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8 years ago I got all of my blood removed to get my Iron level down to normal. I did the Niacin sauna detox a couple of years back for 100 hours to release chemical toxins from my fat. Now I want to get all of my toxic metals down to safe levels.

Chelation is the way to do this and is also very beneficial for the cardiovascular system and brain. The problem is its $250 per IV and may take 90 sessions. Thats $22,500 totally out of the question as is even $2000.

Now I studied this up 20 years ago and decided I wanted to do it but would wait until necessity and ability came together. That time has come.

After renovating properties for 20 years I would expect my bones to be lead laden. I have stripped many houses down to the lead paint – done it many times.

So thank heavens there now is a cheap way to do it – with a catch.

Its not oral – that only absorbs 10%.

Its suppository!!! Yep I’m actually prepared to do it for lead poisoning. Basically you have to stick a small pill in your ass every night for 3 months.

In return you get better detox than IV as it stays in your body longer at a lower dose. Cost – $100 to $300 compared to many thousands.

So I’m not keen to so much as touch my ass but this is medical grade detox – I’m gunna do it.

Cissus Quadrangularis is a non toxic plant. When dried it is 30% calcium but has a bunch of other stuff. Some say it has anabolic plant sterols.

How good is it & what does it do?

If you have joint issues Cissus is as good as creatine in terms of effectiveness. It does totally different stuff to creatine.

Lets say Cissus is to your bones & joints what creatine is to your muscles. It stops joint pain in a day or two, cuts off belly fat and gives stamina in the gym. My body is looking much more muscular on this stuff & diet/training are unchanged.

Don’t ask me why or how as the scientific research is ongoing. But I can tell you it works & has been used for a couple of thousand years.

Don’t bother with capsules – you need 3-5 gm per day & best take magnesium to balance the calcium.

I just ordered a PEMF from information unlimited for about $350 usd

Its 500 Gauss max which is OK. Best of all you can set the frequency & field strength.

Here is the link: Pulser option 1

Ok I will have that from the US in about a month.

Now the sweet thing is that with a minor circuit modification it can be used with another system and boosted up to 7500 Gauss.

A PEMF that strong should only be used occasionally but should do the job on my tendons & joints.

PEMF is not the same as Rife Therapy which has little scientific research backing it. PEMF has ample research to back it up but is not FDA approved.

I will use it daily but be careful about how. Here is where to get the High power device mod: Pulser option 2

Both devices can be used without each other. The second can play frequencies from a computer soundcard or MP3 player.

Did a nice upper body workout today. I do train most days. Always do shoulder rehab on the cable machine first.

Triceps got bombed, some pullups, ab & core. No cardio only because the machines were busy.

Knee is coming along quickly & I iced most of day two. I hope to have a brace tomorrow. There has been no swelling but still hurts like hell at times. Also if I walk outside I need the crutches to relieve pressure. Yesterday it hurt to bend but today it does not.

If I rehab it will be gone in 1-2 weeks – a stage one injury thank god but I will wear the brace for activity for a few weeks.

Kapow – working out yesterday my knee kind of hurt – I knew

Quadriceps tendinopathy for the first time in my life & 5 months from 50 I have finally done a knee.

My Rotator Cuff is really getting better too but I have joint issues. What can I do at my age?

I will start taking 4mg cissus daily & go on some IGF cycles. I already take collagen & have a good protein intake.

Life is good. I will survive.

I am on crutches for a few days – its not swollen but is a little unstable & very painful. I guess I will know in a week if its stage one or two.

Icing it every hour or two & ordered a brace.

UPDATE: 3 days later – this is healing up good, was off the crutches yesterday with a slight limp & some pain. Today there is minimal pain & i did not ice. Got a real good brace & am not even limping in that. Should be fully 100% in a week or two. Iced continuously for first 2 days & rested.

