Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and this information is educational in nature. An Italian clinical trial peer-reviewed and published this past month in EClinical Medicine, one of the journals published by The Lancet, is nothing short of incredible. It provides rigorous evidence that …
Is liver OK to eat if raw or if blended in a Vitamix? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #184
Question: Is liver OK to eat if raw or if blended in a Vitamix? So, the blending might hurt some really sensitive stuff. There’s a lot of glutathione in liver. It might hurt some of the glutathione. I think the majority of the vitamins are going to be okay. And the minerals in general will …
Should NAC supplementation be pulsed? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #149
Question: Should NAC supplementation be pulsed? So, yes, boost glutathione. It might bring glutathione down. It’s speculative that you could pulse it to avoid that. But even supplementing oral glutathione for 6 months was shown to not affect glutathione production. And certainly, oral glutathione is going to have more of a negative feedback loop than …
Cataracts: what are the roles of methylglyoxal and polyols? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #137
Question: Cataracts: what are the roles of methylglyoxal and polyols? Is the polyol pathway activation and methylglyoxal independent causes of cataract formation or are they related to one another? And the answer is a little bit of both. You know, if independent means unrelated, then they’re related. Not independent. But they are independent in the …
How Diabetes, Like Sugar, May Fuel Viral Growth
August 24, 2020 In response to yesterday’s newsletter on sugar, one of you asked: Could this be why people with diabetes seem susceptible? I’m guessing if they have elevated blood sugar levels this could make viral replication stronger? Diabetics do not seem to have an increased incidence of COVID-19, but those who get COVID-19 have much …
Could Sugar Intake Play a Role in COVID-19?
August 23, 2020 In a preprint* published Friday, researchers from Germany, Denmark, and the UK published a paper suggesting that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, relies heavily on sugar to be able to replicate. These results raise the possibility that sugar intake fuels the growth of the virus and could be a major determinant …