Durk Pearson (August 19, 1943 – October 26, 2024)https://www.wholefoodsmagazine.com/articles/17239-in-memoriam-durk-j-pearson-august-19-1943-october-26-2024 was a research scientist best known for coauthoring a series of books on longevity, beginning with Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach.
Early life While a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was a member of the MIT Science Fiction Society and one of the writers for the early underground comic God Comics. Pearson graduated from MIT with a triple major in physics, biology, and psychology."Weight loss without dieting, exercise?"
Career Pearson has patents in the area of oil shale and tar sands recovery,"Recovery System for shale deposits" lasers, holography and supplement formulations."Free Patents Online:Durk Pearson" Pearson assisted with equipment design and experiments for NASA's Space Shuttle."Two Fitness Faddists Have a No. 1 Best-Seller, but Are They Stretching Life Spans or Truth?" Pearson is also an International Society for Testing and Failure Analysis honoree."BP negligence condoned by Obama administration"
Publications Pearson and his wife, Sandy Shaw, are the authors of Life Extension: A Practical Scientific ApproachReview/Television; "On Aging, or Rather Avoidance of It" (, Warner Books, 1982), The Life Extension Companion"Recent Titles Focus on Diet, Training" (Warner Books), The Life Extension Weight Loss Program, and Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA v. Nutrient Supplements, (Common Sense Press, 1993). The couple have written numerous articles on life extension, cognitive enhancement, anti-aging, weight loss, and other aspects of nutrition.
Television, film, and video Pearson and Shaw wrote, designed the stunts, and acted as technical advisors for a 1978 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, called "Black Holes, Monsters That Eat Space and Time.""Tremendous nothing made interesting" They acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for the Clint Eastwood film Firefox."Two Fitness Faddists Have a No. 1 Best-Seller, but Are They Stretching Life Spans or Truth?" They received screen credits for acting as technical advisors for Douglas Trumbull's film Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood."New York Times: Brain Storm (1983) Production Credits" In 1988, Steve Sharon, Pearson, and Shaw wrote the thriller The Dead Pool, which was later sold to Warner Bros. and made into a film, once again starring Clint Eastwood, in his fifth and final appearance as “Dirty” Harry Callahan."This Dirty Harry fails to make his day" Pearson and Shaw make a cameo appearance in the funeral scene. They are standing directly behind the bereaved.
Court case on dietary supplements In a civil action, Pearson and Shaw challenged the constitutional validity of several U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations that require sellers of dietary supplements to obtain FDA authorization before labeling such supplements with "health claims." In ruling against the FDA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the supplement health claims were constitutionally protected free speech."164 F. 3d 650 - Pearson v. E Shalala"
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