The truth about rancid fish oil

You hear a lot about the dangers of taking rancid fish oil.  You hear about how bad it is for you.  You hear about the dangers of oxidized fatty acids in your body.  And of course, finally, you hear you should not take fish oil, but some other marine-based Omega 3 product instead.

So, it’s time to settle this argument once and for all, if that is possible.  I say ‘if that is possible’ because people believe what they want to believe and there is a lot of conflicting information. So what makes me the ultimate authority on this topic?

Simple, I can back up everything I say with real research. I can back up everything I say about my product and others I have tested, with 3^rd party independent unbiased testing.  So, I hold a challenge out to anyone, who makes any of the products in question here. Test your products outside of your own company, in the same way I do.  And then, I challenge you to make it public. Somehow, I know that will not happen!

The problem in the supplement industry is that people are hiding behind marketing hype and out and out fallacies, when it comes to making statements. Sadly, the letters, PhD or MD behind the name, do not stop this problem.

I say, prove it. And I can prove what I say is true.  Can you?

So, let’s talk about how the myth of rancid fish oil got started and what it really means.

In 1974 my Dad came home with a big jug of fish oil, telling the whole family to start taking it, because new studies showed it was good for us!  Now one whiff of the stuff and you knew it was rancid.  It didn’t just smell fishy, it smelled rotten fishy.  I have no doubt it was rancid, but like a dutiful son I took it for a full 2 weeks before I finally ‘fessed up to my Dad and said “I quit!”

He laughed and told me he stopped after 2 days.

I have no doubt that fish oil from the old days was rancid.  I suspect there are some rancid brands out there still, but they must be far fewer in number. There is an organization that looks at fish oil very closely called the IFOS.  Their published recommendations for the highest grade fish oil is a product that contains less than 45 ppb PCB’s, dioxin and furan less than 1 ppt, and oxidation less than 19.5 meq/kg. The last number, the 19.5, is the oxidation value.  This is basically a measure of rancidity.

My fish oil 3^rd party independent analysis is published for all to see here.

Among any other values you might want to check, you can see we set our standards far tighter and better, at less than 5.0 meq/kg. for oxidation.

So now you know my stuff is far cleaner and less oxidized than even the toughest international standard. What do you know about other fish oils?  What do you know about krill? Nothing, except what they tell you on the endless blogs,  videos and websites.

Now let’s look at the scientific basis for the “rancidity” argument.

Fats are integral parts of cell membranes and essential to inter/intracellular signaling throughout the body. They exist as long chain “fatty acids” in the membranes and are modified and released as chemical messengers when needed,  both to the outside of the cell (eicosanoids and docosanoids) and inside the cell (resolvins).

These fatty acid chains are easily oxidized by free radical damage. This free radical damage takes place when a high energy particle known as an electron “bounces around” looking for a place to land and give up its energy.  Free radical damage to fats is particularly problematic because the energy from that loose electron can be passed from one fat chain to another in a true “chain reaction” as that electron’s excess energy bounces from one fat chain to another, doing damage all the way. Sounds bad, doesn’t it?

Well, your body has several ways to interrupt that process. Among the biggest ones are Vitamin E absorbing the free radical, a potent intracellular antioxidant known as glutathione, absorbing the free radical, or the normal and ongoing replacement of fatty acid chains in the cells. Of these 3, the role of importance is as follows: simple replacement, Vitamin E, and finally glutathione.  Please note this order only applies to fatty acids and not other things like proteins and carbohydrates where glutathione’s role is huge.

People who do not understand this say things like, “You need to take more Vitamin E if you are taking large doses of fish oil.”  This is unsubstantiated pseudo-scientific nonsense, also known as BS. It’s a classic case of someone who does not understand fatty acid biology playing smart and reading a biochemistry textbook. I wish it were that simple.  Just because a reaction exists in the body does not mean it is abnormal or damaging.

The simple fact that is left out is: You have to be Vitamin E deficient to actually not have enough Vitamin E in your body for this ever to be a problem.  Just about everyone in the Western world has way more Vitamin E than is needed to handle this problem.  I challenge anyone who makes associations with high dose Vitamin E and high dose fish oil to show me the last case history of Vitamin E deficiency they have seen in the Western world.  I also challenge them to show me a study where Vitamin E improved the clinical outcomes of any dose of fish oil. There are none.  And I can show you more studies that used fish oil alone and Vitamin E and fish oil that showed no clinical differences at all.

Zero, Zilch, Nada!

That does not mean that Vitamin E is worthless. It simply means you do not need to take “extra” Vitamin E to protect against rancid fish oil – especially if you use a high quality brand like mine that is already well below any standard for rancidity and oxidation out there. It also means that most of the reasons given for not taking high dose fish oil are the same pseudo scientific nonsense.

So where does the current round of the rancid fish oil myth come from?

According to Harry Rice, PhD, an Omega 3 researcher, it comes from a small number of animal studies using rancid VEGETABLE oil, not fish oil. These studies suggested that high doses of rancid vegetable oil (which is laden with inflammatory Omega 6 fats to begin with) might (not ‘do’) adversely affect the animals’ health.  So someone decided to equate the vegetable oil findings in animals to Omega 3 findings in humans.

Actually, there are human studies where up to 8 grams a day of rancid – yes, rancid – fish oil was consumed for 7 weeks and had no adverse effects on human health.

Now, I don’t recommend you do this experiment yourself, because I did it back in 1974 and it’s not what I would call fun.  But, the bottom line is, there is actually no proof of any damage to human health by consuming oxidized Omega 3’s. There are valid concerns about toxins in Omega 3 products as I have raised about krill and some of the “natural triglyceride” products in my lectures, but that is a different issue.

Also, remember that the oxidation of fat is a natural process.  The real way to guard against it is to take enough of your clean non-oxidized Omega 3 product to replace those fats as needed.  This is the reason I do the Omega 3 finger stick test some of you have already done. The far bigger source of oxidation in the real world is too much Omega 6 fats from vegetable sources, not rancid fish oil!

Now you don’t have to take my word for it.  You can look all this up on the internet for yourself.  Just stick with scientifically based sources of information and not Dr. so-and-so’s website! If you are wondering why some people will tell you differently, just ask this question: can they prove what they are saying other than by saying, “because I said so and you should trust me”?

That is the reason there are studies and science. Because educated guesses and opinions are just that.

Make ’em prove it! It’s your body and your health.

Doc

Death and telomeres

There are more and more questions about telomeres on the net these days.  One appeared recently asking what happens when an 82 year old women dies of respiratory failure from the standpoint of her telomeres.   The answer is long and complex but it does take you through the very basics of aging. So if you are up for a little science, here it is.  If not, go back to sipping your Piña Colada (or better yet, your “Edge” cocktail!) and enjoy your day.

An 82 year old woman dies of reparatory failure – what has happened to her telomeres and what role does this play in her death?

Telomeres are non-coding, repetitive sequences at the end of the chromosome, occurring in a repetitive TTAGGG (in humans!).

When we are conceived, they are approximately 15,000 base pairs long.  Cellular replication alone is enough to shorten the telomeres because of the “end replication problem” which essentially means the DNA replicative mechanism “falls off” the end of the chromosome before they can replicate telomere segments.  The enzyme that does replicate telomere ends – telomerase – is repressed or expressed at very low levels in somatic cells. Because of the massive cellular replication it takes to go from zygote stage to newborn and the inability of most differentiated cells to express enough telomere lengthening “telomerase” to replace those passively lost pairs. Thus you are born with an average of 10,000 base pairs in your telomeres.  A telomere length of 5,000 base pairs is usually enough to induce cellular senescence ( see below).

In addition, telomeres are not linear but rather looped structures, so a “zero” length telomere is not needed to induce cellular demise.  Changing the 3D structure and interfering with the loops is likely enough to activate senescence or apoptosis. 

By newborn stage 5,000 base pairs have already been lost, leaving another 5,000 to determine the length of replicative cell life. When those 5,000 are gone and the telomere length is now reduced to 5,000 base pairs, cellular gatekeepers (like p53 and others) trigger replicative senescence.   Many “slings and arrows” of daily living can accelerate telomere loss such as stress, lack of exercise, oxidative exposures of any kind, poor diet, lack of sleep and others and increase the speed of telomere loss. Almost every disease process of aging is associated with some kind of increased telomere shortening.  The standard cell population used to measure mean telomere length is White Blood Cells for ease of acquisition and because of their relation to immunosenescence.

Studies now suggest that the fate of the individual cell is more tightly correlated to the “shortest telomere”. That means that one short telomere can induce cellular damage, senescence, or apoptosis.  The number of short telomeres many not be directly related to the mean telomere length in all individuals but the forces that shorten them are.

If cellular mechanisms fail to stop replication at 5,000 base pairs and telomere loss continues, then somewhere around 1,000 to 3,000 base pairs intracellular gate keepers should trigger apoptosis.  If this does not occur and cell division continues, the genome is unstable and this is where we feel most adult cancer occurs.

Other tissue telomere length is not absolutely the same as WBC but usually correlates well with WBC length in terms of “short or long”.  The argument has long been made that not all tissues age by telomere length.  The cardiomyocyte in particular is often cited as a way of “disproving” the telomere theory of aging.  Cardiomyocytes have longer than average telomeres.  This makes interpretation of their absolute length difficult. The theory goes since they do lose telomere length during their lifespan and do not replicate at the rate of WBC, etc.,  they “should not” be affected by telomere loss in the same fashion.  They are not. It is likely that a smaller amount of telomere shortening is required to cause mitochondrial dysfunction as Passos et. al. showed in 2010.  Telomere length, function and integrity appear to be responsible for mitochondrial mutagenesis, biogenesis and influence redox functions as well suggesting an intimate relationship between telomere length and mitochondrial health.  It is thought that cardiomyocytes accumulate myocardial dysfunction via the same mechanisms with less direct telomere loss.

A fact often overlooked by even cardiologists is that independent of whether telomere loss explains how and why cardiomyocytes age, telomere loss clearly explains vascular aging.  Cardiomyocytes (as with all other post mitotic tissue) are dependent on blood supply.  Cardiologists and cardiovascular surgeons do not restore cardiomyocytes to health, they restore the blood supply, and the blood supply clearly ages by telomere loss!

In addition it is important to know that adult stem cells – a significant part of the regeneration mechanism -also suffer telomere loss and damage, leading to the aging of this population of cells. The creation of IPS (induced pluripotent stem cells) creates embryonic like stem cells and lengthens the telomeres again, by telomerase activity.

Aging occurs when the damage to an organism exceeds the rate at which that organism can repair said damage.  Your 82 year old woman begins to lose lung tissue long before she is 82.    Repair requires the existing mass of lung cells to be able to replace damaged tissue by replication (thus inducing more rapid telomere loss)  and in concert requires a stem cell population that can supply new cells for differentiation where needed.  If the existing cell mass is in replicative senescence or apoptosis and her adult stem cell population has been damaged to the point of dysfunction, she has no way of repairing her damaged tissue.

Basically she has long since lost the ability to repair her lung or other tissues and when the reserve is gone, she dies of “respiratory failure”.

Dave Woynarowski, MD, co-author The Immortality Edge

The Death Test

Sometimes I get pulled into discussions I would prefer not to have.  Most times it’s a result of some stuff on the internet that has been designed to “engage” the audience in discussion.

There never seems to be a lack of people ready to volunteer their opinion on things they have no knowledge about.  A friend once told me the problem with society today is there is no shame.

I couldn’t agree more.  There is no lack of people ready to pontificate on telomeres, telomerase, and telomere biology who can barely say the words!

All kinds of moral, ethical and social machinations come out of these apparently clairvoyant people.

So it is with telomere testing.  Some of my ire is because I have addressed all this before in “Why telomeres are not the next cholesterol” and “Telomere Turf Wars, the Blasco Fiasco”.  Perhaps it’s because I did not ask for people to weigh in on the subject or perhaps not that many people read these blogs, which were highly informational.

Just this past week a slew of social networking and blog type posts claimed that short telomere testing can be used to predict the how’s, when’s and where’s of one’s mortality.

At this moment that is absolute nonsense and without scientific foundation.

Claiming that telomere testing is in a stage where it can predict the time of death or even that death is impending is just plain flat out wrong.  Spinning one’s wheels about whether the government and insurance companies will use it against us is even worse.

There is simply nowhere near enough data about who will die of what and when for any type of telomere test to be that predictive.  Yet.

That day is coming and as telomere testing becomes more common both the Mean Telomere Test (MTL) and the short telomere test that Dr Blasco pioneered will be able to help predict many of those things.

But human beings have a way of confounding even the best scientific prognostications.

After all, you can still be hit by a bus!

So once again, here is my stance.

Mean Telomere Testing is most useful in larger studies looking at population trends including heart disease, diabetes, cancer and ultimately the risk of dying.  But it is not very good for individual prognostics.

Short telomere testing is THE way to go to look at how you are personally treating your telomeres over time, especially if you are aggressively intervening on their behalf with TA-65.

But as of this moment it is still in the “gearing up” stage, meaning it is not feasible for most of us to get short telomere testing just yet.

I have contacted Dr Blasco’s company Lifelength to see what is actually involved and if they are ready.  After all, shipping blood from the US to Spain may not be very feasible and at this moment there are no labs in America that do this test.

I will continue to keep you posted in rational scientific fashion.  I am very optimistic about the utility of short telomere testing and I am certain that with the speed that the field of telomere biology is moving much of the stuff that is nonsense today will have real application sooner than later. But at this very moment all that pontification is a waste.

Like it or not, in today’s gotta-know-it-now, here-today-forgotten-tomorrow “information-” based society we’ll just have to wait a bit longer for the application of these tests.

Dr Dave

Telomere turf wars – Taming the Beast and the Blasco Fiasco

Let me be clear.  I am a supplement guy; have been for years.  I take supplements.  I make supplements and I sell supplements, which have unequivocally improved the lives of a lot of people.
 
As a supplement guy, the most exciting thing to come along ever, has been TA-65, the Astragalus derived compound that lengthens critically short telomeres.  I am certain that it is the first true bridge to real longevity and health span for people.
 
But not everyone agrees.
 
Thea Singer, a journalist who writes for The Beast, published a scathing article about TA-65.  It was a cleverly written, thinly veiled attempt to discredit TA-65 and many of the scientists that have worked on it.
The former issue does not bother me.  TA-65 is controversial, because of what it does and how it does it.  The concept that something may actually lengthen life and the cellular mechanisms by which it may do so, are so radical to human thinking, that it will take a while for people to catch on and readjust to a new reality.
 
That reality is coming no matter what.
 
Typical agendas to discredit TA-65 include: ‘aging is not a disease, just do normal things like your parents told you, eat right, destress and exercise and you’ll be fine – until you hit 80 and die.’ Then my personal favorite; ‘those greedy doctors are just trying to make a buck out of people who are getting older.’  Since TA-65 is an expensive supplement, many people claim they cannot afford it or simply won’t.
 
All of that is understandable and typical.
 
But there are the obvious flaws with the Beast article.

1)     While the mouse model of human aging is very useful, mice do not age by telomere shortening alone and the scientists interviewed in the article know that.  They are also aware, I am sure, of the human published trial with TA-65 showing similar results, to what has been found in mice.
 
2)     Lack of statistical significance means any finding that does not reach statistical significance is likely to be chance – and the scientists know that too. No doubt they have used that term hundreds of times with that exact meaning in their own studies.
 
3)     The oral absorption of TA-65 and/or TAT 2, is both well documented by Dr Harley and Co. and the scientists know that as well.  They have no doubt seen the same data and same slides I have that date back to prior to 2007, showing marked improvements in the immune function and reduction in various viral loads in early testing.  I guess all that happened because of the world’s biggest placebo effect and had nothing to do with the compound being absorbed orally.
 
Again, this kind of stuff is pretty much par for the course for writers who have an anti-anti-aging agenda.
 
But then they started picking on the individual scientists.
 
Thea Singer mentioned Cal Harley’s age of 58.  She did not say how old anyone else was, just Cal.  Then came the insinuation that Dr Harley was looking for a soft place to land and some financial gain from TA-65, etc.  I forgot that scientists are not supposed to make money.  They are supposed to grovel for grant money instead.  Money is bad, unless you are a journalist! My bad!
 
Still, I and thousands and probably soon millions of people, will be in debt in a non-financial way to Dr Harley for his seminal work in the field of telomerase activation and human health and longevity.
 
Also, somehow Singer forgot to mention that Dr Elizabeth Blackburn, who is one of the Nobel Laureates from 2009, is now in business with Dr Harley.  Care to comment on that Ms. Singer? Does that also make her a 50 something scientist looking for a big financial score?  I doubt it!
 
Then came the attack on poor (or maybe soon to be not so poor!) Maria Blasco, whose work on the specifics of telomerase activation and its longevity effects is second to none.
 
I wondered what got everyone so upset at Maria?  After all, she worked for and with one of the Nobel Laureates as well.
 
Then it dawned on me. 
 
She basically invented short telomere testing, which is the single most important thing for individual results and small group studies, despite the protestations against its use.  Recent articles have shown that the short telomeres are the critical ones in terms of the results of what happens to and inside a cell.

• The shortest telomere (not average telomere length) is critical for cell viability and chromosome stability. Hemann et al. Cell 107(1): 67-77

Incidentally, this paper is not new; it was published in 2001 from Carol Greider’s lab!

Ultimately the work on short telomeres means that mean telomere length (MTL), long the standard of studies on telomeres, is of marginal use when following an individual’s telomere therapeutics, especially over such a short time frame as one year.
 
It also means that we should be using that test and not the MTL for such studies, since the MTL is a pretty sloppy test.  I have read studies using a Q-PCR MTL analysis, claiming a near miraculous telomere lengthening after 90 days.  Given that the Q-PCR varies by a standard deviation of 1,000 base pairs, I find those results questionable.  Same with the FLO-FISH, which while twice as good, still has a huge variability gap.
 
Clearly MTL is very useful but only in the right situations. It only takes one short telomere to send a cell into senescence, crisis or worse.

In vivo telomerase finds the short telomeres first and fixes them first and in many cases exclusively.  That is the natural order of things.  It may be speculation, but it seems that any meaningful improvements in MTL come from the lengthening of short telomeres in the first place.
 
More outrageous was the insinuation that Maria Blasco’s TA-65 study deliberately coincided with the launch of her new company, Life Length, which is devoted to measuring short telomeres.  Anyone with even a tiny bit of business sense knows that starting a biotech company requires investors and venture capitalists.  I highly doubt Dr. Blasco was able to conveniently arrange for her investments to coincide with the exact date of the TA-65 study.  I highly doubt that was even a consideration.  Still, I am glad it happened.
 
Then again, I am just a dumb doctor – not a brilliant researcher.  But I can see why people are upset with Maria Blasco for changing the rules of the game and ushering in a really meaningful way for those of us who individually want to follow what is happening to our telomeres.
 
For the record, I think all of the scientists involved in the “Blasco Fiasco” are brilliant.  But of course Dr. Harley and Dr. Blasco were not asked to comment.  Neither was another brilliant scientist, Dr Bill Andrews, who discovered the human telomerase gene.
 
I found Ms. Singer’s article pretty repugnant on many levels, but not surprising I guess.  It made me wish scientists would concentrate on being scientists.  It made me wish all of the scientists in this field would get the professional courtesy, recognition and yes, money they deserve for ushering what must surely become the biggest discovering in the history of human health and longevity.
 
Finally, I wondered why Thea Singer would take such a stance, other than what has already been mentioned.
 
