How to feel great on a poor night’s sleep? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #214

Question: How to feel great on a poor night’s sleep? I would say get rid of the poor night’s sleep. And so that’s go through the checklist of two to four hours of blue light blocking before bed, up to two to four hour, depending on your needs, psychological winding down routine, in which you …

What supplements should be taken by someone on PPIs? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #213

Question: What supplements should be taken by someone on PPIs? I would first consider what you should do to get off the PPI. And so PPIs Are targeting stomach acid. And so I would first and foremost be thinking of excess histamine might be leading to excess stomach acid. You should probably try to eat …

Could methylglyoxal be causing elevated fasting glucose in low-carbers? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #212

Question: Could methylglyoxal be causing elevated fasting glucose in low-carbers? Yes. I did my doctoral dissertation on methylglyoxal so I’ve covered it in a lot of different contexts, and the basic story is we know that diabetics have high methylglyoxal levels. We know that diabetics have high methylglyoxal-derived advanced glycation endproducts. And we know that …

Is it important to hit the AI for total omega-6? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #211

Question: Is it important to hit the AI for total omega-6? I think it’s totally normal to not meet the AI for Omega-6 and to exceed the AI for Omega-3. Question is really, if you have systemic inflammation going on, you frame this as, should I strive to at least meet the AI for Omega-6 …

How 30 minutes on the elliptical helps my head and neck tension | Masterjohn Q&A Files #210

Question: How 30 minutes on the elliptical helps my head and neck tension So what the elliptical does is, it doesn’t do a whole lot for moving my neck one way or another, but it does a lot for moving my thoracic spine and my shoulders through a pretty defined range of motion, not full …

Why does it take time to be fat-adapted when our body already knows how to burn fat? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #209

Question: Why does it take time to be fat-adapted when our body already knows how to burn fat? So the body does need time to get fat-adapted because yeah, the body knows how to burn fat, but fat adaptation is not about the body knowing how to burn fat, it’s about the body increasing the …