I am in that "mid to VERY late 40s" range lol. In fact very close to 50. I lift 5 days a week and eat well.
This was me below yesterday (blue swim trunks) and a month ago or so.
Big Neil you are about my age so you should get on my regiment. I would also change your lifting program. I can help you with that. You are getting into "skinny fat" territory. Good job on your weight loss though
I owe it mainly to as I said, working out and a good diet, but a huge part of it is Vitamin C and lysine/proline. I started on a heavy regiment of it about 5 years ago. My twin brother had a heart attack with 3 stents put in due to his blockages. He was 160 pounds, an athlete, didnt smoke. All genetics with the heart issues. He was put on all of the usual statins and drugs and felt horrible. In fact after his year the one arterial blockage without a stent grew by 25%. So he found this high vit C and lysine regiment invented by Nobel prize winner Dr. Pauling. Up to 20 grams a day of vitamin C, and 8 grams of lysine and 5 of proline. Within days he started feeling better and within a year his blockages were about gone. As in disappeared. No drug can do that. Today he is fit, healthy, and happy.
So I got on the high regiment and you can see the results. My energy is way up. My skin for my age is great. I used to get sick easily 3-4 times a year and have not been sick in the 5 years since I started this. Not one day. In addition, taking up to 10-15 grams a day will burn about 33% more fat than not taking it due to its anti oxidant qualities.
Basically, humans are one of only 3 animals in the world that dont make any vit C in our bodies. 99.99999999% of all other animals do. We lost the ability 1000s of years ago. Its an enzyme made in the liver actually. So because we dont make it, we need to ingest it. We normally get enough to counteract the effects of short term scurvy, but not enough to counteract the effects of long term scurvy. That leads to inflammation in our arteries, our cells, skin and immunity issues, etc due to collagen issues. So for example with our heart, when it beats we get little stress fractures in our arteries and our body sends lipo protein to fix those. But because we lack vit C and not enough lysine, out arteries (which are made of collagen) are very weak and our body sends the wrong things to heal those arterial fractures. That leads to blockages and the heart attacks. This is why wild animals, including meat eaters with high cholesterol, that do make vit C in their bodies, don't die of things like heart disease and cancer like people do. Many animals make 8-12 grams a day in their bodies or more. Humans are lucky to ingest 100 mgs a day, if that.
That is just one example. I can give you many.
So I started a company based on this at
www.c-fitlife.com. Has your pre and post workout recovery mixes plus 3 grams of vit C and lysine in each dose. That is 3000% more than you get during a normal day in just one dose. And 200% more than something like emerg-n-C. I take the C Load every morning in a smoothie and after I work out. And the C energize before I work out. It works.
I will make a good offer to anyone interested. Buy any 2 of the C load or C energize (only $20-$25 a month) and I will give you a free container on top of it.
You couldn't even buy a months worth of Vit C that cheap. Plus you get all kinds of extra things to give you energy to work out better like beta alanine, zinc, creatine, etc, and things like your BCAAs to help you recover better.
Let me know if you order and I will make sure and get you the extra containers.
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