Maybe her book is not selling.
 
Ours is doing great.
 
Dave Woynarowski, MD – co-author The Immortality Edge

Why telomeres are not the new cholesterol – YET!

I have been seeing this headline circulating a lot lately – “Telomeres are the new cholesterol”. I actually know where it came from and the people who are responsible for its creation and circulation.

These people are very smart and well meaning.  But in their attempts to educate the public as to the very real importance of telomere length and its predictive value for overall health, I think they have inadvertently created a misconception.

The standard measurement of telomere length is called WBC MTL. It stands for white blood cell mean telomere length. The two ways of doing this test are called QPCR and FLO-FISH. The QPCR has an agreed inaccuracy of about 1000 base pairs of telomere DNA. This translates into about 5 to 10 years of aging or aging reversal just as a function of the test. In other words there is a pretty big error.  The FLO-FISH is a bit better with an inaccuracy of about 500 base pairs.  One way to get a more meaningful value is to wait longer to do the test.  Like 2 or 3 years!  Often studies show tests done in a few weeks or a few months after the initial intervention was begun.  They pronounce gigantic leaps in longevity in 6 weeks for things like green tea.

This is simply not possible and is a function of the inaccuracies of the test.  In other words it’s absolutely meaningless! Yet there are some pretty big names in the field still using this test to make positive pronouncements.

One of the most appealing things about TA-65 is that a group of people were tested using what is, in my opinion, the only meaningful test there is for telomere length: short telomere testing.

Studies have shown that the shortest telomere is the one that does the damage and therefore the most important- maybe the only important one in the bunch so to speak.

This is yet another reason why TA-65 is really the only thing that has been proven to work for addressing telomere length. It transcends the errors in testing and works exactly where it needs to to combat aging!

Sadly, until short telomere testing becomes a widely available test, which it is not (only one lab does it in Spain!), testing telomere length the current way will mean waiting 2 or 3 years before seeing meaningful results in the typical MTL tests.

Doc

Big Pharma steals from Mother Nature

It may be hard for you to believe but 11 short years ago I was a poster child for Big Pharma.  As a traditional Internist I practiced the art of dispensing drugs and more drugs.  My fall from grace (not literally but figuratively) is well documented in my website story and the many emails I have written since then (some 7,800) but suffice it to say I could no longer buy into a system that produced as many drugs that had to be recalled in one year after being released. I could no longer fall for the statistical machinations used to make drugs look good and I could no longer countenance the FDA’s attempts to suppress its employees from releasing important information.

So whenever I see a “typical traditional medical stance” I always feel compelled to call them on it when it comes from Mother Nature, not big Pharma. You see, they still send me all those free journals and magazines that “real” doctors read.

One of these rags published back to back articles on psoriasis, a skin condition that leads to unsightly scaly skin plaques and has other consequences including arthritis and in some cases heart disease.

The first article was about drugs that reduce “TNF” also known as tumor necrosis factor alpha, a commonly used lab marker for inflammation.  Big Pharma has scored big with TNF inhibitors for psoriasis and autoimmune disorders.  They were excited to report a nearly 50% drop in the heart attack rate in one of their studies using these agents.  They neglected to mention that Mother Nature has her own anti-psoriatic TNF inhibitor know as fish oil, which reduces heart attack rates dramatically without the side effects of outrageous costs of these fancy and sometimes dangerous drugs.

Go figure.

The next article went on to lament serious heart disease acceleration by another class of anti-psoriasis drugs known as “biologic monoclonal antibody therapies”. Their names are nearly unpronounceable and end in “mab”.  These new wave star players showcasing the Pharmaceutical Industry’s technologic prowess and advanced thinking. They are astronomically expensive but of course insurance pays for them (uh, who pays for insurance?!)  Only trouble is they cause heart attacks.

OOPS!

To Big Pharma, at this point I say, “Do nothing, you’ll be just as productive.”  And take your fish oil!

Doc

Your DNA’s “Junk” is the Key to Immortality

Telomeres junk?   Not long ago some of the brightest minds on earth believed telomeres were nothing more than junk whose sole purpose was to protect the treasure — your DNA.   It turns out that junk IS the treasure.  Without it there is no life.  Many of those great minds may pretend they “knew it all along”, but no one really knew and who knows what new treasures we’re yet to uncover.

Since the realization of telomeres’ importance, there’s been an explosion in regenerative and longevity medicine.  Scientists are starting to uncover and do the unthinkable.  They’re uncovering new ways to extend life, and most importantly improve the quality of the lives they’re extending.   Instead of a feeble, sick, blind and deaf 100 years, you and I can expect a sharp, vibrant and enjoyable 100 years and beyond.  It’s a long and healthy life, very different than the inevitable decline our parents and grandparents have or are experiencing.

And we have the junk at the end of our DNA to thank.

Every day it seems new research supports and reaffirms that cancer is a disease of short telomeres, heart disease is a disease of short telomeres, Alzheimer’s is a disease of short telomeres, among many other disease “symptoms” of aging.  (I call most of the ailments we call diseases “symptoms”, because the real disease is aging and all of the other so-called diseases are merely symptoms).

In the past few months telomere shortening has shown up to 400% relative risk in cancer versus long telomeres.   The group with short telomeres had deadly, nasty and rapid cancers with little hope of survival.

Shortened telomeres create inflammation through a unique pathway very different than the inflammation that is caused by poor diet, lack of sleep and a sedentary lifestyle.   The inflammation caused by telomere erosion plays a vital role in all diseases of aging. 

Antioxidant has been a buzz word in the health industry for several years now, but telomere erosion requires extremely potent anti-inflammatories to combat the accelerated damage our bodies experience as more and more of our cells’ telomeres reach critically short levels.  These super antioxidants help slow telomere loss and are discussed at length in The Immortality Edge.  They include omega-3 fish oil and CoQ10 which have both been shown to reduce rapid telomere segment loss in cells. 

You already take fish oil?  Probably not enough.  CoQ10 is part of your supplement regime?  Are you sure you’re taking the proper form?  Read The Immortality Edge supplement plan and you’ll never have to guess whether you’re taking the correct dosage or right form of a nutrient and making the proper lifestyle choices to truly extend your lifespan and healthspan.  You’ll know.

Don’t treat your telomeres like junk.  If you want to live to see a healthy active 100+ years, read the book, implement the plan and I’ll see you in 100 years.

Afraid it’s too late?  Worried that your telomeres are shot, too short to even bother preserving?  Well, after years of screening over 250,000 compounds a natural supplement was found, tested and proven to not only stop telomere shortening but help lengthen telomeres as well.  It’s called TA-65, and it’s also covered at length in The Immortality Edge.  Everything you need to know about how to extend your healthy years is laid out in one comprehensive and easy-to-understand book.

It’s never too late to treat your telomeres like the treasure they truly are!

Are You a Genetic Time Bomb?

Recent research into the role of genes and more importantly the stuff around our genes known as the epigenome reveals why some of us may be a genetic time bomb ticking away.  What can you do to stop the clock?

During my years of medical practice I was approached by patients with real fears that they were doomed to repeat their parents’ deaths.

We learned this fear was unfounded and unnecessary when we sequenced the entire human genome several years ago.  We now realize that 70-80% of whether we become afflicted with illness or disease is within our control.  The lifestyle modifications recommended in The Immortally Edge are crucial to help prevent the ailments we once believed resulted from the cruel and inevitable roll of the genetic dice.

Your genes act like a library containing many books.  Your epigenome represents the books you check out and actually read.  This is how you “change your fate”.

One example of this is related to how our body converts plant Omega-3 and Omega-6 to a useful and necessary substance called Prostaglandins that our cells need to function properly.  Prostaglandins are formed by the metabolic conversion of EFAs (essential fatty acids).  The conversion requires enzymes which assist with the conversion over several steps.  Once EFAs are converted to Prostaglandins, they work similar to hormones to help cells maintain normal functioning.  Prostaglandins appear to be involved in nearly every body function.  Various Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids form different Prostaglandins with different activities.  A proper balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 is important for maintaining health because they compete for the same enzymes for conversion.  Only 5-10% of Linoleic Acid (found in all oils) and Alpha-Linolenic Acid (found in flax, hemp, chia and black currant) converts to our body’s much needed Prostaglandins.  Some people lack the conversion enzymes and don’t convert any of the plant based Omega-3s.

You may be genetically predisposed to Prostaglandin deficiencies because you lack the enzymes to properly convert Omega-3 and Omega-6 intake.  You wouldn’t know you were among the misfortunate genetic group, but luckily you have the power to override this genetic misfortune by taking an Omega-3 fish oil supplement. 

Inadequate Omega-3 EPA and DHA intake can lead to low IQ, allergies, heart disease, breast and prostate cancers.  You can wait for reliable genetic tests to identify these various and sundry gene problems, or you can act now and avoid the risks involved with low Omega intake and conversion.

I recommend 6 grams of fish oil a day to help you avoid becoming a genetic time bomb!

Best in health,

Dr. Dave Woynarowski, MD, CPT

Naturally high – Your brain really IS on drugs!

A few years ago I sent you several emails about a new (it was new then!) weight loss drug called Rimonabant.  Developed by French drug giant Rhone-Roher, this drug was supposed to cure everything from smoking to overeating and alcoholism.  The problem was it didn’t work that well and it came along at a  time when another American drug company was removing a weight loss drug known as Xenical and focusing on its weaker version known as Alli. 
 
Of course we would never suspect the FDA of blocking a French drug from our market so an American one could recoup lost revenues (prescription Xenical was pretty much a flop).
 
The truth is, Rimonabant was not very successful in U.S. trials, failing to deliver meaningful results and was eventually pulled from the market due to mental status changes.  But it did open up a whole new area of research for pharmacists and drug companies called the “endocannabinoid system”. 
 
You may recognize the word “cannabis” from its other name, marijuana.
 
It turns out that Mother Nature has endowed us with naturally occurring “cannabinoid” like chemicals in our brain.  The problem, as always with pharmaceutical drugs, is that they are not natural and don’t work well in the “natural environment” of our brains.  Hence the broad and extensive side effects profiles of most drugs designed to work on our brains.
 
Well Mother Nature put something else here for us to use.  It turns out that omega 3 fish oil has been studied extensively in depression and for mild to moderate depression is just as effective as the SSRI (Prozac) class of drugs without the suicidal tendencies!

As a matter of fact, if you have read any of my emails, you know how effective fish oil is for so many things because it is a building block, a hormone, and immune modulator and anti-fat compound and more.
 
But let’s stay focused on the brain.  Fish oil’s effects on the mood and its improvement in depression were thought to be solely due to improved levels of serotonin, a natural brain chemical that blocks depression.
 
But recently it was discovered that fish oil works via the endocannabinoid system as well to elevate mood and relieve anxiety among other symptoms.
 
How does it work?  Here is a quote: “It corrects the deficit in the signaling of the CB1 cannabinoid receptor in the prefrontal cortex of the brain. This protein — the CB1 cannabinoid receptor — has been linked, over the last decade and in various studies, to depressive disorders.”
 
Well you did ask!
 
Actually restoring the balance to brain signals is just one way fish oil works; it also is an important building block that can affect memory, intelligence, hand eye coordination and many other brain functions.
 
For now, suffice it to say, you should be taking it every day!
 
I recommend a minimum of 3 grams and prefer most people to be on 6 grams. That should keep you naturally high!
 
Best,
Doc

Teen Obesity – Rosie Is Not A Fat Slob!

You see, Rosie really does not stand a chance; at least that is what behavioral psychologists say.

Her main weapons are that she represent the underdog. Rosie actually is not a slob, she has complete and free access to TV and other media, and is not poor by any stretch of the imagination.

And she is fat.
Sorry, but that is the big bottomed line in human behavioral approach terms.

People cannot look at a fat person and feel the same respect they do for a thinner person, no matter how wonderful the fat person is.

Hey, gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins, right?

Then again, so is greed but you can’t really see greed. You can see fat. Just look to your left and look to your right.

If you were to honestly poll and I mean honestly, poll a million people who knew nothing about either of these people and said they were feuding, and ask them to pick a side, guess whose side they’d be on.

Paleolithic pros and cons of whey

Why use a highly purified whey protein like Private Reserve Protein Powder?
 
Paleo man did not cultivate dairy and our genes are not equipped to handle dairy.
 
The primary problem is lactose – milk sugar which is absent from “whey protein hydrolysates” like Private Reserve.  A hydrolysate means that there has been some “pre digestion” of the elemental proteins in whey, down to their individual amino acid and branched chain formats.
 
This means they are more “elemental” and easily absorbed.
 
But there is no lactose in Private Reserve to cause lactose intolerance and there are  many other added vitamins and minerals as well as berry anthocyanidins (mine is the only product on the market  with these added) making it a far more complete source of vitamins.
 
Other anti-Paleo arguments against whey:
 
It stimulates insulin response and causes “growth” via IGF-1 (same as HGH).  This is actually a good thing if you are working out since this how your replace muscle.
 
Bullet points:
 
· No lactose
 
·Anabolic effects of whey proteins for those working out

·No added sugar so overall low insulin response

·Added anthocyanidins and vitamins
 
·Anti-obesity effects of whey protein: decreased appetite, early satiety and improved fat burning (clearly negate any increase in insulin that why proteins might cause)
 
Finally, in their elemental forms, amino acids are just that.  The body doesn’t look at an amino acid and say, “Oh that one came from fish  or whey or eggs…” it just uses them for fuel and rebuilding.  So just because whey is a milk protein doesn’t mean the body knows the difference or that it came from milk.  It is by far the most complete source of Aminos we have.  
 
If you separate out “pure science” and mental masturbation about whey proteins from population based studies where people are using whey as part of a nutritional plan, the positive effects of whey are enormous and the scientific arguments fall by the wayside under the harsh light of reality (I love waxing poetic).

Doc

How food affects gene expression

If you have read any of my material at all for the past 3 or 4 years, you’ve heard the terms “neutragenomics” and “epigenetics”.
 
The first term refers to how food and supplements affect genetic expression.  The second term is a bit broader and refers to which books (genes) in your genetic library are actually checked out and read by your cellular machinery.
 
They converge to form a theory that has translated into reality and will change the future of your health and quite frankly, the future of all mankind including how long we can live.
 
Lofty stuff but right now it doesn’t mean diddly unless we put it into practice.
 
So that is what I am going to give you today; practical information.  Because I make supplements and preach the Paleolithic Diet, I am biased towards my own opinion.  But if you like, you can remove the sales pitch and the information still holds true 100%.
 
We have a vast genetic library in our DNA. There are some areas of “junk” which will potentially turn out to be important but we have mapped out most to the stuff our cells make to keep us going.
 
Still there is a lot more stuff sitting around in that library like books waiting to be checked out. Some are a good read, some are nonsense and some are dangerous and deadly; acquired over generations of mutations or maybe even the last time you walked in front of a microwave tower.
 
Still, not every book gets read and so your genetic material does not determine 100% of your fate.  It does not determine (in most people who survive past childhood) how long you live, how healthy you are, what illness you get and what you will die of, at least not totally.
 
As a matter of fact, the odds are 2 to 1 that something you do or don’t do in your lifestyle or your environmental exposure will determine what happens to you ultimately.
 
So basically epigenetics refers to which books get read.  Nutragenomics refers to your and my attempts to get the best ones read and not to even look at the dangerous delay and superfluous ones.
 
How do you do that?
 
Simple:  Dr Dave’s Four Pillars of Health
 
1) Nutrition, including supplements: this might be the biggest and best way to do it.  So stick with a Paleolithic Diet. This means no grain, no dairy and of course no refined sugar.  You’ll melt fat, lose a ton of weight and be far healthier.  And yes, you can and should cook your food; Paleo is NOT 100% raw.  We’ve have been cooking food for over 2 million years, long before our current genetic library was shaped.

2) Exercise like the kinds in Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone.  Total body, short, sweet, high intensity, functional exercises.  You’ll also get the look you want but it will mean something when you have to get out of the way of a bus or knock an attacker out!

3) Sleep: always underrated and very important to keep your hormone cycles “young”. That’s why I make all natural Sleep Wizard.

4) Mental peace and stress reduction, meditation, hobbies, prayer, pets — whatever does it for you; more is better!
 
What you have read above is really the basis of 8 years of writing my Daily Health Tips and will probably be enough for another 8 years of material.  I have been blessed to be one of the first in fish oil.  I have some new innovations coming out in that. I have been fortunate to be at the forefront of telomerase activation and longevity medicine.  Look for more there as well.

You cannot read this stuff anywhere else so keep your eye on those daily newsletters. If you’re not on the list already, you can sign up on any page of my website.
 
Doc

Fish oil versus krill – the final chapter

I suppose I will have to tolerate this whole krill thing, as savvy internet marketers are pushing it and frankly doing a good job, by virtue of their popularity, if not their science.
But here are the facts:

The company that makes MegaRed was censured for inaccurate advertising, stating krill was healthier for your heart. The Council for Responsible Advertising found no evidence to support this and the company stopped that campaign, although others, namely internet-based doctors that sell krill, continue to use it in their advertising.

Next, the dosage of Omega 3 in krill is far below what is needed to impact the health of many people, since most have far too low an Omega 3 level to begin with.

Astraxanthan is added to krill; it is not naturally occurring and it can easily be added to Fish Oil.

The increasing use of krill is strictly based on the popularity of Fish Oil as its sales were poor, by comparison, until Fish Oil “hit big”. Using krill will not harm the arctic ecosystem, as most of it comes from farmed sources in South America.

There are approximately 3 studies on krill in human health, most coming out of the University of Guelph or Magill in Ontario and most are sponsored by one of the major manufacturers of the product located in Canada.

The scarcity of fish in the world is a subject of debate as well: the most recent “scarcity” paper was based on fish farming in Argentina and Peru and reflects more the impact of farming quality standards than actual fish counts. The World Fish Council says that fish harvests have been steady for many years now. Who you believe is up to you but the recent “climate gate” issues cast a jaundiced eye on the entire “going green” movement, not in principle but in fact.

Ironically a lot of the people I know who are krill converts are “Raw” or Paleolithic eaters. Somehow they forgot krill was never part of the human food chain!
Some comment on Fish Oil purity. Even the worst brands are pure out to parts per million in terms of heavy metals etc, and pharmaceutical grade brands are pure out to parts per trillion. There are also some “weapons grade” Fish Oils like mine out there that are even tested for radiation!

I have seen no published purity tests on krill, but whale meat is notorious for its contamination with mercury, to the point where its consumption is generally banned in many countries. The whales get their mercury by ingestion of their food source. I will let you fill in the blank as to what that food source is. Hint: it ain’t fish! And while they may get some contamination from swimming around the ocean with their mouths open, clearly there is another source for their mercury toxicity. Yet, on the internet, it just says krill is free of all pollutants. Prove it; do an analysis like I do and publish it like I do.

Even traditional medical organizations have come out in support of Fish Oil including the American College of Cardiology, The American Heart Association, and the American Cancer and the American Diabetes Association. These organizations are primarily drug company funded, so for them to come out in support of ANY supplement is a huge statement.

None of them support krill.

Finally, there are over 10,000 human studies supporting the benefits of Fish Oil. These include several huge studies from around the world including Italy, like GISSI PREVENZZIONE, that prove the benefits of Fish Oil. There are studies on arthritis, cancer, and Alzheimer’s all using Fish Oil, none using krill. So, a recent blog post by a well known internet doc stating “until that research has proven the facts one way or the other, it makes more financial and ecological sense to stick with krill”, borders on nonsense and is clearly biased to me. No major researcher has supported the benefits of krill over Fish Oil .

