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Be positive Banish negative thoughts for better health

Building Strength It becomes more important as we age

Jill Marlan

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Contents MAY 2018 | VOLUME 14 | ISSUE 2

Fit Features P10

Jill Marlan Nancy Hallenbeck On the cover: Jill Marlan Photo credit: Erica Spencer Photography

Fit Features | P10

Editorial P13

Negative thoughts How to get rid of that negative selftalk for better health, wellness

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There is a fungus among us What you need to know about prevention and treatment

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Activity is heart smart With the warmer weather, get outside and be active!

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Sparking creativity Creativity, dopamine and the brain’s neurotransmitter

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Yoga: Remembering life Reduce the noise and rediscover your awesome reality

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Understanding spasticity It’s a condition affecting safety and lifestyle

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Stretching works Proper stretching can enhance your workouts

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Well-being is the key to aging It’s part of the ‘fantasticfive’ paradigm to satisfaction

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Anti-aging medicine NAD+ shows potential breakthroughs

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Building strength There are plenty of benefits of lifting weights as you age

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Justin Grinnell, B.S., CSCS

Justin is the owner of State of Fitness in East Lansing. He is also a certified nutrition coach. Reach him at 517.708.8828.

Ryan Haughey B.S. CPT - ACE, SASTM Ryan is the fitness manager and personal trainer at the University Club of Michigan State University. Reach him at 517.353.5113.

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Alison Bradow

Alison is the chronic disease prevention coordinator at the YMCA of Metropolitan Lansing. Contact her at (517) 827-9656.

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Kimberly is the owner of Kimberly Inspiring Beauty in Strength. Visit her on the web at kwinspires.com for a list of her classes.

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BY TIM KISSMAN

This happened one particular morning

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elationships are incredibly important when it comes to being healthy. Take for instance my relationship with my youngest daughter, Sage, on one particular morning when I was trying to eat breakfast. She’s a freshman at Mason High School.

One of her chores before school is to clean the cat litter, using a plastic grocery bag for the process.

We keep a supply of the Sage and Tim take a selfie, on a different particular morning. bags in our pantry.

For about a week or so prior to that particular morning, I had noticed a growing rancid odor in the pantry. What started as just a whiff, turned into a waft and then a stench that called for a search party to find the rotting offender. My wife and I spent a few days eliminating potatoes, onions, and any other food item we thought might be causing the smell.

We thought we had found the culprit the night before that one particular morning, but we were wrong.

Apparently, something had dropped from the shelves into the plastic grocery bags and festered there, nestled in the bunch of wadded up plastic. The smell was masked by the layers of bags that had been slowly peeled away, kitty litter cleaning after kitty cleaning until this one particular morning.

“Dad!” Sage said as she walked slowly toward me and my perfectly de-shelled hard-boiled eggs. “Dad, what is this?”

Sage is the kind of kid that gets mad at someone for burping across the room. She claims she can smell it right away, even if she is upwind. A sock on the floor? It smells. The smell of some spilled gas in the garage?

She can’t stand it.

Somehow that’s the kid that opened up the plastic bag to show me what looked like a mini-pod from the movie Alien. It was grey, almost pulsing and emitted an odor that about knocked me to the floor. No reason to eat any more for the rest of the morning. I was done.

“What is that?!?!” I yelled, backing away. I gagged, and I don’t gag often. This smell, though, was now in my top five worst-ever odors.

She looked at it again, like she found a painted egg on Easter morning.

“It looks gross,” she said. Curiosity clearly numbed her sense of smell.

“Close the bag!!” I gagged again. My knees were weak. I tried to step forward, but it turned into a lurch. Superman has kryptonite. I am apparently weakened by what looked like a grotesque, slimy moth cocoon that smelled like the Amorphophallus titanum, aka the corpse flower. I swear it moved again.

I took the bag and wadded it up. I took all the bags and put them in the trash outside. And went back to eat, but alas — I wasn’t hungry. I wasn’t hungry for some time after that. I actually ate less calories that day than normal.

