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 …
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.
Releasing Iron in Long-COVID: Copper, Fasting, and Cooling Inflammation
Last week I published two articles on iron, one suggesting it could play a role in post-COVID fatigue and hair loss, and the second suggesting it could play a nearly identical role in the same symptoms when resulting from COVID vaccination. In these posts I did not recommend indiscriminate iron supplementation. Rather, I suggested it …
Strategizing Against Vaccine Mandates with Angela McArdle
In this episode, Chris Masterjohn interviews Angela McArdle on strategies to defeat the mandates. McArdle is the current chair of the Los Angeles Libertarian Party and is spearheading an effort to amend the New York City charter to prohibit the mayor from making mandates. We discuss the ethics of mandates, steelmanning the case in favor …
The Best of 2021
As we look forward with hope and determination toward a wonderful 2022, let us first briefly look back on the best of 2021. Here I’m posting the ten most popular posts on my web site from the last year. Perhaps it’s worth revisiting one of these if you’ve forgotten them, or maybe this will draw …
The One Amino Acid That Could Cure COVID
Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and this information is educational in nature. An Italian clinical trial peer-reviewed and published this past month in EClinical Medicine, one of the journals published by The Lancet, is nothing short of incredible. It provides rigorous evidence that …
Can a high-protein diet hurt nitric oxide and raise blood pressure? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #237
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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. …
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 …
Your Nitric Oxide Genes, Blood Pressure, and Asthma
Do you have asthma? High blood pressure? Knowing your nitric oxide genes may help you find a solution. In this episode we continue to look at the StrateGene report, this time focusing on the genes for endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Impairments in this enzyme can increase your risk of asthma or high blood pressure. If …