If you Google “Artemis Simopoulos MD” you will find a wealth of credible info on Fish Oil and nothing on krill.

There are major population based studies using Fish Oil consumption as a marker for heart disease, prostate cancer and breast cancer. Until people begin to adopt whale food as a mainstay of their diets, we will never see such a study on krill.

Once again, you will see a couple of studies on krill in humans all done in Canada and all funded by the company that makes the product. I think we know what that means, from our experiences with Big Pharma. Finally, as vitamin store owners have been telling me for some time now, you couldn’t give krill away until Fish Oil hit it big.

I understand the public’s need for something “new” and I applaud the krill marketers for taking advantage of what will probably be their only opportunity to sell a “me too supplement”, but there is very little science behind this choice and far more marketing.

I will stick with people food, not whale food. Fish oil – Super Omega 3

Doc

It worked for Monica

I get it now.

Some of the “big gun” internet docs want to be the Ted Turner of the internet. Sadly, all the money they are investing to control the media and medium known as cyberspace will be wasted when the next permutation of the internet comes out. I am not talking about a different app or way of access; I am talking about a completely new way to use cyberspace where all the rules will be very different.

I know the copy cats are reading… I can almost hear them sweating. ‘What does he mean? What is he talking about?’ After all I am a creative type and for the past few years have been providing free content for the so-called experts to rip off and build their empires.

Excuse me, I should say “meaningful content” for their business teams and copywriters.

So I will say no more, but the next thing will be of the same revolutionary nature as the internet itself, a totally new and different way to communicate.

You see, the problems with people who bank on the internet and want to own it is they have missed the one new and cardinal rule of things these days. They change faster than the human mind can almost get a grip on and they change for reasons and in ways that are unpredictable. But I guarantee this just, as with solving the aging problems, someone somewhere out there is 2 to 3 years max away from the next revolution in communication.

So when the new things arrives in 2 to 3 years, all that money spent on turning the internet into a cyber version of television with just a few dominant channels will be wasted. Just as has happened to TV.

And as far as my predictive powers, they have been spot on for the past 10 years.

Remember you are reading the words of someone who touted fish oil while krill was still being sold as “brine shrimp” in pet food stores.

And you are reading the words of a true telomere expert, one who in a few short months will be a published author (not a self published author!) of the only real source of information on what to take to preserve and lengthen your telomeres.

Hint: it is not protein powder. I have tested compounds with a real lab over the past year so I know what works to induce telomerase and what does not. Protein powder does not or I would be touting my own superior product for this purpose.

In addition I can tell you that some of the so-called experts barely knew what the word “telomere” meant until a few short moths ago.

Also some of you have inquired about my “4 Pillars of Health” and wondered if it would be back in print. Apparently, however, some of you who also read the big guns of internet docs forwarded me a site of a doctor new guy on the block who 1) has no original meaningful content of his own 2) Sells only other peoples stuff (wanna guess whose stuff?!) 3) is brand new to the internet and has no site data.

But he does have (surprise, surprise) the “5 Pillars of Health”. Gee I wonder where he got that idea. The same place his bosses get most of their ideas: www.drdavesbest.com.

You guys better hope that I keep doing what I do or you will run out of free, easy, cheap and meaningful content that you can scrape and claim credit for.

As for the new guy who is clearly a lackey to the bigger sources: I wish you luck.

Who knows, you may indeed get famous by association.

Hey, it worked for Monica Lewinsky.

Andre’s routine – level 1

I get a lot of requests for “free workout advice”. Since I write so much in my newsletters I wasn’t sure what people meant. They apparently meant “a routine”. Well I have lots of those so I hope you enjoy this one. You asked, you get!

My current weight loss project is a young man named Andre who has been doing what I tell him now for about 2 months. He takes fish oil and protein powder and we are slowly getting him to be more “Paleo” on his diet. So far he has lost about 22 pounds.

Here is one of his Level 1 routines. He is a young man with only a few orthopedic issues so we can do a lot of fun stuff.

If you are out of shape, older or have joint issues use a little creativity and modify these routines.

Always do this workout on a soft surface.

Start with The Matrix from JC Santana (bend and reach one leg forward at a time in 8 directions as if you were picking up something from off the ground, 8 reps in each direction with each leg – ultimately can be done with light weights). As you get better, start adding speed.

Note: our product, Fabulous Fat Loss for Everyone, contains one of JC’s master work DVD’s as well as one of his Superbands to help you do the right kinds of exercises the right way!

Eight one quarter mile “laps” at a track or even around your place of work. I measure out the distance using an inexpensive roller with a “how many feet meter” on it. A GPS will work fine as well.

Do speed running (don’t try sprinting until you’ve done at least 6 of these workouts) for one quarter of your lap distance and then backwards, side to side and carioca for 20 to 30 steps each until you have covered the same distance in reverse. Then walk back to where you started your backwards running and either jog or walk as briskly as you can.

If you are not in running shape, then just walk at the best speed you can. As author and friend Phil Campbell says, “The goal is to get breathless for about 30 seconds and then recover.”

On the 3rd lap, add in 20 step bear crawls. – next lap alligator crawls – next lap high knees (all 20 steps up the short part of the hill).

Bear crawls are done like this: Get on your hands and knees. Next, bring your butt up in the air, unbending your knees about half way. Now start moving. The closer you can keep your knees to the ground the faster you can move but the harder it is.

Alligator walks are done as follows: Lay flat on your belly. Now raise up on your forearms and shins for support. Move the opposite hand and leg and slither along for 20 to 30 yards, more if you are in great shape. Again, speed increases the difficulty.

Always do these exercises on a soft surface and if you can’t get down into position, substitute a plank (think of a well centered pushup that stays in the up position) for 30 to 120 seconds.

On the 6th lap, pause at the top and stretch the hips, groin, hamstrings and quads.

After 8 laps completed, do metabolic chest with the JC Predator or the Superband, included in Fabulous Fat Loss for Everyone. Start with pink bands (2 inserted, one removed) attached to a railing.

20 regular pushups.

20 band punches, each side.

10 to 20 flies, full range of motion, at 10th (or 5th) rep switch leg forward.

Then 10 to 20 explosive pushups.

Again, if you have to modify your pushups, do so by inclining them, not by doing them from the knees. If you are really weak in the chest you can simply lean against the wall for starters and do your pushups that way.

That is it for today and if you like this, let me know and I will post some more of Andre’s workouts as free info. But only if I hear from YOU!!!

New Horizons for Your Health

I wanted to let you know about a couple of areas that are truly exploding in terms of knowledge, understanding and most of all direct application to your health, well being and longevity.

These are the areas I will be writing about in my emails and blogs to keep you updated.

I also wanted to tell you about the astounding number of clueless people who are writing about these areas. Sadly the internet is notorious for “letting” anyone with an opinion or supposed expertise publish anything they want.

Most of it is misinformed, over simplified or just plain nonsense.

Nowhere is that more true than in the field of Longevity and especially Telomere Biology. Again if you haven’t been reading my stuff for the past 14 months then you might not know what the word “telomere” refers to. Telomeres are part of your genetic material and they are the biologic time clocks that determine for a large part how long you can live (emphasis on the word can; can does not equal will!) If you want the straight scoop on this topic you can read my blogs or just go to www.telonauts.com for a more concentrated look at what I have written.

You’ll see why they call me Dr Telomere!

Ok let’s look at what is brewing and what you need to stay informed on:

1) Exercise physiology. Finally, after decades of following what has worked for one individual or one genetically gifted athlete, we are beginning to get real data on the average Joes and Janes and translate it into what works. I won’t get into that here but I have written a book and sell a course on it called Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone that has a lot of great information for you. Still any book becomes outdated before it’s published so if you want real info you have to go to the source. And that means a seminar on the topic! Nowhere I have ever been has more to offer in this regard than Great Blackburn’s famous Fitcamps.

The next one is in Malibu in November and is rife with tip top people in the fields of longevity and fitness who have been able to tie both together for you. Go to www.fitcamp.com and sign up now! Each one is life changing.

2) Nutrition. This includes supplements, neutragenomics and epigenetics. Again, if you’ve been reading my stuff, you know what those words mean and why they are important. If you don’t, well then you haven’t been reading my stuff. Bottom line: in those fancy sounding words are simple concepts that will shape everything we do from now on. So stay tuned and keep reading my stuff. By the way you’ll see al lot of imitators but they can only copy so you may as well get it first here!

3) Longevity. I pride myself in being the guy who translates cutting edge science to the world at large. As such, I spoke on longevity and its newest, greatest and “here now” field, Telomere Biology at two major anti-aging conferences in 2009 and 2010. Again there will be people who claim to be experts and write about this topic but have at best a limited understanding of the topic (or none at all) and try to copy from what I have written.

Here is the good news. Myself and co-authors Greta Blackburn and Mike Fossel have a book coming out that tells you in plain English what to do to stay healthy and live longer and better. It’s a real book published by a real publisher and the first of its kind to tie in Telomere Biology with everyday life.

And it’s written by real experts not wanna be’s.

It’s called The Immortality Edge and I will soon be telling you how to get a signed copy from me.

So once again, stay tuned and be aware that this is the real deal, authentic, you-heard-it-first here. Your source for information in these fields.

Doc

The real skinny on delivery systems

Sofgels are easier to swallow and offer protection from oxidation, photosensitivity and environmental contaminants

You hear a lot about delivery systems these days. People make a lot of claims that their product is better because it contains some ‘farcified’ version of an original compound or a modified way of getting it into the body.

What has become an old trick for Big Pharma, designed to extend the patent, is now used by the supplement industry to boost “perceived benefits” even when there are none.

To wit, none of the studies done ever use effectiveness in people, as an outcome. They always use some blood, urinary or other chemical measurement that sounds impressive, but often does not translate into the person feeling any better, or being in any better health as a result.

So for most of my “fat soluble” items like CO Q10 and Fish Oil, as well as a few other things I make, I use sofgels as the delivery system of choice.

Sofgels are actually still relatively new to the industry but “old” enough to have a real track record of effectiveness, not just fancy sounding hollow claims.

Here is a list of some of the known benefits:

- One piece, not two pieces glued or banded together, insures the contents stay where they belong until they get where they need to go!
- Easy to swallow
- Tamper resistant
- Uniform appearance so you know what you are getting and who it’s from
- No odors and no taste
- Improved bioavailability, faster disintegration and better pharmacokinetics
- Better stability with protection from oxidation photosensitivity (light) and environmental contaminants
- Protection from melting and evaporation
- No need to add fillers or agents to improve texture
- Enteric coated to prevent dissolution in the stomach, but open up releasing its contents in the small intestine, which is good for taste, smell or pH issues
- Dosing uniformity allows for Pharmaceutical Grade supplements

There are of course many more that would make sense only to doctors and pharmacists but you get the picture.

The sofgel remains the premiere way to deliver what’s good for you that would otherwise not get into your system.

So the next time you read a fancy claim that smells a little fishy, you’ll know it is!

Doc

Meditation burns fat

I got a very interesting question from a good friend, customer and reader the other day that I wanted to share with you.

“Doc, does the parasympathetic nervous system (SLUDD) use fat as fuel? Is it a stretch?

To conclude that relaxation, such as meditation uses or operates in the
parasympathetic nervous system?

If so, then does meditation burn fat?” -Peter M.

Hi, Peter. Always nice to hear from you! Remember that fat is the primary fuel for all activities except the short burst high intensity stuff… so technically sleeping burns fat!

The autonomic (automatic) nervous system consists of sympathetic and parasympathetic, which generally oppose each other in action. Most people in Western Societies have too much sympathetic tone, however, and this imbalance is a source of emotional mood and anxiety issues amongst others. Meditation invokes a higher parasymp. tone at least for a time so it is really part of the relaxation response. Keep an eye out for my book this January (I am working with the publisher to get some advanced copies), which tells how meditation can lengthen your telomeres.

In terms of fat burning, you’d want more energy expenditure (actually more energy wasted!) for maximum fat burning. This is why thermogenics, appetite suppressants and calorie burners generally work on the sympathetic end of things and generally give people more energy if used correctly.

By the way, the book is called The Immortality Edge and is co–authored with some famous people (far more famous than me!) who also know lots about staying young, vital and healthy … Actress Greta Blackburn (The movie “48 Hours” the TV series “V” and many others) and anti-aging guru Mike Fossel and will be available in January 2011. It will be the first and only book of its kind on real longevity with telomere biology front and center.

Published by John Wiley and Sons, this is not a self-published book by phony experts; it’s the real deal!

Doc

Fish Oil And The Hidden Causes Of Heart Disease

For the past 10 years I have been writing, researching and manufacturing, ever purer and better forms of Omega 3 Pharmaceutical Grade Fish oil.

Today I want to summarize some of the more important aspects of fish oil and heart health in condensed form.

First off, no matter what anyone tells you, heart disease, for most of us, is an inflammatory process. It is NOT caused by high cholesterol although certain forms of high cholesterol are “markers” for it. As is often the case, so called modern medicine has treated one of the symptoms of the disease not the disease itself.

The disease is actually inflammation and it is a common problem of us, in all of our organ systems, not just our heart.

In our joints, it causes arthritis, in our brains it causes dementia, in our blood vessels, the area of our body that is most exposed to harmful chemicals (perhaps next to our skin) it causes clogging.

The real cholesterol we are trying to fight is the result of and part of an inflammatory response in our body. We call it “oxidized” cholesterol, since it is a part of the inflammatory chain.

In truth, there is nothing wrong with having an inflammatory response. It is a normal response to an abnormal diet and abnormal life styles.
It is clear, from research and ever mounting data, that the simple addition of Omega 3 fish oil, in higher quantities, to the diet would reduce heart disease deaths in this country by about a quarter of a million people a year. And reduce health care costs by hundreds of billions because of its effects on all forms of heart disease, including congestive heart failure, regular old coronary artery disease, irregular heartbeats, dementias, cancers and other forms.

The data is still being ignored and “traditional medicine and traditional medical journals (also known as drug company sponsored medicine and drug company sponsored journals) continues to publish “refutes” to the use of fish oil.

The most recent one got picked up by the lay press and published as “fish oil not good for heart disease”.

In this study, several thousand older Dutch participants were given a small dose of fish oil Omega 3’s ( EPA and DHA of about 300 mg) in a stick of margarine ( what was in that?) an average of 4 years after they had already the diagnosis of active heart disease . These people were on an average of 4 prescription drugs and had an average age of just shy of 70.

What this study really showed was, that if you give older people who already have heart disease and are already on 4 drugs for it, too small a dose of fish oil type omegas, in a vehicle loaded with god only knows what kind of inflammatory fats (margarine), you get no additional benefits by adding fish oil.
This was published by a “reputable” journal. One that would never dream of publishing such a poorly done study on ANY supplement.

Predictably though, it had the effect they wanted. It got picked up and disseminated as fact, to the internet.

It seems people are so bored of hearing good things, that sooner or later, the only thing that sells, is something “bad” even if it ‘s manufactured.

The data on healthy hearts and fish oil goes back almost 40 years now and in my opinion, the fact that we are not using it in higher doses, on more people is not only not scientific, its malpractice.

Reduction of the inflammatory fraction of cholesterol, the oxidized LDL, is one of the many things fish oil does that is good for your heart. It also lowers triglycerides, which are part of the inflammatory cycle, when they are too high. It also improves insulin response, decreases organ and subcutaneous fat, which fights obesity.

It also reduces the types of cholesterol fractions that are associated with people who have “normal” cholesterol, but still have heart attacks.

The percentage varies, but somewhere around 40% of people who have heart attacks, have “normal” cholesterol. This is because of genetic, environmental and nutritional (diets low in Omega 3’s for instance) factors that cause “undetectable” forms of cholesterol to rise. These things have names like Lp(a) and various apoproteins.

The bottom line here, is that there are tests like NMR of the lipids and VAP (some have other names) that will test for these so called hidden markers and that is what they are, markers of inflammation, that raise your risk of heart disease, but your insurance company is not going to pay for them and your doctor is not going to order them.

So, if you have high cholesterol, you automatically (and medical-legally must) get a statin and if you don’t have high cholesterol, you can still get heart disease. But again, your doctor is not likely to recommend fish oil, since he or she doesn’t believe in it, or doesn’t know about it, or doesn’t think you are at risk. Talk about a crap shoot!

Then again, you could take fish oil, since it changes the fractions of cholesterol to more beneficial and less dangerous, often without changing the total number. It also increases your good cholesterol (again in the meaningful fractions) and it decreases almost every marker of inflammation you’d care to measure.

But no drug company is making trillions off of it yet. They are, however, trying to create new drugs, to lower these “hidden” types of cholesterol.

While we wait for “FDA approved therapy”, millions of people will get sick and die and the therapy will have serious side effects, guaranteed.

If that is not MAL-evolent Practice I don’t know what is.

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Dietary Defense Against Cancer

Let me start off by being 100% honest here.

I have some very controversial views and views that go way far a field of the medical establishment. You know those guys who are the whipping boys for Big Pharma and the various and sundry in-the-box thinkers that make up so many sanctioning bodies that control medicine these days.

In other words I dare to be different but you should know what I am saying is not accepted as gospel truth except by a hand full of lucky cancer survivors.

Here are 2 big things you should know about what I think right away.

1) I think the concept that antioxidants given during chemo or radiation being harmful and benefiting the cancer is about the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard. Even a first year oncology fellow knows that cancer does not behave anywhere near normal cells.

2) I believe that except for rare genetic exception, most cancers could be prevented specifically by taking what would be considered much higher than normal doses of antioxidants such as fish oil and Co Q10, resvertrol and berry extracts to name just a few.

Here are some other things you should know.

1) There is a direct correlation between high fructose corn syrup, sugar consumption and refined white starch foods and cancer. Not so with ANY of the artificial sweeteners in sub psychotic doses no matter what you read on the internet. This is all not withstanding sugar’s link to obesity, heart diseases and diabetes.

2) Man made fats are as bad as man made sugars. That includes some Trans fats and hydrogenated fats still found in large numbers in many foods. Avoid them

3) Berry-derived anthocyanidins may reduce heart diseases, cancer and decrease infections. This is the basis behind my 2 berry-derived wonder supplements, Cardio Booster and Immune Booster.

4) Vitamins A thru E, green tea, resvertrol and fish oil have all been shown in laboratory studies to decrease the incidence and in some cases regress cancer cells.

Because of the poor quality of soil and air and water pollution I think the choice is simple.

Take the best of what Mother Nature can currently offer and clean it up with modern toxin-free processing to give the highest quality purest product.

Then you have Dr Dave’s Best; my dietary defense against cancer.

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The dirty little secret the government does not want you to know about flu shots. The strength from within is in your immune system.

Every year we go through campaigns of fear based/disaster based near harassment from the media and the government concerning the flu and flu shots.

But here is the dirty little secret they don’t want you to know.

Your response to the flu shot is only as good as your immune system!  A weak immune system and you’ll have a weak response and the shot will be of marginal value.

Now, for lots of reasons, including the fact that I value my freedom, I am not going to tell you not to get the flu shot.  I will tell you to discuss the pros and cons with your doctor and ask them if they are taking the shot.  If you would have asked me last year, the supposedly most dangerous year not to get the shot, I would have said no.

Same answer I would have given you the year “bird” flu was suppose to devastate humanity and didn’t.

