December 2, 2023
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News Flashes
-Was Ben wrong about vitamin C?…05:02
-How fast do you lose muscle after you stop training?…11:59
-The impact of exposure to artificial light…27:25
-The benefits of multivitamins…34:05
- Recently, I’ve been getting into multivitamins and even been experimenting (particularly during travel, when I want fewer bottles of supplements) with Xtend-Life’s formula by Warren Matthews, which I podcasted about here: “Why Your Multivitamin Probably Has The Wrong Ingredients In It, Statin Confusion, The Best Kind Of Weight Training For Longevity & More With Warren Matthews and Ivor Cummins,” and which you can get here: Xtend-Life Total Balance Men’s Formula (use code GREENFIELD to save 15%).
- So why a multivitamin? Research indicates that, especially for older adults, taking a multivitamin supplementation can result in memory improvements — read up about it more here: “A neuroscientist who studies the aging brain says he started taking multivitamins because of his own research”
- More on memory: A multivitamin improved performance by “the equivalent of 3.1 years of age-related memory change” compared to a placebo, helping to maintain cognitive functioning and potentially enhancing it
- Other research found three years of multivitamin supplementation translated to a 60% slowing of cognitive decline. Improvements in global cognition, episodic memory, and executive function were also noted
- Research has also revealed multivitamins can reduce lung cancer by 38% and improve levels of several other nutritional biomarkers: “Supplement use and gastric cancer risk in the Southern Community Cohort Study”
-Airline travel…44:25
- *Fantastic* tips here on how to limit the damage from airline travel: “Does Traveling Age You Physically?” including:
- Consume high amounts of antioxidants from food and supplements during, before, and after the flight (foods rich in color/flavonols/polyphenols and supplements like vitamin D/E/C are a few of my favorites):
- Antioxidants
- Melatonin
- Iodine for soaking up radiation
- Grounding and earthling
- Magnesium (use code BEN10 to save 10%)
- Faraday cage/EMF blocking
- Hydrate and don’t drink alcohol
- Consume *small* amounts of red wine while staying physically active for at least 5–10 minutes per 2 hours of flight time (the article says wine, but I’m a bigger fan of nitric oxide precursors such as Calroy’s Vascanox).
- Try these mini-workouts, which you can do in stealth mode during a flight without getting too many weird looks: “10 Exercises You Can Do On An Airplane Without Looking Weird”
- Deskbound: Standing Up to a Sitting World by Kelly Starrett
- Plenty more in my book Boundless for fighting jet lag and staying Fit as a frequent flyer
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