That’s a tight relationship there. She risked my sense of smell to keep me from eating too much for breakfast. I hope that was it. And I hope we never go through that again.

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FIT FEATURES ON THE COVER: Jill Marlan Jill Marlan, 42, of Grand Ledge, is an entrepreneur, mom and wife. A former college basketball player, Marlan has learned how important fitness is to her lifestyle. “I have had back surgery due to a crash, while training for a mountain bike race,” she said. “I recovered very well, got married two weeks after and was able to dance in heels at my wedding. I attribute this to my fitness level. As I have gotten older it has been more of a challenge for me, more aches, pains and recovery takes longer. I have realized that the intensity does not have to be the same but the frequency dedication does.” She said she works out from home nearly every day for 30-60 minutes, depending on how much time she has. “I work out from home because of the flexibility it allows me,” she said. “It is amazing the things you can do with bands, body weight and light weights. I used to run a lot because it was quick and easy but noticed too much hip, knee and ankle tightness.

I now do cross training quite a bit which has increased my ability to run and be overall healthy and strong.” She said she eats as healthy as she can, allowing herself occasional treats. “I believe everything in moderation, including dessert,” she said. “I feel people that eliminate things from their diet end up splurging after the diet is over and in the long run it is not sustainable. A little chocolate never killed anyone.” She said her success is built around her ability to stay healthy. “Fitness is my life. I have worked with patients for 20 years on fitness, strength, alignment, and overall pain free living,” she said. “I love it, live it, and am passionate about it.”

Nancy Hallenbeck Nancy Hallenbeck, 59, of DeWitt, is an accounting technician at the Michigan House of Representatives. Her family history of osteoarthritis, as well as pounds she had accumulated over the years, prompted her to get moving.

“Even though I have always been active, I felt like I really needed to strengthen my bones,” she said. “Plus, I desperately wanted to get rid of those very uncomfortable pounds I had accumulated. Last year, with both of my children out on their own, I started on my weight loss goal. I got myself a Fit Bit, increased my exercise and started paying attention to calories. I have lost 35 pounds so far.” She said she walks every day at lunch with her co-workers and participates in Jazzercise four to five days a week. “I love Jazzercise because it is never boring,” she said. Hallenbeck keeps track of her intake and likes to cook with different foods. “My husband and I enjoy a wide variety of cuisines and I find different ways to use vegetables to keep meals from getting boring,” she said. “We eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and have added more fish to our weekly meals.”

She indicated that she eats in moderation, and by being aware of calories and increasing her exercise, she is able to occasionally splurge. “When you start really paying attention it’s easier to walk away when you realize most things are not worth the extra calories,” she said. “I also try to balance my splurges with the amount of exercise I’m getting and go lighter on other meals that day.” She said she makes sure to find time to do the workouts and feels it is the key to her healthy lifestyle. “You have to take time for regular exercise; it is critical for maintaining physical and mental health as we age,” she said. “I wish I had done this years ago. It really has not been as hard and restrictive as I always told myself it would be and that gives me the motivation to keep going.”

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BY ALISON BRADOW

HEALTH

Negative thoughts How to get rid of that negative self-talk for better health, wellness

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egative self-talk or negative thinking can impact your progress to making positive, healthier lifestyle changes and achieving your physical activity and nutrition goals.

Often, we are our own worst critics and are harder on ourselves than we are on other people. Just think how lonely we’d be if we talked to family and friends the way we talk to ourselves.

So how do we flip the script in our minds to harness positive self-talk and positive thinking as a tool to achieving our health and wellness goals? The short answer is practice, practice, practice.

Many people work for years and years and enlist the help of therapists or counselors to combat negative self-talk.

Here are a few tips: Catch yourself thinking those negative thoughts. The first step is to recognize it happening. Stop those negative thoughts in their tracks and flip them to a positive thought.

Change your excuses to opportunities – “I can’t run outside because it’s raining” becomes “I will run outside in the rain because it will make me a stronger runner on nice days.”

