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All About This Web Site
— What CERI information is and is not posted on this site
— Information bias of this site, what if you don’t understand something
How to Navigate This Site
— How/where to click, underlined/highlighted items, golden diamonds & yellow balls
Readability and Text Size
— Changing the size of fonts
The Purpose of This Site
— Attracting prospective subscribers & information of vital social importance
Search Engines
— Our listing of internet search engines
Downloading Speed and Graphics
— How much time it takes to download files, and graphics graininess
File Organization
— Files, hubs, menus, sidebars
Tables of Contents
— jumpimg into and out of files
Doing Business with CERI
— how to subscribe, order books, get additional information, etc.
Business Hours
All About This Web Site
What you see here at this web site is the tip of the CERI iceberg.
Although this site contains 175 pages linked
through 12 primary menus, it is only about 15% of our literature.
If you go to our listing of newsletter back issues
and scroll through the paragraphs describing each newsletter’s
contents, the highlighted (and/or underlined) items are the only ones posted
on this site. The non-highlighted (regular, ordinary text) items are not
on this site, but are available for purchase.
What you see here at CERI’s web site might lead you to believe
that CERI is very “disease oriented,” pharmaceutical-oriented or
GHB oriented. It is true that a lot of the files on this site are about
Down’s syndrome, Parkinson’s disease and gamma-hydroxybutyrate.
This is because almost every thing we have published on those subjects is
posted here on this site. So you might want to judge those topics as
examples of our thoroughness, not our focus. Our primary effort is
directed towards normal, healthy humans who are trying to optimize their
performance and age gracefully in a less than ideal world. We talk about
nutrients much more frequently than drugs. This “general” material
is just not as well represented on this web site.
There are two reasons for this:
First, we survive by selling this information. We do not have wealthy
patrons underwriting our institute. We are supported by our subscribers.
We want you to subscribe to our newsletter so that we may continue to
do our work.
Second, this “general” information is not of critical
“social” importance. That’s not to say that it isn’t
invaluable or important. It is very valuable and important.
It is valuable to individuals, not society. It is important to people
who are productive and involved, who are interested in learning, with
a passion about making something of themselves. It is quality
information produced by people who care about these same things.
And it is a cut above what you are likely to find elsewhere.
Maybe this information is for you. All we can say is read on, and judge
for yourself if you think this is your “cup of tea.” There is a wide
variety of information from which to choose. Explore, and have fun!
Some visitors may find our information extremely challenging.
It is. So do not feel bad if you don't understand something. Remember,
these articles were written for people who have been previously introduced
to cognitive enhancement and longevity. They have read introductory books.
If you have not read this "background" material, you may feel like you've
jumped into the deep end of the pool.
Don't despair.
You can read back issues.
You can read introductory books.
You can ask questions about anything you do not understand.
The primary question is not whether or not you understand everything,
but whether or not you want to know more.
Do you learn something when you read our material?
Does it give you insight into your life?
Does it relate to people you care about?
Do questions pop into your head as you are reading?
Do you have any “Aha!” experiences?
Are you left with a sense of accomplishment?
You can find out something about the kind of people who subscribe
to Smart Life News by reading what our
subscribers have to say about us.
How to Navigate this Site
Navigating this web site is relatively simple. Pages on this site are
“linked” to each other by 1) small golden diamonds next to the selection,
or 2) highlighted or underlined words or phrases. All you have to do
is click the cursor of your web browser program on a golden diamond or
highlighted/underlined phrase and you will be taken to the appropriate file.
Clicking on the “back” button on your web browser program will reverse
the process, bringing you back to where you were. There is also a
return-to-the-CERI-home-page option on most pages that will take you all the way
back to the home page in a single click. That’s the essential information
you need to navigate through this web site.
One word of caution: clicking on the yellow balls seen throughout this web
site will not link you to that selection. The yellow balls are used only to
visually highlight items of information. The diamonds are linked, the balls
are not.
Readability (Text Size)
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Most web-browser programs have an option for changing the size of the
letters on the computer screen. If you are having problems reading this
because of the small size of the letters on your screen, use the font
option to select a bigger font. This may cause some “wrapping”
to occur on some of the menu pages when the line length exceeds the
width of your screen. Although this may detract from the appearance of this site,
it will not impair its function. Alternatively, if you want to increase the
density of text to take advantage of a large, high resolution monitor,
you can select a smaller font. These font-change options will not affect
the size of graphics.
