Can you cheat death with regular fasting?

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Life extension and anti aging products are becoming more and more popular ranging from diet protocols, to drugs, supplements, workouts and other medical therapies.

One of the biggest and most common claims of life extension comes from the benefit of intermittent fasting (up to 30-40 years life extension)

But how could we ever actually measure this? It would take at least an entire lifetime to know if it actually works.

The only way to prove if something actually works for life extension would be to study someone for their entire life (and a long one at that!) How could we ever do this?

It seems that life extension therapies or techniques aren’t something we could actually experiment or test just yet.

The best we can do is find centenarians (people who live to at least 100) and super centenarians (people who live to at least 110) and ask them how they did it!

John

P.S. If you want to hedge your bets and give intermittent fasting a try then I would always recommend Eat Stop Eat as the best way to test it out.

Where you live will determine what you believe

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Advertising claims in the health and fitness industry are regulated differently in each country.  A claim that might seem outrageous in one part of the world is common in another.

The claims that you’re exposed to on a regular basis in your home country is will have an effect on where your BS radar is set.

In this podcast we’ll discuss how claims on print media, video media and product packaging vary in different countries and why that has an effect on how you perceive and buy fitness and diet information.

John

Everything feels different at a meet vs the gym.

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We often see pictures of bodybuilders and fitness competitors in magazines that were taking the day of a competition. The look and conditioning they have for a show is an extreme look that may not resemble what they look like on a day to day basis at all.

The reported weights a powerlifter can handle at a competition is also different than what they might use during a regular workout.

The difference between a regular workout and a competition become obvious when you give it a try. Likewise with conditioning and the look you can maintain regularly and on stage at a bodybuilding show.

In today’s podcast we’ll talk about the difference between competition condition and strength and every day condition and strength.

John

Join Our Seminar online

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Instead of the regular podcast we have a special event happening this week. Tonight at 9pm EST we’re hosting a teleconference on the Anabolic Continuum and what it means.

This is an interactive event that will have a QnA period at the end of the seminar.

If you want to listen in and participate go to this webpage to register and get your anabolic assessment guide and receive the link for tonights conference: The Anabolic Continuum Conference

John

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The effectiveness of your weight training workouts might be dependent upon where you are in the anabolic continuum. This may be why different people get different results on the same workout program.

Where you are in the anabolic continuum may also be you best indicator of which exercise program to choose.

In todays podcast we’ll discuss the concept of Anabolic Slow Down and Anabolic Resistance, and your “Training Age” vs your “Biological Age”

We believe this is the biggest confounding variable in resistance training research and the reason why results are not consistent.

John

Responders or Non-Responders?

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Research on muscle building report a wide range of responders. There are those who gain virtually no muscle or strength, and there are those who have very impressive gains. If the weight training program was the same then the people doing the training must be different.

The response you will get from a weight training program is dependent upon your anabolic sensitivity. A number of factors go into assessing your anabolic sensitivity including age, training status, type of training, genetic predisposition, somatotype.

All of these factors collectively come together as a way of explaining where you land on the Anabolic Continuum.

In today’s lesson we’ll discuss what a confounding variable is, and explain that one of the biggest confounding variables in muscle building research is the anabolic sensitivity of each subject. Until researchers start categorizing where their subjects are on the Anabolic Continuum they will continue to have inconclusive results.

John

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Dietary supplement ingredients range from plant extracts, to amino acids and hormones. Depending on the country you live in you maybe have access to any and all of the following types of supplements:

Herbal Extracts

Animal extracts

Hormones and hormonal extracts

Amino acids

Synthetic derivatives of plant extracts

Synthetic derivatives of hormones

Supplement ingredients are a highly processed items that bear little or no resemblance to the original material that is used to synthesize them.

An ingredient in chosen for a product based on cost, dose, claims that can be made using it, popularity (think hoodia or acai), and potential risk (think ephedra).

The actual effect the ingredient has is only one of many factors that determine if an ingredient will be used in a new supplement product.

In this podcast we’ll discuss how supplement manufacturers put a product together and specifically how ingredients are chosen.

John

The packaging makes a big difference

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Dietary supplements are a big industry now and the packaging reflects it. It used to be that you could fill plain white bottles with your magic powder X and print up a basic white paper label and you were in business…not any more.

Supplement packaging has become big business with the regular use of mirror and rainbow holographic labelling, new and innovative bottle and box designs, special box formation and inserts and custom shapes and sizes.

Packaging is the most important point of contact before you make a purchase, so the package better be good.

In this podcast we’ll discuss some of the issues and main points a supplement company must consider when making the packaging for a product.

John

Belly fat is the same as the rest of your body fat

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The fat that we store around our abdomen (belly) is the same as the fat that we store every where else on our bodies but people seem to think this fat has a personality and is somewhat stubborn. The reality is that we just accumulate more fat in this area and therefore it takes longer to burn enough of it off to see the underlying muscles.

In today’s podcast we discuss the perception that belly fat is somehow stubborn and different from other kinds of fat. We also discuss how some people make the mistake of assuming that some amount of fat is actually loose skin.

John

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After rapid weight loss some people will end up with excess loose skin. This is determined by a number of factors including age, how much weight you lose and how fast you lose it.

What can be done about this loose skin? Is surgery the only treatment or are there other options? how do you know if you’re a candidate for having loose skin after a big weight reduction?

In this podcast we’ll discuss what causes loose skin after rapid weight loss and who might be susceptible to getting it.

We’ll also discuss body water and how it relates to the way you look vs fat and muscle.

Bryan Chung from www.evidencebasedfitness.blogspot.com will be joining us for this podcast.

John

P.S. I think I’ve actually got the volume problem fixed finally! (thanks to Bryan, I can’t take credit for it)