Sandy Shaw

Background

Sandy Shaw"s father was an engineer and her mother a housewife.

Education

Sandy Shaw"s father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. She received her degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1966, with a double major in chemistry and zoology and a minor in mathematics.

Career

She is an advocate of life extension. Shaw is the co-author with Durk Pearson of several books on "life extension", emphasizing megadoses of antioxidants. They have appeared on many television programs, including several appearances on Larry King Live.

They have appeared in many television documentaries about aging, including two by the British Broadcasting Corporation, one by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and on Japanese television 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 (magazine), Penthouse, Playgirl, Forbes, Newsweek, People, United States 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 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 Brothers and made into a Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry movie.

Works

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  • The Life Extension Companion

    (The scientist authors of the million copy #1 best seller,...)

  • Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach

    (The book contains data from extensive research geared tow...)

  • Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach Adding Years to Your Life and Life to Your Years

    (Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach, by Pears...)