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 …
Chips! The Only Ones I’ll Endorse
MASA chips launch today. Traditionally nixtamalized organic corn fried in grass-fed beef tallow. Full-bodied and perfectly salty. My friend Steve, who is the one who originally introduced me to the Essex Farm CSA that now supplies me with almost all my food, has invented a new tortilla chip that launches today! MASA chips are made …
Recording and Transcript of the July 13, 2022 AMA
Glycine problems, deficiency signs when lab tests are normal, the 3 phases of fasting & what kicks you out, lipoic acid & methylation, sulfur SIBO that always comes back, heat intolerance, and more. Time Stamps 00:01:57 Does folate have any function in the fed state? 00:03:30 How do I know if my digestive enzymes are helping or …
Lipoic Acid Saps Methyl Groups
At what dose should we be concerned, and what can we do about it? Yesterday, I held a live Q&A with Masterpass members, and one of the questions that came up was whether we should be concerned about alpha-lipoic acid supplements hurting methylation as described in this rat study from 2010. After searching among the papers citing this study, the Examine.Com …
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Ancestral Health vs. Antagonistic Pleiotropy?
Why Nick Hiebert is wrong in using antagonistic pleiotropy to refute the ancestral health framework. I recently had a debate on Twitter Spaces with Nick Hiebert on the value of the ancestral health framework. I will publish this soon with my reflections. Here, however, I want to make an independent analysis that focuses narrowly on …