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[quote=Anonymous]I am 52. Recently started weightlifting. Feel better than ever! Am now stronger than at any time in the past 20 years.

Get your tired old body into the Iron Temple for daily worship.

http://roguehealthandfitness.com/weightlifting-anti-aging/

[quote]As an anti-aging intervention, weightlifting fights the loss of muscle (sarcopenia) that starts early in life, in the thirties, and maintains high insulin sensitivity, the loss of which is a main cause of the maladies of age.[/quote]

Also, intermittent fasting!

http://roguehealthandfitness.com/fasting-mechanism-longevity/

[quote]Arguably, the most important driver of aging is the decline in autophagy, the cellular self-cleansing process that rids cells of junk...

How do you increase autophagy?

Intermittent fasting. This is probably the best way to increase autophagy. While in young humans and animals, an overnight fast may be sufficient to ramp up autophagy, the decline in the process with age means that a fast longer than overnight is required. Fasting for 16 to 24 hours should do the job, and even longer may be better.

Drink water at night. This unusual way of increasing autophagy works by diluting the bloodstream. Leucine is the amino acid regulator of autophagy, and when it rises sufficiently due to the breakdown of tissues, autophagy stops. By drinking water at night (during fasting), the leucine concentration in blood drops, thus restarting autophagy.

Calorie restriction. Just mentioned in passing. Not many people want to do this, including me. But your BMI will be down around 19 or 20. Probably requires eating under 2,000 calories each and every day. fasting is easier.[/quote]
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