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Conclusion

Posted on November 13, 2019 Written by Thomas Matt Leave a Comment

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Tom’s take-

David Sinclair wrote a masterful book that covers so much ground it is amazing.  I wanted to share just a couple of the reviews both from the book cover and from Amazon.

  • “An elegant and exciting book that deserves to be read broadly and deeply.”  Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1 New York Times best selling author
  • “Lifespan gives us hope for an extraordinary life…Enjoy this must-read masterpiece!”  Peter H. Diamandis, MD, founder and chairman of XPRIZE; executive founder of Singularity University; and New York Times best selling author of  ‘Abundance and Bold’
  • Timothy D. Lundeen
    5.0 out of 5 starsAll about healthy life extension, by a leading scientist

    September 17, 2019

    Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
    . David makes three critical points:
    * longer healthy lifespan improves all of our lives, not just personally, but for all of the people we love
    * mechanisms to increase lifespan are part of our cells and often just need to be activated
    * increasing healthy lifespan will not make the world overcrowded, but will benefit everyone by increasing productivity and overall well-being
    All of these are well-supported and convincing, including touching and memorable personal experiences.
    I do have one major issue, though. Our current medical system is focused on the bottom line, making money is more important than the best protocol. Look at Vioxx, for example, which killed thousands of people so that Merck could make more money. David has personal experiences with the system: his Mom almost died from poisoning by prescription medicine, and his daughter could have died from a serious Lyme infection that was not properly handled.
    Yet David accepts that vaccination is a medical miracle, without doing any research on its risks and benefits. I hope he will take a serious look at all the issues:
    * the extremely high rates of chronic illness in vaccinated vs non-vaccinated children, The Children’s Health Defense has a good series based on peer-reviewed research
    * the connection between aluminum and autism, with artists having the highest levels. See Dr Chris Exley’s peer-reviewed work. Most vaccines have high levels of aluminum that has been shown to stay in the body and migrate to the brain
    * the connection between vaccination-induced brain inflammation and brain injury, see vaccine papers dot org, which includes full-text copies of peer-reviewed research: “powerful scientific evidence has emerged indicating that vaccines cause brain injury such as autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, depression, attention-deficit disorder and other mental illnesses. This scientific evidence has been largely ignored by the media, and by medical institutions that are supposedly guided by science.”
    * the actual history of vaccination. Medical historians estimate that ALL of modern medicine, including vaccination and antibiotics, reduced childhood mortality by 4-6%. That is, 94-96% of the reduction was from improved sanitation and nutrition. For example, scarlet fever has been eradicated — without any vaccine. A good source is the book Dissolving Illusions.
    * the actual contents of vaccines as analyzed by Corvelva, showing high levels of contamination
    * the lack of liability for vaccines by the medical industry. Instead, a government fund compensates injuries, and has paid out over $4 billion. This does not motivate safer vaccines!
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“What do I do?” David Sinclair’s daily plan-

  • I take 1 gram (1,000 mg) of NMN (Sandy and I do this now as well) every morning, along with 1 gram of Resveratrol (shaken into my homemade yogurt) and 1 gram of Metformin
  • I take a daily dose of vitamin D, vitamin K, and 83 mg of aspirin
  • I strive to keep my blood sugar, bread and pasta intake as low as possible. I gave up deserts at age 40, although I do steal tastes
  • I try and skip one meal a day or at least make it really small. My busy schedule almost always means that I miss lunch most days of the week
  • Every few months, a phlebotomist comes to my home to draw my blood, which I have analyzed for dozens of biomarkers. When my levels of various markers are not optimal, I moderate them with food or exercise
  • I try to take a lot of steps each day and walk upstairs, and I go to the gym most weekends with my son, Ben; we lift weights, jog a bit, and hang out in the sauna before dunking in an ice-cold-pool
  • I eat a lot of plants and try to avoid eating other mammals, even though they taste good. If I work out I will eat meat.
  • I don’t smoke, I try to avoid microwaved plastic, excessive UV exposure, X-rays, and CT scans
  • I aim to keep my body weight or BMI in the optimal range for health span, which for me is 23-25 Pg 304