The fact remains that every epidemic, real or imagined has survivors and lots of them.  Those are people who have strong immune systems.  This is why Europe, while devastated by black plague, was not wiped out.

My very first HIV patient is still alive (diagnosed in 1990) more because of the strength of her immune system than any drugs we gave her, especially in the early years!

Now which side of the “immune fence” do you want to be on?

Strong or weak?

My advice is picking the strong side no matter whether you’re getting the shot or not.

I make 2 supplements that have ingredients in them that have a track record of fighting flu, including Influenza B and swine flu.

Those two products are Immune Booster (Elderberry extract) and Instant (Rhodiola Rosea). Each of these products has ingredients that when tested separately in labs show anti-flu activity similar and in some cases superior to that of prescription anti-viral medications.

Now I am not allowed to say that my products fight flu but I can tell you this much: they have none of the side effects that flu medications do and I have sailed through every flu season since I invented these products back in 2004.

As natural therapies become ever more important in our quest for great health and disease prevention, I am certain both of these ingredients will get a lot more press!

In the meantime, whether you are planning on taking the shot or not, I would urge you and the people you love to get on Immune Booster and Instant Endurance because Old Man Flu is knocking at the door as we speak.

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Fish Oil Improves Statin Therapy

Like it or not Big Pharma has invested too much in Statin (cholesterol lowering) drug development and they have been too much of a cash cow to expect to see them disappear any time soon.

Apart from their marginal effectiveness (many have not shown to reduce blockages in heart arteries example pravachol) and the fact that they are pretty much completely useless in women they are also loaded with side effects.

In the past several studies have shown that adding fish oil to statins decreased the liver toxicity associated with statins.

We also know how good fish oil is for the brain and there are brain side effects to stains as well.

Finally there is inflammatory muscle disease another side effect of statins.

Recently another study has come our showing that adding fish oil to statins boosts there effectiveness. This is actually not the first study of its kind, there were several others as far back as 5 years ago but this is the first one that actually got any press.

In this study there was marked reduction in the triglycerides and no increase in side effects at all. The results compared very favorably to the “standard” (read prescription drug) therapy combination of statin plus fibrate without the side effects.

Now add this to previous studies that showed (GISSI 1999 and beyond) that fish oil was probably more effective at preventing heart disease than a statin, That statins plus fish oil not only improve tolerability in many people but also add to the good HDL cholesterol (AM J Cardiology May 2010) and you understand the reason why its malpractice in some countries in Europe not to add fish oil for heart disease.

You also understand my similar statements about America; we could be saving up to 250,000 lives alone with fish oil.

By the way the dose used in this study was getting closer to what I consider the best dose.  They used 4 grams a day instead of the ridiculous “eat 2 fish meals a week or take 1 gram of fish oil 2x a week recommendation that so many “official” medical societies tout.

Now the laws of the land say I cannot tell you that any of this applies to MY fish oil or any other band not sued in the studies.  But I am allowed to tell you I make the cleanest product around and that I have tremendous cholesterol numbers and no evidence of heart daises even though my dad had clear problems with both by the time he was my age (I am over 50).

I can also tell you that there is only one brand I would take because there is only one brand I have tested personally in myself in my family and in independent lab analysis

Links to fish oil and Super omega 3.

Finally I can predict that my recommendation of 6 grams a day will eventually become the standard of fish oil supplementation.  So far everything else I have predicted has come true even though I have been reduced for it.

I don’t care about the ridicule.

I care about hearts brains and bodies, YOURS and mine! And don’t forget the people you love either; send them this email!

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The Number One Killer is Going to Change Very Soon

Right now heart disease is far and away the number one killer of Americans and many others. But all that is going to change possibly within the next 7 to 10 years. So if you are planning on sticking around that long you need to start paying attention to your immune system.

While some nasty mutant form of the flu is always looming on the horizon, your immune system also plays a role in fighting off other even more common diseases and of course cancer.

It is predicted that by 2020 cancer and infection will be on parity with heart disease as far as killing us off. We will also be living longer, much longer if I have anything to say about it…

So what can you do?

Well recently I wrote you several emails on similar topics.

So as a reminder, take your Immune Booster this fall and frankly year round and of course your monster multi vitamins as well.

I hope you are also using a good dose of my fish oil because in addition to saving women from breast cancer, Omega 3’s have scored big with men and prostate cancer. It turns out that high fish consumption led to a decrease in metastatic disease and death rate.

While some nasty mutant form of the flu is always looming on the horizon, your immune system also plays a role in fighting off other even more common diseases and of course cancer.

It is predicted that by 2020 cancer and infection will be on parity with heart disease as far as killing us off. We will also be living longer, much longer if I have anything to say about it…

So what can you do?

Well recently I wrote you several emails on similar topics.

So as a reminder, take your Immune Booster this fall and frankly year round and of course your multi vites as well.

I hope you are also using a good dose of my fish oil because in addition to saving women from breast cancer, Omega 3’s have scored big with men and prostate cancer. It turns out that high fish consumption led to a decrease in metastatic disease and death rate.

These findings add some of the preexisting fish oil studies on both of these forms of cancer and the great benefits of fish oil in reducing the risk and reducing the severity of the disease if you get it.

Now the most recent research out of McGill University in the beautiful city of Montreal used fish, not oil, but most scientists now concede that there is no other active ingredient in fish besides Omega 3 (EPA and DHA). In addition when fish are used there are several problems

1) Pollution and its negative effect on the Omega 3’s as seen in the Finnish Heart studies where mercury from fish negated the benefits of the oil.

2) No one knows what fish you should eat because the oil content varies greatly.

3) Not everyone likes oily fish and the non oily kinds are of little or no help.

Bottom line: Take fish oil. Mine is pure, potent and tried and true Pharmaceutical Grade, ready to get you ready for the long and winding and hopefully fun road ahead.

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Do As I Say Not As I Do or Better Yet Do As I Did – Formerly Fat Doctors Don’t Lie

Have you ever heard that one?

Chances are if you did it was years ago from a parent or other authority figure.

But some people are still treating you like a kid and using this mentality to justify their own flaws.

Who am I talking about?

I am talking about doctors, my friend.

As a whole, doctors are some of the unhealthiest, most self-neglecting, poor examples of what you should do.

We all took the Hippocratic Oath, now some of us (many of us) need to take the Hypocritic Oath and stop being hypocrites.

What triggered this outlash by yours truly?

Well this has been a big week for doctors.

I happened to be visiting the hospital briefly (not a as patient!) and I ran into a guy who I remembered was in the Family Practice residency.

He was at least 50 pounds overweight then. Now as a practicing doc he is probably 100 pounds overweight.

Who is he kidding? What would be the absolute very first thing you would think if a doctor like that told you to lose weight?

Probably something like “Look in the mirror, pal”.

Funny thing about us doctors — we think (and in some cases its true) that just by telling people to do things they will do it.

But imagine how much more impact it would have if we as physicians actually practiced what we preached.

I do and I see no reason why most docs, male or female, cannot.

I am not brighter or genetically more gifted metabolically than any of them.

Just yesterday I was finishing a run with a good friend of mine who is an ER doc at a local hospital. He’s training for his first Marathon and wanted someone who has been there and done that to train with.

Now I rarely go long any more so we kept it to 6 miles.

The last 1.5 miles we steadily increased the pace for quarter mile increments until we hit the last quarter mile at about 85% max speed.

That is how you get faster, not just running longer a little faster.

Anyway, on the way out we passed two former residents of mine.

Each of them is at least 10 years younger than me.

One jokingly said “Hey, pick it up, Doc”.

That is what they all say.

My friend and I wound up catching and passing them at the very end.

They had walked about 2 miles in the time we had run 6.

Afterward in the parking lot they came over and we started to chat.

Here I was with two of my former residents from years back.

It was great to see them and fun to talk to them.

But I could not help but notice neither of them was anywhere near ideal body weight.

As a matter of fact, they were both fat and out of shape.

One was a kidney doc the other a heart doc.

I thought to myself, “How big and bad is this weight loss thing that two of my brightest former pupils have been caught by it? I wonder what their patients think when they say, ‘You have to lose weight!’”

Then it came: the “how did you do it” question.

Both of them were nothing short of desperate to lose weight and just about as clueless as the next person.

A heart doc and a kidney doc; desperate, emotionally overwrought and beaten by the fat demon.

So I told them about my Fabulous Fat Furnace in detail, and I mean scientific detail.

Remember these were docs so they wanted the natty gritty.

Much to my pleasant expectation, soon after I got home there was an order from the kidney doc and the heart doc as well for the Ultra Strength Fat Furnace.

In my area alone I now have a foot doctor, a plastic surgeon, a heart doc, a kidney doc and two family practitioners taking the Fabulous Fat Furnace.

All of them who have been on it for a few weeks told me how it helps them and that they are losing weight faster than they thought possible.

And fat doctors don’t lie about getting thin.

Squash the fat demon once and for all and reclaim the body you always wanted.

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Updates on Heart Disease Prevention

If you have read anything by me in the past 10 years you know how I feel about fish oil and heart disease. It seems crazy to me that, given the benefits and the minimal risks, more people are not taking fish oil. So simple, convenient and measurable!

Anyway I use to have to couch my words and not mention “prevention” lest the FDA and the FTC and the FCC and the AMA and the — well you get the picture — come chasing after me trying to put me in an orange prison suit!
But now I can say that secondary (after heart disease) and primary (before you get it) disease prevention for the heart, stroke and even to some extent diabetes have been shown in laboratory studies.
I can also tell you that there have been almost no reported side effects even though people keep dreaming stuff up.
Last year some brilliant person decided that fish oil might hurt your chances with the flu because it’s an anti-inflammatory. Nonsense, as we can prove it does nothing of the sort.

And in spite of more aspirin and Plavix (Clopidigrel) use than ever, there appears to be no foundation to worrying about fish oil and these drugs (although you should always ask your doctor!).

Fish oil helps the heart by decreasing platelet stickiness, acting as a natural blood thinner, helping the heart vessel linings to stay healthy, reducing the inflammation that causes plaque formation and improving blood fats and insulin response and body fat deposition.
All from one little golden pill made from what Mother Nature intended us to take instead of dangerous toxic drugs.

So if you or someone you know and love has concerns about their heart, get them on my doctor-designed, Pharmaceutical Grade, super pure fish oil and Super Omega 3.

Nothing else works like Dr Dave’s Best.
Here’s to a healthy heart and a long joyous life!

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Natural Immunity – Keeping You Healthy Against the Endless Stream of External Insults Mother Nature Throws at us Every Day in the Form of Germs and Viruses

The immune system is a complex and different bunch of components working together for the common goal of keeping you healthy against the endless stream of external insults Mother Nature throws at us every day in the form of germs and viruses.

It also plays a key role in the “immune surveillance” mechanisms that keep our bodies cancer free.

I hope you agree those are worthy goals because today I am going to give you the scoop on how to become one of those people who sail through cough and cold season instead of staying constantly sick or worse.

Here is the most important stuff…

1) Sleep: Lack of sleep is not a good way to stay healthy in any way. It affects the hormone system as well as the body’s ability to recover. Both of those ultimately affect the strength of your immune response.

Ironically something that blunts your fast response immunity can trigger your slow response immunity and cause chronic inflammation, a precursor to most of the disease we associate with aging such as heart disease, arthritis and Alzheimer’s as well as cancer.

2) Nutrition: Getting enough antioxidants and Fish oil in your body is critical for the immune system to do its job at managing long term stress and short term inflammation.

3) Exercise: While activity and the body’s response to clearly and ultimately improve the way and ability of your body to respond to germs and viruses.

4) Supplements. Mother Nature endowed the plant world a series of amazing ways to defend itself against the very same primitive bacteria and viruses that can kill us.

Here are some examples. Studies into the Elderberry extract have shown specific and dramatic effects on influenza and other viruses by decreasing the spread of the virus from cell to cell and inhibiting its ability to reproduce. My Immune Booster is a potent and pure elderberry extract treated in a special patented way to preserve the antioxidant activity while getting rid of contaminants.

In addition, two of the three ingredients in Instant Endurance, the Cordyceps and Rhodiola have shown what is known as neuraminidase inhibition. These compounds have been tested in labs and have shown activity against swine flu and others.

Finally, the specific case of Fish oil. In the past season someone decided they would post an article that fish oil might reduce flu immunity. That article got picked up and circulated widely, as does most negative press on the internet.

In fact, fish oil has been shown to increase the number of inflammatory cells in the lungs of lab subjects when infected with influenza. In addition it showed an increase also in another immune producing area, the spleen, when influenza was introduced into the systems of rats.

Rat studies aside** none of the Omega 3 experts, including myself, believe that there is any harm whatsoever in using Fish oil during the flu season. In fact if you should get the flu, which is unlikely if you do all of the above I have suggested, you’ll most likely get less symptoms if you took fish oil!

The main cost of getting sick for most of us is inconvenience and annoyance. Who has time for the flu or even a bad cold! So look to your Fish oil, Immune Booster and Instant Endurance this season and remember those you love who are more vulnerable than you and I!

**A word about those rat studies, since some genius is likely to start an anti-Omega 3 campaign again based on them. Lab rats weigh less than a pound on average. They were given 17 grams of fish oil in these studies. That would be like a 150 pound person taking several thousand grams of fish oil a day for several weeks. Even then many of the parameters of anti-viral immunity improved. I hope you can see the ridiculousness of some of what gets put on the internet!

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Fat loss – Converting Inches To Pounds

How many pounds do you have to lose to drop an inch off your waist? Well sadly there is no scientific study for me to quote and people of course lose weight differently all, of which we’ll cover in a moment, but I can and will give you a ball park figure.

Your first inch will most likely be noticeable by 8 pounds, your second inch will take another 17 to 18.

Why the difference? The first inch is primarily water weight which your body will shed first, especially if you reduce the carbs in your diet. Carbs stored in the muscle as glycogen require a certain amount of water to be present and this water goes first as you reduce your calories because your increased fat burning will take longer. Your body defends fat as a long term energy storage source more tenaciously than it does your carb storage sources.

The amount of weight you need to lose per inch stays about the same thereafter — in the 17-18 pound range. When I dropped 50 pounds of body weight (over 75% of it body fat) a few years back using the principles in Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone (and featuring my Ultra Strength Fat Furnace) I lost about 4 inches from my waist and at least as much from my derriere!

The fun part was putting on jeans I had since college!

Now here are a few other things to remember.

Eat less but not too much less. Too few calories and you’ll stall out.

Take your fish oil. Why not get the free and easy fat loss it provides along with the many other benefits.

Mind your nutrition. Keep your food choices wide but avoid carbs as much as you can. Whey protein has a great anabolic effect as well and is a great way to reduce dessert and snack intake and when you are hungry.

Don’t skimp on sleep!

Again, I detail the particulars of all this and more in Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone.

So you can be “spoon-fed” your fat loss.

Aren’t you sick and tired of reading about how so and so lost 50 pounds or got a great body by getting in shape. I show YOU how with Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone so you can write your own story!

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What Costs $168 Billion A Year And Kills Millions of People?

Yep, that’s right it’s a cupcake here; meant to represent the ever increasing sugar intake of our population and our ever increasing chances of developing diabetes.

The Center for Disease Control estimates that by 2050, 1 in 3 Americans will have diabetes. They are “skeptical” that any of the current attempts to reduce this epidemic will work. They are talking about drug and food industry sponsored initiatives as well as government recommendations and they are right: it won’t work!

Now the sugar lobby would point out that the almost logarithmic increases in sugar intake over the past few decades have nothing to do with the epidemic of diabetes.

They would of course be wrong.

They might point out that the medical authorities of the recent past are complicit as well in recommending low fat diets and not explaining to the world that this did not mean Cart Blanche for eating carbs. They would not be totally wrong there sadly.

I would point out that if you eat something close to a Paleo diet as we recommend in our upcoming book “The Immortality Edge” you would solve a lot of these problems of insulin sensitivity, obesity inflammation and over acid production in the body and of course overweight and over fat.

But that is not likely to gain the traction we’d love to see. It’s more likely to become a fad that comes and goes like Adkins or any other diet.

Again sad because it’s genetically correct and it works.

Here’s what else works.

Fish oil.

I have bombarded you in the past week with studies on insulin and blood sugar and lean body mass and fat reduction. Simply by increasing the amount of fish oil in your body. Now you won’t lose 50 pounds in a week but you will by all accounts from the literature get healthier and lose some fat. I can’t come out and tell you it’s a simple as popping a few pills because the FTC and FDA love to put people in jail who say that but you can at least be aware of the research!

Here is something else you can take that will help you… Ultra Strength Fat Furnace and Secret SlimDown Capsules… thermogenic appetite suppressant. Nothing like boosting your metabolic rate and squashing your appetite to help get rid of body fat and improve your health. Again the alphabet agencies will not let me say “take this and get thinner” but you can look at my pictures and see what happened to me when I did.

I want you to live longer and healthier than any generation that has come before us.

That is why I incessantly preach fish oil and telomerase activation and exercise and the proper diet and so many other things that I write to you about. I want you to get better, feel better and look better as you get older.

I can give you the tools (Fish oil – TA-65 – Ultra Strength Fat Furnace) but the rest is up to you.

But the tools sure do make it easier!

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Brave New Healthy World

As you and I sit here and speak to each other by the Internet there is a scientist or many scientists devoting their energies to longevity.

Keeping us alive is a fine thing, especially if it means more decades and not just a few more years, but what people really want are health vital lifestyles for as long as possible.

Truthfully I can count on one hand the number of people who’ve told me they want to live forever.

But I would have to be a space monster to have enough hands to tell you the number of people who want to be healthy for the bulk of their lives.

So let’s catch up on some research.

First, longevity markers.

There are of course a few of them and perhaps the most important is your telomere (biologic time clock) length. At this moment TA-65 is the only thing out there that can lengthen your time clocks, but there are some things that can slow down the ticking so to speak.

Fish oil, Green tea and Vitamin D3 have all been shown to slow down telomere time clock loss.

Fish oil has also been shown to decrease “all cause” mortality in numerous studies and most recently it came up smelling roses in another “longevity” measure.

Kidney function.

Two markers associated with kidney function that correlate with longevity are protein or lack of protein in the urine, and the rate at which your kidneys can filter, called GFR.

If you have no protein in your urine and a good solid GFR you are in good shape and set up to live a long time as long as you don’t get thrown under a bus!

Fish oil has protected kidney function in several studies now reducing inflammation, scarring and keeping the GFR and urine production rates high.

Interestingly it does the same thing in lung tissue, protects airflow and reduces inflammation and damage from toxins as a recent study in Mexico City pointed out.

It’s a brave new world out there and danger lurks at every turn.

Why not take some cheap insurance!

Fish oil -
Omega 6

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Great Preventative Medicine Advice For People Of All Ages From Dr Dave’s Best

If you are under the age of 66 and reading this you’ll be interested to know that the soul reason you are living longer is the great strides made by modern medicine.

At least that is what one erudite editor of the New England Journal of Medicine stated in a recent article.

The editor cites victories against cancer which seems to claim more lives than ever, heart disease which was declining already before so-called modern therapies, diabetes which is at an all time high and of course the many modern vaccines which we are now finding wear off like measles and Pertusis (whooping cough) and may be the cause of the increasing incidence of autism.

I am not sure what literature this guy is reading but my B.S. meter
would put money on something published by Big Pharma. Which reminds me, have you seen the latest articles on Alzheimer’s and “fish oil”?  They say it doesn’t work then they go onto to say they used 2 grams of DHA.  How many grams and what!?

