{"id":189826,"date":"2010-01-16T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1c7ab970c"},"modified":"2010-01-18T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T11:19:48","slug":"the-longevityvigor-quest-its-centenarian-joe-rollino-matched-against-the-anti-aging-medicine-of-cenegenics-medical-institute-lifestyle-modification-vs-pharmaceuticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/189826","title":{"rendered":"The Longevity\/Vigor Quest.  It&#8217;s Centenarian Joe Rollino Matched Against the Anti-Aging Medicine of Cenegenics Medical Institute.  Lifestyle Modification vs Pharmaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b13b970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joeat103\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b13b970c \" src=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b13b970c-350wi\" style=\"width: 300px;\" title=\"Joeat103\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b239970c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joe rollino weightlifting org text\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b239970c \" src=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e1b239970c-300wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 300px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"> <strong>The Great Joe Rollino at 103<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Great Joe Rollino as a young man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe Rollino, was 104, just 2 months shy of turning 105, when he was fatally injured by a minivan in Brooklyn on January 11, 2010.\u00a0 He was on his daily early morning walk to pick up coffee, a tabloid, and a lottery ticket.\u00a0 Until the end he was strong, healthy, and a picture of health!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If not for the<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/12\/nyregion\/12ironman.html?ref=nyregion\">New York Times<\/a><\/strong>, I would never have heard of Joe Rollino.\u00a0 He was man from a different time. Growing up near the turn of the century, quitting school at 10 years old to join the carnival.\u00a0 He led a career as a Coney Island strongman, a boxer, and a trainer, who billed himself as &#8220;The Strongest Man in the World&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; color: #000000;\">At 5-feet-4-inches 122 pounds, in his prime he once lifted 475 pounds with his teeth, 675 pounds with just one finger, and moved 3200 pounds with his back.\u00a0 He bent quarters with his teeth and fingers and continued to demonstrate his coin-bending skills into his 100&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #737373;\">&#8220;Pound for pound, in the feats that he practiced, he was one of the greatest performing strongmen we&#8217;ve ever had, if the lifts he&#8217;s credited with are accurate.\u00a0\u00a0 For his size, Joe was apparently one of the strongest men who ever lived.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\">-Terry Todd, co-director of the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas, who knew Joe for 40 years-<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #bf5f00;\">What Can We Learn From New York City&#8217;s Oldest &amp; Strongest Man?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>He was a lifelong vegetarian<\/strong>, as was his mother&#8211;which at the time was unusual.<\/li>\n<li><strong>He never drank, smoked, or indulged in sweets.<\/strong>\u00a0 At his 104th birthday party he blew out all the candles on his cake, but passed on eating a piece.\u00a0 He said if he never would have made it to 104 if he ate that kind of stuff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>He ate oatmeal every morning<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;He was the picture of health until he died.<\/strong>\u00a0 He had no glasses, no hearing aid.\u00a0 He had no assistive walking device and didn&#8217;t take any prescription drugs of any kind,&#8221;\u00a0 according to his close friend Arthur Dreschler, president of Joe&#8217;s club, &#8220;The Association of Oldtime Barbell and Strongmen&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rain or shine he still walked 5 miles every morning<\/strong> (albeit a little slowly), and exercised daily&#8211;which sometimes included swimming laps in the Atlantic ocean.\u00a0 He continued to lift weights five days a week&#8211;even exercising before his 104th birthday party luncheon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>He was a devotee of the &#8220;Iron Game&#8221;<\/strong>, a body-building philosophy that supports weight-lifting as an enjoyable lifelong hobby but strongly eschews steroid use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>He was a longtime member of the Coney Island Polar Bear Athletic Club<\/strong>&#8211;a group who swims in the icy Atlantic ocean 3 to 4 times a week.\u00a0\u00a0 They call it &#8220;winter bathing&#8221; and attribute their good health to the practice.\u00a0 They believe &#8220;if they stay in for 5 to 10 minutes, the cold water kills germs that fester inside one&#8217;s body.&#8221;\u00a0 All the Polar Bear members claim that once they started &#8220;winter bathing&#8221; they haven&#8217;t been sick.\u00a0 Same for Joe, who at 103 said he couldn&#8217;t remember the last time he was sick.\u00a0 His friend, fellow Polar Bear buddy, and former Brooklyn homicide detective,\u00a0 Louis Scarcella, said Joe held the Club&#8217;s record, swimming every day, no matter the weather for eight years, never missing a day.<\/li>\n<li style=\"color: #000000; font-family: inherit;\"><strong>&#8220;Muscle strapped to bone&#8221;<\/strong> is how Louis Scarcella described Joe.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Until the day he died, people described him as physically active, agile, and loose<\/span>.\u00a0 Mentally lucid and sound.\u00a0 &#8220;His memory was nothing short of astounding, especially when you consider he fought at about 122 pounds, often against boxers weighing 50 pounds more than he.\u00a0 To say he was a physical marvel, would be a gross understatement.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;If he told me he was 75, I would have said he looked great for his age, and here he was 104 years old,&#8221; said extremely-fit 61 year old\u00a0 retired NYPD detective, Arthur Perry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friends said he lived life to the fullest, and looked forward to every day with enthusiasm.\u00a0 He was never skeptical, cynical, angry or resentful.