Change obligations or “shoulds” to choices – “I have to eat salad” or “I shouldn’t eat ice cream” become “I get to nourish my body with these fresh veggies” and “I choose to eat fruit instead of ice cream right now because it will get me closer to my healthy living goals.”

Leave thoughts of comparison in the dust and realize that everyone is starting from different places and working on different things. We are all working on something in our healthy living journeys.

Don’t give up! Keep your health and wellness goals in mind and remember that lifestyle changes happen little by little and step-by-step.

Keep things in perspective and

realize that one missed workout or one treat meal won’t completely derail your hard work and is not the be-all, end-all of positive, healthy lifestyle changes.

What you do most days will have a bigger impact than what you do once in a while.

Adopt your own positive motto, mantra, or philosophy to get you through the tougher moments. “It’s okay,” or “I can do hard things.” Choose positive thoughts and love yourself into change for long-term health and wellness.

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TEETH

BY DR. SUSAN MAPLES

There is a fungus among us What you need to know about prevention and treatment

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he most common fungus family that lives in the mouth, throat and rest of the GI tract is called Candida (also called “yeast”). Candida typically lives a small and quiet life within your mouth, gut and skin. But when the environment is ripe, it multiplies and grows out of control.

Most of us have either experienced or heard of a “yeast infection” or “thrush,” which shows up as white or yellow patches in the mouth or vagina, and it’s caused by the most common candida type called albicans. But this type is only responsible for approximately half of the candidiasis (candida infection) we see today.

The incidence of fungal infections has risen significantly in the last decade—the climb is thought to be caused by a decrease in host immune response (i.e. we are sicker) and an increase in antimicrobial (i.e. antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal) resistance. Candida is also spread from person to person; a combi-

nation of these two factors make fungal infections the most common (comprising about 60%) of hospital spread infections.

And its penetration into the bloodstream is often deadly, killing about one in three affected by the blood infection.

Other than obvious white or yellow patches in the mouth, the less obvious symptoms can include redness or soreness in the mouth and/or throat, bleeding gums, cracking at the corners of the mouth and painful swallowing. Beyond the mouth, Candidiasis might also result in gut pain, bloating, loose stools, fever, fatigue, or genital itching/soreness.

Fortunately, today we can detect nine strains of Candida from a single drop of saliva. This has become incredibly helpful when we discover patients whose “treated” periodontal (gum) disease and/or gingivitis remains unresolved.

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number of drugs and delivery systems, and they have some side effects. It is often difficult to quell the overgrowth without repeated attempts. If you are being treated, please remember to discuss an anti-fungal oral rinse to clean your denture, bite splint or orthodontic retainers too—as they can remain the breeding ground.

If you suspect you have Candidiasis, ask your dentist for a saliva detection test and seek treatment before it’s too late.

On a healthier note, it’s always best to attend to the underlying cause—not just a pharmacological remedy.

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DR. ALICIA WILLIAMS

HEALTH

Activity is heart smart With the warmer weather, get outside and be active!

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he warm weather is finally here and after a long cold winter we’re ready to get moving. Spring and summer are a great time to work on heart health.

More time can be spent outside exercising and gardening. However, if you were a couch potato over the winter, or you are taking medications, be careful not to jump into an aggressive program.

Remember to start slow and seek advice from a professional when starting a new or strenuous activity.

If you are on any medications, it is important to talk to your health care provider about tracking your blood pressure and hydration levels. It’s also important to remember that many medications can cause sun sensitivity.

Summer brings more fresh foods so increasing your vegetable and fruit intake can be very good for your heart health. All vegetables are beneficial, but cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, Brussel

inclined to indulge in too much salt, sugar and alcoholic drinks. Any time you spend outdoors in the warm months, it’s important to check for ticks.

Ticks have become an increasing problem and lyme disease can affect the heart. Patients with lyme disease can have symptoms that mimic heart disease, such as palpitations, shortness of breath and chest pains. Although it’s a small percentage of cases, lyme disease can have serious implications on your heart rhythm, heart muscle and can even result in heart failure.

