Maintaining good GSH status is always important to protect high-dose C from generating oxalate and may often be important for preventing it from acting as a pro-oxidant. Cancer is an exception. In my preliminary report, I voiced the concern that high-dose vitamin C could deplete glutathione and worsen nitric oxide toxicity when not properly balanced with …
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Chips! The Only Ones I’ll Endorse
MASA chips launch today. Traditionally nixtamalized organic corn fried in grass-fed beef tallow. Full-bodied and perfectly salty. My friend Steve, who is the one who originally introduced me to the Essex Farm CSA that now supplies me with almost all my food, has invented a new tortilla chip that launches today! MASA chips are made …
Lipoic Acid Saps Methyl Groups
At what dose should we be concerned, and what can we do about it? Yesterday, I held a live Q&A with Masterpass members, and one of the questions that came up was whether we should be concerned about alpha-lipoic acid supplements hurting methylation as described in this rat study from 2010. After searching among the papers citing this study, the Examine.Com …
Ancestral Health vs. Antagonistic Pleiotropy?
Why Nick Hiebert is wrong in using antagonistic pleiotropy to refute the ancestral health framework. I recently had a debate on Twitter Spaces with Nick Hiebert on the value of the ancestral health framework. I will publish this soon with my reflections. Here, however, I want to make an independent analysis that focuses narrowly on …
A New Paradigm for Severe COVID
Arginine depletion and T cell suppression in severe COVID may be the rapid onset of a somewhat cancer-reminiscent state where vitamins A and D and other myeloid differentiation factors run out. Read it here.
What I’m Doing for Allergies
Here’s my experience. My protocol seems to be working so far! Read it here.
Can COVID Vaccines Exacerbate Seasonal Allergies?
A convenience Twitter poll raises the question; I’ve heard anecdotal support; the mechanism is obvious. Read it here.
Balancing Vitamin C and Glutathione: Preliminary Report
Beyond a certain dose, vitamin C can begin taxing glutathione and rendering excess nitric oxide toxic. Here’s how to prevent that. Read it here.
Protecting Against Spike Protein Toxicity With Sulfur, Selenium, and Sunlight
Spike Protein Toxicity Part 2: Creating resilience with thioredoxin, glutathione, selenium, riboflavin, NADPH, and sunlight. Read it here.
The Emerging Food Crisis
My tentative view on what is causing it and what to do about it. This is NOT caused primarily by the conflict in Ukraine and a sudden peaceful solution to the conflict will not avert it. Disclaimer: None of this is advice, financial or otherwise. I am sharing my ideas. Please make your own decisions …