Hello All,
http://www.latimes.com/...n18,0,4163405.column
Excerpt:
"Oh, you mean the guy with the 70-year-old head and the 20-year-old body-builder body? That picture has got to be Photoshopped."
Dr. Jeffry Life smiles when I tell him about the general reaction I get about the famous picture of him with his shirt off, the shot that turned a mild-mannered doctor in his mid-60s into a poster boy for super-fit aging and controversial hormone replacement
Appearing in medical-clinic ads in airline magazines and newspapers (including this one), the incongruous photo juxtaposes a bald, white-haired, septuagenarian head on top of a rippling, V-shaped torso worthy of an Olympic gymnast or powerlifter. Completing the effect of macho, forever-young vitality, Life's left hand casually dangles by his thumb from a jeans front pocket, in a cool cowboy swagger.
"Yeah, I read on the Internet that people think it's digitally enhanced," says the soft-spoken Life (which really is his name, translated from the German by his immigrant great-grandfather) with a laugh. But the body is real -- built by a relentless, six-day-a-week exercise regimen that includes hard cardio, heavy weights pushed to the max, martial arts, Pilates, a strict low-glycemic carb diet and lots of supplements. It has also, for the last seven years, been hormonally enhanced by a program that includes testosterone and human growth hormone -- a therapy Life views as entirely appropriate, even necessary despite the medical evidence questioning both its effectiveness and safety.
Testosterone replacement can enlarge the prostate and raise levels of prostate-specific androgen, used in cancer-screening tests. Human growth hormone could increase the risk of diabetes and cancer, and the National Insitute on Aging recommends it not be used for anti-aging purposes. (See related story for details.) But both are mainstays of the not-quite-mainstream field known as anti-aging medicine.
Life's enthusiasm is undimmed by such skepticism. "The fact is that every male over 50 or 55 suffers from a slow, insidious fall in testosterone levels," he says. "You don't notice it for a long time until your 'T' levels cross a certain threshold. Then you suddenly find that you lose your enthusiasm, your sex drive and can't maintain muscle mass anymore -- even if you work out. It's even worse if your HGH levels are falling off the table. That's what happened to me."
http://www.latimes.com/...n18,0,7582615.column
Excerpt:
A Life regimen
Dr. Jeffry Life's prescription for a healthy and buff midlife and beyond:
Workout: Life recommends at least three weight and four cardio sessions per week: "Do some exercise you enjoy doing -- not something that you dread -- then push it. Work really hard at finding your comfort zone -- and stay out of it." Do aerobics with hard intervals, and push weights to failure (the point where you can push no more). If any exercise gets too easy, up the intensity and the weight; the harder you work, the more fat you burn all day long. (Body fat is taboo in Life's regimen because adipose tissue contains an enzyme, aromatase, that can break down testosterone.) Merely walking and doing a few reps won't cut it. Finally, to stay excited, try something new once in a while -- like karate.
Diet: Life eats five or six small meals a day. He avoids high-glycemic foods such as white rice, processed flour, white rice, pasta and bread. He eats no fried food and minimal potatoes, sticking to low-glycemic carbs, including all vegetables and fruit except for sugary ones like pineapple; occasionally, he eats yams and brown rice. He recommends eating protein with every meal but minimizing saturated-fat-laden protein such as red meat, dairy products and egg yolks if you have a family history of heart disease. Another recommendation: Drink plenty of water.
Hormones: Life recommends checking your hormone, cholesterol and insulin levels every five years, ideally starting in your 20s. Declines in testosterone and human growth hormone come naturally with aging, and most doctors are content to leave it at that. Life, however, suggests finding an aggressive doctor whose advice goes beyond "exercise and eat better." Although most cases of low human growth hormone can be addressed through diet and hard training, he says, low testosterone usually requires a chemical solution, either in the form of a shot in the butt every two weeks or a daily patch or gel. Overall strategy: The first thing Life does with a new client is sit down and set goals for weight and exercise. Start by taking exact measurements of your body fat and weight.
"Take a 'before' photo -- just like 'The Challenge,' " Life says, referring to a contest he entered. "It'll make you look forward to taking the 'after.' "
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What do you think?
