scta123
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Oh, seeing this made me nostalgic. I was doing pilates few times a week from 2007 until 2020, when my pilates instructor decided to sell her studio and equipment. She was a ballet dancer herself too. I miss it so much, but could not find a decently furnished studio and capable instructor. Nov I do more yoga and calisthenics, but I miss pilates. My body in greatest shape.
I also do daily exercise. I recently modified BJ program and I am doing it 5 times a week and yoga on my rest days. How long do you exercise daily?
@Brett_Miller I like the workout video you posted. I need to do something like that. Currently I just do a floor routine every morning: side planks, front plank with leg lifts, runners stretches, bird dog, etc. but I feel I’m missing some core coordination that I used to get from climbing.
@scta123 Yeah, Pilates is worth loving…and if you love it, go and get trained and have it as a hobby. The knowledge from a high quality training will be SOOOO valuable, and you most likely will just love the study. Of course, Pilates has it’s ‘own world’, akin to ‘the advanced health nut world’ that we are in here. 
You will have a great time and have a profitable hobby until life’s end!
My workouts are 60 - 90 mins long. Today 80, yesterday, Monday, Sunday 60, Saturday 120 minutes (I teach 2 classes Saturdays where I also participate.)
@约瑟夫_拉维尔 thanks - I think there is a VERY KEY factor to a healthy life that I do not hear about from all of the longevity gurus - and that is a flexible and balanced spine (= flexible strong body - but the spine is a key aspect). I predict over the next 5 years we will hear more about it - maybe when it is me that is the longevity expert, I will be the first (that was a joke, I have no such ambition)
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Agetron
#25
Yes the CEO co- founder of GlycanAge Gordon Lauc shared in his podcast he over exercised hard work outs… nonstop hiking… too much. He aged faster as a result.
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Brett, I’m curious if you’ve ever done the Levine Phenotypic age, or Aging.ai calculations and how they compared to your other test results. I’m wondering how well they are correlated with the Glycan Age test.
See details on the Levine and Aging.ai calculations here: A Friendly Biological Age Reduction Competition?
They are easy to do yourself, and free, so perhaps worthwhile to check on. If you do, please post your results.
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I will have a look this weekend.
You know, when I listen to Petter Attia (which I do only occasionally since it feels like he encircles the point he wants to make like 10 times before coming to the point and it gets old) - his workout regimen seems way beyond mine, and in the past, really extreme, like 3-4 hours per day after getting up at zero-dark-thirty. I understand he has calmed down, nonetheless still beyond me.
I think Peter Attia is a great longevity expert, and he would not knowingly do something harmful to himself.
I don’t consider what I do to be extreme at all…pretty disciplined but not extreme.
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What is your HbA1c and fasting glucose? It would probably be worth seeing your bloodwork to comment as to whether there seems to be any issue. I have not myself done glycanage and I don’t know how significant it is.
I am a strong supporter of functional tests driving the analysis of health over all. Blood biomarkers are a good part of this.
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Thanks…in the original post of this thread, I list the results of a battery of tests, all showing excellent results except for the Glycan Age.
The problem with reporting a biomarker as an “age” is that it is not directly comparable to any other algorithm.
Things like HbA1c and CRP are much more comparable (even though HbA1c has a number of ways of doing the measurement).
What you don’t put in the OP is a standard set of bloodwork (ideally including HbA1c and CRP).
Logically Glycanage should associate with a high level of average glucose.
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@John_Hemming - I don’t see a result for HbA1c in my results, and the glucose is measured to be 72 mg/dL.
@RapAdmin - I don’t have all of the required data, so perhaps in the future.
But again, with the ‘overtraining’ - I was listening to Peter Attia again and he was talking about ‘not becoming frail’ via training, but you only have 13-14 hours to work on that prevention. 13-14 hours? Wow, that in itself is 3-4 hours more than what I do.
Ok, have a great weekend!
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What is your c-reactive protein?
Glycanage is weird, there’s no proof it contributes to further aging processes. It is only inflammatory in the context of C1p and other complement proteins.
But it could be an indication that the body’s protein-making machinery becomes simpler with time.
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