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about Joe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesweetscience.com\/boxing-article\/5769\/joe-rolino-103-still-fit-fiery\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #bf5f00; font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #bf5f00;\">The Other Side of The Vigor Quest&#8211;$10,000 a Year for H.C.G., Growth Hormones, and Testosterone<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Contrast Joe Rollino&#8217;s simple healthy low-tech lifestyle with the kind of big<br \/>\nbuck pharmaceutical techniques featured in the fascinating January 17th, <strong>New York Times Magazine<\/strong> article by Tom Dunkel, <strong>&#8220;Vigor Quest&#8221;<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/17\/magazine\/17antiaging-t.html?hpw\"> Click here<\/a> for the full article.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the kind of anti-aging medicine that costs lots of out-of-pocket-cash, and follows<br \/>\ncontroversial skimpy medical evidence. It might bring vigor for now, but serious adverse effects down the road.\u00a0 The jury is still out.\u00a0<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s part good common sense, like a low glycemic-diet, weight-training,<br \/>\naerobic exercise, omega-3 supplements&#8211;and part human lab rat experimentation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But its devotees say, &#8220;Lifestyle alone isn&#8217;t enough.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To combat the corrosive effects of aging, every three months the followers of Cenegenics Medical Institute&#8217;s\u00a0 brand of anti-aging medicine&#8211;and they now number around 10,000&#8211;get 10 vials of blood drawn, in order to measure all sorts of hormone and blood chemistry levels&#8211;checking to see what sort of pharmaceutical tweaking is in order.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A little more testosterone?\u00a0 A bit more human growth hormone?\u00a0 Perhaps some H.C.G.&#8211;human chorionic gondatropin, a commonly used fertility drug that is distilled from the urine of pregnant women, and can stimulate the testes to secrete more testosterone.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Author Dunkel interviewed John Bellizzi,\u00a0 a 51 year-old amateur soccer player and businessman from Rye, NY, who got fed up with using Advil, hot tubs, and surgery to keep him in the game.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two years ago Bellizzi consulted with Manhattan endocrinologist Dr. Florence Comite, who is affiliated with Cenegentics.\u00a0 Comite calls her work, &#8220;&#8230;aggressive prevention, the basis of which is metabolism modulation.\u00a0 Twenty years from now, this will be the standard of care.&#8221;\u00a0 She&#8217;s like an &#8220;ace mechanic who keeps Bellizzi running in spite of worn parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Turns out, Comite has impeccable credentials&#8211;she&#8217;s Yale-trained, with former stints at the N.I.H., and as a part-time faculty member at Yale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, two years after working with Comite, Bellizzi is a believer.\u00a0 He no longer collapses on the couch after soccer games, he can play an hour longer than before, he feels mentally sharper, and he is 15 pounds lighter.\u00a0 It might be the changes in his diet, eliminating the junk food, adding some mainstream supplements, and having a more well-rounded exercise regimen.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bellizzi credits his turnaround to the controversial H.C.G. he injects&#8211;which also happens to have a list of scary side effects.<br \/><span style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #bf5f00; font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #bf5f00;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #bf5f00; font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px; color: #bf5f00;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e2a3de970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JeffreyLifeAP_450x300\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e2a3de970c \" src=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/.a\/6a00e54fc8012e8833012876e2a3de970c-350wi\" style=\"width: 350px;\"><\/img><\/a> <br \/> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The Cenegenics&#8217; Poster Child Dr. Jeffrey Life<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Who hasn&#8217;t seen this picture of Dr. Life in every airline&#8217;s complimentary magazine?\u00a0 He&#8217;s the 71 year old doctor, who was once fat and unfit, until he re-invented himself with diet, exercise, and the Cenegenics brand of pharmaceuticals.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">For Life this means:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">1,000 milligrams of calcium a day<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Co-Q10 twice a day<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">5,000 IU of vitamin D a day<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">4 grams of fish oil a day<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">10 mg of melatonin at bedtime<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">A testosterone injection once a week<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">A human growth hormone injection once a day<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><strong>Read the article.<\/strong>\u00a0 Interesting provocative reading, but no thank you!\u00a0 I&#8217;m sticking with my simple lifestyle modification plan of diet and exercise!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyhealthylonglife.com\/happy_healthy_long_life\/2010\/01\/sixty.html\">It&#8217;s the Start of the New Year, the Start of<br \/>\nthe New Decade, and the Start of My Sixties. Some Simple Strategies for<br \/>\nStaying Healthy and Happy. At Least I Can Hope! <br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?\u00a0 Joe Rollino or Dr. Jeffrey Life?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/typepad\/happyhealthylonglife\/happy_healthy_long_life?a=ZrgH4ykcLL4:0GteWlR3Dr4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/typepad\/happyhealthylonglife\/happy_healthy_long_life?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/typepad\/happyhealthylonglife\/happy_healthy_long_life\/~4\/ZrgH4ykcLL4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Joe Rollino at 103 The Great Joe Rollino as a young man. 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