Cheers,
Neal
Cheers, Neal
+1 mph Faster
http://www.latimes.com/...n18,0,4163405.column
Excerpt:
"Oh, you mean the guy with the 70-year-old head and the 20-year-old body-builder body? That picture has got to be Photoshopped."
Dr. Jeffry Life smiles when I tell him about the general reaction I get about the famous picture of him with his shirt off, the shot that turned a mild-mannered doctor in his mid-60s into a poster boy for super-fit aging and controversial hormone replacement
Appearing in medical-clinic ads in airline magazines and newspapers (including this one), the incongruous photo juxtaposes a bald, white-haired, septuagenarian head on top of a rippling, V-shaped torso worthy of an Olympic gymnast or powerlifter. Completing the effect of macho, forever-young vitality, Life's left hand casually dangles by his thumb from a jeans front pocket, in a cool cowboy swagger.
"Yeah, I read on the Internet that people think it's digitally enhanced," says the soft-spoken Life (which really is his name, translated from the German by his immigrant great-grandfather) with a laugh. But the body is real -- built by a relentless, six-day-a-week exercise regimen that includes hard cardio, heavy weights pushed to the max, martial arts, Pilates, a strict low-glycemic carb diet and lots of supplements. It has also, for the last seven years, been hormonally enhanced by a program that includes testosterone and human growth hormone -- a therapy Life views as entirely appropriate, even necessary despite the medical evidence questioning both its effectiveness and safety.
Testosterone replacement can enlarge the prostate and raise levels of prostate-specific androgen, used in cancer-screening tests. Human growth hormone could increase the risk of diabetes and cancer, and the National Insitute on Aging recommends it not be used for anti-aging purposes. (See related story for details.) But both are mainstays of the not-quite-mainstream field known as anti-aging medicine.
Life's enthusiasm is undimmed by such skepticism. "The fact is that every male over 50 or 55 suffers from a slow, insidious fall in testosterone levels," he says. "You don't notice it for a long time until your 'T' levels cross a certain threshold. Then you suddenly find that you lose your enthusiasm, your sex drive and can't maintain muscle mass anymore -- even if you work out. It's even worse if your HGH levels are falling off the table. That's what happened to me."
http://www.latimes.com/...n18,0,7582615.column
Excerpt:
A Life regimen
Dr. Jeffry Life's prescription for a healthy and buff midlife and beyond:
Workout: Life recommends at least three weight and four cardio sessions per week: "Do some exercise you enjoy doing -- not something that you dread -- then push it. Work really hard at finding your comfort zone -- and stay out of it." Do aerobics with hard intervals, and push weights to failure (the point where you can push no more). If any exercise gets too easy, up the intensity and the weight; the harder you work, the more fat you burn all day long. (Body fat is taboo in Life's regimen because adipose tissue contains an enzyme, aromatase, that can break down testosterone.) Merely walking and doing a few reps won't cut it. Finally, to stay excited, try something new once in a while -- like karate.
Diet: Life eats five or six small meals a day. He avoids high-glycemic foods such as white rice, processed flour, white rice, pasta and bread. He eats no fried food and minimal potatoes, sticking to low-glycemic carbs, including all vegetables and fruit except for sugary ones like pineapple; occasionally, he eats yams and brown rice. He recommends eating protein with every meal but minimizing saturated-fat-laden protein such as red meat, dairy products and egg yolks if you have a family history of heart disease. Another recommendation: Drink plenty of water.
Hormones: Life recommends checking your hormone, cholesterol and insulin levels every five years, ideally starting in your 20s. Declines in testosterone and human growth hormone come naturally with aging, and most doctors are content to leave it at that. Life, however, suggests finding an aggressive doctor whose advice goes beyond "exercise and eat better." Although most cases of low human growth hormone can be addressed through diet and hard training, he says, low testosterone usually requires a chemical solution, either in the form of a shot in the butt every two weeks or a daily patch or gel. Overall strategy: The first thing Life does with a new client is sit down and set goals for weight and exercise. Start by taking exact measurements of your body fat and weight.
"Take a 'before' photo -- just like 'The Challenge,' " Life says, referring to a contest he entered. "It'll make you look forward to taking the 'after.' "
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What do you think?
Cheers,
Neal
Cheers, Neal
+1 mph Faster