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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
My goal is to cut government in half, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. — Grover Norquist We couldn’t agree more, especially after reading the 547 pages of the FDA’s proposed rule imposing…
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‘After the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775, General Washington and the Continental army lay in wait around beleaguered, British-occupied Boston for nine months, refusing to attack.’ Why the delay? The city was…
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It is the purpose of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail. — Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1917-2002 The illegal we do immediately. The…
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The human brain is not an organ of thinking but an organ of survival, like claw and fangs. It is made in such a way as to make us accept as truth that which is only advantage. — Albert Szent-Györgi But how can it be an…
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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. — Thomas Jefferson What a glorious morning this is! — Samuel Adams, comment to John…
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NORADRENALINE METABOLITE A POWERFUL ANTIOXIDANT We read years ago that vitamin C is the most important antioxidant in the brain and that after vitamin C is depleted, noradrenaline becomes the most important antioxidant.…
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Wine from long habit has become indispensable for my health. — Thomas Jefferson, 1815 So, we toast our readers: Best wishes for a prosperous and healthy 2002! (Remember, you can significantly increase your HDL with…
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"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." - Poul Anderson New Scientist, September 25, 1969 "A committee is a cul-de-sac…
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Special Supplement €¢ Nov. 2001 Grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. - Justice Thurgood Marshall RED ALERT! Centers for Disease Control…
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FOODS THAT ARE HIGH IN POTASSIUM On October 30, 2000, the FDA allowed orange juice manufacturers to add a new health claim informing consumers that diets containing foods that are good sources of potassium and are low…
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ArticlesApril 22, 2025
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or…
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From Special Politically Incorrect Issue Allowing government officials to access a private person's medical records without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which…
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LIPOSUCTION SUCKS AWAY INSULIN RESISTANCE TOO We have long been interested in whether liposuction, a popular form of cosmetic surgery (218,064 liposuction procedures were reported in 1998 by board-certified plastic…
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