Vitamins & Supplements
It’s Summer! Do You Need A Lifeguard?
Don’t Let Your Health Drown! If you’re like most people, you may find it impractical or impossible to eat right one hundred percent of the time. Therefore, even when you take the steps of adding raw veggies to your diet and getting some exercise and vitamin D, you still might want to hedge your bets … Read more
Men’s Health a Prostate Priority!
Dear Valued Customer & Friend, as a professional baseball player for over 16 years, I was paid to stay in shape and I didn’t realize how I was aging. When I turned 40, I finally started to feel the aging process. I realized that I wasn’t getting the nutrients that I needed in my diet … Read more
Time Is On My Side….Yes, It Is
The Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw®Life Extension NewsTM Volume 20 No. 2 • March 2017 TIME IS ON MY SIDE … YES, IT IS by Sandy Shaw The difference between drug use and addiction or eating and metabolic diseases is time. The amount of time we take a potentially addictive drug determines whether we become … Read more
Invest In Your Health by Adding Life Priority Supplements
According to several government studies, more than half of all Americans take at least one supplement every day, most commonly a multivitamin or omega-3 supplement. The reason most often cited for taking dietary supplements is to fill in nutritional gaps. The commercial food supply has experienced a significant reduction in several essential nutrients within the … Read more
HOW TO TAKE NIACIN THE RIGHT WAY
HOW TO TAKE NIACIN THE RIGHT WAY Oh, yes, there is a right way to take high-dose immediate release niacin. Take it at the right time and you can get a host of health benefits, especially reduced triglycerides, LDL, and VLDL and increased HDL—at the wrong time, you lose some of these benefits. Here’s … Read more
Magnesium Reduces All-Cause Mortality, Including Stroke, Heart Failure, And Diabetes
The Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw® Life Extension NewsTM Volume 20 No. 2 • March 2017 MAGNESIUM REDUCES ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY, INCLUDING STROKE, HEART FAILURE, AND DIABETES A very recent paper (Fang, 2016) examined the association between dietary magnesium and health. In this dose-response meta-analysis from 40 prospective cohort studies that included over one million (1,000,000) … Read more
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Green Machine: The Power of a Simple Green Smoothie
At first glance (okay, maybe also at second and third) green smoothies can look like the most unappealing thing that you would ever want to ingest, but it may be time to reconsider. Sure, they don’t look delicious, but in reality they can be, and best of all, they pack a nutritious punch. A green … Read more
How to Be a Healthier, Happier, Better-Balanced Woman: 6 steps to self-improvement
The downside: with age comes health risks. The upside: many of these risks are easily preventable. With just a little bit of wisdom and a strong dose of diligence you too can become a healthier, happier, and better-balanced woman with these 6 steps. Practice your Balance & Flexibility It sounds like a weird thing to … Read more
Summer Hydration 101: Hydration Through Supplementation
As we continue this health journey with you, we want to highlight our second pillar of health success. With summer practically here and the temperatures rising, hydration has never been more important. Drinking water and keeping hydrated can seem like a monotonous task that we don’t really give much thought to, but in the grand … Read more
Digestive Enzymes vs. Probiotics. Which is Better?
Enzymes or probiotics? Which is more beneficial to our health? While both are indispensable for digestive health, they both have separate characteristics that make them unique. Both of them operate in the same system but have different functions. Probiotics If you think probiotics only exist in a yogurt that Jamie Lee Curtis promotes then let … Read more
