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Balancing Vitamin C and Glutathione: Final Report

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 …

Releasing Iron in Long-Haul

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 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. …

The Latest Ask Me Anything About Nutrition!

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 …