Bodybuilding and Anti-Aging
Bill Grant at 76 years old
Bodybuilding can help slow down and even reverse aging, it can make you look and feel younger.
Sports science has now discovered that there is a direct correlation between our antioxidant depletion rate and our insulin resistance/high or fasting blood insulin/glucose levels. They have now discovered that these life-saving nutrients are actually found in the peelings or skins of many vegetables and fruits, particularly brightly colored ones.
The pigmentation that gives certain fruits and vegetables bright, eye catching colors means it's got vitally important, protective antioxidants, certain flavonoids and polyphenols that all protect the cells when they are consumed in sufficient quantity and variety.
"Aging" is wear and tear that's been put on a human organism from simply living each day. This wear and tear then is caused by the free radical activity that eventually damages the cell and DNA permanently, causing biological aging. R-ala is an antioxidant that shows it is EXTREMELY potent as an antioxidant just by itself.
There are a few reasons why, but R-ala is also a compound that is able to recycle other antioxidants like beta-carotene, or vitamin C, E, and CoQ10. Antioxidants usually lend an electron to any free radical that needs to be stabilized (neutralizing them). They then get discarded, but R-ala changed that by recycling certain important antioxidants.
Sports science research looking at this discovered R-ala significantly reduces and then slows the aging rate. Similarly, IMO and HGH works an anti-aging magic, by increasing cellular turnover to a level our bodies last saw when we youngsters. R-ala however, works its anti-aging magic by protecting mature cells that we already possess.
There are a variety of sensitizing/antioxidant supplements: From GLA, and CLA, to green tea extract, and acetyl l carnitine. Or omega 3 long chain fatty acids that are found in most cold water marine lipids, like fish oil. Insulin sensitivity is determined by the efficiently of your skeletal muscle cells to a range of nutrients including glucose, and amino acids.
Insulin sensitivity means the permeability of your cellular walls and their membranes throughout your body. These cellular walls are made out of fatty acids. There's a very delicate fatty-acid balance that often gets overlooked when selecting an optimal fat-loss or muscle gain diet.
In America the official omega 6/omega 3 fatty acid ratio sits at 20:1. Any reasonable biologist will tell you that means cellular death. When we were hunter gatherers thousands of years ago that fatty acid ratio was 1:1 or less. Since the agricultural revolution everything has changed.
This life-threatening ratio has shifted in the favor of all polyunsaturated fats and omega 6, all very unstable fatty-acid chains. When our omega-3 consumption started declining, as we ate more and more refined foods, our insulin resistance levels also increased. All of this however, directly affected our mortality, how long we live.
The result is that the majority of the world now lives on a depleted food supply with little or no conjugated linoleic acids, omega 3 fatty acids etc. CLA and omega 3 fats can only be naturally produced by grass fed "free range" livestock. CLA is vital because it increases the sensitivity to fatty acids by producing a very strong anti-carcinogenic as well as cardiovascular chemical that promotes health.
The bottom line is that if you want to live longer you have to reduce the calories you take in. Your body converts the food you feed it into energy 24/7; this causes by-products that are toxic. The problem is that over time our energy houses, the mitochondria get damaged by these free radical toxins.
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