Finally the only bit of advise I would give is that when you get older flexibility is equally if not more important than strength in being able to have a fun life and it is way easier to develop that when you are younger rather then waiting until you start getting injuries from the lack of it.
Diet and strength (muscle) will correlate with older flexibility as well as prevents injuries. But again, strength is 90% diet (esp protein), 10% physical activity. I never believed this (although I was told it by older, shredded, flexible guys many times). I only believed by doing it myself, as Adam has. And over 50 I’m healthier and more flexible than at 30. Again, diet (90%) and weights/cardio (7/3%) = longevity, flexibility, and a fun life for the human animal. There is no contradiction.
Regarding genetic diversity: yes, there are some modern foods many can’t eat (grains, milk, certain legumes, alcohol, drugs), but if one just avoids those, the “diversity” problem is solved.
One last comment: why trust anyone on nutrition/fitness without the body and health metrics you desire? At every age. If they aren’t fit and healthy I just ignore them.
I’ll never buy Husqvarna again and I love H&K, lol.
Hello,
Ao is correct.Adams deadlift is punishing for his lower lumbar.AS well as his advice on cancer and diet…
watching his lift reminded myself of my days as a football lineman.Coaches constantly pushing for higher weights in squat lifts .At 60 I regret it all.The college nurse at the time…told me to find a way to avoid these lifts…she said you will regret them with your knees and your low back eventually.Boy was she correct,I watch freinds now,(the ones that are still alive) do strong man competitions and have great fun.Soccer players…in their earlier years…not football like myself.I am jealous of them.
Me?I am on quarts of sour cherry juice daily and 2 low back operations and several knee operations later…not really enjoying the days I have left.
The posters who talked about paleo and cancer?Yes…A wise men with great advice…
Mainly …to be short…Paleo is void of vitamins and a host of other factors that work together to achieve a disease avoiding diet… …(for the inside)…Paleo may help you look and feel great .NOW…but at a great cost… later in life…Take my word for it.I ate mostly meat and vegys…Want to promote your pet utube know it all??You know the guy getting the most views??
Have at it…Pay the price…in old age…listening to folks that have other agendas.and do not think long term is dumb.
Talking to lots of the men…(the ones left) in the nursing homes I have pretty much come to understand what is REALLY important in life…
Its not how strong you are…how much you can lift…How good you look on the outside,or how much $$$$you have…
I have a really good idea on what a healthy …successful life entails…
It does not entail narcissism.self respect .YES…but thinking of ones self too much,NO.
It is about moderation,Love of a good girl,or even of just a freind…as well as keeping your mood as unconflicted as you can…laughter,good food ,that you enjoy with freinds often and a cocktail or two…or more …on occasion.
When you check out.(of life).you do NOT want to look back at your life,and say to yourself 'boy …I was the bomb!..I loved what I looked like despite all the sacrificing.")
Life is for LIVING…but being obese,yes…this cuts life short…and makes life painful…although…
having zero body fat is NOT the goal ,nor the answer.
Felling good,looking O.K.and being a bit witty, funny,smart and informed on many subjects…,and mostly…fun to be around, is what we ALL should strive for…
You want to live a long…Healthy.enjoyable life overall
…with lots of good freinds that care about you as much as you do them.
Diet?..as most get older they drop excess pounds naturally…not all men…but most…
eating becomes less of a priority.
IMHO…If you DO get cancer from eating too much paleo…You will be glad you have a bit extra weight…as you fight the disease…you do not want to start out.thin .
Excessive red meat…with or without the carbs…WILL GIVE YOU CANCER…
Take my word for it…enjoy life…while you can.
my advice for a happy life?..IMHO?
Everything in moderation…food,sex,booze,physical activity,supplements,fun,money chasing,intellectual pursuits…and even being strict with yourself.
Sorry…
forgot to add …that cavemen,Paleo folk…
Had the lifespan of about 24 years or so…I believe if I remember correctly…
Not enough time to run into problems from a cancer causing diet .right?
hmm…
I’ve been Paleo for 20+ yrs. I am heavy on the meat/fish and healthy fats, stick to mostly green leafy veggies. Only berries from fruit group. Nuts for snack. Only eat between 12 noon and 7pm, usually only 1 main meal. Monitor my blood work and adjust accordingly. Big fan of probiotics. Late 50s, great health. My sweet spot is 142-150 lbs. Have never been on a prescription drug. Everyone is different. Find what works for you.
Geez - just read the article for what it is. A good man sharing what works for him. Don’t understand the need for all the criticisms … and most of them probably from out-of-shape critics.
