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WWW.hPLUSMAgAzIne.CoM 23 immortality TRAnShUMAn SUPeRShAKe Five days a week, I fuel my body with over 200 different foods, via a 40-ounce shake that is comprised of an antioxidant juice like Acai or goji berry juice; a non-dairy milk from almonds, hazelnut, rice or hemp; a banana; a raw egg; a scoop each of Jon barron's Private Reserve Superfood, Muscle Milk, and greens & Whey; and small quantities of flax oil, virgin coconut oil, Sambuca guard, carnitine, creatine, chlorophyll, clove, black walnut tincture, and pau d'arco. I also take pills with this: a multivitamin, Joint Vibrance, Q-10, Smart blend (CLA, gLA, and omega fatty acid complex), and hyperdrive. boDY FAT AnALYSIS There is the low-budget way to do this — have a health club weigh you; then input pinches of body fat from thigh, abdomen and other places into a spreadsheet. And then there's a more expensive way. get yourself dunked into a tub of water and, like Archimedes in his eureka moment, have your density measured. In any case, body fat is a more useful measure than weight, and shame on The biggest Loser for not using it as their measure of success. The three-and-seven point pinch test is often done for free by gyms such as equinox, to give you a baseline and encourage private training. LIVe bLooD AnALYSIS For $275, I had a non-doctor take drops of my blood and put them fresh from my veins onto slides and under a 5000x magnification microscope. I then took a three-hour tour, looking at everything on a large flat screen. I could see the impact of dehydration, too much animal protein, inadequately circulated lymph, and even the legendary free radicals, which I had assumed were as hard to visualize as neutrinos. Warning: some doctors despise this practice and rail against it on the Web. Then again, many doctors are fat, smoke, and eat bacon. no doctor that I know of prescribes Alcor, so read the criticisms and then decide for yourself. hRM gPS For $150 to $200 you can get a heart rate monitor that allows you to do training in different zones and know roughly whether you are aerobic or anaerobic, and to see your progress over time. For $495, you can get the garmin 405, which adds gPS. This system doesn't only measure how far you've run, it gives you a graphic profile on their website. To get the information to garmin, you synchronize your 405 with a wireless device called an AnT that you plug into a USb slot on your computer. once you have the results, you can email these to friends to show them how hard your heart had to pump to enable you to do your workout. bLooD LACTATe TeST For $195, Phase IV in Santa Monica, CA allows you to know your precise zones for aerobic, lactate threshold, and anaerobic workouts and gives you a suggested program based on your cardiovascular fitness. This provides the best baseline for using a heart-rate-monitor watch. The goal is to stay within certain prescribed numbers. Interestingly, there are different numbers for recommended heart rates related to walking, running, swimming, cycling and rowing, though each test costs money. XTeRRA TRIAThLonS AnD TRAIL RUnS Xterra is a global phenomenon, with local, regional, national and world championships that — at least up to the present season — allows anyone to run with (well, start running with) the former world champions. For $50-100, you can register for an off-road experience. This can just be a run, or it can start off with a lake or river swim followed by mountain biking. every Xterra is different, and beautiful