Question: What is the value of third party genetic reports? There are very, very few genes where we have really good information on how they impact nutritional requirements, but we have many, many, many genes where we have decent information on what they do mechanistically and where we can speculate things that might be helpful. …
What is the value of the oxidized phospholipids test? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #201
Question: What is the value of the oxidized phospholipids test? It’s interesting to measure, but we don’t have real strong data on its correlation to disease risk. And we also don’t really know how much it reflects the oxidation of lipoproteins in the subendothelial space, which is what matters. If you would like to be …
Can NADH supplements cram more NADH into the system? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #200
Question: Can NADH supplements cram more NADH into the system? The NADH will be hydrolyzed to something along the lines of nicotinamide riboside, it will be absorbed and it will act like nicotinamide riboside does, which will increase the amount of nicotinamide stored in the liver for release to the tissues. And that will help …
How to avoid losing nutrients in fat thrown out from an organ meat blend | Masterjohn Q&A Files #199
Question: How to avoid losing nutrients in fat thrown out from an organ meat blend I don’t think you’re going to lose that many nutrients because the 25% fat, 75% lean ground beef mixed with those organs, most of that fat is coming from the marbling of the beef. That’s not coming from the organ …
How to manage the zinc-to-copper ratio? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #198
Question: How to manage the zinc-to-copper ratio? I don’t agree with using the zinc/copper ratio in testing. So it is the case that zinc and copper need to be in a very loose range of ratios. So you don’t want your dietary zinc to be more than 15 times your dietary copper, and you don’t …