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Do You Get Enough Choline?Are You One of the 92% of the Population That Does Not Consume the Adequate Intake of Choline Recommended by the Institute of Medicine? Do you ingest enough choline? The Durk Pearson & Sandy ShawLife Extension NewsTMVolume 18 No. 2 – June 2015Are You One of the 92% of the Population … Read more

APPETIZERS No matter how much you push the envelope, it will always be stationery.  — unknown … used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. — Emo Philips, comedian Awareness … is the endpoint of a cascade of processing steps that … Read more

APPETIZERS Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. — King Lear (Shakespeare) Gold IS money, everything else is credit. — John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it—rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognita where monsters roam. — David Bainbridge … the … Read more

APPETIZERS Valuing is man’s emotional reaction to the various states of his environment, both that of the external world and that of the physiological condition of his own body. Man distinguishes between more and less desirable states, as the optimists may express it, or between greater and lesser evils, as the pessimists are prepared to … Read more

APPETIZERS THE PRICE OF DISOBEDIENCE …dissent is transformed into a threat that the subject will refuse to carry out the authority’s orders. Finally … he disobeys. Inner doubt, externalization of doubt, dissent, threat, disobedience: it is a difficult path, which only a minority of subjects are able to pursue to its conclusion. Yet it is … Read more

APPETIZERS A passage from George Orwell’s iconic novel 1984 reads: “Who controls the past…controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was … Read more

APPETIZERS In geological terms, [ ] it is fair to say that the next earthquake in Los Angeles has already started. Prediction moves from a science to an art when you realize that pre-incident indicators are actually part of the incident.  — Gavin de Becker (from his book Gift Of Fear, Dell Trade Paperback, 1997, pp. 104-105 … Read more

APPETIZERS The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it — rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognita where monsters roam. — David Bainbridge … Read more

APPETIZERS It’s necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. — James Watson, Nobel laureate co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the DNA double helix Gray hair is a blessing—ask any bald man. — Jerry Smith Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of … Read more

APPETIZERS A man minds his own business only if it is worth minding. Otherwise he will mind yours. —anon Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it. —Albert Einstein We’ve got a hundred trillion bacteria in and on our bodies that have coevolved with us from the … Read more