More funding for the kind of research happening in my lab and others like it could bring about these advancements even sooner.  But because of a lack of funding, people over the age of 60 may not live long enough to be helped.  If you and your family members end up the last of humanity to live a life that ends all to early with decay and decrepitude, or our children never see the benefits of this research, you can thank those bioethicists.  Pg 301

 

 

Filed Under: Active Boomer, aging, Chronic Pain, drugs, empowerment, faith, Feeling Better, Fitness, genetics, Lifespan- Why We age and Why We don't Have to, mid life, Moving, Self Improvement, Technology, transition Tagged With: conclusion, david sinclair, Lifespan

Squats, the key to Leg Health

Posted on July 12, 2018 Written by Thomas Matt Leave a Comment

“If you don’t squat, you ain’t squat.”

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The squat is the single most important exercise we do in the gym. Why? Because life demands that we do it numerous times each day, standing up, sitting down, getting out of a car, you get the picture.  So it’s vital to establish a good foundation for this movement pattern.

My squat has been described as “the worst thing ever” by my own daughter!  I am determined to fix this and make my squat better.

I worked with a student at MSU to determine my problem doing a deadlift. He quickly saw that my squat was horrible.Déjà vu;dang heard this before!

Open the hips, increase hip flexor mobility and I have it.  Well maybe, it turns out I had other imbalances that were also inhibiting the squat move. My erector spinae, the long back muscles next to the spine needed work as well.

If I was ever to be decent and maybe good at a lift like a deadlift, my squat must improve and my back must become stronger. Bad form such as leaning forward while squatting is a back injury waiting to happen.

Look up “Butt Wink”!

Like any exercise, it’s important to make the squat work for you. No pain, no gain is not in this equation. Stretching and strengthening your hips and large back muscles is a slow process, and it all revolves around great form.

“If our patterns are off, we become limited in our range of motion or get weaker in the muscles we need to stand up and sit down safely,” says fitness expert David Jack. “We’ll begin to compensate and use other muscles we shouldn’t in order to do everyday movements.”

Bad habits creep up on us.  Work on these, slowly!

  • Set your feet, face a wall, make a prayer hand movement
  • Keeping your eyes forward, chest up, and heels planted move down, lower slowly, not leaning into the wall
  • Once you squat as far as comfortable, push through your heels to return to standing.
  • Spend time performing static stretches of the calf and hip flexor

 

 

Filed Under: Active Boomer, Chronic Pain, Fitness, golf fitness, Moving, Weight loss, Yoga Tagged With: leg health, lower body exercises, squats

Nutrition Is Number One

Posted on March 25, 2018 Written by Angela Joseph 4 Comments

Choosing a Healthy Lifestyle does not have to feel extreme. You don’t have to drink green juice and give up tasty foods. You don’t have to move away to an island or run 5 miles a day. You don’t have to follow a full vegan diet or eat all meat to find a healthy life. As a wellness coach, I am often surprised at how many people desire a competitive edge on changing their health. I have seen often that this way of going about it may elicit change, right away, but it ends up in failure. You may lose weight, but the stress and tension of denying yourself indulgences creep in, creating a binge or full on rebuttal of the whole process. Why do we as humans feel the need to tackle things or be aggressive in lifestyle changes? Diets do not work. When I work with clients, I express intensely that we are working on lifestyle changes. I will discuss what I believe lead into a completely make over of body, mind and spirit health. This is the way to health. We must be balanced and aligned. If not, it wont work .

Nutrition will always be number one for me and the way that I guide clients into a lifestyle that is healthy and vibrant. We must return to nature. All chronic disease today is a symptom of the industrialized production of our food. We must return to whole foods, which are vital to a healthy functioning human body. Without going to in depth of the gut brain connection, the health community is becoming very aware of the connection between nutrition and brain functioning. HUGE!! The food we eat becomes the body we live in. If we need to heal, revive or just thrive, we must begin to let go of processed, highly refined and addictive substances placed in food to get you addicted to less that good food. Think of this; our body is an intricate being of cellular communication which literally recreates itself over time, so we can all change our health if we feed it the right foods. I believe this and have observed it change lives.

