My brother Dave emailed today asking if I knew anything about Dr. Jeff Life (cool last name, eh?) and Cenegenics?
I haven't.
But I know gene expression when I see it.
Take a click on that picture and watch the linked-to video to better see the ripped and buffed Dr. Jeff''s picks from age 57, and what he looks like now, at age 69. Twenty year olds could easily covet that bod. Amazing. Good for you, doc.
They don't give a lot of info, and I'm a bit unimpressed by the "find a physician" tack (as if hunter-gatherers needed physicians to express their genetic programming), so I don't have any idea of what consists their diet and exercise regimen. But they've got to be doing most of it right.
Diet: pre-agricultural, i.e., dump the grains, heavy carbs, and certainly all the stinky shit (that's a metaphor, to include the sweet smelling-stinky shit) they put in boxes and bottles.
Exercise: Brief, intense. All in, when you do it. An hour per week (2x30m) is sufficient.
Simulating scarcity: Hunter Gatherers didn't have grocery stores, for millions of years. Hunger is primal and motivational. Get intimate with it. Intermittent fasting.
Dr. Life is no aberration. See Clarence Bass at 70.
A hot body is your genetic birthright. All you have to do is create the circumstances under which your genes do what they evolved to do. They want to make you a winner. Let them.
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I don't know anything about Cenegentics, but I recognize the guy. He was a 1998 Body for Life Champion.
http://bodyforlife.com/challenge/champions/1998/bio.asp?comp=jeffry_life
You can buy Body for Life (by Bill Phillips) from Amazon for $20, but I can tell you the gist:
Weights 3x/week, using the "Power" protocol from Practical Programming, and "Cardio" 3x/week that's really a Tabata-like sprinting protocol. Diet isn't low carb or paleo, but it is low sugar.
There was an article about this guy in the local paper, where it stated the program involved exercise, strict diet and GH injections.
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?Meet_the_69-year-old_pin-up_boy&in_article_id=440498&in_page_id=34
I love those last three sentences, very funny but motivational at the same time.
Well, EvFitters know that, of course, this sort of transformation requires GH. But we also know that with a little patience, you can get plenty of it through intense resistance training, fasting, and plenty of sleep, all used in a way to stimulate GH release naturally.
Takes a bit longer, but it's sustainable for life.
Is it just me or does Dr. Jeff have that puffy body builder look? I like the leaner muscular look of Art DeVany. I realize that one's genetic pattern is huge in this but I get the sense both of the examples are more concerned about their appearance from a body building perspective than a health perspective. They certainly are impressive however, and it certainly shows what the human animal is capable of.
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Not sure, John, but one thing that strikes me is that the skin around his abdomen looks pretty fine, i.e., like the skin on the back of your hand. This is ultimately the way, when you've been fat and stretched the skin on your abdomen, to not have loose sagging skin. Initially, there's still a lot of subcutaneous fat that weighs on your skin. But if you keep leaning out and get rid of that fat, your skin ought to fall right into line.
Clarance Bass follows a low fat high carb diet. Certainly a different approach than EF.
Quote from his webpage "But here's a brief summary: my eating style is low in fat (not too low), high in natural carbohydrates (carbs, the right kind, are not fattening) and near vegetarian (small amounts of meat and fish). Still there's plenty of good quality protein for the hardest training athlete. All the macro- and micro-nutrients are there. It's healthy, balanced – and satisfying."
http://www.cbass.com/PHILOSOP.HTM
That's where I am at, Richard – trying to lean out more to lose that subcutaneous fat around the middle – definitely one of my goals for the next year! I might be sorta treading water for the next month or so with holiday eating upping the carbs a tad, but hardcore in the new year!
My wife gets really cranky when I am not hospitable in eating a bit of carbs – sigh.
This guys is a fraud. About 10 years ago, he supposedly was a winner in the Body for Life Challenge and now he's claiming he made his transformation through Cenegenics. He's such a liar. IF he really does look like that, he looked that way long before he formed his company. Granted, he had to do the work to get in such great shape, but to try to convince people it was HIS program that he followed is just pure bull.
I don't know about any of that, Jackie. His transformation, however, is clearly a case of gene expression — whether by hard work, hormonal injections, or probably both. That was really my only point and I'm not endorsing his product or methods, as I don't know enough about them, nor do I have the motivation to find out.