Use fish oil, not just DHA; just like I told ya a few days ago!

And here is what I think about the whole health picture after nearly 20 years in practice.

Heart disease will still be around as a major killer 40 years from now as will high blood pressure.  Stress related illnesses like this will rise again as the baby boom generation comes of age.

Diabetes will contribute to all of the above and you may as well throw in strokes while you are at it.

The incidence of two major plagues will grow and grow in the coming
decades.

One is Age Related Macular Degeneration and the other is Alzheimer’s.

Sadly “modern” traditional medicine will recognize too late that these diseases start in the 30′s and 40′s and their treatment and ultimate prevention will have had to start at least a few years before any obvious signs appear in the 60′s and 70′s.

Those of you on fish oil and or Super Omega 3 will of course have a
head start on this process and may indeed not have to deal with any
thinking or vision problems.

Fish oil - Super Omega 3
Please do not wait until you are in your 70′s and your mind and
eyesight are failing.

Start to enjoy these and many other benefits right now and stop the
next modern scourge before it starts, at least before it starts in your body and the bodies of the ones you love.

Fish oil - Super Omega 3
P.S.  I find it very interesting the Big Pharma push against oil
and the ineptitude or perhaps deliberate misuse of doses and
ingredients.  Sadly the press is not always on top of the situation
and makes statements like “fish oil” when they should be saying DHA.

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Antibiotics Wonder Drug or Big Pharma Big Bucks?

Antibiotics were the wonder drugs of the 20th century. But as we enter the 21st they seem to be losing their miraculous nature. As a clinician, I have seen both sides of this fence.

I have seen people who unquestionably benefited from antibiotic use, and others who unquestionably died from it.

I have seen more and more of this as Big Pharma gets away from naturally occurring substances and “pioneers” new synthetic materials in the lab which are both expensive and patentable.

The worst problem is of course, resistance. We now have an army of bugs that do not respond to anything but the latest synthetic creation from Big Pharma.

How convenient and who’s to blame?

If you want to play the blame game laid it squarely on the shoulders of the following: Big Pharma for their unending and unscrupulous ad campaigns, where every snivel and sneeze is a sinus infection requiring two weeks of costly drugs.

That gives bacteria plenty of time to begin the resistance process.

Viruses are much worse than bacteria. They adapt to drug pressures faster and with more virulence. Also, as of this writing, the so called non virulent strain of bird flu has hit three more states in the U.S. Look to the continuing overuse of anti-virals to put us in dire straits this winter, since the bird flu is now a big concern.

In the past doctors held back on the anti-viral drugs because of their side effects, cost and lack of any real efficacy.

As pressure to see more patients and get them out of the office went up with the rising costs of doing business, and the decline in income, doctors found it easier to give patients a prescription or a sample and get them out of the office quickly.

Then came the unending stream of people who began demanding antibiotics for every little cold that would have passed on its own.

As a result, we have seen a decrease in effectiveness from our antibiotics and of course more side effects, as Big Pharma doesn’t seem to test stuff much these days.

For instance, the drug Tequin was yanked from the market because it caused dangerous and potentially deadly blood sugar abnormalities. But not until it sold $150 million worth worldwide, and $100 million alone in the U.S.

Do the math on that one and you’ll find that this expensive drug was sold mostly to Americans and most of the profit came out of our pockets while the rest of the world either paid much less or didn’t see this charming creation.

Another really bad thing has happened. Antibiotics can actually cause infections!

The most common one is called C. Difficile and the rate at which it strikes antibiotic users is on the rise. As a result, so are operations to remove infected colons and people dying from the complications of both the infections and the surgery.

In one institution, the rate of colon removals went up 4X over the past couple of years.

So before you run to the doctor for antibiotics please think twice. Ask your doctor for a solid diagnosis, treatment options and reasoning behind the choice of drugs.

Also ask about side effects, as things like how C. Difficile can affect anyone after any length of time on antibiotics no matter what their underlying health conditions are or are not.

If your doctor cannot name a few side effects and does not mention this one, then he or she is not familiar with the drug.

Normally I would tell you to listen to your doctor on all accounts, but in this case, you have to make a choice.

Remember, antibiotics do nothing for the flu, so if you think you have it please don’t run to the doctor expecting an antibiotic.

Here is a novel idea:

Take your fish oil, Monster Multi, and Immune Booster every day.

Eat right, sleep well (Sleep Wizard can help) wash your hands, and stay out of your doctor’s office during cold and flu season.

Believe me; you have a better chance that way!

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From Spud to Stud – The New Potato Diet

I thought I had seen everything when one of my staff passed a headline across my desk about eating potatoes.

You may know that potatoes are much maligned as being “pure starch” and “high glycemic” so the concept of them being the next diet food was intriguing. Sadly the link was just a headline come on for a general weight loss program but I got to thinking, “Are potatoes a good diet food?”

First, the potato is a good source of starch. If you eat the skins (and of course wash them thoroughly before you do so) you can get most of the toxins out of there.

And if you do not fry them or top them with a lot of fatty synthetic goo, you are not adding bad things or chemicals to your body. Nor are you loading up the calories.

And the potato is about as Paleolithic as you can get, meaning our ancient ancestors ate them during the time our “food genetics” were developing.

OK what about the glycemic index? It is true that potatoes, especially some varieties, are at least medium on the glycemic index but they are nutritious and low calorie, again as long as you don’t slather them in butter.

If you must top them try pepper, small doses of olive or pumpkin seed oil (a tablespoon or 2 at most) and mustard, which is lower glycemic index as well.

While I will not tell you that you can lose weight on potatoes, I will tell you that you can cut carb cravings for starchy snacks with them and they are part of our ancestral diet which makes them a pretty good diet food in my book!

Now here is how you can lose weight and cut fat like a hot knife through butter: Ultra Strength Fat Furnace and Secret SlimDown Capsules.

Adding these potent fat burners to your daily routine for a few weeks is likely to produce fast and noticeable results in your waistline and how your clothes fit for the holidays.

And your appetite for sweets will diminish as well.

If you need more help, then consult my weight loss course, Fabulous Fat Burning for Everyone which has the complete recipe, exercise and supplement package you need to transform into the new you.

And yes, you can have a few potatoes along the way.

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Over The Limit Mercury Toxicity!

Once again attention has been called to the topic of mercury
poisoning.

This time it was not actor Jeremy Piven or actress Daphne Zuniga, both of whom suffered the effects of mercury toxicity in their attempts to get their Omega 3′s “naturally” by eating fish.

Nope, this time is just a regular guy in NYC who habitually ate tuna.  The sad part is he did not even get anywhere near the Omega3′s he could have gotten from the 6 fish oil caps I recommend to you on a daily basis.

Instead he just got mercury poisoning.

It’s time to do a little review for you.  Mother Nature has some
polluted parts to her.  One is all streams and water ways.  It does
not matter if your source is wild caught, farmed, stream caught, etc.  Any fish or marine life (that means krill, by the way) is going to accumulate toxic byproducts.

The only way to deal with them is to remove them by the processes
we so scrupulously apply to our fish oil and all our other products
at Dr Dave’s Best.

And they have to be tested.  Recently I sent another popular Omega
3 source for independent testing.  I will tell you what it was in a bit but it had detectable levels of mercury and there is no reason it should have.

We all know we need to get more Omega 3 than we do.  We all know
its health benefits.

But you may not know that in spite of many other “alphabet” agencies’ recommendations to “just eat a few fish meals a week”,
mercury is toxic beyond compare, accumulates in the body because
there is no effective natural way for our bodies to detox it and
mercury negates the benefits of Omega 3 on the heart and other
organs.

Quite some time a ago a study done in Finland showed that Finnish
men do not have the low rates of heart disease, even though they
eat lots of fish, because of mercury toxicity in that fish.

Bottom line: You need fish oil; you don’t need mercury.  It’s worth
paying a little extra to put the best stuff into the one and only body you have on this planet.  This is the best…

Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil – Super Omega 3

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Fish Oil is a Hugely Important and Key Player in the Brain, it Acts as an Antioxidant and a Powerful Anti-Inflammatory

You may think I am saddened or worried by some of the recent negative press on fish oil. Believe me, it’s just “business as usual” for Big Money medicine: the drug companies and the government.

Recently there were two studies that show both the bias and the ignorance of both the scientific community and the press.

One study had to do with post partum depression and the other with “slowing Alzheimer’s”.  Both were reported as ‘Fish oil no good for (insert whatever disease you want).’

This is exactly what happened 3 months ago when fish oil was “no good for heart patients”. Remember that one? Dutch patients eating margarine laced with low doses of fish oil that were already on 4 drugs for heart disease and had the disease for 10 years or more.

Great study.

Well, as I mentioned in a recent email (I told ya so, your honor) these two studies on post partum depression and Alzheimer’s suffer from an even simpler flaw. They did not use fish oil; they used DHA and the press reported it as “fish oil”.

DHA is one component of fish oil but it is not “fish oil”, it’s DHA. DHA is a structural component of the brain. EPA is not present in large amounts so there has been a huge misconception that it does nothing.

The shocking thing is that scientists and even experts on fatty acid biology have missed the fact that EPA is a hugely important and key player in the brain. It acts as an antioxidant and an anti-inflammatory agent but it is used up rapidly, underscoring the need for you and me getting a continuous supply of it.

I hope this message gets out because there is an entire infant formula industry based on using DHA alone which does not confer the benefits.

If you look at all of the brain benefits and the tons of studies in memory, Alzheimer’s disease and personality disorders as well as depression you will see that when fish oil is used (EPA and DHA together) the benefits are undeniable.

Now for a little less science; here is another benefit to hang your hat on.

In addition to the proven heart benefits, fish oil reduces the incidence of breast cancer by 32% according to researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle.

Please read every negative fish oil study with a grain of salt. As a matter of fact, read the study and you will find there is often a huge degree of misinterpretation and mistakes in the reporting of it.

Medicine and science are complex topic that needs some training.

That is why I am here for you and here is today’s tip: Take 6 of my fish oil every day and/or 2 of my Super Omega 3, and as the time goes by you will be so thankful you did.

Reason and logic will prevail and science will get it straight even if the press doesn’t!

P.S. remember, if fish oil were not the gold standard of supplementing your health no one would be paying attention to it or trying to compete with it! It’s that good and so it is the center of attention.

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Fat Loss – All It Takes is a Short Bit of Time and a Small Amount of Effort and Away You go Onto a New Body and New You.

Have you ever noticed how so many words get attached to fat loss that come and go?

Acai berry fat loss, cleansing fat loss, yoga fat loss, growth hormone fat loss, HCG and fat loss and so on and so forth.

Most of them come and go because they don’t work, at least for fat loss.

Let’s take a closer look at the 5 above.

Has the Acai berry ever been proven to do anything at all with body weight or fat? Nope, nothing at all — not one thing. Acai is a decent if not fabulous antioxidant and a great way to flavor chocolate and boost its antioxidant power but by itself it has no fat loss powers at all.

Cleansing and fat loss.  Well I guess we need to define what cleansing means.  Cleansing in the broadest sense means getting rid
of toxins that might be stored or accumulated in areas of your body.

Now it’s a natural leap to go from fat loss and the release of stored toxins, but the truth is that unless your fat loss is extremely rapid and the toxins extremely toxic you are not going to have much of a problem.  And detoxifying will only help you lose weight permanently if it follows the 300 to 500 calorie rule and does not invoke the starvation reflex that slows down your metabolism.

Jump to HCG and you’ll see the same thing.  The very low calorie
diets are the reason people temporarily lose weight with the
homeopathic doses of HCG they are generally given.  Once the
starvation reflex kicks in, the weight loss stops and it’s game over. You can’t fool Mother Nature.  Anyone who tells you they lost and kept off a ton of weight with this diet plan is doing something else in addition.

Yoga and fat loss.  Not being a Yoga expert, I am not the most
highly qualified person to comment on this but I will say this
much.  It has to depend on what kind and how much or how long you
do the Yoga and of course what you do in addition.  Still, as a non
sectarian spiritual practice, Yoga scores much better than other
similar activities for weight loss.

HGH or human growth hormone.  There is no doubt you can lose weight and gain muscle mass with HGH use.  But I can tell you this is
quite limited.  HGH is much better used for athletic recovery and
maintaining a youthful hormone balance than as a solo agent for fat
loss.  It’s also expensive, basically illegal and requires shots.

You are far better served using my Hercules Factor that has none
of the HGH side effects and won’t land you and your doc in jail or
in the hospital!

Finally, a reminder… If you are serious about weight loss but do
really need guidance and help here is where you should go Fabulous
Fat Burning for Everyone.  This program has helped thousands of
people lose weight fast and there is nothing else to buy because
every thing you need is in the package.

All it takes is a short bit of time and a small amount of effort
and away you go onto a new body and new you.

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Winter Wellness – Winter Can Be A Challenging Time Both Mentally And Physically

In Winter people tend to eat more, do less and stay inside more.

The net result is weight gain, fat gain and in some cases the blues.  This is of course accompanied by metabolic change such as increased insulin levels, increased blood fats and inflammation and of course decreased energy.

Fish oil is a great remedy and a great way to help winter wellness. It’s no surprise the Eskimos are so addicted to Omega 3′s. Interestingly their incidence of heart disease, depression, cancer and many other major diseases we consider “normal” as we age is lower than most population in the entire world. It’s because their Omega 3 fish oil levels are some of the highest on the planet.

So as we descend into the winter, it need not be the winter of our
discontent.

Boost your fish oil levels up make sure you are getting at least 6 caps a day on a regular basis.

If you need more power, use Super Omega 3.

Either way, winter wellness couldn’t be easier.  And spring is sure to follow!

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Sleep Your Way Thin – Wouldn’t It Be Great If You Could Lose Fat And Weight While You Sleep?

In point of fact you are in the fat burning zone when you sleep. As a matter of fact, fat is probably the only source of fuel for you while you sleep but it’s nowhere near enough for you to impact on your fat stores if you are overweight or are not sleeping enough.

Well, I am here to tell you the sad news; you can’t really lose much of anything while you sleep. I will let some other copywriting team that works for an internet doctor lie to you on that one, but I won’t.

I will tell you this: if you aren’t sleeping around 7 hours or more regularly, you are going to have a really hard time losing any weight permanently.

Research study after research study has shown the same thing over and over again: sleep deprivation hinders weight and fat loss and promotes fat gain.

It does so by the following mechanisms:

1) Tired people don’t work out.

2) Tired people get more tired because their metabolism slows down and prevents fat loss.

3) Tired people do not have enough serotonin so they are apt to eat more sugary starchy “comfort” foods.

The bad news is most of America sleeps far less than 7 hours a night. More bad news: you heard of the Paleolithic Diet from me on several occasions. Well, genetically our Paleolithic makeup is to be athletic and sleep 8 to 9 hours a night. In other words, we are best when we are jocks and jockettes who sleep a lot because that is what we had to do to survive 50,000 years ago when our current genetic foundation was set in stone!

So here are a few suggestions.

If you need help sleeping anywhere near 7 hours a night, try my all natural Sleep Wizard. It’s been putting people to bed for a great night’s sleep for 6 years now with none of the addictions and side effects of prescription drugs.

If you need help increasing your metabolism and cutting your appetite, try my Secret SlimDown Capsules. These will be especially helpful to you if you wake up tired and run out of steam again later in the day. One to two capsules a day should fix that as well as any cravings for snacks and sweets.

Finally, never forget the fat burning benefits of fish oil. It should be in anyone’s’ slim down routine every single day.

Simple tools; big rewards!

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Can You Prevent Diabetes and Heart Disease?

One of the things that make me different from some other internet doctors is that I will not lie to you. Now I will admit there are some pretty far out characters out there with “MD” behind their name but I have yet to meet one that doesn’t know the truth from the lies.

The same cannot be said of their copyrighting teams, which is why when you read my newsletters you are actually reading something written by me.

In addition, if you ever meet me in person there will be no inconsistency with who I am, what I am and what I write. I always have to laugh when people meet their heroes for the first time and they are nothing like what they thought!

Odds are they are they are not the people who actually write what you read!

So I am not going to lie to you and tell you in a headline that you can prevent diabetes and then spend the rest of the newsletter qualifying what I said.

Here is the truth: a small amount of type 2 diabetes and a larger amount of type 1 diabetes is not preventable.

Most people who are type 1 become so relatively early in life. I have also seen a disconcerting trend in what I call clusters of adult onset type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes that seems to happen in the same geographic area or at the same time of the year related to virus spread.

We are probably looking in the wrong direction for type 1 diabetes. We probably need to address auto-immunity and inflammation. I think that fish oil could be a huge help here IF you are on it when your immune system and pancreas are challenged, not afterward as much.

The majority of our population is now type 2 diabetes. Once called “adult onset” we had to rename it because between sugar loading our food, inflammatory artificial fats and sedentary lifestyles, we’ve now managed to give it to little children, adolescents and teens too!

Congratulations to Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Media for the endless distractions that sit us on our butts and to yes, you and I for not following our gut and doing the two things that would prevent it and teaching our children and loved ones these words: eat less, move more!

Ok off the soapbox. Here is how you prevent type 2 diabetes…

*Eat less
*Move more
*Go on a Paleolithic or near Paleolithic diet
*Adopt a regular exercise program
*Take fish oil!

Now because most people will not do all those things and more people will take a pill than eating less or moving more, I am happy to tell you that fish oil is a great thing whether you have diabetes or not.

It improves insulin sensitivity.

It improves fat burning and lean body mass.

It decreases inflammation and this is important because we used to say you eat too much sugar and you burn out your pancreas and then you get diabetes. I am sure this explanation is still being given to people across the country in doctors’ offices.

What really happens is the inflammation in our body skyrockets because of excess sugar and excess insulin and we INFLAME our pancreases to the point of burn out.

So once again the anti-inflammatory actions of fish oil are critical.

So odds are that you and I can prevent diabetes. And this reduces our odds of heart disease 6 fold.

The only real question is do you love your body and yourself and your loved ones enough to take the best, cleanest and most potent fish oil out there instead of some off shore cheap contaminated brand sold in bulk by large retailers.

If you want the best, it lives right here.

Fish oil – Super Omega 3

Get it now take it every day and know you are doing something amazing for yourself. Something nothing else can do!

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When Copywriting Wins, Science Loses

A recent and popular study is spreading like wild fire across the internet claiming “Fish oil is no good for Alzheimer’s”.

While the researchers involved in the Alzheimer’s dementia study state it is reasonable to test only DHA because DHA alone has shown positive benefits in other studies (such as for stroke, ADHD, depression, etc.)  those of us who are fatty acid experts feel that the data on fish oil (using both EPA and DHA ) is much stronger because EPA is present in the brain as well; it is just metabolized very quickly into DHA or oxidized (as a free radical sink) so it is not present in the highly measurable amounts that DHA, which is a structural form, is in brain cell membranes.

It is therefore incorrect to say “Fish oil no good for Alzheimer’s” as so many web sites have reported because DHA is not fish oil, it is one half of it!!!  Review of studies on Pub Med shows a very strong correlation to using fish oil and reduction in plaques as well as functional changes in patients.

Using DHA alone and getting negative results for Alzheimer’s is not new.  There are probably at least 6 other studies done before this one that showed the same thing over the past 5 years.  These people were just smart enough to send out a press release and get publicity!

Sadly, there continues to be an “anti-fish oil” campaign by the Pharmaceutical Industry that is losing tons of money to alternative medicine because of their own constant blunders and dangerous drugs.  They have nothing useful to offer Alzheimer’s patients; just ask the caregivers who have to watch them decline with or without medicines.

