The Middle-Age Somatopause - AKA "the middle-age Spread"
Author: Phil Campbell, M.S., M.S.A., FACHE, AGE 50

If you’re middle-age, then you’ll want to know about the somatopause – or the middle-age spread as many call it. This condition impacts 80 million middle-age adults.

DO YOU HAVE THE SAGING SOMATOPAUSE

Are you experiencing weight-gain, energy decline, and loss of muscle? Are lab reports showing bad cholesterol going up and good cholesterol going down? These are all symptoms of the somatopause that typically begins in the 30s.

Medical researchers report that the somatopause is related directly to the decline of HGH growth hormone (a natural substance produced by the body during aging).

HORMONE THERAPHY

HGH growth hormone replacement therapy has proven successful in many anti-aging research experiments. It has produced a 14 percent drop in body fat and an 8 percent gain in muscle. Researchers also report improvements in the skin, bone density, and cholesterol.

These remarkable clinical results are not the best case outcome. These are the typical, average results. So you can see why many are calling HGH therapy the fountain of youth.

Initially, HGH growth hormone injections were given to children with clinical stature growth problems to help them grow normally. Today, there are 15,000 children being treated with growth hormone.

When given to adults, growth hormone replacement therapy does not make adults grow taller, but it does reverse several clinical measures of the somatopause.

CELEBRITY ANTI-AGING CURE

It’s widely reported that several well-known actors take HGH growth hormone injections for its anti-aging, youth rejuvenating properties. HGH has been banned for athletes because of its ability to improve performance.

While there’s research to show serious side-effects are possible with this therapy, everyone knows instinctively -- when you inject something into your bloodstream that cost ,500 a month (that can put on muscle like steroids and pull 30 lbs of body fat off a 200 lb person), it doesn’t take rocket science to figure there’s a price to pay in the long run.

Hold on! There’s a better way to get the benefits of increasing HGH growth hormone. And it’s 100% natural and it doesn’t cost a dime — just a little of your time.

CURE FOR THE MIDDLE-AGE SOMATOPAUSE

There are two cures for the middle-age somatopause — HGH growth hormone injections, or the natural method, anaerobic exercise.

HGH growth hormone can be increased 530% with anaerobic exercise — the short-burst, get-you-out-of-breath quickly, sprinting types of exercise. You don’t have to spend all day in the gym, jog for hours, or starve yourself. But it does require high-intensity exercise for short periods.

Now, before you go out and run, cycle, or swim a few 100 meter sprints or power-walk some steep hills, it’s important to note that anaerobic exercise is the most productive form of exercise (from the HGH anti-aging standpoint), but it’s also the most dangerous. Even young athletes need to warm-up, and progressively build intensity levels or risk pulling hamstrings, calf muscles, and Achilles tears.

Middle-age adults need to slowly ease into high-intensity anaerobic exercise. And for some reason, many of my X-jock friends believe that this warning does not apply to them. Even well-conditioned athletes, who can jog for miles, need a progressive, six to eight week buildup period.

Adults can successfully add anaerobic fitness training to their fitness program, but there needs to be a slow, progressive buildup period. And physician clearance should be obtained before beginning any type of high-intensity training.

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Sources: National Library of Medicine. Website link: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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GROWTH HORMONE DECLINES WITH AGE

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Phil Campbell authored his first fitness training manual over 30 years ago.

While in college, he managed health clubs and performed personal training 20 years before it was called personal training.

Two masters degrees later, and a 20-year career as a healthcare executive that included serving as a Division President with eight hospitals under his command, he returned to writing about fitness, improving athletic performance, anti-aging, and anti Middle-aging. He’s been nicknamed the "anti Middle-aging guy" by a national fitness writer.

Age 50
Phil Campbell is age 50. He has 20 years of experience in hospital administration where it was his responsibility to take the medical disciplines of surgery, pathology, radiology, pediatrics, pharmacy, physical therapy, rehabilitation, psychiatry and other disciplines and operationalize these medical services into a healthcare delivery system to help and improve the lives of others.

The same approach is used in his book. He has taken the latest research in disciplines of exercise science, medicine, nutrition, endocrinology, fitness for specific age groups and has presented a research supported system that will help and improve the lives of others.

He has used his years of experience in taking complex medical subjects and making them understandable and practical in his book. He shows readers step-by-step how to improve fitness, increase energy, and lose, cut, and tone.

Phil Campbell's inspiration to help improve the health status of large populations was sparked by his Health Services masters degree advisor, Dr. Ed Cavanaugh, a former division administrator with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Mainstream biomedical research is the base for all of Phil Campbell’s writing and over 160 research studies are cited in his book.

He shares his unique experience of how a 20-year career hospital administrator and a father of three can achieve optimum fitness improvement as a time-crunched adult.

Phil Campbell is the creator of Synergy Fitness a comprehensive fitness training approach targeted at five major areas of fitness flexibility, endurance, strength, power, and anaerobic conditioning.

As a masters athlete, Phil Campbell holds several USA Track and Field Masters titles including first place in the 100-meter sprint, Southeastern U.S. Championships for his age group in 2000.

In 2001, he placed third nationally in USA Track and Field Masters Nationals in his age group in the javelin throw, fifth in discus, and he won medals in several 100 and 200 meter sprint competitions. In 2003, he will compete in the National Seniors Games in the 100 meter and 200 meter sprints, discus and javelin.

In his late 40’s, he won a 40-yard dash competition in 4.69 seconds. Also, he has a black belt in Isshinryu Karate, and has competed and won first place in martial arts and weightlifting competitions.

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