Question: Are the PUFAs in phosphatidylcholine supplements a concern? I don’t think so. I think that you’re looking at fairly low levels of PUFAs in there, but the way that I see it is yes, we want to restrict PUFA beyond what’s needed, but what’s needed is defined by what do we need to get …
Question: Is dairy safe for overmethylators? There’s so little methylcobalamin in milk that I think that it is totally insignificant with regards to methyl groups, coming into the methylation cycle. Generally, if you’re experiencing over-methylation symptoms from methylcobalamin or methylfolate, I think the big issue is partly that you don’t have enough glycine in the …
Question: Should different macronutrients be eaten at different times of day? No, I don’t agree with the principle. I think you want protein spaced out at every meal. And that’s because your efficiency in extracting protein for muscle synthesis is limited in any given hour or any given unit time. And so you need a …
Question: Is it OK to take two milligrams a day of MK-4? Two milligrams, I don’t have major safety concerns over, but I would prefer for most people who aren’t dealing with a clinical soft-tissue calcification issue take more like 200 micrograms. If you would like to be part of the next live Ask Me …
Question: How to feel great on a poor night’s sleep? I would say get rid of the poor night’s sleep. And so that’s go through the checklist of two to four hours of blue light blocking before bed, up to two to four hour, depending on your needs, psychological winding down routine, in which you …
Question: What supplements should be taken by someone on PPIs? I would first consider what you should do to get off the PPI. And so PPIs Are targeting stomach acid. And so I would first and foremost be thinking of excess histamine might be leading to excess stomach acid. You should probably try to eat …
Question: Could methylglyoxal be causing elevated fasting glucose in low-carbers? Yes. I did my doctoral dissertation on methylglyoxal so I’ve covered it in a lot of different contexts, and the basic story is we know that diabetics have high methylglyoxal levels. We know that diabetics have high methylglyoxal-derived advanced glycation endproducts. And we know that …
Question: Is it important to hit the AI for total omega-6? I think it’s totally normal to not meet the AI for Omega-6 and to exceed the AI for Omega-3. Question is really, if you have systemic inflammation going on, you frame this as, should I strive to at least meet the AI for Omega-6 …
Question: How 30 minutes on the elliptical helps my head and neck tension So what the elliptical does is, it doesn’t do a whole lot for moving my neck one way or another, but it does a lot for moving my thoracic spine and my shoulders through a pretty defined range of motion, not full …
Question: Why does it take time to be fat-adapted when our body already knows how to burn fat? So the body does need time to get fat-adapted because yeah, the body knows how to burn fat, but fat adaptation is not about the body knowing how to burn fat, it’s about the body increasing the …