Worse, people who are not aware of fatty acid biology are playing right into their hands.  A similar study by a drug company sponsored Journal got translated on the internet as “fish oil no good for heart disease”.  In that study low dose fish oil was added to margarine (already loaded with trans fats!) and given to people for a short period of time.  Those people had been on maximal drug therapy for years and had the diagnosis of heart disease for an average of 10 years.

The headlines should have read “Low dose fish oil in high trans fat
margarine does not improve outcomes in older patients with long term heart disease on maximal therapy at the time fish oil was started.”

Instead it got translated on the web as “Fish Oil no good for heart disease” and spread like wildfire with that headline.

Here is another one: ‘fish oil related to colon cancer’.  In this study fish oil was given to cancer prone mice and the mice got “more cancer” than before.  This is also a rehash of a series of other old studies that showed the same thing but whose authors did not use press releases or the internet to garner publicity.  Human studies show the exact opposite. In human colon cancer lines fish oil causes the death of the cancer cells and reduces the metastatic behavior.  Population based studies in humans on higher Omega 3 levels show the same things.  Fish oil also reduces most forms of Inflammatory Bowel disease including ulcerative colitis, a higher Omega 3 levels show the same things.  Fish oil also reduces most forms of Inflammatory Bowel disease including ulcerative colitis, a precursor to colon cancer.

In most cases the misrepresentation is due to one of three things:
1) ignorance, 2) laziness, 3) deliberate hyperbole by copywriters.
None of it is helpful to the reader!

My advice: take enough fish oil to get to the Paleolithic level 0.8
Omega 6 to Omega 3, which for most Americans would be 6 grams a day.

The internet is a mixed blessing.  Everyone can claim expertise and lots of stuff just gets spread out of control with no one looking at it critically.

Don’t forget your Fish oil and Super Omega 3.

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
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Age Reversal – “The Immortality Edge”

Wouldn’t it be great if you could literally age backwards?

Well now you can with just one little pill that cost pennies a day, and your doctor does not want you to know about because it will put him out of business.

Gotcha! See what happens when copywriting supersedes science and truth? You are given something you truly want to believe and someone feeds it to you hook, line and sinker, all for a price that seems reasonable — whatever that price may be!

OK, OK, sorry — my staff has been putting some of the nonsense that so-called experts are out there hawking. You know the same people who make all kinds of crazy claims and you are just waiting for them to try on an orange suit or move to Panama because their nonsense has finally caught up with them!

Well, here is the scoop on aging at the moment. Now I am not pulling your leg or making fun of my colleagues who hire clever copywriting teams.

You actually can age backwards at least using some measure of aging and some cell lines in your body.

Right now we tell people, “make it to over 80 and you’ll start ‘outliving’ heart disease”. This has been translated by some as the “death rate goes down after 80”.

NO, it doesn’t. The death rate from cancer and infection goes up; the death rate from cardiovascular disease goes down.

If you make it past 60 and you could beat those 3 things, you have a great chance of a very long and healthy life.

So how can you age backwards?

The only way I currently know and that has been proven to do exactly what it says it does is a very expensive supplement called TA-65. It is the kind of thing we wish we could put huge numbers of people on and get age-related data much sooner, but that is not likely to happen.

No one outside of small private companies has any interest right now in preventing aging or reducing the cancer and infection rate, at least not enough to subsidize this product and make it widely available.

How valuable is it? Well, in my own version of that gum commercial on TV — you know the one where the guy comes home with 20,000 packs of gum as payment — I worked for the company that developed it for a while and I asked them to pay me in TA-65 so I, my mom and my sister could be on it.

I believe in it that much and it is that valuable. Not surprisingly, many others do as well.

What we expect with long term data on TA-65, which has been shown to lengthen the biological time clocks in a very real sense, turn them back like daylight savings time — in this case life savings time — is there will be less cancer and less infection as we age. We also know that telomeres are intimately involved in heart disease as well. The early data suggests great that telomeres are intimately involved in heart disease as well. The early data suggests great findings in bone density, immune function, blood pressure, blood sugar and inflammatory markers to name a few.

All good and all scientifically validated.

But what can the person do who cannot afford the supplement (it ranges between $2,200 and $8,000 a year)?

The answer is simple: Green tea, multi-vites and fish oil.

All have been shown to SLOW DOWN the rate at which the time clocks tick and get shorter. This translates into longer life among the people that were studied. It also translates into better health, making this combination of multi-vites, green tea and fish oil a very real contender for the best of the anti-aging “drugs” out there that are affordable to just about everyone who really cares about their life, the lives of their loved ones and their health as well.

I make the best fish oil and Omega 3 supplements in the world bar none. But it does increase the viability of cells and I have verified that in the very same lab that tests for lengthening of your time clocks.

I also make a tremendous multi-vite that has green tea extract in it and I let you combine it with one of the best antioxidants out there, called Cardio Booster.

This combination is called the Daily Dose Pack it has my fish oil, my multi and my Cardio Booster all at a bargain price.

Anyone can slow down the aging process with a little help!

Doc

P.S. unlike several others out there who claim to be able to reverse the aging process with potions and pills or “are personally convinced” they have something that works, I spend the time, the money and the energy to verify what works and what does not and I will not tell you something that is not true!

P.S.S. keep an eye out for my upcoming book (co-authored with anti-aging experts Mike Fossel and Greta Blackburn) called “The Immortality Edge”.

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Prostate Cancer is The Single Most Common Cancer in Men Over 65

One of the “epidemics” that plagues modern Western man is prostate cancer. Fully 70% of the cancers over age 65 are prostate. This makes prostate cancer the single most common cancer in men of that
age range or any age range, by far.

Here are some tips for you that may look familiar.  They are adaptations of my “4 Pillars of Health”.

1)   Decrease the amount of saturated and man-made fats in your
diet and get more fish oil. High amounts of saturated fat have been
associated with heart disease, blood pressure problems and of course many forms of cancer.  Take note: we are talking primarily about man-made fats, not naturally occurring fats.  Even the “anti-red meat” campaign will have to admit they are talking about farm raised corn meal fed animals when it comes to cancer. Free range, while not the greatest source of Omega 3’s is still far better than farm raised because of the ratios of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fats.

2)   Eat more fruits and veggies. Green leafys are sadly missing from most diets!  And remember you can plug some nutritional holes with a great Multi and the Daily Dose Pack Another note: my Monster Multi has a large slug of green tea extract loaded with green tea catechins and polyphenols for good health.

Monster Multi -Daily Dose Pack

3)   Manage your weight and don’t forget to exercise. Weight loss and fat control requires a 2-pronged attack of exercise and proper nutrition and calorie limitation. Hard to do over the Holidays? Not really; here are some secret weapons for your tool box.

Secret SlimDown Capsules -Ultra Strength Fat Furnace

In an ideal world we can do everything with diet exercise and lifestyle. In the meantime there is Dr Dave’s Best!  Let me know when you get there.

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
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(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE

What Is The Best Diet To Lose Weight?

If there is one question that pops up over and over again its,”Doc, what’s the best diet to lose weight on?”

The simple answer: use a Paleo type diet with my fish oil and an exercise program as detailed in Fab Fat Loss for Everyone.

The complex answer? Well that could take days to answer and many emails so…I may as well start right now!

Today I am going to take a scientific look at two diets that are representative of two very different viewpoints.

The first diet, the diet touted by the National Cholesterol Education Program (you know, those lovely folks who think the entire nation should be on statin drugs, and think that cholesterol levels are the be all and end all of health!) stresses higher carbohydrate levels and lower fat levels.

For simplicity’s sake we’ll call this diet the NCEP diet for National Cholesterol Education Program Diet.

The Challenger we’ll call the “Modified Low Carbohydrate diet”. This diet is closer to Atkins and South Beach in that it stresses higher fat levels, higher protein levels, and lower carb levels (with the important diet?

It has been said that “Dieting is the price we pay for too little exercise and too much mass-produced food!”

Well, diets still hold the promise of better health, lower incidence of heart disease, stroke and cancer.

Right?!

Truthfully when I ask people what they are dieting for, the bottom line is many of them say “I want to look better!” first and then “I want to feel better!” Second.

Actually that holds true for a large number of folks but I know from reading your emails most of you are focused on felling better and living longer and healthier first!

Which brings me to a point: A lot of times looking better is a short term goal. People have a certain event they want to get svelte for like a marriage or a reunion, and then they forgeddaboutit!

Clearly the long term motivations work better to keep weight off.

That said who wins this diet war?

Ironically an article published recently in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a rag that would be considered ultra traditional, admitted that the higher fat higher protein diet fared a lot better in both the weight loss and cholesterol lowering department.

Put another way, the “officially sanctioned” diet of the NCEP was just not as good at achieving either of the aims of the NCEP as the MLC diet.

People did not lose as much weight and there was no change in their cholesterol levels!!!

Given that these folks represent the government, the FDA, Big Pharmacy, and Traditional Medicine none of us should be too surprised.

Have any of these agencies proven even once that they know or will tell any real useful functional information about nutrition or health.

NOT ONCE!

So why should we trust them on this.

Yet this is the diet they would give you when you left the hospital with the heart attack they could have prevented!

This is the diet you would be given by a hospital or community based dietician (there are some exceptions to this but how to find them!) when you paid to see them because your insurance company does not recognize the value of preventative medicine via diet.

This is the diet so many “Health Publications” continue to print.

What do these diets say about Fish Oil?

Universally they recommend it. Even the Government is finally getting into the act when the “Dietary Recommendations for Americans” is released in early 2005.

Adkins and South Beach both recommend some form of Fish Oil.

The biggest mistake all of these bodies make is being too timid about the dosage!

You should be taking at least 3 grams a day for basic health, and 6 to 8 grams a day if you want to see moods, memory and wrinkles improve!

So don’t be timid about the health of your brain and body. Swallow those capsules with meals everyday and watch life get better and better, independent of the Government, the FDA and the rest of Traditional Medicine.

Here are a few more tools for your “Anti-Flab Holiday Campaign”.

Fab Fat Burning for Everyone – Fish oil – Ultra Strength Fat Furnace

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions,
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1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

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(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

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The Next Secret Ingredient

As with most of my products those of you who have been taking Super Omega 3 for a long time have been getting something that has been a secret to the rest of the supplement world.

In fact you’ve been getting it for the past 7+ years and believe me it’s a good thing.

That ingredient is a super form of Vitamin E known as tocotrienols and I chose it for Super Omega 3 because in order to call it “super” I had to do a lot of hard work to make it more potent than my already amazing fish oil.

Here are some of the data on tocotrienols. Look it over and you’ll see that when combined with the world’s best fish oil, turmeric and other natural anti-inflammatory oils and you see why Super Omega 3 is a stand alone “no one comes close” product.

The first thing that makes tocotrienols different from tocopherols (traditional vitamin E forms) is tocotrienols have the ability to move about and across cell membranes. This allows them to offer even more antioxidant protection than Vitamin E.

Several studies have been done linking tocotrienols to cholesterol reduction and heart disease and arteriosclerosis (clogged arteries) in lab subjects.

A study in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry suggested a clear role for tocotrienols in breast and prostate cancer and a potential role in others with studies pending.

Recently, Malaysian researchers reported the benefits of vitamin E tocotrienols to boost the immune response and immune function in healthy women following a vaccination. The study was published in the European Journal of Nutrition.

Other studies have shown neuroprotective effects, DNA protective effects and finally even an improvement in male pattern baldness.

As usual, more studies are needed and no claims can be made by me, other than what I have seen with my own eyes in non-controlled fashion. The most striking thing and the one I measured most was cholesterol improvements. Again, I can’t tell you to throw away your drugs, but given the long term benefits of the combination of fish oil, turmeric and tocotrienols you might want to add Super Omega 3 to your daily routine or to even consider replacing my standard fish oil if you need more power.

Super Omega 3 is truly potent and ahead of its time!

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,

pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions,
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1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

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(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

FAX: (610) 916-3931

Body By, Well Not Exactly by Santa!

The other day I saw one of those counter culture tee shirts which I have to admit was pretty funny.  It said, “Body by Santa Claus”. While this is humorous it did make me think, Ol’ St Nick is not exactly my physical role model.

This year more than ever (perhaps it’s because we have more readers than ever) people are voicing their needs to try to fight off the winter weight gain that seems to be such a part of our society.

I am here to help with that, so let’s dive into a recent email.

“Dr Dave, of all your current supplements, which would you recommend to curb your appetite and will they help with cellulite?”

Alison C. – Houston

Years ago I would have told you fish oil and Regenerizer because I had not yet gone through my lose-50-pounds-in-18-weeks routine.  Now I would tell you Secret SlimDown Caps are the handiest thing out there.  They are less expensive if less powerful than Ultra Strength Fat Furnace because there is only one ingredient: pure raspberry ketone, naturally extracted.  Once I had a guy ask me how come he could get a similar supplement for less at his body building shop.  I told him they use synthetic RK with a very long name attached to it that is chemically extracted.  Not one raspberry in the barrel so to speak.

None the less I prefer the more expensive natural form. I don’t want to find out there are traces of toxins in the mix as I have recently found with another product marketed heavily out there. (More on that soon!)

In addition Fish oil is usually a must to keep the fat genes turned down as well.

I will be reviewing my tips for holiday food control but let me say this…  I intend to come out of the holidays in better shape and even leaner than I went in.

Since this year’s Death Race in August I have been giving my 50+ year old body a break it sorely needed. That break is over and what perfect timing. Let’s get through this season better than ever: you and I!

You don’t need to gain weight and you can actually lose fat if you are dedicated a little bit more than usual.  You can probably get away with a little cheating to if you must, but more on that later.

My final tips are:

1)Get some help from Secret SlimDown Capsules and Fish oil.

And remember this:

2) No matter what fancy hormones they tell you about, insulin is the key to preventing fat loss. And the key to modulating insulin is to avoid refined sugar as much as possible! So if you must load up over the holidays, load up with the good stuff first and then if you are still hungry for dessert you will likely eat a much smaller portion and still enjoy it just as much!

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions,
just contact Dr. Dave at:

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MAILING ADDRESS:
DR. DAVE’S BEST
C/O CENTERFORCE IND., INC.
1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

PHONE: TOLL FREE(USA & CANADA) 866-654-7670
(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

FAX: (610) 916-3931

The Holidays Need Not Be Stressful or Destructive to Your Waistline

The holidays are coming hard and fast. Are you ready? The big things I see are complete abandon in eating and complete over stressing in planning.  Your holidays are meant to spend with people who love you and vice versa.  If they are that critical, let them have the party at their house!

That said, let me remind you that the coming time of joy need not be stressful or destructive to your waistline. So here are some reminders.

Moos:  Protein in the form of meat is not popular these days and often vilified even if the studies on red meat are not strong as far as health hazards.  Free range beef, chicken and turkey are healthy for you so try to serve it at your own party if possible.  You’ll get some Omega 3′s without the mercury, lead and poisons that come in fish!  And of course remember your fish oil no matter what.

I wrote an article called the “pizza hypothesis” years back which suggested that consuming anti-inflammatory fats like fish oil caps during a binge of bad fats could indeed offset the damage.  Scientifically it’s valid. Though no one has actually done that study, they’ve done it de facto by studying the effects of fish oil in obese  diabetes patients with heart disease!  It works but it upset people because I was supposed to say “eat healthier”.

Ok, eat healthier; now let’s see how you do.  Fish oil is your ace in the hole when you take it along with Monster Multi and Cardio Booster, better known as the Daily Dose Pack.

If you don’t want to eat more meat during the holidays but want to use the awesome muscle building, fat burning, appetite suppressing power of protein, go here.  At 120 calories a serving this naturally (no sugar) sweetened product is perfect for in betweens and desserts.

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions,
just contact Dr. Dave at:

GENERAL INQUIRY E-MAIL: doc@drdavesbest.com

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MAILING ADDRESS:
DR. DAVE’S BEST
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1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

PHONE: TOLL FREE(USA & CANADA) 866-654-7670
(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

FAX: (610) 916-39

Next, Booze: Here is a little reminder about liquid calories:

Calories Found in Alcoholic Beverages

Beverage	Serving size	Calories
Beer	12 ounces	160
Light Beer	12 ounces	100
Non-alcoholic Beer	12 ounces	32
Red Wine	4 ounces	85
White Wine	4 ounces	80
Wine Cooler	8 ounces	120
Daiquiri	4 ounces	225
Margarita	4 ounces	270
Gin and tonic	4 ounces	150
Pina colada	4 ounces	262

How To Live Long And Healthy Well Past Age 55

If you make it past 55 you are most likely to die of a heart attack. If you make it past 80 it’s cancer, infection and of course the contribution of Alzheimer’s as well.

If you look at my supplement line, which I consider the only “real” anti-aging supplement line out there, especially since I am one of the few people who can get TA-65 for you.

I already fessed up that it didn’t start out that way since my training was not completed (is it ever?!) until after Dr Dave’s Best was formed but in the long run the use of things like green tea and turmeric along with hard core Omega 3 fish oil, Cordyceps and Rhodiola as well as berry extracts LONG before they were even considered seriously by science would tell you something.

Either I am very lucky, very good or a bit of both LOL!

My Daily Dose Pack is not just a bargain, it’s a revelation!  It contains fish oil, a real ”anti-aging purpose designed” multi vite and of course a super potent antioxidant, Cardio Booster, to make it all sing in harmony so to speak.

Recently someone asked me if there was going to be a Daily Dose Pack Plus? What would it be?

Wow, from the mouths of babes… what a great idea.  While I work on

that let me tell you it would have 2 more things – Instant Brain Power and Super Omega 3 as an upgrade for the fish oil.

This would unfortunately add to the cost big time since both are

expensive to make (remember I make my own stuff; you can’t buy

these in the store!). Yet for those of you who want a bigger more

potent dose pack, the addition of a packet of Super Omega 3 and the

daily dose of Instant Brain Power fits the bill nicely.

 

The winter months are a great time to add this in and see the

difference since the stress levels on your body are generally

higher from the Holidays even if you live in warm climates.

 

The Daily Dose Pack is far reaching and healthy too for you.

Instant Brain and Super O extend its reach!

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions,
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MAILING ADDRESS:
DR. DAVE’S BEST
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1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

PHONE: TOLL FREE(USA & CANADA) 866-654-7670
(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

FAX: (610) 916-3931

 

 

Small Things – Big Miracles – All Fish Oil Is Not The Same

I hope you understand the power of Omega 3 fatty acids from fish oil. The problem is a lot of people do not, so I am counting on you to spread the word. There are 3 kinds of Omega 3′s.

The two your bodies can use right off the bat are EPA and DHA.

The third, ALA, comes from plant sources and is usually the one the big Food Industry is using to capitalize on the Omega 3 bandwagon.

Both DHA and EPA, which are found in fish oil, can help your heart. ALA, the type of Omega-3s found in flax seeds, soybeans and canola oil, do not prevent heart disease.

Nor does plant based ALA have any benefit for strokes, cancer, arthritis, or Alzheimer’s disease.

And here is more food for thought: ALA has been implicated as a cause of increased prostate and probably breast cancer as well.

Other sources of ALA include canola and soy, which again are often loaded into foods to make them “look” healthy. This is especially true of so called healthy spreads.

Don’t count on them to protect your health and read those labels carefully so you know where the added Omega 3′s come from.

