Life Priority, Inc. Introduces Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw’s® PRODUCTIVE SLEEP™ Sleep is far more than a daily period during which you lapse into a lengthy state of unconsciousness. It is a highly programmed mental state that engages all parts of your brain in a complex pattern of activity. Not a passive resting state, sleep is … Read more
GABA By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid, is a substance naturally found in food,A,B such as tea, that is “strongly implicated in the regulation of sleep, with GABA activity emanating from the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus of the hippocampus dramatically inhibiting wakefulness-associated neurotransmitter activity.”1 “several GABA agents are FDA approved for the treatment … Read more
Introducing Life Priority’s Productive Sleep™ Good sleep doesn’t have to be just a dream. Get more power from your nap! Get more out of the sleep you get. By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Hundreds of substances, both natural and synthetic, have been tried over the past few thousand years as sleep-inducing agents. Many were … Read more
Theanine Neuroprotective, Stress Reducing, Sleep Quality Improver By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Theanine was isolated from green tea as a flavor constituent by Sakato in 1949. A 1998 paper (unfortunately in Japanese)3B was said to show that oral intake of L-theanine caused a feeling of relaxation in human volunteers; the study was cited in a … Read more
Important Brain Nutrient There is little published data specifically on taurine’s effects on sleep. By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Taurine is the second most abundant amino acid in the CNS (central nervous system), but also found ubiquitously in millimolar concentrations in all mammalian tissues.1 In cultured astrocytes, for example, intracellular taurine can be found … Read more
Choline in Brain Function and Sleep Acetylcholine (made from choline) is an important part of regulatory pathways in sleep and many cognitive functions. By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Areview in Neuron1 described the function of acetylcholine (a ubiquitous neurotransmitter) in the brain as follows: “Acetylcholine in the brain alters neuronal excitability, influences synaptic transmission, induces … Read more
Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw’s Life Extension News Volume 16 No. 4 – April 2013 A new paper1 describes the sleep-dependent memory processing factory that decides what to do with all that information you encountered during the day. As the paper’s authors point out, only some of that information is consolidated so as to become … Read more
They say in professional sports, and with athletics at many levels, that the game is 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical. As a professional baseball player from 1971 to 1987, I trained very hard and tried to eat healthy foods to get an edge. During my 16-year career I played in the major leagues … Read more
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