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Sandy Shaw | |
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| Born | July 1943 |
| Died | March 12, 2022 |
| Occupation | writer and life extension advocate |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | UCLA |
| Notable works | Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach |
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Sandy Shaw (née Shakocius; born July 1943) was an American writer on health, and an avid advocate of life extension.
Sandy Shaw's father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. [ citation needed ] She received her degree from U.C.L.A. in 1966, with a double major in chemistry and zoology and a minor in mathematics. [ citation needed ]
Shaw and husband Durk Pearson were the co-authors of several books on "life extension", emphasizing megadoses of antioxidants. [1] They have appeared on many television programs, including several appearances on Larry King Live . They have appeared in many TV documentaries about aging, including two by the BBC, one by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and on Japanese TV. During the period of 1978 to 1986, they appeared over 30 times on The Merv Griffin Show , including the final "goodbye" program. They have been featured in interviews and articles in The Wall Street Journal (a front-page story on them), Omni , Penthouse , Playgirl , Forbes , Newsweek , People , US Weekly , Fit, The American Druggist, PSA Magazine, Longevity, Men's Journal , as well as magazines in France, Germany, and Japan.
Shaw and Pearson wrote, designed the stunts, and acted as technical advisers for an episode of The Wonderful World of Disney , which aired in 1978, called "Black Holes, Monsters That Eat Space and Time." They acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for the Clint Eastwood movie Firefox , designing special effects for all the scenes after Eastwood entered the Firefox cockpit. They also acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for Douglas Trumbull's movie Brainstorm , starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood.
In 1988, Shaw and Pearson released Life Extension, the Video, produced by Ray Schwartz. In the same year they co-authored with Steve Sharon The Dead Pool , a high-tech thriller, which was sold to Warner Bros. and made into a movie.
Shaw and Durk Pearson have co-authored numerous articles on life extension, cognitive enhancement, anti-aging, weight loss, and other aspects of nutrition. They produced the Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw Life Extension News, published as a feature of Life Enhancement Magazine.
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Roy Lee Walford, M. D. was a professor of pathology at University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, a leading advocate of calorie restriction for life extension and health improvement, and a crew member of Biosphere 2.
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Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach is a 1982 book (ISBN 0-446-51229-X) by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw that popularized the life extension and smart drug movements.
Durk Pearson was a research scientist best known for coauthoring a series of books on longevity, beginning with Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach.
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The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA), formerly known as the American Association for Health Freedom, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting alternative medicine and is associated with the libertarian health freedom movement. Located in Charlottesville, Virginia, the organization was founded in 1992 as the American Preventive Medical Association (APMA) and became a part of the international Alliance for Natural Health organization, headquartered in the United Kingdom, in 2009.
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William “Bill” Faloon is an author, life extensionist, and co-founder of the Life Extension Foundation, the Church of Perpetual Life, and the FDA Holocaust Museum.
Jerold Robert Mande is an American nutritionist, public policy expert, and civil servant who served as Deputy Under Secretary for Food Safety at the US Department of Agriculture, in charge of the Food Safety and Inspection Service, from 2009 to 2011. He has held numerous other senior positions in executive branch agencies and universities.
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