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Smart Drugs & Nutrients:

How to Improve Your Memory and Increase Your Intelligence Using the Latest Discoveries In Neuroscience

VOLUME 1 in the Smart Drugs Series

by Ward Dean, M.D. & John Morgenthaler
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Appendix E:
Sources For Further Information

Smart Drug News, CERI, P.O. Box 4029, Menlo Park, CA 94026-4029, (415) 321 2374, FAX (415) 323 3864, one-year (10 issue) subscription $44 ($46 Canada/Mexico, $55 overseas). (See the yellow card at the front of this book.)

Published by the Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute (CERI), this is a newsletter devoted exclusively to covering the latest smart drug and nutrient research. In the Question & Answer section, consumers can get their questions answered by experts on smart drugs.

The Age Reduction System, Dr.Richard Kaufman, 1986, published by Rawson Associates, New York, N.Y.

This very-well-researched book covers much basic information about life extension.

A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked, Jack Dreyfus, 1981, published by Simon and Schuster, New York, NY.

This painstakingly-researched book is the fruit of Dreyfus' 20-year effort to alert the medical profession and the world at large to the benefits of phenytoin (Dilantin). The book has a great 2140-reference bibliography and review that covers some of the most important discoveries about this incredible drug.

Biological Aging Measurement: Clinical Applications, Ward Dean, M.D., 1988, published by The Center for Bio‑Gerontology, P.O. Box 11097, Pensacola, FL 32524.

"... A valuable reference ... the first time that anyone has seriously proposed the use of these systems to measure the aging processes."—Johan Bjorksten, Ph.D.

"... Highly recommended for anyone involved in anti‑aging therapy or experimentation."—Roy Walford, M.D.

"... The most pertinent life extension book available."—John A. Mann.

This book is designed for biomedical gerontologists and life-extension experimenters to evaluate the efficacy of experimental life extension/age retarding programs. It describes over 200 physiological, biochemical and psychometric parameters that change with age.

The Complete Guide to Anti-Aging Nutrients, by Sheldon Saul Hendler, M.D., published by Simon and Schuster.

This is a very comprehensive, even-handed evaluation of nearly every nutrient purported to have anti-aging effects. It is encyclopedic and provides a wealth of scientific references.

Dialog Information Services, 3460 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, Phone: (415) 858 2700.

Dialog is the world's largest online information service. This means that people use their computers to call Dialog and search hundreds of databases for answers to their questions. Dialog is expensive and takes some time to learn to use, but it offers a sister service called Knowledge Index that is much easier to search and is available during non‑business hours at a reduced cost of $24 per hour. Much of the research we did to write this book was done by conducting more than a hundred searches of MedLine (the online version of the National Library of Medicine) with Knowledge Index.

If you have been diagnosed as having a disease and want to know about the latest treatment research or if you want to know about the research on a particular drug you can have a search of MedLine (or any other online database) done by a reference librarian at many libraries. There are also companies who will conduct an online search for you for a fee, including Life Services Supplements at (800) 542 3230.

Drugs Available Abroad, Jerry L. Schlesser, Ed., and Derwent Publications Ltd., 1991, published by Gale Re­search Inc., Detroit, MI.

Covers over 1000 drugs that are approved in other countries but not approved in the United States. Contains hard‑to‑find therapeutic information, drug action, precautions, dosage, etc.

Forefront-Health Investigations (formerly Journal of the MegaHealth Society), Editor: Steven Wm. Fowkes, six-issue subscription $18 (third class mail), $21 (first class mail), $21 (Canadian), $25 (overseas airmail), P.O. Box 60637, Palo Alto, CA 94306, Phone: (408) 733 2010.

This newsletter reviews medical technologies rarely covered anywhere else. While oriented towards life extension, the journal goes far afield to cover the work of the likes of Emanuel Revici (the New York physician responsible for a whole theory of biology based on the body's acid and alkaline balance), alternative cancer treatments, chelation therapy and political issues. The writing is excellent and easy to understand.

How to Live Longer and Feel Better, Linus Pauling, 1986, published by W. H. Freeman, New York, NY.

Pauling is the two‑time Nobel Prize winning biochemist who has been reviled by the medical establishment for his research into the health benefits of vitamin C and other antioxidants. If one talks to Pauling's peers, that is, actual scientists rather than medical doctors, a different picture appears: Crick and Watson credit Pauling with the codiscovery of the structure of DNA. Pauling would probably have shared Crick and Watson's Nobel Prize had he been able to join them in their research. However, he was denied travel visas during the McCarthy era due to his pacifist beliefs and activities. A reporter researching Pauling for Penthouse magazine in the late '80s talked to many of the top physicists and biochem­ists in the U.S. and found they all agreed; Pauling is one of the greatest minds our country has produced.

