanisms. There are […]

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