You only have so many heartbeats, don’t waste them
Disclaimer: being a little bit fit gives you a low resting rate, and although said mostly in jest, animals (with 2 exceptions, hummingbirds and one other) have approximately the same number of lifetime heartbeats.
Just a couple short comments:
One: Fasting is a great way to get your body into a state of ketosis - using ketones derived from fats as the mitochondrial food source instead of sugar. This has wonderful effects on the body, ranging from weight loss to mitochondrial health to balanced metabolic health. Simple fasts, like eating in a 6 - 8 hour period can have very good effects on your body. We typically achieve this be not eating our first meal till near noon.
Two, avoid all processed food. Most contains lots of sugar and hydrogenated fats, both leaders in causing chronic inflammation, which is a causal factor in many chronic diseases. Choose healthy fats: butter, lard, fat and eggs from pastured animals (animals on pasture tend to bioaccumulate fatty 3 omega acids ( the good ones) and animals fed grain tend to bioaccumulate fatty 6 omega acids (the bad ones), plus regenerative pasture based operations have the potential to heal the soil faster than almost any other agricultural technique. Olive, avocado, coconut and hemp seed oil also seem to be good.
6 foot ,1 inch 185 lbs to 195 …solid muscle.Offensive gaurd,Defensive end…played both ways for 4 years.glory days…
from age 18 to age 50…maintained these stats…FAR from out of shape.
Ate lots of meat to maintain muscle…too much…cancerous now…
lifes lesson…learn from it…if you want…roll the dice otherwise…
could stack most anyone in the gym…in my day.
lived life plenty healthy…worked construction building houses.Built hundreds of them
Great wife… 3 kids…6 dogs over the years…a good life.
Out of shape and critical??
nope…just older and wiser…trying to impart wisdom from life expierience.
Take it or leave it…
Watching Adams lift…I assure you he is doing damage to L5 S1…as well as L4 and L5…at the very least…not to mention keeping the knee surgeon happy…in the future.
Squat type lifts are pure poison for the back and knees…
live and learn.
at 60…
6 foot 0 inches.(on the shrink)…
202 lbs to 210.
Muscle seems to have softened somewhat… with injuries.
pain is ever present…
I regret working construction in lots of ways…but loved it just the same…but the lifting earlier in life set the tone…
Known lots of guys that used midlife to push the limits…
Big mistake…
Responsible lifting ?
yes…
like you are 18?
you are asking for it.
Atkins/paleo ect?
recipe for later life disaster.
I agree…eat healthy foods…
but for GODS sake …limit red meat…!
Eat mostly like the meditrainean diet…period.
Enjoy a variety of natural foods…live life…before its gone.
That is key…
A little extra pounds on you…actually makes you healthy…and you live longer…
Grains aren’t evil per se. As documented by Blue Zones, the longest lived people in the world get the majority of their calories from some combination of grains, vegetables and legumes, with very little meat (usually seafood). Examples:
- https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/sardinia-italy/
- https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/ikaria-greece/
- https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/okinawa-japan/
- https://www.bluezones.com/exploration/nicoya-costa-rica/
But in a world where everyone is addicted to short term results…The latest thing…ect.
Do people really care about longevity?and how their body will feel in 20 years???
I would guess …that like myself…people start to care about such things… when they see friends go down…at that point …what was so important before goes to the backburner…
Life lesson…
Cholesterol meds.
was on them for about 10 years…suffered muscle wasting…in the long run…discontinued them…health returned…all this…despite praise from the docs on my lab perfect numbers…telling me to keep it up…
Were they helping me live longer…helping my heart?NO…my body was being taxed in a brutal way…heart is your largest muscle…
doc said not to worry…labs were all good…
Common sense alert…
Body was saying to me…You are poisoning me…stop please…
I did…I have no regrets…
looked good to the doc though.
food is the same…
Things such as diet can be tricky…
What makes you look good or feel great…
short term…may be costing a lot later on…
once they thought smoking was good for your health too…docs smoked and reccomended it…
Paleo type diets( I believe) have long term effects…some good …some very bad…its just not so well known yet.
but the data…is what we want…
where is Chris when you need him?