As we allow the body to let go of old habits and change the landscape of the microbiome (gut lining), I find that clients begin to have their own awareness of the change in energy levels, brain fog, cravings and bowel movements. Lets be frank, if we are not moving our food through our digestive system regularly, we are backed up, sick, and toxins are overloading the body. The changes that come from eating a whole food diet are too numerous to expand on in this short article. Here are a few:

  • More Energy
  • Better Blood Sugar Levels
  • Less Pain And Inflammation
  • Better Digestion
  • Natural Weight Loss & Less Cravings

Whole food is the way to change your body, your mind, and your spirit. You are what you eat, and you are what you eat has been eating. Think about that for a moment.

5 Simple steps to shift from a processed food diet to a whole foods diet:

  • Eat Meals
  • Learn To Cook At Home
  • Do Not Eat Anything From A Convenience Store Or Gas Station
  • Eat Mindfully And Slow
  • No Excuses ( We are full of them)

Use these simple tips to check yourself when you find yourself reaching for the candy bar, or the protein bar, which can be just as sugar loaded and processed as the candy bar. Keep fruit, nuts or cut up veggies with you to curb the cravings that will come. Be patient and know that you can change your health, as you are your body’s and healthy life’s guide. You get to decide what you put in your mouth, the nutrition you will take in, and the affect that these choices will make on your overall well being. There is no other way.

Cheers to Vibrant Health!

~ Angela

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Depression, empowerment, faith, Feeding Yourself, Feeling Better, Fitness, gen z, gut science, Injury, Libraries, life, Mentoring, Mindfullness, Passion, Psychology, Services, Thinking Better, transition, Weight loss Tagged With: cravings, foundation, Goals, Habits, health, Health and Fitness, lifestyle, Living Well, Nutrition, Quality of life, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods

Tom’s Top Ten List

Posted on January 18, 2018 Written by Thomas Matt Leave a Comment

  1. Faith- Not believing in yourself, your plan, and your organizations methods limits effectiveness. Enabling beliefs must be embraced, limiting beliefs kicked to the curb.

  2. Vision and imagination-If you cannot see it or imagine it, stop right here and focus on this one point, this one is the deal breaker to the new you. You must be able to dream!

  3. Goals- Once you have the your vision, now you can build a plan

  4. Positive mental attitude-Wear a smile in your day and help others become happier

  5. Happiness- If you embrace the first four items, easily achievable

  6. Habits- Trigger, response, reward. Build good habits and bad ones will disappear, simple.

  7. Fear- If you are afraid of success you will never be successful.

  8. Love- Loving yourself is number one, without that you can never love anything.

  9. Enthusiasm- This contagion can change the whole enterprise.

  10. Catalyst- Your mechanism for lift off

Filed Under: Active Boomer, Caregiving, Chronic Pain Tagged With: list, live, ten, top

Chronic Pain and What To Do with Dr Hal Blatman and Jessie Riley

Posted on February 6, 2015 Written by Thomas Matt Leave a Comment

Season 4 Episode 16 — February 7, 2015    Matt-show-description

Hosted by Tom Matt

Chronic pain in our country costs us over $700 billion dollars, and can afflict 100 million people, costing us time, energy sleep and lifestyles.  Huffington Post reports that Chronic Pain Affects 47 Percent Of U.S. Adults.  Dr. Hal Blatman is just what we all need; he is the Boomers Rock pain specialist and can answer the tough questions with straightforward answers.blatman_welness_01

Our Boomers Rock Local guest is the fireball Central Michigan University alum and pride of Allentown, Michigan, Four Pointes own activities director of fun and sunshine Jessie Riley.  Every day is something new with Jessie, and being a new mommy we are so thrilled to have her on our team as resident gerontology expert.

Dr. Hal Blatman has been on the radio program many times, (follow this link), and the reason we love Dr. Hal so much is he makes chronic pain a topic that can be understood and you will come away feeling better just listening to his advice.  His innovative therapies are cutting edge, with just a little red ball he will share a secret of pain relief that won’t cost you anything.chronic_pain_01

The activities director, Jessie Riley, is one of our best pals at Four Pointes in Grand haven, Michigan.  They  have multiple great people in Brigit Hassig and her staff, Jessie is the Middle Living adult in the millennial body, her ability to relate how we age and what we can do to enhance the process is simply priceless.

