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Age-fighting trainer touts ideas in book

A health guru to stressed out celebrities, the author brings his Power Aging to Carrollwood.

By TIM GRANT
Published January 28, 2005

CARROLLWOOD - When the mayhem of celebrity takes its toll on some stars, they'll leave their mansions and Maseratis in Hollywood to rebuild their lives on a quiet ranch in Naples with Gary Null.

"I get to see the human side," said Null, a health guru to the stars. "I get to see them as human beings. They can't bring cellular phones or handlers. They've got to get detached from La-La Land."

While he never talks about anyone who stays at his 23-acre ranch called Paradise Gardens, Null has many celebrity followers such as Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins.

Null, 50, will appear Sunday at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore in Carrollwood to promote his new book, Gary Null's Power Aging: The Revolutionary Program to Control the Symptoms of Aging Naturally.

His program advocates eliminating sugar, caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, dairy, pesticides, processed foods, meat, poultry, wheat and the microwave.

By following his program emphasizing organic, live and raw foods combined with exercise and less stress, Null says anyone can reverse, eliminate and control the signs of aging.

"Mine is not the easiest program to follow," Null acknowledges. "It's probably, without question, the most difficult to follow. Not because it's difficult per se, but because of surrendering our comfort. And indeed the greatest challenge to overcome is comfort addiction.

"But for those who follow and stick with this protocol, they can reasonably expect to see more results than any other diet in the country."

The object of Null's program, he says, is not only to lose weight, but to get healthy and rejuvenate cells so that people can grow older, yet continue to look and feel young. He says popular high-protein and quick-fix diets like Atkins can lead to medical problems.

Power Aging is based on his 30 years of research and clinical experience at the Institute of Applied Biology in New York where he has been a research fellow in antiaging for 27 years. Null has written 40 books on health that have been translated into 17 languages. He also appears on an Internet radio show, Voice America, on Monday through Friday from noon to 1 p.m.

"I've worked with tens of thousands of people and I've helped them to get muscle mass back, memory and vision improved and other things to help them look and feel younger," Null said.

Null believes people in Tampa have been waiting for a book like his.

"I believe Tampa is an underserved area when it comes to health," Null says. "People flew over Tampa and went to South Beach and Boca Raton where there are major health movements.

"There's a very small and underserved health movement in Tampa with a lot of people who want and need health-based information."

Tim Grant can be reached at 813 269-5311 or at grant@sptimes.com

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