-----Original Message-----
From:   Evolutionary Fitness Discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]  On Behalf Of Arthur De Vany
Sent:   Monday, November 27, 2000 4:58 PM

...  I have made new additions to the technology of Power Law training that
Robert refers to and they will also be in the condensed version to be available.
I have developed new ways to recruit fast twitch muscle fiber in those muscles
where they are most abundant.  Based on a review of most of the caloric
deprivation literature, and an understanding of the episodic nature of eating in
a natural environment, I have also found ways to time meals and exercise so as
to trigger hormone drives that give the essential benefits of extreme caloric
deprivation (the only known intervention shown to extend life) without the cost
of chronic hunger and loss of lean body tissue and metabolic rate.

This is exciting news.  I have been trying (with limited success) to achieve a
fusion of caloric restriction and evolutionary fitness for about two years.  In
certain ways, this endeavor seems to involve working at cross purposes -
limiting calories seeming antithetical to evolutionary fitness concepts and
developing greater lean mass being problematic for CR because of the associated
requirement for greater caloric intake.  On the other hand, one must assume that
periods of caloric deprivation occurred frequently in the EEA in order for the
enhanced survival mechanisms observed with CR to have evolved.  I have hoped to
find a margin in which both could coexist so that the benefits of each could be
experienced.  What Art describes above suggests that there may be methods for
achieving this.  Looking forward to learning more about this.

     - Robert.