Safely enjoy your dose of natural Vitamin D, fresh veggies and relax. It will make your heart happy. sprouts, broccoli) in particular have been shown to significantly reduce heart, stroke and cancer risk.

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MIND

BY CYNTHIA LOGAN

Sparking creativity Creativity, dopamine and the brain’s neurotransmitter

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opamine drives us to want things.

Any time we anticipate any kind of payoff, whether it be money, an event, or even a marriage proposal, we get a significant rush of dopamine surging through our brain. Psychologist Colin DeYoung of the University of Minnesota explains, “the release of dopamine…increases motivation to explore and facilitates cognitive and behavioral processes useful in exploration.”

Psychological plasticity gives us the tendency to engage with uncertainty, which has to do with things like investments, taking that first date, or stepping out of a box and daring to be different. This occurs because we are hoping to obtain a positive reward. This plasticity brings about cognitive and behavioral interest, which in turn, encourages engagement and exploration and, often times a commitment to personal growth.

“Research shows that psychological plasticity is associated with high levels of

idea generation, engagement with everyday creative activities and publicly recognized creative achievement. Plasticity has a blend of both extraversion and openness to new experience, and dopamine is a source of this exploratory motivation,” according to authors S. Kaufman and C. Gregorie.

There are differences between extraversion and openness to experience, the authors explain, because extraverts seek environmental rewards. They also have qualities such as talkativeness, sociability, they are emotionally positive, assertive and get excited when they talk. They also get thrilled by the possibility that they might get to learn new information. They get thrilled of the knowledge chase and this is what most excites them.

Dopamine facilitates creativity, which includes night dreaming and day dreaming. People who are open to new experiences report that they dream more often and dream more vividly than those

less open. This may be due to higher levels of dopamine production which surges into the right hemisphere of the brain where openness to experience and dreaming occur. The brain does not shut down at night and this could inspire creative insights in extraverts. It might be worth mentioning that these types of people rely on their intuitions more and that often their intuitions were, in fact, correct!

The downside to this quality in extraverts is that they are more prone to distraction than others. Small things, such as a ticking clock, cannot be tuned out by some extraverts.

Cynthia Logan, PhD is a psychologist and a nationally certified counselor. E-mail her at pyschlogan@yahoo.com for more information.

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BY ANN CHRAPKIEWICZ

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Yoga: Remembering life Reduce the noise and rediscover your awesome reality

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hat is the most important thing in your life, at various points throughout your day?

Is it your family? Your job?

Your living situation? Your status? Your love life?

Your financial well-being? Your children’s success and happiness? Your friendships? Your religious views? Your political beliefs?

It might be hard to choose from that list, or it might change from hour to hour. But what if the answer is - ultimately - none of the above?

What about being alive?

There is so much noise all around us, that in most day-to-day moments, we completely forget about the simple fact and miracle of being alive. There is noise outside us in the form of people and to-do-lists. And there is noise

inside us in the form of thoughts, plans, stories, identities, worries, memories, desires, and all the things we think are important. But without your life, there is none of that.

So what is the most important thing in your life?

All of the noise?

Or your life itself?

Practicing paying attention to life If you come to the conclusion that your life is the most important thing in your life, what are you supposed to do next? Throw out all of the noise and the other things?

Well, no.

You can just start by paying attention to life. You can do this in any moment, in any location, and under any set of circumstances.

You can do this even more effec-

tively with a physical yoga practice, by holding completely still in certain positions and paying attention to your life processes.

You can feel the intensity of your heart beating, your lungs working, your blood circulating, or your organs stretching or being compressed, just as a starting point.

Yoga is not a stretching class. It is simply a process of reducing the noise, and becoming more sensitive to the miraculous reality that you are alive.

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HEALTH

BY DR. LAWRENCE PROKOP

Understanding spasticity It’s a condition affecting safety and lifestyle

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pasticity is a condition which is caused by various neurologic injuries and illnesses such as stroke, brain injury and spinal cord injury, as well as other conditions.