The diet I followed was very close to what you describe. Very rarely white rice though except perhaps when infrequently eating out. When I ate rice, it was brown instead. And starchy carbs like rice and potatoes were viewed more as condiments rather than main courses, along the lines of what was recommended by Barry Sears of Zone Diet fame. I did make it a point to always including a darky green leafy vegetable with both lunch and dinner (spinach, collards, kale, beet greens, turnip greens, mustard greens, etc.) because of their undeniable health benefits. Ditto with a cruciferous vegetable (broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, Brussel sprouts, etc.). Always had a minimum of 3 vegetables at each lunch and dinner along with my protein. And I ate a lot of eggs (but not all of the yolks) which I loved and which are nutritious (but also carry certain risks). Dairy was usually in fermented form like yogurt, kefir, or certain cheeses and from a high quality organic dairy. I ate a lot of meat including lamb (considered the healthiest meat by Edgar Cayce), wild game, buffalo (when we could find it on sale), poulty, and beef but very little pork but admittedly, the meat was not always organic. I also ate a lot of seafood, wild as much as possible, with preference for cold water fishes and eating low on the food chain (sardines being one of my favorites and a super healthy food except for being a high purine food). I ate other pro-biotic foods like sauerkraut and kimchi. I took a fair amount of supplements including the vitamin D and magnesium mentioned (although the dark green leafies provide much magnesium in the preferred colloidal form). I only started nascent iodine recently but previously had gotten iodine from seaweeds and sea food (not fresh water fish which really doesn’t have much) since we didn’t use processed iodized salt. I eschewed white sugar, white flour, white salt, and processed foods in general.
I also did almost every kind of physical training imaginable at one time or another including heavy lifting along with moderate amounts of cardio (since too much cardio seems to generate too many free radicals and cause problems) with swimming being my preference when I was getting older and carrying more body weight (which was muscle, not fat). As an aside, probably if one were confined to a single exercise type when over age 70, it would probably be Tai Chi.
I did very well on this diet. When I was younger, I had my body fat scientifically checked (in the course of us studying skinfold, ultrasound, underwater weighting, and other methodologies) and it was around 4%. I was cut, so much so, that I was actually used as the anatomy model during graduate studies because every muscle stood out and could be easily identified. As an aside, a body fat percentage that low looks impressive but really isn’t the healthiest for you. I was healthier (in terms of resistance to disease not necessarily physical performance) with a little higher ratio of around 8%. In recent decades I never got sick, never had the same colds or flus as other people (and never got a flu shot). My energy level was excellent and memory was like a steel trap.
Our kids were healthy as well. Both got top grades at school and didn’t have the same colds, flus, infections, injuries, alleries, asthma, etc. that so many of their sugar and junk eating friends had. They also didn’t have any behavioral problems. I also made sure they both had cod liver oil every day which I also took (but my wife would usually neglect). The DHA is important for optimal brain health and the vast majority of kids in this country do not get enough.
So everything seemed to be working for me. Until it wasn’t. Cancer is EXCEEDINGLY complex and there can be so many factors contributing to it. But changing my diet to a healing type diet that is almost exclusively vegan with a big emphasis on raw food, especially vegetables and fruit, and using vegetable juicing as an additional boost to health has had definite positive benefits, both subjectively and objectively. With retrospective analysis and further research where I tried to put aside previously held notions and biases (which were based on the science I read and the empirical results I saw in myself and others), I had to admit I was eating too much animal protein. I loved meat, eggs, and cheese in particular and indulged heavily, all with no ill effect for years and years.
I preached for years on the subject of biochemical individuality so I fully recognize that what’s good for one person may not be good for another. We are all so unique. I also have, over the years, become increasingly aware of the significance of psychological and spiritual factors. In fact, I am presently reading a book (another thrift store find) about using the power of the subconscious mind to heal, something I previously knew about (at least theoretically) from studies of hypnotic healing, but something that I did not regularly put into play except on rare occasions.
So the search continues. We can always find what will justify what we believe and what we practice but that can be a pitfall. I would caution you and others (myself included) that it is important to put aside ego protection and truly search for the truth, even when, at times, one’s ego might get crushed a bit in the process. I’ve learned from life experience that being able to subjugate one’s ego in pursuit of truth and knowledge is when real growth occurs.
Your advice is very sound.
I always warned patients away from the statins. The risk of rhabdomyolysis, liver damage, and cognitive decline is profound and quite common.
In defense of the docs though, I was speaking to an old friend on the phone yesterday who was also in health care and is presently providing services to one of the most important persons on the planet (and that’s all I am allowed to say) and we were discussing health issues, vaccines, etc. He said, the problem is most people lack the discipline or are just too dumb to do the reading and studying and put knowledge into practice. They want the quick fix without the work and the docs will give them what they want or they will go elsewhere. I couldn’t disagree with him.
The criticism was not mean spirited but constructive criticism offered in the spirit of sharing knowledge and wisdom gathered over a longer life span and more educational and life experiences in this area. If one shuns all criticism, one protects their ego but one also may lose opportunities to grow even further. I think Adam is a very intelligent and wise person and, as I said, he did an excellent job of transforming his body. But I also hope he will consider what was offered here and not shun it out of ego preservation.
