If you are looking for information on methylation and the MTHFR gene, this is where to start. If you do not know what methylation is, and would like to understand the basics, click open the introduction below: For recommendations on how to obtain sufficient methylation-supporting nutrients in your diet, click open the next section, …
Niacin Part 1: What It Is and Why You Need It
Niacin is vitamin B3. You use it to make NAD, the ultimate anti-aging molecule that repairs your DNA and lengthens your telomeres, and the most foundational molecule in our entire system of energy metabolism. It is especially important to protecting your mind, your skin, and your gut. You use it to release all your neurotransmitters. …
Why You Should Manage Your Riboflavin Status and How to Do It
Riboflavin is the ultimate fat-burning nutrient. It makes even a bad MTHFR work right, and it keeps you looking young and beautiful forever. Here’s everything you need to know about why you should manage your riboflavin status and how to do it. In this podcast I join with Alex Leaf of Examine.Com. I focus on …
How to Make Your Own GABA
Here’s how to make your own GABA, not in your basement, but in your brain. GABA helps relax you, helps you make faster and better decisions under pressure, and helps you face your fears with less of a harmful stress response. To make it ourselves we need glucose to enter the brain, then we need …
Nutrition in Neuroscience (Part 1)
Nutrition has a HUGE impact on your brain! Everything in your brain is something you ate, something you made from something you ate, or, in a few cases, something your mother ate. Nutrition impacts your mental and emotional health, the function of your five senses, and your conscious and unconscious control over your body movements. …
Does Glycine or GABA Wake You Up?
GABA and glycine supplements should both have a calming effect, helping to reduce anxiety and make you sleep better. But some people have asked me, what if they do the opposite? What if they cause anxiety and wake you up at night? Tune in for my answer. How to watch it: Watch it on Facebook . Watch …