Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach (Paperback)

by Durk Pearson (Author), Sandy Shaw (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 858 pages
• Publisher: Warner Books (June 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446387355
• ISBN-13: 978-0446387354
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #433,803 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, July 29, 2000

By A Customer

Yikes! How can this INFORMATIVE, WONDERFUL book be out of print? My father cured himself of non-Hodgkins lymphoma using this book and I now need to have a copy to send to my son who is ill. Why doesn't every household have a copy of this book? This book is decades ahead of the rest of the world. My brother and I initially laughed at my Dad(about 12 years ago) when he started to talk about "free radicals" but he made a believer out of us! A couple of years ago he told us to stop eating TRANS FATS and now the government has picked up on the dangers of trans fats and is starting to make food producers label the foods with "Contains Trans fat" rather than "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil". If anyone knows where to obtain a copy of this book, please e-mail me! Thanks

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All I know is this..., January 2, 2006

By	Rhino (Saint George, Ut United States) - See all my reviews

Let me say that I am not a Doctor, I am not an expert on this at all. I am just going to tell you what happened to me this past week, and you can take it or leave it...

I was selling a house to a prospect, and in the course of talking to this gentleman I found out he was seventy six years old. This blew me away. This guy looked no more than fifty-five, I kid you not. I told him so. He laughed and said," Alot of people tell me that. Have you ever heard of a book called Life Extension?"

I told him that I hadn't.

He then told me that he got ahold of the book thirty years ago and has followed the regiman religiously for the past thirty years. I am telling you, this guy looks good. He has lived a very active life, and at the age of seventy six he is starting a new business!

This guy so impressed me that I am going to used bookstores looking for this book!

16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ultimately Disappointed, May 1, 2004

By	David Siegfried (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got thoroughly involved in this book in the 1980s, so much so that I completely bought into Durk and Sandy's megadose vitamin regimen, purchased pure vitamin powders by the kilogram and blended and encapsulated them myself. I eventually had bad reactions to taking such high doses (headaches, terrible itching, dizziness) and had to stop. While their research is intriguing, they set their doses so ridiculously high that they come off as kooks. Twenty grams of vitamin C per day?? That's absurd and probably dangerous. I saw Durk and Sandy on a talk show years ago and Sandy had developed a serious speech impediment. I was never able to find out if it was due to the megadoses of supplements they were taking, and they have been curiously absent from the scene in recent years. Although they still have product formulations on the market, they have no website or any way to contact them, and have done absolutely no follow-up writing to confirm their research in 20 years.

Durk and Sandy, where are you? It's time you come out of hiding and show us the results of this experiment you have performed on yourselves.