Fatty liver can hurt your liver’s ability to store vitamin A, which could make vitamin A supplements or vitamin A-rich foods toxic. Yet one of the main conditions that causes fatty liver — obesity — also makes your cell’s deficient in vitamin A, deep down inside. This a big problem! You might need more vitamin …
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Vitamin A and Pregnancy: Should You Worry?
Can vitamin A cause birth defects? Maybe. Here’s what I recommend to do with your vitamin A intake when you’re expecting, or expecting to maybe be expecting. This episode is brought to you by Ancestral Supplements’ Grass Fed Beef Brain. Our Native American ancestors believed that eating the organs from a healthy animal would support …
What to Do About Vitamin A Toxicity
If you have vitamin A toxicity, should you see a doctor? What foods should you stop eating, and are there any supplements you should start taking? Tune in for my suggestions. 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 …
How to Know If You Have Vitamin A Toxicity
Is vitamin A toxic? It can be! It’s a super-important essential nutrient and MANY people need MORE of it, yet it still has the potential to cause problems. Here is a method to use signs and symptoms, the amounts of vitamin A you’ve been exposed to, and lab tests to determine if you’ve gotten too …
Ask Me Anything About Nutrition, March 4, 2019
Listen on ITunes or Stitcher.Click here to stream.Right-click (control-click on the Mac) here and choose “save as” (“save link as” on Mac) to download.Subscribe in your own reader using this RSS feed. Support the Sponsors (with yummy discounts)! This episode is brought to you by Ample. Ample is a meal-in-a-bottle that takes a total of two minutes to prepare, consume, and clean up. …
Do Children Need Less Nutrients Than Adults?
Does a growing child need a *less* nutritious diet than an adult? You would think so, looking at the RDAs! Yes, some of them are higher during childhood growth phases, such as calcium. But many of them are lower, and not because we know children need less but simply because they were scaled down by …
Your “MTHFR” Is Just a Riboflavin Deficiency
Got MTHFR? 😬 Relax! Riboflavin will come to the rescue! 😁 MTHFR is an enzyme that uses folate (vitamin B9) to support your mental and physical health. It does so by using riboflavin (vitamin B2) to make the methyl group of methylfolate. The common polymorphisms that lower MTHFR activity may do so simply by hurting …
How to Use an Oura Ring and HRV for Exercise Performance and Recovery
Feel tanked after your workout? 😫 Well you might feel fine, but you might still be stressing your body too much. How do you know? This is my recommended protocol for using heart rate variability to determine how recovered you are. It covers everything from getting an accurate baseline measurement to discovering and testing things that …
5 Signs Your Brain Needs More Vitamin C and Copper
“Low Copper Low Vitamin C BRAIN Syndrome” Ok it’s not a medical term. I invented it. But this is the cluster of signs and symptoms that make it sound like your brain needs more vitamin C or copper, based on the neuropeptides we need these nutrients to activate. How to watch it: Watch it on Facebook . …
Repeat After Me: The Liver Is Not a Filter!
Please join me in a global campaign to correct the misunderstanding that the liver “filters” toxins. Filters remove undesirable things from air, water, oil, or other desirable materials. They do so by holding on to them. As a result, they get dirty and eventually need to be replaced. Many people believe that this is what …