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The Life Priority Blog

Health & wellness insights

Science-backed perspectives on supplements, nutrition, longevity, and living well — from the Life Priority family and the legacy of Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw.

387 articles and counting

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April 22, 2025

February 2004 Blog with Durk and Sandy

The second half of the century has been incomparably more peaceful than the first, simply by putting power into the hands of those people who wanted peace. — Edward Teller Ye have made the way from worm to man, and much…

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April 22, 2025

January 2003 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

February 2003 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

June 2003 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

April 2003 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

October 2002 Blog with Durk and Sandy

"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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April 22, 2025

January 2002 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

January 2001 Blog with Durk and Sandy

To all our readers: we wish you a very happy and healthy new year! "The real goal is to keep people alive forever." -- William Haseltine, head of Human Genome Sciences in Rockville, MD, at a conference in Washington, DC…

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April 22, 2025

March 2001 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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April 22, 2025

May 2001 Blog with Durk and Sandy

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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