Question: What nutrients does a collegiate swimmer need to look out for? Mainly calories would be absolute number one. Number two would be carbohydrate. So I do think that people can fuel athletic capabilities on low-carb diets, but you might want to look at stress hormones and sex hormones, because sometimes fueling athletic performance on …

Question: Is extended fasting the best choice for weight loss when low-carb doesn’t work? If someone’s on low-carb diet, they’re not losing weight, they’re not sustaining the caloric deficit at food intake that’s satisfying them. So I would try helping the protein and doing something maybe cyclical keto on top of that before I would …

Question: MK-4 vs MK-7: Vitamin K2 Showdown My default here is that a healthy diet would always have a mix of all of them. And although it’s hard to justify a reason for having K1 specifically if you also have MK-7, the justification for having MK-4 is somewhat speculative. I wouldn’t say speculative, but it’s …

Question: How should someone balance a vitamin D of 80 ng/mL with other nutrients? Let’s say the idea is to maintain someone on a lifelong level of 80 nanograms per milliliter. Maybe four times the first year, two times the second year, once the third year and then every few years thereafter, I would measure …

Question: Can MTHFR cause ADHD? So, methylation will reduce the background level of tonic dopamine. And make you more mentally flexible. And a lack of methylation will generally lead to a higher level of background dopamine and make you not as mentally flexible. So, I really don’t think that the ADHD is solely a consequence …

Question: MTHFR, Depression, Irritability, and Anxiety So, if someone has an MTHFR snip, they don’t have enough methylfolate. And so if they’re treating it with methylfolate, the methylfolate causes the depression, irritability, and anxiety, then that’s one thing. Whereas, if they have the MTHFR snip, they’re not doing anything about it and they have depression, …