In part 1 we covered what niacin is and why you need it. Here’s part 2, where Alex Leaf and I cover blood tests, foods, and supplements! How much do we need? The RDA has some flaws, including claiming women need less than men, when all the evidence shows women need *more* than men. Why …
2019
Ten Steps to Healthy Sleep
Here are ten steps to healthy sleep! What has been most game-changing for you? Let me know in the comments! How to watch it: Watch it on Facebook . Watch it on YouTube. Listen to the Audio. How to share it and show it love: Share it on Facebook. Give it a thumbs up on YouTube. Like it on Instagram. Retweet it on Twitter. This episode is brought …
How to Stop Waking Up to Pee
Don’t you just hate it when you keep waking up in the middle of the night to pee? If this is your biggest sleeping problem, listen up. In this episode I cover how sleeping regular hours is one of the most important ways to combat this, and how nutrients (salt, vitamin C, copper, zinc, glycine, …
Ask Me Anything About Nutrition, Feb 23, 2019
On February 23, members of the CMJ Masterpass joined me in a live Zoom meeting to ask me anything about nutrition, and here’s the full recording! We talked about lots and lots of things: 5-HTP versus tryptophan; unusually low appetite, my recommendations for glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency; choline and cognitive decline; how to gain muscle …
Vitamin A for Sleep
To get good sleep, your brain needs to know when it’s daytime and when it’s nighttime. How does it know? Vitamin A tells it! So if you don’t have enough vitamin A, your brain is going to be clueless. Tune in for how to figure out if vitamin A is at the bottom of your …
Vitamins and Minerals 101
Vitamins and Minerals 101 is a free 29-day course providing one lesson a day on each nutrient, delivered straight to your inbox. There’s also a book coming soon! Each lesson covers why the nutrient is important to your health, how to know if you have too little, too much, or the wrong balance with other nutrients, …
How to Make Your Own Melatonin
Here’s how to make your own melatonin. No, not in your basement — in your brain. We cover the effect of protein, carbs, vitamins, blue-blocking, and sunshine. Tune in for the details! How to watch it: Watch it on Facebook . Watch it on YouTube. Listen to the Audio. How to share it and show it love: Share it on Facebook. …
Version 1.2 of Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet is out!
Version 1.2 of Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet is out! If you already purchased it, you should have the free update in your inbox. If you don’t have it yet, you can learn more about it here. What’s new about version 1.2: The niacin and riboflavin sections have been completely overhauled to reflect …
Start Here for MTHFR and Methylation
If you are looking for information on methylation and the MTHFR gene, this is where to start. If you do not know what methylation is, and would like to understand the basics, click open the introduction below: For recommendations on how to obtain sufficient methylation-supporting nutrients in your diet, click open the next section, …
Niacin Part 1: What It Is and Why You Need It
Niacin is vitamin B3. You use it to make NAD, the ultimate anti-aging molecule that repairs your DNA and lengthens your telomeres, and the most foundational molecule in our entire system of energy metabolism. It is especially important to protecting your mind, your skin, and your gut. You use it to release all your neurotransmitters. …