Dear Health-Conscious Reader,
My new Wellness Center will still provide the services of natural hormone therapy, anti-aging and natural approaches to healing as it always has.
But with 17,000 square feet of space, we’ll have the room to expand our research and technology and provide more cutting-edge services in prevention, wellness, anti-aging, nutrition and exercise physiology.
I am building an entire lab dedicated to researching exercise physiology that will enable us to further test my P.A.C.E program.
In fact, we’ll be taking P.A.C.E. testing to another level. We’ll put patients on my new POWER Fit program that includes a low-glycemic eating plan and new P.A.C.E. workouts to achieve even faster, more dramatic improvements to their health and fitness.
Then we’ll look at those results, and tweak our programs to benefit you even more. For example, we’ll be working on ways to accurately measure oxygen use and how the body makes energy with exertion.
I already have my researchers T.B. and K.D. looking at dynamic lungpower and oxygen uptake – and how they change over time – to create our own proprietary lungpower scale.
One of the things they’ve discovered so far is that your dynamic lung capacity per unit of time (also called FEV1) declines faster in shorter women over time than it does in taller women. And it declines faster for men than for women.
At the new center, we’ll use information like this to design specific P.A.C.E. exertion routines to improve lungpower based on height, age, and current fitness capability. We’ll tailor your workouts to you, to give you greater benefit.
We’ll be able to look at the total measure of your body’s output ability and directly improve it, making your body act younger than your physical age. It’s the essence of anti-aging. Living younger, starting right now.
What makes this all possible is a brand new way of looking at your body and how young it is.
First we’ll take another unique measurement I’ve developed called Body Intelligence, which includes measurements like FEV1. Then, we’ll combine it with other biological information like physical age and height. This will give us a brand new way to determine how young you are.
I call it your Age Quotient (AQ).
Like your brain has an IQ, each of your body’s systems will have an AQ that you can improve over time.
It’s much better than the old way of trying to report to you how well you’re doing with all those medical acronyms and strange numbers.
Let me give you an example for FEV1 that I talked about earlier. Right now, we know that dynamic lung power declines with age. We have the demographic data on that for men and women, and we’re currently measuring it.
But you go to the doctor and they report it to you with FEV1 scores and other numbers and you have no idea what that means. They give you a volume of air that you can exhale, but is that good or bad? Who knows? You have to be a doctor to know. Frankly, it’s not very useful or helpful.
Now, what I could do is tell you your lung age. I could measure your lungpower, then I can track it on a graph of the population, and tell you your result in years. So you may be 50, but you have the lung age of a 54-year-old.
But it still isn’t any more useful to you. What do you do with that information?
Instead, here’s what I’ll do at the new Center. I’m making it much simpler and just showing you what your Age Quotient is.
We can then use your AQ to make your body function better, like a much younger person’s. A simple tweak to what you eat, what supplements you take and how you exert yourself and you can continually improve your AQ.
Like IQ, you are being compared to the population. And like IQ, the higher your AQ the better you are doing. But unlike other age measurements that are out there, AQ has the advantage that you can always improve it. You are rewarded for being more mature with AQ.
As an example, my chronological age is 54. As you know, I’ve challenged my lungs with P.A.C.E. for quite some time. Now when I test my pulmonary age, it’s 25, so my lung AQ is 216, which is very high.
The beauty of it is, next year, when I turn 55, if I do as well on the test, my lung AQ will improve. So it’s possible to get a bigger number. You can actually improve your body as you age just as you can improve your mind.
That’s just one example, of course. I have a whole list and when we put it together, you’ll have a total body AQ that you can improve with just a few easy adjustments.
Here’s a great example of a P.A.C.E. workout that can give you more lungpower and improve your AQ starting today. It’s called an Airplane.
- Stand with your feet together, knees slightly bent and upper body leaning slightly forward.
- Hold your arms in front of you about waist height, hands together in a “praying” position.
- Spread your arms and swing them backwards, and at the same time, lift one leg behind you.
- Return to the starting position, then swing your arms and raise the other leg.
- Repeat until you are slightly winded.
- Rest and recover.
- For the second set, increase the intensity until you can only speak in short sentences.
- Recover.
- For the third set, increase the intensity until you can’t complete a sentence, then stop.
The slight increases in intensity make it a true P.A.C.E. workout. You can increase the intensity without increasing the impact by doing the airplanes “bigger.” That means leaning a little more forward, doing a squat before you “airplane,” or extending your hands and arms as much as possible with each repetition.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears, MD