The Newsletter of Cognitive Enhancement and Longevity

Smart Life News

Smart Life News (formerly named Smart Drug News) is the leading newsletter on smart nutrients and cognitive drugs. Published ten times per year by CERI, it covers the most current information on how to obtain and how to use nutrients, herbs, and pharmaceuticals to enhance a myriad of mental functions that we depend on to be happy, successful, productive, and fulfilled people. Due to the powerful effects of aging on cognition (i.e., age-related mental decline, age-associated memory impairment, senility syndromes, etc.), we also cover aspects of aging and anti-aging (longevity) therapies. Each issue is full of up-to-date and practical information to help enhance such mental functions as intelligence, memory, learning, sex, perception, sleep, vigilance and decision making. As an example of the more unusual aspects of what we cover, we’ve even discussed the effect of nutrition on marksmanship. Smart Life News now reaches more than thirty countries worldwide. It is available by subscription only. You will find subscription information and testimonials from existing subscribers at the bottom of this page.

Smart Life News contains articles on new smart drugs, updates on drugs you may already know about, how to use these drugs (and how not to use them), where to get them, and what to expect when you use them. It also keeps readers informed about practical, legal, regulatory and legislative issues relating to smart drugs. We have reported on the FDA’s import alert on specific smart-drug companies, and have published a series of articles with recommendations of how to deal with FDA detentions of overseas importations. Our Sources Listing keeps our readers and web site visitors up-to-date with rapidly changing international sources for smart drugs.

Understandability

Smart Life News is written to be understandable. We translate the technical language of nutrition, pharmacology, and cognitive science into everyday language. Our Editor, Steven Wm. Fowkes, is an organic chemist with eight years of experience editing health newsletters and writing popular books and articles for lay readers. Our Medical Editor is Dr. Ward Dean, co-author of both Smart Drugs & Nutrients and Smart Drugs II (and numerous other professional publications). All of us associated with CERI are personally committed to maintaining scientific accuracy during the translation of technical information into readily understandable language. When we do get technical (we do), we explain.

Of course, the best way to find out just how good our writing is is to read it for yourself. You can read a Smart Drug Update about piracetam and altitude. Or you might like to read a full-length feature article about GHB, a nutrient with powerful relaxing properties and prosexual applications. Maybe you’d like to read Steven Fowkes’ first smart-drug editorial about the scope of the newsletter and institute, or one of his latest about the legal battle to control the U.S. deprenyl market.

Questions and Answers

Smart Life News provides the opportunity to get your questions about smart drugs and nutrients answered in Q&A, our question-and-answer column. The response of our readers has been enthusiastic. We have even expanded our usual 8-page format to 10 and now 12 pages to handle the demand. Although we don’t have time to answer questions personally, we do read every question carefully and make every effort to get in answered definitively within the next couple of issues. In addition, Editor Steven Fowkes makes himself available almost every Tuesday afternoon (noon to 5PM Pacific time) to answer questions from subscribers over the phone.

The personal issues which come up in the Q&A column create a forum for the real-life issues which arise when real people take smart drugs in the context of their daily lives. It is one of the best sources for information on the use of smart drugs and their effects in people.

Satisfaction Guaranteed

You have our guarantee that Smart Life News will be thoroughly researched, clearly written, attractively presented, and understandable. If at any time you decide otherwise, you may request a no-questions-asked refund of the undelivered portion of your subscription.

What Our Subscribers Think

A good way to decide whether a subscription to Smart Life News will be worth the subscription price is to read the many examples of what we’ve published in past issues that are posted on this web site. Another way is to read what our present subscribers have to say about CERI and our newsletter. Recently, we asked them to tell you (and us) what they thought. We collected their testimonials, in the order they sent them to us, with no editing, and no omissions. Judge for yourself.

Editorials

CERI’s editorial policy is strongly free-choice oriented. Our editorials take bureaucratic authoritarians to task for denying access to medical technologies that can save lives or enhance quality of life. We also point out the hidden motives and agendas behind the front-page posturing of governmental agencies. All is not what it may seem. With Smart Life News you get a glimpse behind the self-serving rhetoric of people with vested interests in keeping smart-drug technologies out of your hands.

Nutrients and the Mind

Smart Life News reports extensively on nutritional approaches to cognitive enhancement. We have discussed metabolic balance and the circadian (daily) rhythm, melatonin for artificial jet-lag, and nutrition in the elderly brain. This is a common cause of sleep disturbances. We have discussed the role of mitochondrial nutrition in the production of cellular energy and the high incidence of hypothyroidism and “subclinical hypothyroidism.” The central role of nutrition in the biochemical functioning of the brain is one of the most significant factors underlying all proposed treatments for sub-optimal mental performance.

Confidentiality

Occasionally, CERI rents its mailing list to organizations wishing to mail information on a one-time basis to our subscribers. If you do not wish to receive such material, please request that your name not be so used. We will be happy to maintain your confidentiality.

Domestic Subscriptions (first-class mail to U.S. addresses only)
$35 per half-year (5 issues),
$59 per year (10 issues),
$99 per two-year (20 issues).

North American Subscription (air mail to Canadian or Mexican addresses)
$62 per year (10 issues),
$109 per two-year (20 issues).

International Subscription (air mail to any other country),
$74 per year (10 issues),
$129 per two-year (20 issues).

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Smart Life News is the most outstanding source of smart-drug information available anywhere. Subscribe today. Ordering instructions and an order form are included on this web site.