Fish oil remains superior for all forms of prevention, treatment and overall health.

In heart studies not only did fish oil reduce heart attack but it reduced death from all causes by 45%! In that same study it was found that statin drugs did not save as many lives as fish oil and that vitamin E did not save any lives!

A few small golden caps a day could make a huge difference in your health and longevity.

Fish oil - Super Omega 3

The capsules may be small but the miracles are big!

Fish oil - Super Omega 3

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed,
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The One Organ You Use The Most, Every Day Literally Nonstop, Is Your Brain

Look around you at your life and understand that what you see started with your brain and your thoughts.

Now doesn’t it make sense to tap into this amazing organ and harness it to make your life better and easier?

Here are some simple tips:

1) Exercise: Research has shown that regular exercise of at least
moderate intensity stimulates brain waves and improves brain health.  And you thought it just made you look good at the beach!

2) Sleeping well:  lack of sleep is truly the hidden epidemic in this country.  No one knows just how many lives have been lost or
permanently damaged due to lack of sleep. 

It may not be as dramatic as death or illness.  It may just be a low grade depression or chronically performing below your ability.

The world never gets to see the real you, and neither do you!

If you need help with restful restorative sleep, try my all natural
Sleep Wizard. 
A restful night’s sleep is only moments away!

3) Boosting your brain power.  I make two supplements that have
thrown the switch for people and literally changed their lives, their thinking and their performance for the better.

They are fish oil and Instant Brain Power.
Fish oil is an integral part of the human brain and has been linked to major advances in human brain evolution.

Instant Brain Power is like a cup of strong coffee for your brain
allowing you to see, perceive and create at a higher level. 

Your brain will truly be the sharp end of the stick and the instrument of positive change in your life.

Take advantage of what Mother Nature gave you to boost your brain
and watch your life change for the better!

To ask questions or find out more about Dr. Dave’s physician-developed, 
pharmaceutical-grade health and anti-aging solutions, 
just contact Dr. Dave at:

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1050D MAIDENCREEK ROAD
FLEETWOOD, PA 19522

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(610) 880-0075 (CALLS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR CANADA)

FAX: (610) 916-3931

Holiday Starvation Diets and More

Sad to say that the next 4 months will bring about considerable weight gain by millions of Americans and others as well.

Strange dichotomy, this world: half is still underfed and starving while the other half is overfed. Way overfed.

It’s estimated that in the U.S. alone 600 million pounds of excess fat will be gained and not all of it lost by the spring thaw.

So what are you going to do about it?

If you already have a lifestyle that keeps you lean and healthy, then you just do more of the same but in a nation where diabetes and obesity are the fastest growing epidemics, I doubt everyone has such a lifestyle, so let me give you a few tips.

1) Gently under eat. Just see if you can cut out 300 calories a day.  It’s easy to do and you can still have a bigger meal every now and then although it’s always hard to recover from the hormonal changes set in place by overeating.

2) Eat before you go out to your celebration meals and parties.  Here is where some raw veggies and a nice sweet apple will take the edge off of your overeating.  A good cup of Private Reserve Protein Powder won’t hurt one bit either.

3) Crank up your fish oil – may as well make use of the fat burning qualities of good fats right!

4) Sleep well and focus on staying healthy.  Make your exercise routine the first thing you do on any given day and you’ll come out no worse for wear or even better at the tail end of what will be a tail spin for many.

And come the spring thaw you’ll be ready for the beach. See you there!

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The Life Saver – Sleep Like A Baby

Recently I was interviewed on TV about things we could all do that were simple and inexpensive to improve our health and stay young.  You may be as surprised as the TV host was at what I suggested!

If you caught my recent TV appearance in Washington DC, you heard me speak about the 4 pillars of health. Of course I mentioned nutrition, specifically Fish oil, Super Omega 3 and exercise as well as stress reduction.

But the most underappreciated, under stressed and underutilized health and longevity tool is sleep and it can literally be a life saver.

Over 25% of all fatal motor vehicle accidents include sleep deprivation. For every year of shift work you do, you are reported to shorten your life by 2 to 4 months.

And of course lack of sleep makes it hard for anyone to lose weight because it slows down your metabolism.

The body only has so many responses and slowing down your metabolism is one that is common to sleep deprivation, excessive dieting and excessive exercise (yes, this includes the most popular form, interval training as well).

The chronic elevation of cortisol that happens with sleep deprivation is also a huge problem for your health, leading to adrenal burnout and contributing to metabolic syndrome.

So I invented Sleep Wizard back in 2004 to combat this problem naturally.

Sleep Wizard is all natural non-habit forming and does not have any of the bizarre side effects like prescription drugs do, such as nocturnal sleep eating, amnesia and chronic fatigue.

So if you are having trouble sleeping and want an all-natural way to solve the problem, let the Wizard put his spell on you.

It could literally be a life saver, marriage saver or career saver!

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New Advances in the Detection of Real Aging

Telomere length seems to correlate nicely with the appearance and dysfunction of aging.  Most diseases associated with aging, so far are also correlated with short telomeres.  This includes heart disease, cancer (in spite of the huge over expression of telomerase in many, if not all cancers) arthritis, and various forms of dementia.

In most cases, the white blood cell telomere length is an adequate marker, for this aging as well, even though it is not always directly related to the tissue affected by the disease.

Or is it? The effects of inflammation appear to be more global and widespread than originally thought, playing a role in heart disease, dementia, especially of the Alzheimer’s type, diabetes and cancer. Since the immune system is intimately involved with modulating the response of various tissues to inflammation and “immune senescence” is clearly deeply involved in aging, especially in the old, old white blood cells, might turn out to be the ideal measurement, after all, correlating on a predictable basis with the state of various tissues in the body.  In this case “more research is needed” is actually totally valid and it is one question we as Telonauts would love to see answered in more detail, in the future.

The global improvement of disease outcomes, using things like Omega 3’s, makes this even more interesting and an area where our scientists need to focus more deeply.

The immune system also plays a pivotal role in removing sick, dead and dying cells. Chinese researchers have postulated that the removal of such cells may actually skew the standard telomere testing towards “too young”; as many of the cells with the shortest telomeres may be removed before they can be tested.

As of this moment, mean telomere length is of limited utility, since it is not looking at the most critical “shortest telomeres”. The short telomere test remains esoteric and unavailable, for all but the most well connected in the field.

The Chinese are proposing a new marker using standard technology know as ELISA that has been around for decades and should be easy, reproducible and possibly cheap enough to be widespread, to become more than a research tool.

The new test called CRAMP ELISA requires more work and testing, as well as commercial interest, to become a usable way to test telomere length. If this happens, however, it may be considerably easier than our current testing methods, although it may take a while before it amasses enough data to prove its worth. We’ll keep you posted!

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Natural Metabolic Boosters That Let You Cheat On Your Diet

Is there any one of us who doesn’t wish we could get away with “cheating” once in a while?  I have hung out with the top scientists, researchers, and
nutritionists on the planet and I can tell you even they cheat!  So how do you get away with it?

Is there any one of us who doesn’t wish we could get away with “cheating” once in a while? I have hung out with the top scientists, researchers, and nutritionists on the planet and I can tell you even they cheat! So how do you get away with it?

Well, first they enlist the 80/20 rule. That means that 80% of the time they are behaving and doing what really does come naturally and habitually to them, eating and working out in healthy fashion.

Many of them got it off the ground the same way I did. Small incremental steps. I kid you not! My current decade of exercise started with 5 minutes a day for one month. I did not allow myself more than this, because I wanted to create the tension necessary to want to do more. A lot more. I also could not convince myself that no matter how tough my day was I could not find 5 minutes to work out. In this phase of things, bodyweight was the easiest and most efficient tool.

Walking, chair squats, push-ups, pull-ups, etc can all be harnessed to perfect effect, even in short bits of time, especially if you do them with intensity.

Here is a tip: the less time you have, the more intense your workouts should be.

Next, eating right and working out really is a lifestyle that is “missed” if it’s not there. You’ll know you’ve achieved body health Nirvana when you don’t feel right missing your routines.

Third, they don’t let travel or holidays interfere all that much. Nuts are a handy travel snack. Most cities have a natural food or health store that is easily found, especially with today’s technology. A hotel room and a super band is all you need for a great workout!

They have a low tolerance for variance. What does that mean? That means that once in shape, they tolerate getting out of shape or gaining weight poorly and do something about it earlier rather than later. And believe me, these people live hectic lives full of stress and work, just like you and I.

The final tip… They take their Omega 3 Fish Oils for the metabolic fat burning effects and I’m not supposed to tell you, but a few of them even cheat with Ultra Strength Fat Furnace.

Changing is not all that hard. You just need to set small incremental goals and stick to them; pretty soon they will snowball. The holidays are a great time to employ these rules for great success!

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Antioxidants Protect Us When Free Radicals Attack

Every day your body is under attack from just about every angle. There is a way to help it along and make the job of great health much easier.

I am going to keep this one short and sweet and tell you about the amazing power of antioxidants.

Before I dive into the list, let me point out what I think happens when people are exposed to free radical damage and do not have antioxidant protection that is up to snuff: they die an early death.

You have only to look at the list of elite endurance athletes, including an Olympic marathon hopeful who died recently during the trials to see what happens to people who pound their bodies with too much of anything (yes, this includes exercise) and don’t take out a “supplemental insurance” policy, in the form of free radical fighting supplements. Or you can look at the data on long term marathon runners that shows 62% more heart artery blockage than average.

Genetics you say! Well there have been quite a few studies that show that even genetics can be altered by supplements like fish oil Co Q10 and berry derived anthocyanidins.

Immune Booster

Cardio Booster

Here are some benefits that have or will be proven scientifically very soon.

1) Improved longevity: fish oil because of its effects on telomeres.

2) Improved health: fish oil for heart, vascular and joint problems, Co Q10 and Hawthorne berry for heart failure and other free radical induced damage.

Fish oil - super omega 3 - Regenerizer

3) Anti-Flu and anti-viral effects, as well as potent anti-inflammatory and joint pain effects.

4) Faster recovery from workouts or other physical trauma

5) Improved brain performance and reduced Alzheimer’s

6) Improved sexual performance and stamina

And this of course is a short list. You can pretty much go through all our products and find potent antioxidants in all of them.

If you are wondering where to start for this kind of benefit, it’s simple. Order the Daily Dose Pack now and get fish oil, Monster Multi and Cardio Booster all at one reduced price.

It’s a great place to start and if you go no further in your supplementation, a great place to end.

Of course, I take just about everything I make on a daily basis, in large doses.

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Menopause and “Menopot”

A recent study released from Mass General Hospital (a source of clinical data
for the most supplement unfriendly medical magazine next
to JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine) yielded exciting finding for women
with menopausal symptoms.

Perimenopausal depression and moods swings, hot flashes and weight gain may all be
combated by fish oil.  This covers the symptoms of menopause
and its attendant weight gain, known as “menopot” nicely.

This is the first time a “reputable” institution has reported such
findings and with their close ties to the gynecologic community, it
is likely that women across the country will soon be treating their
menopausal woes with fish oil.

Here’s hoping they value themselves enough to use the best — Fish
oil and Super Omega 3.
There is another thing that was not mentioned in this study. Women
in particular have gotten almost no benefit from using statin drugs
to lower their cholesterol.  It turns out that triglycerides are
the major risk factor for heart disease in women, not cholesterol.
Fish oil is a very beneficial way to deal with high triglycerides.
No one I know who is on proper doses of my fish oil has high
triglycerides any more.

Since heart disease rises rapidly after menopause in women, you
might want to let anyone you know in this period of life about fish
oil.

Mother Nature takes care of women!

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Life in the Balance – Balance is the Key to Life

It’s staring us in the face like a big diamond in our very own back yard… A simple, easy thing everyone can do to tip the scales of life in their favor.  So easy, so simple, yet so neglected.

We have it all wrong today with medicine. I say, as a board certified doc with over 20 years of patient experience and thousands of lives improved and not many fewer, actually saved. But, for many of those years, I had it all wrong. Putting your finger in the dike that has sprung so many leaks and not doing something about what is poking holes in the dike, is “bass ackwards thinking” and yet it is at the root of most of what we doctors do today.

If there was one thing I could do for this country and many others, it would be to rebalance the Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratios of our people to closer to 1 to 1.

I am convinced this would reduce heart disease and cancer by 50% — dementias of all kinds, by the same and arthritis and many of the other debilitating diseases we face as we age so unhealthily, in this country, in similar fashion. Throw in a little Vitamin D, some antioxidants and my famous 4 words:” move more, eat less” and you would see a totally different picture of heath in this country.

And it would not be just physical health. It would be mental, behavioral and spiritual heath as well.

Life would be worth living and pursuing, well past the current limit of 80-ish.

The simplest and fastest way to do that is to take your fish oil and/or Super Omega 3 and if you can swallow just a few more pills, upgrade to the Daily Dose Pack. Now that won’t fix a lousy diet, but it will help, more than most things you could do, otherwise. It won’t fix the free radical damage you may have already done, completely, but it should be a great start. Eventually, as you feel better and feel like doing more, you will. Then, my friend, you will at least have a chance to be one of the few select members of the groups of people who are going to live longer and better than most.

Keeping on, the way most people are, will not get your there. Start now and start here!! Daily Dose Pack.

After all, I will need people to come to my hundredth Birthday party!

Doc

P.S. In a few short weeks the revolutionary book I helped craft called “The Immortality Edge” will be available in books stores. Keep your eyes on the emails to find out when and how you can get it!

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Sleep Lets Your Hormonal Body Clock Release the Needed Hormones for Repair and Rejuvenation

You have probably heard that sleep is an important component of health, anti-aging and fat loss.  So, in one fell swoop, it covers living longer, better and looking better as well. Why is it so important? Well first, sleep is one of the “big three” of the things that can make or break fat loss.

Over training and over dieting are the other two things that will stop your metabolism dead in its tracks.  Lack of sleep is the other.  In addition, it’s hard to exercise if you are sleep deprived and this alone can contribute to a failed weight/fat loss program.

In addition, from the health stand point, adequate sleep (usually at least 7 hours for most people) is needed to let your hormonal body clock release the needed hormones for repair and rejuvenation.

There has been no study for sleep and telomere length yet, but I can tell you when they do it, they will find that chronic sleep deprivation shortens your telomeres and thus shortens your life.

Now, if you address the big three in proper fashion: nutrition, exercise and sleep, you can control all the variables that make for successful fat loss and the new body or better body you’ve wanted for so long.

If you cannot eat properly almost 100% of the time, or if you need additional “metabolic help” then use Fish oil, Capsules and if needed, Sleep Wizard to help you get control of these variables.

This will just be temporary.  Once your body adapts to the new lifestyle you’ve chosen, you won’t need any help at all.  But until then, I can make it a lot easier and show you success a lot sooner.  And who doesn’t want that!

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The Immortality Edge – Changing reality; 1000 ways to die, only one way to live

So far our book “The Immortality Edge” has met with generally positive reviews.  There are of course the expected naysayers.  This is to be expected when you change reality, or attempt to. And there are the usual insane people.  That is the nature of the internet, which gives equal voice to all versions of reality and otherwise.

The paradigm shift in The Immortality Edge is a huge one: you do not have to get old, you do not have to get sick and you do not have to die of old age.  As we say in the book: the first person to live to 150 and beyond is walking among us right now.  Who knows; it might even be you or I.

But no matter what, you have to DO SOMETHING and something different than you have been, in most cases, to even be around to benefit from the results. 

I would not be so foolish to say that death is not inevitable, since there are 1,000 ways to die, as the TV show says.  We just want it to be 999 and remove old age and infirmity from the equation.

This brings up all kinds of ethical and moral and intellectual arguments.

Are we playing with forces we are not meant to?  What will happen when the world is full of old people? Who is going to make all the money from this new way of living, etc, etc, etc.

I do not know the answers to any of the questions, because I truly am not clairvoyant, unlike some of my critics.  But I do know the following: we will “cure aging” in our lifetimes.  It will happen somewhere, no matter who, or what says NO to it.  It may happen in India or China, if it does not happen here, but in truth we are already taking leaps and bounds in the direction and telomerase activation and the many other steps described in “The Immortality Edge” are part of the first real bridge to Immortality and certainly (and probably more important to you and I) far better health as we age.

As far as the arguments, generally speaking, if I ask a person, “Do you want to die?” they say no.

“But that is not the point!” is the usual response.

Yes, it is absolutely the point. Don’t make intellectual statements that do not apply to you personally!

Historically, the wave of events revolving around any huge discovery is the same.

The real reason not everyone is jumping on this bandwagon is, primarily people will generally wait for others to take the first steps, before they jump on board.  That is it, plain and simple.  Most people do not believe that it works and will not believe it, no matter how much science you throw at them.  But when a million or two million people are on telomerase activators or at least telomerase supportive agents like The Daily Dose Pack, the train will be chugging out of the station and people will then be scrambling to avoid being left behind.  Sadly, this has nothing to do with science, except for that fact that there is real science to support what I am saying and more is coming, literally every single day.

The most recent study reversing aging in mice is just one of many examples of what we will see in the coming year.

Scientists will continue to say more research is needed, because that is what they always say.  Early adopters are already on the protocols and reaping the rewards. Naysayers are saying nay as always, because it threatens their belief systems. When there finally is enough proof that even naysayers say yes, it will be as if longevity and health span where never an issue, “of course I do that and take those things!”

Basically, it’s a paraphrase of Schopenhauer: ‘All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.’

I know everything I say is true from past experiences.  Ten years ago I was being asked by my director of medicine if I needed psychiatric help because I was selling fish oil on the internet and telling everyone who would listen about its benefits.

Sadly, that individual would have benefitted hugely from fish oil, if he had started it then.

Now everyone who said “nay” is on fish oil, and conveniently forgetting the crap they put me through!  Even Big Pharma makes fish oil and more companies will be releasing more “drug” fish oils.

Is this because of science?  Nope.  There are still plenty of people who don’t believe in fish oil in the scientific community.  The “paralysis of analysis” runs their lives and their belief systems are invested (as are their livelihoods) in being “sure”.

The drug companies are making fish oil now because enough millions of people are taking it and raving about it that it is now “safe” and lucrative to present to their stockholders as a viable thing to sell. And they don’t want to be left behind by the “alternative medicine crowd”.  Funny how alternative medicine is suddenly becoming mainstream, isn’t it!?

Drug companies certainly did not prove anything new, with any of the clinical studies they did, to allow them to make disease based claims.

You and I knew what they know now, a full 10 years ago and have been benefitting for at least that long.

I was called a quack, a charlatan, a snake oil salesman and frankly, I still am, on a less regular basis.  Telomerase Activation affords people new opportunities to insult me and use those phrases, pass those judgments and defend their belief systems.

No matter where you fall on the chain of events though, you will still want to read The Immortality Edge and just judge for yourself!

The good news is that most of you who are on at least some of my supplements, are probably already benefitting from their effects on telomeres and that is science, not charlatanism.

I am still giving copies away to people who spend more than $300 on any order and I am still refunding 100% of the book purchase price (less taxes and shipping) towards your next order if you buy the book following the instructions below.

My advice: don’t be left out and don’t wait to educate yourself because things are a lot further along than you may realize! Reality has actually already changed.  I should have more big news for you in a week or so, so keep your eyes on those emails.

Doc

P.S.  We blew through the first 50 signed copies of The Immortality Edge  in the sale last week, which was offered as a free bonus to anyone who bought more than $300 in supplements (not including taxes and shipping).  So I ordered more from our publisher to cover the folks who came a bit late for the immediate shipment.  You will be getting your copies as soon as we do!

