Question: How to approach chronic joint pain? You definitely want to move the joints that are affected. So the movement must target the joints that are affected. And you definitely want like 30 minutes a day of just moderate movement, even walking would be great. But then you also want movement aimed at actually supporting …
Question: How should I break a 36-hour fast? The two things that I would think about are your digestion, it’s probably going to take a little bit of time to ramp itself up. I don’t think you’re going to do any harm by eating things that are difficult to digest, probably not great for your …
Question: What are optimal levels of B12? So there’s a paper called the Pathophysiology of Elevated Vitamin B12 in clinical practice that PM Schoenfeld, another Masterpass member, had given me. And this paper is very interesting because it identifies a bunch of things that high B12 can be an indicator of, not a causal factor …
Question: Are GABA or methylation support useful for panic attacks? I think anything that increases GABA activity is probably going to slow down anxiety and panic. I think that’s clear just from the drugs that are used to treat an anxiety, or panic disorder. Xanax is used for that purpose. So I do think that …
Question: Is increasing reactive oxygen species a good strategy for appetite control? Is that going to cause satiety in the brain? Maybe. I haven’t studied that. I think Stephan Guyenet would be a great person to talk to about that. It wouldn’t surprise me in the sense that if you want to shut down energy …
Question: What’s the best way to increase ferritin? If you’re taking an iron chelate supplement then you should probably take it with a carnivore meal. Vitamin C and a few other ones, folate, are not really vegan nutrients but they’re very plant-oriented nutrients in terms of what’s the thing you’re probably going to add to …
Question: What to eat for a 35-year-old vegan woman with hypothyroidism and low zinc levels? I think a vegan with poor zinc levels should supplement with zinc. You know, it’s one thing if you have a vegan whose diet just happens to provide good zinc status, despite the fact that their diet is dramatically lower …
Question: Are the concerns about cyanocobalamin exaggerated? I’m not sure what people have said about the dangers. I know that I have been a critic of cyanocobalamin relative to other forms of B12 and then, other people may have used something I said maybe in an exaggerated way. And then there might be just much …