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
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
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