But I want to continue the program for anyone who buys more than $300 in supplements.  You too will get a free book signed by me.  The book is incredible and is getting rave reviews by everyone who is sane!

I also want to tell you I am keeping up the offer to reimburse you for any books you buy on Amazon or Barnes and Noble against your next purchase of Dr Dave’s Best supplements, up to and until March 15th 2011.  Here is the deal:

It’s called “The Immortality Edge” and it’s available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble websites.  Yes, it’s a real book with a real publisher in real book stores, researched by real doctors; not an e-book, self-published by an in-house marketing team.

You know I have been writing about telomeres and telomerase for a long time now.  Well, the book is the whole enchilada and contains everything you MUST know to live longer and far healthier than you thought possible.  Unlike everything else before it, this book is not speculation or fantasy.  It’s for real!  It uses science to back up what we say but it’s such an easy and fun read that you won’t even realize you are learning things that will probably save your life and the lives of the ones you love.

I am literally going to “buy back” the book from you by reimbursing you for the cost!

Here is how to get your book free: Please follow these instructions or we will not be able to reimburse you for the cost of the book. Purchasing the book this way will allow you to claim the purchase price, which is between $17 and $25 off your next order or even more if you purchase several copies!

1) Go to one of two places – either Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com.

This offer ends on March 15, 2011 — so you have until then to redeem your purchase price (less any taxes).

2) When you are ready to order (any time before March 15, 2011), scan your receipt in and email it as an attachment to doc@drdavesbest.com with the subject line “book discount” and a short note with your name and that you have placed an order and are claiming your discount. If you order online, you may simply forward a copy of your email receipt to doc@drdavesbest.com at the time of  your next order from drdavesbest.com.

3) If it is easier, you may fax your receipt and order in to 610-916-3931, our dedicated fax line. Or send your order in via mail to Dr Dave’s Best, 1050D Maidencreek Road, Fleetwood, PA 19522 prior to March 15, 2011.

Note: your discount will not be reflected at the immediate time of your order but will be reflected as a credit card or other refund, usually within 72 hours of the order.

Please DO NOT simply go out and buy the book and send in the receipt and then order later.  The volume of orders will make it impossible for us to keep track of this and we will not be able to honor your discount!  Again, please follow the instructions above.

Also, I’ll give you every cent you paid (less taxes and shipping) for every copy towards your next purchase but the value of your purchase must equal or exceed the value of your books.

Again, the offer is good until March 15, 2011!

Does Telomere Science Reveal a Cure for Cancer?

This post is going to be a little more scientific and detailed than I normally send, I hope that is ok, let me know what you think about this style of education and if you like it I’ll do more.

When we see people who are exceptionally fit or in incredibly good health in their later years we often blame it on having good genes.

And, that is partially true but the part that is true is the part of the genetic material we all share, it is the end of the chromosome called telomerase. Telomeres control how long and how well we live.

Let me explain.

The discovery of telomerase is a real Christmas miracle. It was on Christmas day that Greider and Blackburn finally proved their theory that an enzyme added telomeric DNA to the ends of chromosomes.  That was in 1984, and that enzyme was later named telomerase.

Telomerase is present and active in stem cells, germ cells and cancer cells which is one reason these cells never reach senescence (an endpoint where cells die or no longer divide and thus become inert).  Normal cells don’t express telomerase.  That gene is suppressed in them.  One key to immortality is turning that gene on.  Thanks to extensive scientific research, a natural activator TA-65 has been discovered and proven to successfully lengthen telomeres.

But every new discovery is initially feared, then embraced by pioneering spirits, and finally adopted by the hungry masses (or in the case of naturally occurring cures, co-opted by corporations to be patented and turned into expensive controlled medicine since they can’t patent nature).

When it comes to telomeres, many fear turning this gene on in healthy cells is unsafe and risky. Their concern stems from what incorrectly appears to be a similarity or link with cancer.

 So, what about cancer?  If telomerase is turned on in cancer cells and is the reason a cancer cell continuously replicates, would turning it on in normal cells increase the risk of these cells mutating and becoming cancerous? Specifically is there any evidence that TA-65 causes cancer?

The answer is no and I’ll tell you why.

Stimulating growth of telomeres on normal chromosomes does not cause them to become cancerous because cancer cells are by definition abnormal cells.  This bears repeating.  It DOES NOT cause normal cells to become cancer cells.

As I explained, cancer cells are abnormal cells.  When your genetic material (DNA) becomes damaged or is altered, it mutates and affects normal cell growth and division.  Activating telomerase to lengthen telomeres does not alter or damage our DNA.  Scientists have turned on the telomerase of normal cells ATTEMPTING to turn these cells into cancer cells and have been repeatedly unsuccessful. 

For the past few decades telomerase research was almost solely focused on creating a “telomerase inhibitor” that could be a potential cure for cancer.  Because 80% of all human cancers are immortalized by the turning on of telomerase it’s a logical conclusion that preventing the immortality of cancer cells would slow growth and allow chemotherapies to work more effectively.

I support this research, but when TA-65 was discovered a decade  ago and has been shown to be safe and effective as a telomerase activator in healthy cells then the research focus and possibilities expanded.  It’s with these new possibilities that I am most intrigued by and signal health and vitality for all long into our “golden years”.

We know that when cells approach senescence (their endpoint), the short telomeres stimulate the chromosome instability which can cause the mutations that are responsible for creating cancerous cells.  If we lengthen the telomeres and extend the life of the cell, we thereby reduce the risk of chromosome rearrangement (where tumor-suppressor genes can be shut off and cancer-causing genes turned on).  Telomerase has also been shown to extend the life span of our immune cells, which improves their ability to seek and destroy cancer cells. 

According to the American Cancer Society, 78% of all cancers are diagnosed in people 58 years and older.  Cancers are more likely to occur when signs of cellular senescence are present and when the immune system begins to be compromised with age and lose its ability to respond to threats.  It follows then that extending the period of time before normal cells reach senescence and before immune cells die, would help prevent the creation and spread of cancer in our bodies.

It’s important to note that the unbridled and aggressive way telomerase is activated in cancer cells is also very different from the gentle and mild activation of telomerase in stem-cell and germ-cell lines. TA-65 mimics the natural and gentle activation of telomerase in stem-cells and germ-cells. In 2002, testing and research began with TA-65 and to date there are no studies linking its use to cancer.  Rather studies showing its ability to increase the number of “good guys to fight off the bad guys”, gives hope that it will assist our bodies when fighting off cancerous mutations.

In addition adding TA-65 to human non immortal cancer cell lines, adding TA-65 to pre malignant cells ( cells on their way to becoming cancer), adding to-65 to highly cancer prone mice and of course giving TA-65 to people has shown no increases in cancer.  AS far as prevention that has not yet been thoroughly studied but many of us in the longevity field believe it holds promise for reducing the risk of cancer.

TA-65 is derived from the Astragalus root, a natural compound used and researched for its ability to measurably boost the immune system.  Before it was released as a supplement it was studied for effectiveness against various viruses and proved beneficial against HIV to CMV viruses, among others.  These viruses are associated with increased cancer rates, and because of this the question is often posed, “could a telomerase activator actually improve cancer outcomes and maybe even be a cancer preventative?”  Geron, the parent company that produces TA-65, is commencing tests and attempting to answer that question.

I believeTA-65 is currently offering cutting edge hope for those pioneering souls who want to explore the boundaries of living fully, healthfully, as long as possible.

A key to remember about living longer is that while the number of years you live is important, the number of years you live fully, with great brain and body function is the real measure of longevity. This is called health span. Most people, scientists, doctors and laymen alike agree, maximizing health span is more important than maximizing life span. Think of it this way, your life can be extended for quite some time with life support but most of us wouldn’t chose to live for months or years on life support.

With TA-65 and Telomerase activation increasing life and health span is now within the reach of almost everyone. I speak with people every day who are exploring ways of extending their health span. If you have specific questions around TA-65 and whether or not it might be effective for you, visit my website for info on contacting me, I’ll be happy to answer your questions.

And please do let me know in the comments below if you like these more technical, educational pieces, if so, I’ll get more of them out right away.

Best,

Dr. Dave

Thiago Silva destroys Brandon Vera

MMA Fighters at IHP

Dr Dave routinely trains at IHP in Boca Raton. Doc is a healer and not a fighter but he loves J.C. Santana’s unbeatable fitness programs. If it’s good enough to keep the MMA fighters winning, it’s got to be functional and sure to keep us going well into our old age. Dr Dave wishes to congratulate JC Santana and all the fighters he trains, especially Thiago Silva for his recent victory over tough Brandon Vera. Note the “Snowman” Jeff Monson in the background. Winners train at IHP! Don’t let “combat training” scare you. IHP trains everyone to be their best from ages 9 to 90!

Myths and facts about telomeres and telomerase activation

First off, if you need a quick update on what we are talking about in plain language,  click here to see me being interviewed on TV for a short segment on anti-aging and telomeres.

I am famous for debunking myths and in the process upsetting lots of people. So, why stop now?

Here are a few things you hear a lot, that are either way over-simplifications or simply not true.

1)  Telomeres protect the DNA from unraveling and as they shorten, the DNA unravels and this causes the cell to die or mutate.

While this is theoretically possible, it is probably not a real phenomenon in humans.  The length of the telomere is, however, intimately tied to a series of structural proteins that turn cell regulation on and off. In addition, the length of the telomere is directly related to certain cell signaling features that cause the cell’s mitochondria to behave like a nuclear reactor on overload (melt down) and autolyse, or explode, from the inside out.  The mitochondria release free radicals that are normally kept inside its own double walled membrane.  These free radicals go out into the rest of the cell and the cell dies.

This mechanism is the same, or very similar, to what happens when the cell experiences a double strand DNA break.

Thus, we see ties from “regular “ cell cycle regulation and the mitochondria to the telomere.  For the scientist and non scientist alike, this means the telomere tends to fit nicely in the center of several other “theories of aging.”

Remember free radicals, stress, and sleep deprivation are all related to shortening of the telomeres.

For more information on how you can help keep your telomeres longer remember this:

“The Immortality Edge” the definitive (and only) book on how to preserve and lengthen your telomeres will be out via John Wiley and Sons in January of 2011. Since I had a major hand in writing it, I can promise you there is almost no scientific jargon or confusing language.  There is just straightforward, no nonsense things you can do right this minute, to help keep your biologic time clocks ticking for a long, long time.

Please note my co-authors Greta Blackburn and Mike Fossel MD PhD are recognized experts in the field of anti-aging and longevity medicine.  Please note, there are a lot of people claiming to have expertise who are not authors of the book for the simple reason that they are not experts!

2)  Supplements can lengthen your telomeres.

There is only one supplement that turns on telomerase and has been shown to lengthen critically short telomeres (the exact way your natural telomerase works, if and when it is turned on!).

That supplement is TA-65 and I am one of the few distributors.  If you have a serious interest in the only supplement that does what it says it does, then do this: contact our Customer Support Line at 866-654-7670 or send an email to doc@drdavesbest.com with a Subject line of “TA-65″. Serious inquires only please and let’s stick to the topic because there are tons of people calling already!

OK, what else works?

Fish Oil: this is proven in a study of heart patients.  The higher the dose of Fish Oil, the longer the telomeres, with the highest dose group having the longest telomeres. Please note, no other form of Omega 3 was tested: specifically not krill, flax, chia, lyprinol or salba.

Vitamin D3 appears to have some action, but is not quantifiable yet.

There are other supplements that, by virtue of their anti-oxidant power, are reported to either slow down loss of telomeres, or actually lengthen them, but this has not been repeatable yet.

What does not work?

I personally sent samples of a product called ASTRAGALOSIDE IV for testing at Sierra Sciences lab in Reno, NV.  It did nothing. (Please note this was one brand. There are a couple on the market).

Protein powder.  A large, well read internet organization is touting protein powder as a way to lengthen your telomeres, via glutathione. There is no proof that this powder  a) increases glutathione in the body b) does anything to telomerase or to telomeres. None whatsoever, but by virtue of “who” is saying “what”, people are not applying critical thinking.  Or, they’re not thinking at all!

Once again these and more claims and issues and myths and facts are all going to be revealed in our upcoming book “The Immortality Edge” – so make sure you put Jan 2011 on your calendar right now and listen to anyone, or anything else, with a jaundiced eye and a critical ear!

If someone claims to have a supplement that turns on telomerase, or lengthens telomeres, then they should be able to produce data from a reputable independent lab experienced in running these tests to prove it.

Sierra Sciences head scientist, Bill Andrews, has tested thousands of compounds for activity.  If you are interested in supporting his work contact him at Sierra Sciences.  When Bill wins humanity wins!

Cancer risk and telomere length

For those of us in the field, the recent slew of articles that show an age-independent link between telomere length and cancer comes as no surprise.

When I say age-independent I mean your age, not the age of your individual cells.

Cells age independently of the organism in some cases and the oldest cells have the shortest telomeres and are at the greatest risk of cancerous transformation.

As Dr Dave has said in talks at the A4M and the AMMG “cancer is a disease of short telomeres.”

So it would be wise for this and many other reasons to keep your telomeres longer.

Again to review, slowing down shortening and lengthening telomeres are two very different things.

You can slow them down with the right kinds of exercise (come to www.fitcamp.com to learn all about this) proper sleep, a good diet (Paleolithic), and supplements like fish oil, Vitamin D, and others.

The only way we know to lengthen them at this point is TA-65 a telomerase activator which you should contact us directly about if you are interested.

As more research is done, more and more disease will be linked to short telomeres.  Keep in mind the shortest telomere is the weakest link and that is exactly where TA-65 seems to work.

P.S., Be on the lookout for the first and only book on how YOU can do all the right things to keep those telomeres as healthy as possible.  It’s called “The Immortality Edge” by Greta Blackburn  Mike Fossel and Dave Woynarowski and is due out in January of 2011, but you’ll be able to get advanced reserved copies here soon!

Telomeres and the Paleolithic Diet

The last iteration of our genome with regards to the foods we eat seems to have taken place about 50,000 years ago.  At that time we were unquestionably small bands of hunter gatherers who did not cultivate dairy animals or grains.  History tells us these later “adaptations”  did not take place until about 10,000 years ago.

So we are still adapted genetically to the “hunter gatherer” diet, also commonly known as the Paleolithic Diet after this formative time of man’s ascendance.  Genetic anthropology has provided us with the gene structures to prove this.  In point of fact the last 50,000 years have led to very little known genetic changes compared to our Paleolithic ancestors.  Things like eye color and the occasional low level persistence of the lactose gene into post infancy do not change the fact that the bulk of what we eat now is actually not suitable for our genetic make-up.  Diary and grin products provide the large mass of protein and carbohydrates that many cultures consume with potentially detrimental results to our telomere length.

Lactose intolerance is a common problem and ranges from mild discomfort to out and out “allergic” type reactions with malabsorption of nutrients and leaky gut syndromes as a result.

Grain intolerance (specifically to gluten) has become a modern day mini-epidemic as the sensitivity of testing procedures for these intolerances improves to the point where fully half of our population may have some variation- minor or more – of gluten sensitivity.

The telomere is pretty much the end arbiter of what we do to ourselves in all forms of stress, whether that stress comes from eating the wrong things, exposing ourselves to excess environmental toxins, sleep deprivation, too little or too much exercise, and so on. While specific dietary information and telomere length is to this point extremely limited, the authors of this book predict it will truly be the “next big frontier” by which people can modify and improve their telomere length in a meaningful fashion.

Currently we know that fiber intake is positively associated with longer telomeres.  We also know that excess inflammatory Omega 6 fatty acids are bad for telomere length and that Omega 3 fish oils are good.

We know that the complex web of insulin signaling and glucose excess directly affects inflammation, free radical generation, and cell death.  We know that Vitamin D positively affects telomere length, as do tea-based catechins.  But these are singular piecemeal findings that do not equate to a specific diet pattern

We strongly believe that the Paleolithic Diet is the most likely to provide this benefit, since our genetic make-up fits this type of diet to a tee.  Studies have supported its positive effects on insulin signaling, oxidative stress and endogenous acid load.

We are confident the end result will not only be longer telomeres, but better health and potentially longer life.

Another Take: Can exercise really help you live longer?

Just a few short weeks ago our host Greta Blackburn held one of her fabulous FITCAMP events in Cancun, Mexico.  If you missed it, you missed a great one!

At that event several presenters, including top Scientist Bill Andrews — co-discoverer of the HTERT gene and leading scientist at Sierra Sciences LLC — and top trainer Phil Campbell (whose book  “Ready Set Go Synergy Fitness” revolutionized the field of high intensity interval training over a decade ago) both gave phenomenal presentations on the how’s and why’s of everything from sprint training to ultra-running.

A recurring theme emerged: exercise is not only good for you in terms of how you look and how you feel but it also is good for longevity, especially for telomere length.

Remember the telomeres are those biological time clocks AND health clocks that live at the end of your chromosomes.  Every time your cells divide to make a new set of cells the time clock ticks and your absolute life span gets shorter.

But a study in well-conditioned German middle distance runners whose average age was about 45 showed you can indeed slow down those time clocks with exercise.

Researchers found that at age 25 most everyone had a free pass which equated to long telomeres although there were some outliers who had already started to age faster probably from too much partying!

But in the folks who did not exercise at all the telomere length shortened dramatically over the next 2 decades.  In the runners, however, there was almost no distinguishable difference between telomere length at 25 and at 45.

Now a couple of things are important here.  These runners were high level former collegiate athletes in most cases.  They had been running steadily for 2 decades and were putting in over 40 miles a week.  That is lot of miles for most people.

Also most high level runners don’t just run they strength train and do interval training programs similar to Phil Campbell’s Sprint 8 as their speed work.

So what is it about this kind of training that helps keep telomeres long?

Well most like it has to do with the body’s ability to handle oxidative stress.  Runners tend to develop the mechanisms needed to handle the increased oxidative load of exercise to a high degree.

Even ultra-runners whose oxidative stress levels go through the roof in the first 24 hours after a long race return to baseline soon after.

We Telonauts are convinced that the best exercise is one that develops the ability to handle free radical oxidative stress without actually putting all that much long term oxidative stress on the body.  That is why we favor Phil Campbell’s Sprint 8 programs as detailed in his book  “Ready Set Go Synergy Fitness” as well as our book “The Immortality Edge” which is coming out in January 2011.

Using these programs you can really crank up you oxidative capacity (as measured by VO2 max and lactate threshold for you exercise buffs) without having a lot of damaging stuff hanging around for days on end.

Another study done in Canada showed you could reverse years of exercise neglect with just a year of high intensity training for a total of 9 hours a week and reverse the age related decline in your functional lung capacity by up to twelve years.

Here’s a quick note on weight lifting. We think strength training is absolutely essential for balanced physical being.  There is only one tiny study in weight lifters specifically power lifters.  In this group the average telomere length and the shortest telomere lengths both were longer than in non-weight trained individuals suggesting at the very least that weight lifting may be good for your telomeres as well.

So what should you do?

Train hard and fast at least some of the time and take those anti-oxidants, specifically fish oil, co Q 10, Carnosine, Vitamin D and a good multivite to keep those free radicals at bay.

Odds are you’ll live a longer and healthier life because of it. And make sure you get a copy of Phil Campbell’s great book “Ready Set Go Synergy Fitness” and watch for our book “The Immortality Edge” coming soon.

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