How to Live Longer and Feel Better outlines Pauling's personal life extension program and includes 30 pages of scientific references, easy-to-understand explanations of the mechanisms of aging and the actions of vitamins, and the eye-opening story of the "controversy" about vitamins.

Life Extension, A Practical Scientific Approach, Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw, 1982, published by Warner Books, New York, NY.

Pearson and Shaw made the term "life extension" a house­hold word with their best‑seller, their many television appearances and incredible recall of the research.

This 858-page book addresses all aspects of aging, including sexuality, cancer, heart attack risk reduction, intelligence increase, and depression. Written in a friendly and some­times humorous style, Life Extension has practical "how‑to" type suggestions for slowing down the rate of aging in your own body, all based on scientific research.

The book is fun to read, and also makes a great reference manual. It's designed to be used by both professional people and non‑professionals. Life Extension has an excellent index, and many health problems or questions are listed with several pages to which you can refer.

Pearson and Shaw delayed publication of Life Extension for a year because Warner Books thought that the 96 pages of scientific references were unnecessary. Warner Books relented to avoid the law suit that the authors initiated to insure the inclusion of their bibliography. Obviously, the science behind their work is important to Sandy and Durk.

Mind Food and Smart Pills, Ross Pelton, R.Ph., Ph.D. with Taffy Clark Pelton, 1989, published by Doubleday, New York, NY 10103.

This book presents a compendium of vitamins, herbs, and drugs that can work wonders for the human mind. From antioxidants like Vitamin C and selenium that counteract the damaging effects of free radicals, to herbs such as ginseng and Ginkgo biloba that can combat brain aging, each supplement is covered in detail.

The Neuroendocrine Theory of Aging and Degenerative Disease, by Vladimir M. Dilman, M.D., Ph.D., D.M.Sc., and Ward Dean, M.D., published by the Center for Bio-Gerontology, P.O. Box 11097, Pensacola, FL 32524.

Professor Dilman is one of the most widely known scientists in the Soviet Union. Dilman theorizes that aging is a disease that everyone over the age of 30 "catches", and that all of the other age‑related conditions are merely symptoms of this one "super­‑disease". The book proposes unique therapeutic regimens to delay the onset of aging and treat age-related diseases.

Orphan Drugs, Kenneth Anderson and Lois Anderson, 1987, published by The Body Press, Los Angeles, CA 90048.

Orphan Drugs is a "Physicians' Desk Reference" for over 1500 drugs that are available outside the U.S., but for various reasons have not been "adopted" by U.S. pharmaceutical companies. The Andersons include two separate indexes, one for the various trade and chemical names under which the drugs are sold, and one for the symptoms and diseases that the drugs are used to treat. There is a great directory of drug manufacturers, and the book also has an excellent description of how the FDA works (and doesn't work) in this country.

Physicians' Desk Reference, annual, published by Medical Economics Company, Oradell, NJ.

This is a guide for physicians to the use of drugs that the Food and Drug Administration approves for use in the U.S. Only FDA-approved drug uses are listed here, and this book is the sole source of information about pharmaceuticals for many physicians. You can find the PDR in most libraries. Each drug's listing includes contraindications, dosage information, drug interactions, and adverse effects.

Physicians Guide to Free Radicals, Immunity and Aging, by Lord Lee-Benner, M.D., published by the World Health Foundation, 360 San Miguel Drive, Suite 208, Newport Beach, CA 92660. Tel: (714) 720 9022.

This book is a comprehensive explanation of how free radicals contribute to cancer, atherosclerosis, and the diseases of aging. Lee‑Benner gives special emphasis to Alzheimer's disease and how it develops. The book includes specific dietary, nutritional and pharmacological prescriptions for slowing aging and reversing age‑related condi­tions.

NSS / Smart Life Special Interest Group, P.O. Box 620123, Woodside, CA 94062, (415) 851 4751, FAX: (415) 851 1265.

This special interest group is sponsored by NSS, Inc. As far as we know this is the only special interest group on smart drugs and life extension that is open to the public. The group has monthly meetings with presentations on a wide variety of topics. NSS sponsors an annual conference related to sexuality, life extension and performance enhancement held in the San Francisco Bay area. If you would like to start an interest group in your area please contact Kathryn Roberts at NSS Seminars, Inc.