I got a Twin Stim EMS/TENS device from Roscoe Medical. Its a great little unit & has TENS, EMS, Interferential & Russian stim modes. There are several mode settings for each and many parameters such as frequency, wavelength etc can be modified. I have not gotten into that yet but took it with me on my trip down south.

I can say that out of the box its not as strong as my Chinese TENs which makes me numb but maybe if I change the settings it can do that? The Russian stim seems moderate but having used it on my biceps with very light flexing for 20 minutes – they were sore after for 2 days so that definitely works.

The interferential feels great too so what remains to be seen is if I can get more juice out of it. Works off main or battery & I assume they are made in Taiwan by this firm Everyway Medical

Yes finally my rotator cuff was healed enough to carry both my 120ltr bergen & small day pack at the same time.

Off I went for a 19 day visit. The plane landed at around 2pm. Weather was overcast and I booked into a private suite at Nomads Backpackers for the first night.

I had no idea if my tent would still be there as last year I did not get up the mountain.

I was pleased to find it on the first day after a two hour climb – that first climb was tough. The next day I cheated & took the big bergen up via the gondola. I set up camp & remained in tent for the next 2 weeks straight.

I climbed a total of 20,000 feet in those 2 weeks. Maybe lost a kilo – and I lost a clear amount of belly fat so I am looking pretty fit. It was a substantial body composition improvement.

My diet was chocolate bars, trail mix, nuts & delicious roast mutton which the local supermarket sells super cheap – fully cooked whole legs of lamb.

I had a couple of salads & took most of my supplements including Ginseng.

I went on a cruise of Lake Wakatipu & had a road trip to Mt Cook.

In short it was totally beautiful and again my friends the little birds sang to me every evening & came home to roost in the tree above my tent. I was pleased to see the wild goat family is still there too.

Next trip I want to hike up the remarkables which will be tough & require a healed up shoulder. I also want to do a few days at Doubtful Sound.

I am 8 months shy of 50 but people say I look like I am in my 30’s or 40’s.

I do have some aging issues but I put youthfullness down to a few things.

Meditation – at least an hour per day, Diet – mine is not perfect & I could do with a wife but I try & eat healthy, Exercise of course.

Finally is supplements & if you dont use them you are missing out.

Heres what I take at present.

Multivitamin, mineral & herb – most but not all days

High strength B – many days but not most at present as its a super strong dose

Resveratrol – daily

Quercetin – daily

DMAE – daily

Green tea – copius amounts daily

Decaf coffee – one cup per day

CoaCoa – I go through spells of this daily for a while

Ginseng – I try & take Panax daily but sometimes run out, also siberian is great before training

Acetyle-l-carnitine – occasional spells of daily use, its a great nootropic with creatine

l-glutamine – occasional daily

BCAA – occasional daily

Black Ant – occasional

Pine Pollen & nettle – occasional

Colostrum – daily

Beta glucan – occasional

Collagen – I should take daily at my age but its occasional at present

My two favorite places to get supplements: Purebulk & Nutrabio

On a final note I have not had a cold or flu for a long time – well over a year which is unusual for me. Perhaps it was the relaxing rest I had while injured. Perhaps it was the bottle of vitamin D I took during winter or the Vitamin C & echinacea. I dont know which of these did it but I suspect the low stress & vitamin D did the trick.

Glad to say my rotator cuff injury is really coming along nicely. I am now doing some pretty robust activities and although it stll hurts a bit frequently I can see that it really is nearly better.

This is a long term injury – a rotator cuff tear. I am 14 months down the track now & I expect in 6 months to be saying that I am better.

But I still am not benching or overhead pressing with anything great – over head press especially.

Benches I can do isometrically as hard as I like but I aint pressing 400lbs on this sucker like I used to.

Not sure when I will be back into that & overhead press will be the final exercise that returns.

This is the 21st century & 20 years from now I wanna be like this guy – or better

…And here is a post from Mark Hunts site along the same lines

72 year old bodybuilder