Life Extension News Articles- Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw

Productive Sleep

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After a good nights sleep, you awake with a sense of refreshment and well-being, prepared for a new day by a night of productive sleep. 

Life Priority, Inc. Introduces Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw’s® PRODUCTIVE SLEEP™ Sleep is far more than a daily period during which you lapse into a lengthy state of unconsciousness. It is a highly programmed mental state that engages all parts of your brain in a complex pattern of activity.  Not a passive resting state, sleep is … Read more

GABA

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GABA By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw GABA, gamma-aminobutyric acid, is a substance naturally found in food,A,B such as tea, that is “strongly implicated in the regulation of sleep, with GABA activity emanating from the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus of the hippocampus dramatically inhibiting wakefulness-associated neurotransmitter activity.”1 “several GABA agents are FDA approved for the treatment … Read more

Productive Sleep doesn’t have to be just a dream.

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Introducing Life Priority’s Productive Sleep™ Good sleep doesn’t have to be just a dream. Get more power from your nap! Get more out of the sleep you get. By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Hundreds of substances, both natural and synthetic, have been tried over the past few thousand years as sleep-inducing agents. Many were … Read more

Theanine

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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

Taurine

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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

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Choline in Brain Function and Sleep is an important part of regulatory pathways in sleep & cognitive functions. By Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw.;Are You One of the 92% of the Population That Does Not Consume the Adequate Intake of Choline Recommended by the Institute of Medicine?

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

The Sleeping Brain Decides What to Remember and What to Forget

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The sleep-dependent memory processing factory that decides what to do with all that information you encountered during the day.;While our society does not necessarily promote healthy lifestyles or sleep patterns, you can take your health into your own hands.

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

What Happened to all the Life Priority Blogs?

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As you’ve probably already noticed, we have removed all of our previous blog entries from The Life Priority Blog! Now, you’re probably asking yourself “Why?”. In response to a recent letter received from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), we made the choice to remove all of our blog content while we had a chance to … Read more

Life Priority Meets Mavericks of the Mind

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Glycine was found to significantly reduce the feeling of fatigue the next morning, supporting an improvement in sleep quality by glycine.;Life Extension; Dopamine agonists such as cocaine and methamphetamine (“speed”) have been shown to increase the speed of the internal clock.;Arginine for pain, pain is the hallmark of sickle cell disease, with some patients in pain all of the time. Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw.;Niacin; Debate in the health community about the benefits of synthetic ingredients (created in a laboratory) in nutritional supplements.

*We found this thought-provoking article on consciousness by David Jay Brown from his blog and thought it would be very informational. Mavericks of the Mind Thought Provoking Interviews on Consciousness by David Jay Brown Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw co-authored two of the first and most widely read books on the subject of human longevity–Life … Read more