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Revealing Hidden Secrets of
Youthfulness
San Juan Capistrano, CA – An in-depth analysis conducted by
us of current and ongoing health research has revealed
secrets to youthfulness apparently missed by professionals
conducting the studies.
One recent study published by the journal of the Canadian
Public Library of Science, PLoS One, found that
energy-producing skeletal muscle cells called mitochondria
can be revitalized with weight training exercises.
In the Canadian study, seniors averaging 70 years who were
active and healthy were led in exercise programs twice a
week for one hour of general exercises involving weight
lifting for a period of six months. Biopsies of their thigh
muscles were taken both before, and after, the program.
When the weight training is done by seniors, the study
further reported that this mitochondrial matter could be
returned to a condition similar to that found in much
younger people.
"There's accumulating evidence to show that mitochondria are
involved in the aging process and if the mitochondria don't
work very well, the energy, the endurance and the strength
of muscles become diminished," study co-author Dr. Mark
Tarnopolsky of McMaster University, who was located in
Hamilton, Canada.
As an indication of how important muscle mass is, the latest
analysis by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention
shows that more than 13,700 seniors in America died from
falls in 2003 alone. “Falls are the leading cause of injury
death among the elderly,” stated Michigan University balance
researcher Neil Alexander.
In fact, researchers disclosed to the American Geriatrics
Society during its 2007 meeting held in Seattle, Washington
that older women are at greater risk of death after
suffering a hip fracture than after contracting breast
cancer. Dr. Jane A. Cauley, DrPH, who is a professor of
epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh in
Pennsylvania, stated ‘[Our] study should raise the general
level of awareness of the impact of hip fracture on the
lives of elderly women.” She added, “There is already a
greater general level of awareness of the public health
impact of breast cancer; but, in fact, our study showed that
the mortality of breast cancer in this population was less
that that of hip fracture. The public health impact on
mortality was much greater for hip fracture that for breast
cancer, even after adjustment [for statistical factors].”
Dr. S. K. Bulstra, MD, a professor of orthopedic surgery at
the University Medical Center of Groningen in the
Netherlands, making an independent analysis of the study by
Dr. Cauley, stated "The implications of this study are that
we should aim more studies at the correct treatment of the
patient with a hip fracture.”
Dr. Bulstra, as could be expected of an allopathic medical
doctor, completely missed the issue presented by Dr.
Cauley’s study: how do we prevent hip fractures in the
elderly, both in women and in men? Better treatment after
the fracture is certainly not where emphasis should be
stressed if the age-old adage of “an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure” yet retains its currency.
Co-Author Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky stated of the Canadian study,
"The main, novel finding [of our study is] that we could
bring that aging mitochondria pattern back towards a younger
person, almost reversing the aging signature, pretty much by
40, 45 years with six months of weight training." He added
"What's cool about that is that this aging is reversible –
maybe not 100 per cent – but at least at the cellular level,
we're seeing a significant reversal of accumulated damage
over a long period of time."
 Scot E. Long, MSS, CSCS, who is an exercise physiologist and
a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern
Mississippi in addition to being an adjunct professor at
Mississippi College, stated, “Long bouts of cardio -
especially without strength training - can cost valuable
muscle tissue and damage joints, and the cardio-respiratory
benefits simply don't require the long times and distances
many people put in today. As a matter of fact, most runners
who don't regularly strength train have very low levels of
strength, power, balance, coordination and agility. These
are all necessary aspects of the skill-related components of
fitness that many once thought only athletes needed. We all
need these components for our jobs, hobbies, sports and the
physical requirements of life itself such as yard work,
changing a tire and staying optimally healthy.”
Physiologist Long further stated, “Strength-training
machines are also still popular with the idea that older
people, the injured and inexperienced must use machines to
be safe. Not true. Free weights using both power lifting and
Olympic weight lifting techniques can be used for everyone.
Whether you are elderly, very young, injured, a school
teacher or a SWAT team member, the benefits are waiting for
us all.”
But, breaking out in a sweat like Arnold used to do is not
the only answer, although its benefits may be much more
quickly realized than non-impact exercises such as tai chi.
But, these low-intensity exercises can reap bountiful
rewards.
In fact, Steven Wolf of Emory University says, “… it takes
three months of tai chi for someone who is really frail to
regain strength and flexibility.” He added, “In Western
medicine, we expect instant results. But, that’s not what
happens here.”
In a an apparently unrelated Swedish study from the
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, researcher
Anna-Greta Mamhidir stated, “Weight loss is a common issue
among people with dementia and in particular Alzheimer’s.”
In the Swedish study, two groups comprised of seniors
suffering from varying, yet similar, degrees of dementia and
Alzheimer’s were compared. The so-called “invention” group
was simply provided more physical stimulus including
movement. The “control” group was left alone.
"Patients [in the intervention group] took part in
activities, sat at the table together during mealtimes and
served themselves food from bowls, encouraging them to be
more independent and interact more with other patients"
stated Ms. Mamhidir.
The results were that the intervention group markedly
increased weight, by as much as 15 pounds in one case,
during the term of the 3-month study.
The study was undertaken to determine if the increased
activity and interaction by the seniors in the intervention
group could be correlated with weight gain by it. The
motivation for determining weight gain, in turn, is that
weight loss is a significant aspect in the syndrome of
dementia and Alzheimer’s. Thus, it was concluded by the
Swedish researchers that if activity could induce more
eating, the possibility existed that the onset or impact of
dementia and Alzheimer’s might be reduced. As to be expected
of the allopathic approach, the leaders of the Swedish study
missed the point completely. Roger Watson, who is the editor
of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, stated that the Swedish
research made a significant contribution to the field of
food and dementia. “The [Swedish] study shows a marked
difference in weight change between the intervention and
control groups and a strong link between weight gain and
improved intellectual ability,” he stated.
Again, the actual point of the Swedish study is missed by
those analyzing it. The point is simply this: we are all
animals and like animals in the wild if we don’t keep
hunting we die, whether that hunting is experiencing the
strain of a new tai chi position or, as in the Swedish
study, simply making an elderly person fill their own soup
bowl instead of catering it to them.
Copyright 2007 by Charles Benninghoff |
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