I also was never on any prescription drugs and always in top physical shape and ate very similar to you. I was in superb health and physical condition up to age 67. In fact, even with metastatic cancer, I think I could hop in a pool now and swim 2 miles if I had to. I just finished such a swim the week I was diagnosed in August and did it despite some pain for the last mile or so. Blood chemistries were all normal except for elevated PSA and ALP (indicating prostate cancer and bony metastasis). I’ll stay away from heavy liftiing though due to a compromised spine from bony metastates at 3 locations plus the pelvis (all locations of previous injuries, interestingly enough). I do a daily walk of 2 miles at a brisk pace which had been on loose sand on the beach since we have minimal snow cover during this atypically warm and dry winter here but may well be walking in snow after today and tomorrow and have no fatigue, am not breathing hard, and have only mild elevation of pulse, and rapid recovery to a resting heart rate. This is after hobbling around in considerable pain with a cane in the mid to latter part of September. Body fat is actually lower than it probably should be since carrying some extra weight in fighting this disease is not a bad idea.
So you may not want to be so quick to judge and consider the value of not being in an echo chamber.
Here’s one of my heroes, Joe Lewis, one of the most physically capable human beings I’ve ever had the privilege of personally meeting and studying under (the man who “retired” Chuck Norris and who took down Muhammed Ali twice in playful sparring), dead unfortunately from brain cancer at age 68. RIP.
Or a big problem, depending upon the type of cancer you have. While most cancers feed off sugar, with prostate cancer, the preferred substrate is fats, animal fats in particular.
Here’s just one of many studies attesting to that fact:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277017/
AO…life extension has several articles on this…
Fasting for a Longer Life - Life Extension
Yes…seems everyone wants this these days…
The reason Imho… is that todays life is overly cluttered…
The internet while great in so many ways,has created a fast forward in evolutionary knowledge transfer…at break neck speed…
I could be wrong …but I find this.(ALWAYS ON)… life we live now …to be a bit much to keep up with …
Sometimes you have to step back and take things in and contemplate…digest…even ruminate if you will…on lifes chapters…
We as a society have forgotten how to do this…with all the texting and tweeting and really…just keeping up with it all…well… its tedious…not that I use a twitter or anything…but just an observation.
WE have the world at our fingertips…and unfortunetely have lost the art of simple quality human exchanges that not only are healthy …but are the way we were designed to flourish.
The absence of this… (shucked to the side) (actual old school human communications…). takes a toll on ones health…in more ways then the younger generations ,take note of.
Was at a winery apple picking and wine sipping with my wife… daughter and her freinds last fall…it was a gas…lots of fun…but…
I noticed all the younger folk at other tables…were tasting their wines …together… but individually…they were all on separate conversations with other people on their cell phones…??
This was everywhere…
Except our table of course…told the wife …this is NUTS…
Why even make a date to go somewhere with someone when half or more of the time …your not really with them!
no laughing…no camaraderie…just faces buried in cell phones.??.and fingers moving furiously…between sips…
oh… I forgot…it was not all bad…They did take time out for
.the redeeming… quick group selfie…to prove they actually DID go to the winery…
sigh…
Whats this world coming to…??
Yes…this lockdown unfortunately…is bad for human relations…and health…(but its temporary)…(we hope)…but I believe cell phones themselves and the way people use them …for many years…has been entirely more damaging in many ways,
Dude, this study is garbage! Have you even read it?
@ao Or a big problem, depending upon the type of cancer you have. While most cancers feed off sugar, with prostate cancer, the preferred substrate is fats, animal fats in particular. Here's just one of many studies attesting to that fact: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277017/I haven't read or analyzed that "The Role of Dietary Fat throughout the Prostate Cancer Trajectory" study (only the abstract) or any other, but are you accounting for the standardized false belief that dietary fat/cholesterol is bad and should be avoided? Are they accounting for the major confounding factor of people eating high sugar/carb diets? The abstract falsely says that "Dietary fat is a fundamental contributor to obesity" and suggests they're comparing "high intake of dietary fat, especially, high intake of animal and saturated fats" with "a low-fat diet, specifically low in saturated fat", seemingly without any consideration as to the other macronutrients profiles. People who eat low saturated fats tend to also avoid a high sugar diet because they believe that both saturated/animal fats and sugar are bad for their health, while people who eat "high saturated fats" also tend to eat high carbs (e.g. SAD). Worse yet, some/much of that saturated fat is gonna be trans/hydrogenated fats. Doesn't look like a study free from constraining false assumptions (again based only on the abstract though).