In this week’s episode we discuss-

  • Chronic fatigue
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Integrative health
  • Empowering wellness
  • Providing solutions and answers
  • Injuries are not where you think they are
  • The ripple effect of successful aging
  • Preventative actions
  • Proactive versus reactive
  • Challenge you to try something new

Listen to Tom Matt’s “Boomers Rock” Radio Talk Show Season 4 Episode 16 below…

 https://www.boomersrock.us/podcast/interviews-with-dr-hal-blatman-and-jessie-riley/

Peace,

Tom Matt

Host and Founder of Boomers Rock Media

 

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Feeling Better Tagged With: Amazing people!, boomer, Dr. Hal Blatman, Dreams, Exercise, foundation, Habits, health, HOPE, Jessie Riley, Living Well, positivity, Wellness

How I Gained 20 Lbs, Strategy for Taking it Off

Posted on January 18, 2015 Written by Thomas Matt Leave a Comment

The Big Bounce

I thought about the title of this blog  more than I normally do for any of my others in the past.   “Fatter than Ever”, “How I Gained 25”, or even darker, “The Depths of the Great Weight Gain, Depression and Anxiety”!pain_temporary_1

I decided that The Big Bounce works because I am a consummate optimist and really do not like negative titles, even though they grab attention.

I have had Big Bounces throughout my 55 years many times, this time however I have a secret weapon a new strategy, a silver bullet.  I have,,,,,,,, A Happy Attitude!

Now how you may ask can you have a Happy Attitude when you are 20 lbs over your normal weight?  How can you have any happiness at all with this giant looming obstacle?

The answer is, drum roll please,  understanding, being rational, and fuel for self improvement.

I anticipated this, and since this is not even close to being the first time the Big Bounce has occurred, been here-done this.

Remember from my two previous blogs I was writing about the knee surgery I went through in December.  This is actually the final installment of that series, because the Big Bounce was anticipated from the month long, becoming sedentary, recovery period.  The knee injury, a somewhat chronic nagging thing had been effecting my gym routine, life routine, everything routine for quite some achievement_1time.

I just did not want to admit that my indestructibleness  was real.

Nagging little, pain in the ass ding-ding,  injuries really do suck.  I had just been a complete pansy in committing to the inevitable repair and recovery.  I had to admit to myself that being afraid and insecure is ok big boy, take your medicine and do what you are told.

Have I mentioned my brand new listening skills?

Becoming dependent for a short while is sometimes necessary, the whole process is needed and it is acceptable, with a good attitude getting better is just that, time to get better.  Does that make sense?

Temporary is fine, everlasting, uhm no way Jose!smiley_face_1

Once my brain finally became ok with this whole thing, the weight gain was understood and acknowledged.  Not that I am thrilled with it, but understanding and accepting a problem is the first step to recovery and health.

Let’s get on with this thing!

So the 20 maybe even 25 lbs that found their way back on my frame is not a bad thing at all, because I know that it is TEMPORARY!

Temporary and incentivization to get better, that’s all.  In the crucible of living to 100, this is a blip on the radar, knowing that, being ok with that and being focused on getting healthy again is the game plan.

So your take away from this, don’t beat yourself up over bounces, they happen, learn to live with it and get back on the pony and focus on your positivity.  The really cool thing about being a MiddleLiving adult is that we have plenty of memories to reflect back on, so do that for a minute and then smile and count your blessings, life really is good and we all need challenges.

Have I mentioned how good the knee feels?  Damn that listening stuff really works!

Next week the new training program begins, Train Like an Astronaut, a six month, six days a week program conducted at Michigan State University and the Department of Kinesiology.  Stay tuned.

Peace

Filed Under: Active Boomer, Chronic Pain Tagged With: Bodyweight Exercises, Dreams, Education, Exercise, fitness, Heart Health, Injury, Quality of life, weight gain, Weight Loss, Wellness

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