Spasticity causes an uncontrollable repetitive contraction and relaxation of muscles, generally of the arms and legs.

This shaking motion in the muscles can be triggered by certain positions and by movement. Slow gentle movement of the arm or the leg may be tolerated without firing off the spasticity.

However, if the arm or leg is moved too fast the repetitive contraction and relaxation of the muscles, the spasticity, is triggered.

The faster the arm or leg is moved the worse the spasticity can be. Over time, this excessive tightness and repetitive action in the muscles causes tightness in the joints. This joint tightness is called contractures. The joints

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that are contracted become painful to movement because of tightness in the capsules surrounding the joints and decrease in the synovial fluid lubricating the inside of the joints. These painful joints become an irritant which then aggravates and increases the spasticity. The ability of a person to be active in their daily life can be significantly damaged. Spasticity can affect abilities needed for bathing, dressing, hygiene, eating, transferring to and from chairs and commodes, walking, and housekeeping. Community activities such as shopping, going to shows, watching or participating in recreational activities and sports can be affected and may have to be stopped.

At MSU Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation we employ a broad range of treatments for this problem. These include looking for causes of increased spasticity, therapeutic exercises, and medications. If these are not effective

enough, we have techniques such as chemodenervation and neurolysis to decrease the spasticity. These techniques include instilling medications into the muscles or around the nerves to dampen the spasticity. The goal is to return the person to a safe and active lifestyle and to decrease the chance of further mobility problems.

If you or a loved one is living with this problem, we would be pleased to offer you our help in regaining activity and a safe, enjoyable lifestyle.

Lawrence L. Prokop, DO, FAOCPMR-D, FAAPMR, FAOASM, FAADEP is an Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine. Reach his office at (517) 975-1450.

BY RYAN HAUGHEY

FITNESS

Stretching works Proper stretching can enhance your workouts

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hen it comes to working out or any physical activity, it is important to make sure your body is properly warmed up. A warm-up routine has multiple benefits that can help reduce the risk of injury and increase your body’s function and performance, including the following.

An increase in muscle temperature: Muscles that are warmed up will be able to contract with more force and relax at a faster rate after the contraction; this will increase overall strength and speed.

Increase in body temperature: Warming up will increase your body’s temperature making your muscles more elastic, reducing the risk of muscle pulls.

Improved coordination: With a warm-up, your body’s central nervous system gets ready to go and will increase the communication of nerve-tomuscle pathways. Your body will be able to respond with quicker reaction times and agile movements.

“Help your body out by performing a warm up and watch the improvement in workouts and other physical activities.”

Increase in blood temperature: Just as your muscles and body move more effectively when warmed up, your blood operates the same way. When blood temperature rises, blood oxygen levels rise creating more oxygenated blood in the blood stream. Thus, muscles will be able to receive larger volumes of nutrients and function at a greater level.

A warm-up should consist of simple movements such as walking on a treadmill, jogging in place, jumping jacks, jumping rope or core rotation move-

ments, and take five to 10 minutes to perform. Making the time to incorporate a warm-up before your workout or physical activity should become part of your regular routine. If you jump right into working out or any other physical activity without warming up there is a greater risk of injury as well as lower body function and performance.

When muscles and joints are “cold,” the range of motion is not as great and the elasticity of your muscles is much tighter. Without a proper warm-up, you run the risk for muscle and joint strains, tears and sprains.

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BY TOM MATT

Well-being is the key to aging It’s part of the ‘fantastic-five’ paradigm to satisfaction

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am a believer that well-being is a key to growing older with zest and pizazz. I have used the term in a speech I call the ‘Well-being Paradigm’ with the paradigm consisting of five components. I label these the Fantastic-Five. They are: • Wellness • Science • Technology • Medicine • Behavior Each of these components has its own depth. One of the fun parts of discussing the journey and mission of living and flourishing is talking about these. For example in my world wellness is the lead-off hitter. The paradigm has eight levels which are: • Physical and Intellectual • Occupational and Financial • Spiritual and Emotional • Social and Environmental

Identifying our strength and relative weakness in any of these subcategories can help us grow. This is a key to Generativity. Psychologist Eric Erickson is attributed with this concept and I was introduced to it by my friend and guest on our radio program Psychologist Dr. Debbie Heiser.

