Got up late, had lunch at Rainforest with my nephew and his three beautiful kids, huge pork BBQ/hamburger, but I didn’t eat it all. At suppertime, I ate half of a BBQ chicken and onion rings dinner that I got through Delivery Dudes. Then I remembered that it was MMA night at the Miller Ale House and had half of a calamari appetizer there (you can’t come in for the show and only order a soda, that would just be wrong…). I busted my calorie count by about 75 calories, not too bad. But I’m a bit embarrassed, having missed so many workouts last week.
I like to talk about the various supplements and how they should be helping you. Most of them are safe to the nth degree. I came across this video on DHEA which was interesting but also contained a note of caution. DHEA is banned as a supplement in most sports, and in fact, is available only by prescription in a lot of countries. The narrator of this video cautions that DHEA is a very powerful hormone that should be taken with some care since too much can be as bad as too little.
Much of this is at a high technical level, DHEA affects functions in the brain, helping to preserve neurons and studies have shown that it improves thinking. It also affects testosterone among other important hormones and could be considered a precursor. If you click to 26:33 you will find a chart that says it increases the body’s ability to burn fat, improves bone density and liver function.
The video also talks about pregnenolone, which appears to be a companion to DHEA (he cautions that if you improve one and the other is deficient, you will not be helping yourself). The micronized version of each (the best of the oral methods) of these is available on Amazon.
I may try this in Phase II of Tim vs. Aging, but since the video expresses such caution, I may do a 1-2 week trial once I settle into the new routine. I will need this to be an isolated test. Not sure yet how I will proceed.
Tim vs. Aging – T minus 8 days – Choosing the Epigenetic Test
Tim vs. Aging – T minus 4 days – Stretching and Weightlifting
Tim vs Aging – Day 8 – Anyone want to knock 20 years off of their biological age?
Tim vs Aging – Day 11 – Some Baseline Data, and Maintaining Consistency
Tim vs Aging – Day 12 – Over the First Hump, plus Do Bodybuilders Die Sooner?
Tim vs Aging – Day 13 – Fasting Day, Ketosis Explained, plus What the Heck is a Niacin Flush?
Tim vs Aging – Day 17 – No Weight Soreness, Gotta Have Pudding! – Develop Your Support System
Tim vs Aging – Day 18 – Torture by Trisha, Support Systems (cont.)
Tim vs Aging – Day 19 – Fasting Day, and Bacteria to Lose Weight
Tim vs Aging – Day 20 – Torture, but not too bad – plus a Cult progeny that is Good For You!
Tim vs Aging – Day 21 – Travel Day Screws the Schedule. And I am Officially Young Again!!!
Tim vs Aging – Day 22 – Still Traveling. Let’s talk about ‘Caloric Restriction’
Tim vs Aging – Day 23 – Travel Second Day – Plus Transhumans and Cutting Edge Biotech
Tim vs Aging – Day 24 -Travel Third Day – plus Potential for Brain Cell Repair
Tim vs Aging – Day 25 – Homebound – Makeup for lost time – lost weight – Oysters!!
Tim vs Aging – Day 26 – MMA workout – plus Hair Color Restoration?
Tim vs Aging – Day 27 – A Bit Sore – plus Criticism of the Hyberbaric Chamber Strategy
Tim vs Aging – Day 28 – Fasting – plus Will Immortality Lead to Overpopulation?
Tim vs Aging – Day 29 – Fasting is easy – plus Why Don’t People Exercise???
Tim vs Aging – Day 30 – Half Way There! Some Subjective Results
Tim vs Aging – Day 31 – Minor Schedule Break – plus Extending Life with Stem Cells
Tim vs Aging – Day 32 – All is Normal – plus Fish Oil, good or not?
Tim vs Aging – Day 33 – Feeling my Oats! Relief from Muscle Pain, Disappointed in Tae Kwon Do
Tim vs Aging – Day 34 – On Track – Plus my Theory on Foot Massages
Tim vs Aging – Day 35 – Fasting, a Shot in the Arm, Plus Creatine
Tim vs Aging – Day 36 – Trisha Rained Out – Plus Human Growth Hormone (HGH)
Tim vs Aging – Day 37 – Saturday Downtime, Plus Do Eating Right and Exercise Help? Maybe Not…
Tim vs Aging – Day 38 – Back to Weights! – Plus Very Expensive Skin Cream
Tim vs Aging – Day 39 – Monday Sucks – Plus Should You Eat “Processed” Foods?
Tim vs Aging – Day 40 – MMA All the Way – Plus The Ultimate in Stem Cells for Anti-aging
Tim vs Aging – Day 41 – In Between – Plus More about Fisetin – Myths?
Tim vs Aging – Day 42 – Fasting Day – Plus Five Fitness Factor for Longer Life
Tim vs Aging – Day 45 – Weights? Kicked out of Youfit – Plus some Anti-Aging Vocabulary!
Tim vs Aging – Day 46 – In between day – Results from the Telomere Test
Tim vs Aging – Day 47 – Minor Project Breakdown – What Can I Do About It?
