Dr. Benjamin S. Frank, is a molecular biologist. He pioneered human dietary nucleic acid therapy (through nutrition). He is the author of The No-Aging Diet and Nucleic Acid Therapy in Aging and Degenerative Disease. Dr. Frank’s experiments with high-RNA diets showed that increased dietary intake of nucleic acids produced marked improvements in health both in specific conditions, as well as in general health and vitality.
Dr. Frank wrote at least four books about dietary nucleic acids, including Dietary Nucleic Acid Nutrition and Therapy and his popular bestseller Dr. Frank’s No-Aging Diet: Eat and Grow Younger (1976). In these works, he describes the results of his studies of the effects of dietary nucleic acids in humans and animals. He also reports his observations of his patients who were placed on high-RNA diets or who were given RNA extracts.
Dr. Frank wrote at least four books about dietary nucleic acids, including Dietary Nucleic Acid Nutrition and Therapy and his popular bestseller Dr. Frank’s No-Aging Diet: Eat and Grow Younger (1976). In these works, he describes the results of his studies of the effects of dietary nucleic acids in humans and animals. He also reports his observations of his patients who were placed on high-RNA diets or who were given RNA extracts.
Dr. Frank’s human subjects showed many positive effects, including increased energy levels, greater endurance, improved muscle strength, easier breathing, lowered cholesterol levels, diminishment of angina pains and other beneficial cardiovascular effects, blood sugar stabilization, improved vision, and a more youthful appearance. Dr. Frank found that optimal results were achieved when his patients took a multivitamin and/or a B-complex supplement in addition to consuming nucleic acids.
In his books, Dr. Frank addresses how nucleic acids can dramatically increase cellular energy. Nucleic acids boost energy levels in the body is by significantly increasing production of the “high-energy” molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate). The body requires the energy from ATP for many purposes, including for repairing, healing, metabolism, digestion, building a strong immune system, and other processes.
In Nucleic Acid Nutrition and Therapy (1977), Dr. Frank notably asserts that nucleic acids are "essential nutrients of human beings," as distinct from non-essential, accessory nutrients. He considered nucleic acids and nucleotides an essential dietary category, i.e., as being nutrients just as essential for humans as vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Dr. Frank acknowledged the body’s capacity to synthesize some nucleic acids, yet cited the marked improvements in degenerative conditions as the clearest evidence for nucleic acids as essential nutrients.
In particular, he noted the health effects resulting from even relatively small intakes of nucleic acids (e.g., energizing effects, anti-anoxia effects, rejuvenation, greater vitality, etc). Dr. Frank found he could not obtain such improvements in his subjects by increasing only the intake of vitamins, minerals, proteins, or other essential nutrients. He declares: “Nucleic acids are an essential nutrient in our daily diets, and optimal health and reduced aging are clearly related to their intake, more than to any other nutrient. Nucleic acids in our diets are of paramount importance for the repairing of molecular and gross tissue degeneration, and for combatting the process of aging by simple, effective and essentially nontoxic, natural means”.
Dr. Frank acknowledged the body’s capacity for synthesizing nucleic acids “de novo,” but rejected the presupposition that dietary (or exogenous) nucleic acids are not essential because the body can or will fulfill all of its own requirements. If this were the case, according to Frank, then one would not expect the often remarkable effects of dietary nucleic acid supplementation, both for aged or debilitated individuals, and for athletes or generally healthy persons. In both types of individuals, he describes nucleic acid supplementation as “unequivocal” in its effects.
In his books, Dr. Frank addresses how nucleic acids can dramatically increase cellular energy. Nucleic acids boost energy levels in the body is by significantly increasing production of the “high-energy” molecule ATP (adenosine triphosphate). The body requires the energy from ATP for many purposes, including for repairing, healing, metabolism, digestion, building a strong immune system, and other processes.
In Nucleic Acid Nutrition and Therapy (1977), Dr. Frank notably asserts that nucleic acids are "essential nutrients of human beings," as distinct from non-essential, accessory nutrients. He considered nucleic acids and nucleotides an essential dietary category, i.e., as being nutrients just as essential for humans as vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Dr. Frank acknowledged the body’s capacity to synthesize some nucleic acids, yet cited the marked improvements in degenerative conditions as the clearest evidence for nucleic acids as essential nutrients.
In particular, he noted the health effects resulting from even relatively small intakes of nucleic acids (e.g., energizing effects, anti-anoxia effects, rejuvenation, greater vitality, etc). Dr. Frank found he could not obtain such improvements in his subjects by increasing only the intake of vitamins, minerals, proteins, or other essential nutrients. He declares: “Nucleic acids are an essential nutrient in our daily diets, and optimal health and reduced aging are clearly related to their intake, more than to any other nutrient. Nucleic acids in our diets are of paramount importance for the repairing of molecular and gross tissue degeneration, and for combatting the process of aging by simple, effective and essentially nontoxic, natural means”.
Dr. Frank acknowledged the body’s capacity for synthesizing nucleic acids “de novo,” but rejected the presupposition that dietary (or exogenous) nucleic acids are not essential because the body can or will fulfill all of its own requirements. If this were the case, according to Frank, then one would not expect the often remarkable effects of dietary nucleic acid supplementation, both for aged or debilitated individuals, and for athletes or generally healthy persons. In both types of individuals, he describes nucleic acid supplementation as “unequivocal” in its effects.
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