The Purpose of this Site
This web site is intended for two purposes:
1) to familiarize prospective subscribers with the work that we do
through examples of the work that we have done, and
2) to spread information that we feel is of vital social importance.
This latter purpose includes:
1) a new smart-drug-and-nutrient treatment for
Down’s syndrome,
2) Alzheimer’s disease
treatment options from Smart Drugs II, and
3) an antioxidant-plus-deprenyl therapy for
Parkinson’s disease;
4) editorial critiques of social policies towards
smart drugs,
5) the FDA’s irrational policy towards the essential amino
acid L-tryptophan,
6) anticompetitiveness among
deprenyl manufacturers, and
7) the govermental criminalization of
the nutritional substance GHB; and
8) personal “lifestyle” information about how to deal with
holiday stress, and
9) how to use nutrients to minimize the toxicity of
alcohol (i.e., prevent
hangovers,
neurotoxicity and liver damage) while maximizing the benefits of alcohol and red wine.
We have attempted to put something on this site for everybody.
However, we wish to remind all visitors that this site contains
only a small fraction of the total literature that we have available.
Please do not assume that we do not have information and/or resources
that you do not find on this site.
We are hoping that the variety and quality of information on this site
will prompt you to subscribe to
Smart Life News.
The Doing-Business-with-CERI Menu explains
how to subscribe, order back issues and books, use credit cards or personal checks,
arrange for international shipping, and more.
Search Engines
We also have a page that links to a variety of search engines
that might help visitors find Web information sources other than ours. These searching
services use a variety of different approaches to organizing Web links.
This web site currently contains more than 5 megabytes of files.
This is made up of more than 150 text (web) files (more than a megabyte
and a half total size) and more than 120 graphics files (approximately
4 megabytes total size). Because it takes a long time to load a megabyte,
there may be significant waits when you access large files (like the
sources listing of mail-order suppliers,
or files with large graphics (like the detailed
mitochondrial graphic in the article
on “Mitochondrial Nutrition, Aging and Cognition” or Steve Fowkes’
steroid-tree graphic in the question-and-answer on
androstenedione vs androstenediol). We have
made a significant effort to minimize the sizes of the graphics files
to maximize speed of loading, however, there is always a compromise
between speed and legibility (i.e.,, detail). We have reduced
these file sizes to the point that some of the fine detail is pretty
grainy, but not far enough that it is illegible.
This “graininess” is an artifact of the digitization process
that converts the graphics into a computer-displayable form. About 90%
of the resolution of the original images is lost when they are converted
to fit your video screen. In other words, the original graphic images
in the newsletter articles are about ten times more crisp and clear
than what you see on the screen.
The CERI Home Page (index.shtml)
is the hub for this site. Like spokes on a wheel, this home page
is directly or indirectly linked to all of the menus and files on this site.
In many cases, the Home Page is linked to a satelite page
which serves as a hub to a smaller collection of related files.
For example, the Home Page is connected to the
Down’s Syndrome Page, which serves as
a gateway to all the files dealing with the subject of Down’s
syndrome. The Down’s Page has five links to major articles and
five links to sidebars. The sidebars are also linked within each
of the articles. While this may seem complicated (it is), it is
also simple: links are placed at multiple spots that makes it convenient
to the browser (you) to reference related information. For example,
the sidebar on free radicals is linked
to each use of the term in the Antioxidant
Intervention in Down’s Syndrome article.
The first time you use a link, the highlight or underlining
will change to indicate that you have already been to that link.
By paying attention to the color of the link, you can avoid clicking on
links to files you’ve already read. If you do access a file that
you’ve already read, the “back” option will quickly return you
to the previous file at the place you left it.
Some of the larger files have a table of contents (an index) that
will allow you to “jump” to preselected locations within
those files. The newsletter back-issue descriptions are organized into
volumes (ten issues per file), with a table of contents at the beginning
that allows you to jump to any specific back issue. Again, the “back“
button reverses the process by returning you to the index.
The Sources Listing of places
to buy smart drugs and the Referral Listing of
Practitioners are also indexed to tables of contents.
Doing business with us is as simple as
picking up the phone and calling 650-321-CERI. We are happy to discuss
any particular information
needs you might have that may or may not be addressed on this site.
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the present time, our book and back-issue listings and order form make
ordering easy by phone or fax. We take Visa, MasterCard and American
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