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Science-backed perspectives on supplements, nutrition, longevity, and living well — from the Life Priority family and the legacy of Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw.
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ArticlesApril 22, 2025
“ORGANIZED SCIENCE” GOING TO THE DOGS (OR, AS IN THIS CASE, TO THE FROGS) Even the very best and most reputable scientific journals are now being run by the “big government is good, bigger government is better” crowd .…
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.…
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There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. — John Adams There are 10 11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less…
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ArticlesApril 22, 2025
elephant, n. A mouse built to government specifications. — Robert Heinlein THE MOST ENDANGERED SPECIES IS SANITY Last week, filed suit in federal court to attempt to change the text of the listing that says business…
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EARTH TO LOONY BIN: THE TRIFFIDS WERE OFFENDED According to an article published in the May 2008 inform (published by the American Oil Chemists’ Society), the Swiss government has “developed guidelines for use by grant…
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Instead of union, let us have disunion now. Instead of fusing the small, let us dismember the big. Instead of creating fewer and larger states, let us create more and smaller ones. — Leopold Kohr, The Breakdown of…
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An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties . . . it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed. — Norton vs. Shelby County 118 US 425 p. 442 D&S…
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billions of years, will the real history of the universe begin. It will be a history illuminated only by the reds and infrareds of dully glowing stars that would be almost invisible to our eyes, yet the sombre hues of…
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MORTALITY IN ANTIOXIDANT TRIALS A recent analysis was published 1 on the effects of dietary supplements used in large, randomized, disease-prevention trials, either primary (before a deleterious event, such as a heart…
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom. — W. Somerset Maugham I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. “God-nose” was not more…
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Science is a long history of learning how not to fool ourselves. — Richard P. Feynman But Scientists, who ought to know, Assure us that they must be so. . . . Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about! —…
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Last night I had a nightmare . . . I woke up in a cold sweat, thinking of what Bishop Samuel Wilberforce’s wife reputedly said when confronted with Darwin’s theory: ‘Let us hope it is not true. But if it is, let us hope…
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ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF CALORIC RESTRICTION WHEN ONLY CARBOHYDRATE CALORIES ARE RESTRICTED A new rat study of caloric restriction (CR) of late-middle-aged animals 1 breaks new ground by using a diet in which fat calories…
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