Question: MK-4 vs MK-7: Vitamin K2 Showdown My default here is that a healthy diet would always have a mix of all of them. And although it’s hard to justify a reason for having K1 specifically if you also have MK-7, the justification for having MK-4 is somewhat speculative. I wouldn’t say speculative, but it’s …
Question: How should someone balance a vitamin D of 80 ng/mL with other nutrients? Let’s say the idea is to maintain someone on a lifelong level of 80 nanograms per milliliter. Maybe four times the first year, two times the second year, once the third year and then every few years thereafter, I would measure …
Question: Can MTHFR cause ADHD? So, methylation will reduce the background level of tonic dopamine. And make you more mentally flexible. And a lack of methylation will generally lead to a higher level of background dopamine and make you not as mentally flexible. So, I really don’t think that the ADHD is solely a consequence …
Question: MTHFR, Depression, Irritability, and Anxiety So, if someone has an MTHFR snip, they don’t have enough methylfolate. And so if they’re treating it with methylfolate, the methylfolate causes the depression, irritability, and anxiety, then that’s one thing. Whereas, if they have the MTHFR snip, they’re not doing anything about it and they have depression, …
Question: Why you have to multiply labeled phosphatidylcholine by 15% Yes. If a lecithin product states the phosphatidylcholine content and you want to know the choline content, multiply by 15%. If you would like to be part of the next live Ask Me Anything About Nutrition, sign up for the CMJ Masterpass, which includes access …
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 …
Question: If total carnitine is low, should I supplement? Supplementation does increase the acylcarnitine fraction and total carnitine to near normal levels. But I’m not clear about whether it’s worth worrying about. So, if the total carnitine is low, but the free carnitine is normal, then total carnitine is low because the acylcarnitines are low. …
Question: Isn’t taking copper with zinc self-defeating? No. So, the competition between their absorption is not that bad. And if it was bad, everyone would be deficient in both of them because all foods that contain one, contain the other. If you would like to be part of the next live Ask Me Anything About …
Question: Insulin resistance from fat invading muscle cells? I think increased free fatty acids in the blood. That’s going to be a normal reaction to dietary fat and I think that if you have increased fatty acids than increased glucose, that you have more energy to dispose off. And if you have more energy to …
Question: How do carbonated water, magnesium, and potassium affect pH? If you drink carbonated water, the CO2 is going to give up hydrogen ions to become carbonic acid, which is going to give up hydrogen ions to become bicarbonate. So making bicarbonate from CO2 is acidic taking bicarbonate is alkaline. So the thing you have …