Muscle Aging is Not Chronological
Scientists have identified multiple genes that regulate physical strength and biological age. Most notable among them are those involved in the sustainability of our muscle tissue. It’s the decrease in the expression of these genes that causes our muscle to…
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Strength Training is NOT Optional
The weakness and loss of energy we associate with getting older, such as difficulty walking distances, climbing stairs, or carrying groceries, are largely due to muscle tissue loss. This muscle loss, for the most part, is from living an inactive…
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Strong Heart Muscles Matter
Most of us never give so much of a thought to one of the most important muscles in our body – our heart.
This underappreciated muscle/organ beats away in the background like some faithful servant, never complaining and always on…
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Turning Back the Clock: Maximizing the Anti-aging Benefits of Exercise
Every day the evidence continues to mount, proper exercise is the proverbial fountain of youth and new studies are continually being released that reinforce exercise as the number one youth elixir. It seems science and medicine is proving that one…
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There Is A New Revolution On It’s Way And Its Called Wellness
We are on the cusp of a revolution, something so powerful that it will change the path that mankind is taking. This groundswell of change is coming about because we are waking up to the fact that health means more…
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How Sitting Can Damage Your Body and How You Can Counteract It
It’s true; sitting on one’s rear end for extended periods is a serious threat to health. Recent scientific findings suggest prolonged bouts of immobility such as when sitting is being linked to serious diseases that has become epidemic in our…
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Proper Exercise – A Good Return On Investment
Most of us are always on the lookout for something that promises a good return on investment. When we hear that word investment we generally think of financial investments, after all we are taught from an early age that we…
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Do You Think You Can Get Away Without Adequate Self Care?
Most of us seem to spend a lot of time and effort worrying about many different things. Things like earning enough money to live a good life, being a good spouse or parent and having a happy fulfilling life. But…
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What Happens If You Don’t Exercise?
Our 21st Century lifestyles are inactive compared to those of our ancient ancestors. For them every single day was full of activity just getting enough food for survival. In the 1900’s manual labor and ‘work’ as it was called then…
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Fight Depression With A New Attitude
We cannot deny the fact that our genetic blueprint was formed back when our ancient ancestors had to survive that harshest of conditions.
Being highly active stimulated chemicals that told the body’s operating systems that strength, endurance and health was…
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