Note: You can watch my presentation based on this research from the 2021 Ancestral Health Symposium here, watch a much longer video that covers missing slides and answers questions about the talk here, download a PDF of my slides here, and see a short list of minor corrections to the presentation in note 1. In a …
Vitamin K and COVID-19
August 16, 2020 Researchers from The Netherlands released a preprint* on April 25 that they then revised on May 29 suggesting that vitamin K, especially in the form vitamin K2, may benefit the lungs in severe COVID-19. What They Studied Their analysis included 134 subjects hospitalized for COVID-19 between March 12 and April 11. Their …
ACE Inhibitors and ARBs in COVID-19: Unrelated to ACE2 and Apparently Not a Problem
A preprint* released yesterday by collaborators from the medical schools of Stanford, Columbia, University of Minnesota, UC San Diego, and Taiwan’s China Medical School provided the first evidence of the expression of ACE2 in the upper respiratory tract among humans with different risk factors and found that it is slightly lower in those using ACE …
Could low LDL hurt female fertility? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #82
Question: Could low LDL hurt female fertility? I haven’t seen evidence of it, but that would not surprise me at all given that cholesterol is what you make sex hormones from. If you see levels that low, I don’t know that it’s intrinsically a problem. You kind of want to start looking at what are …
What can be done nutritionally to specifically improve antiviral immunity? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #65
Question: What can be done nutritionally to specifically improve antiviral immunity? Certainly, the fat-soluble vitamins, vitamins A and D, both important. Lauric acid as a fat. Coconut oil might be a good fat choice for the fat in your diet. Monolaurin would be a very good choice for a supplement. Lauricidin is the best monolaurin …
My Response to Garrett Smith About My Health
Doctor Garrett Smith, ND, a naturopath, recently purported to analyze my health, making inferences from blog posts, pictures, and comments I’ve made on the internet, concluding that I am suffering from vitamin A toxicity. Smith runs a “comprehensive Poison/’Vitamin A’ Detox program” and lists an invitation to contact his office to work with him as …