Framed by giving back to society through raising our children, being productive at work and becoming involved in community activities and organizations, generativity helps us develop a sense of being a part of the larger life picture.

Being in the MiddleLiving phase of life (40-85) gives all of us ample opportunity to make amends, shape our future and give back. I like to say that the “Bling-Bling doesn’t have the same Ring-Ring” it once did.

Understanding and working within the Fantastic-Five can enable our continued development and growth.

Generativity is the rocket fuel that can launch us into a fulfilled life. Growth

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does not stop at a certain age, and it actually can be enhanced as we grow into the next chapters.

It is up to each of us to determine the robustness. Think about this: • Flourishing is reflective of positivity • Happiness is an attribute of mental health • Life satisfaction is part of each person’s soul • Giving back enhances it all, in every way, every day!

Tom Matt is the host of the ‘Boomers Rock’ radio talk show syndicated throughout Michigan on the Michigan Talk Network and can be heard locally Saturday mornings on the ‘Big Talker’ WJIM 1240 AM. For more information please visit www. boomersrock.us

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Anti-aging medicine NAD+ benefits show potential breakthroughs

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AD+ is an abbreviation used to describe a cellular compound called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. NAD+ is found in every cell in the body and is essential to life. It enables transfer of energy from the foods we eat to vital cell functions and also activates certain longevity enzymes to regulate the genes of aging.

As we age, our NAD+ levels dramatically decline. Lower levels of NAD+ and longevity enzymes can result in neurodegeneration in the brain, vascular inflammation, increased fat storage in the liver, insulin resistance, fatigue, loss of muscle strength, and fatty infiltration of muscles.

A major advance in “systemic antiaging medicine” is now available.

Nicotinamide riboside is a new form of vitamin B3 that has been found to increase NAD+ levels and directly activate enzymes responsible for longevity called sirtuins. NAD+ is an absolute requirement for normal,

levels of NAD+, nicotinamide riboside is providing promising brain benefits for dementia and Alzheimer’s conditions, and delaying degeneration of the nerve cells that carry impulses over long distances.

Supporting NAD+ levels with nicotinamide riboside supplementation extends life span in laboratory organisms, while boosting energy, physical performance, and cognition in aging animals. To fight aging throughout your body, begin regular supplementation with NAD+ with nicotinamide riboside.

efficient, and safe energy transfer from food to tissue. New discoveries show that NAD+ is also essential for silencing genes for proteins that accelerate aging such as those involved in inflammation, in fat synthesis and storage, and in blood sugar management. By increasing

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Prevent injury Strengthening the muscles surrounding and supporting your joints can help prevent injuries while helping you maintain good form, and improve joint health.

Promotes quality of life Strength training helps to ensure our muscles work efficiently which in turn makes it easier to do day to day tasks, improve overall strength and manage weight!

Increases calorie burn Your body works harder to maintain muscle over fat.

Strength training can boost your metabolism so you burn more calories throughout the day. As you build muscle, it’s easier for the body to burn fa Decreases your risk of osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a disease of the bones, that causes bones to become fragile and break easily.

As we age, strength training not only helps keep bones healthy, it protects against falls and fractures and improves balance and strength.

I hope you find these tips Kimberly Whitfield is the helpful, and owner of Kimberly Inspiring remember, Beauty in Strength, a fitness strength training instructor at Go Workout can be beneFitness Center and Trinity A.M.E. Church; a bodybuilder, ficial. So what and a public speaker. Visit are you waiting her on the web at kwinspires.com for a list for? Start lifting of her classes. today.

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