Question: What’s the safe use of an iodine nasal spray? So, the iodine in the food and supplement guide for the coronavirus most recent version, I included iodine as a nasal spray. It’s very important to look at the percentages. And so, 0.5% is the concentration recommended and that means that if you get a …
Question: Why would ferritin be extremely high when transferrin saturation is low? Ferritin as a potential indicator of iron overload should not be anywhere near the level that was set to try to rule in biopsy provable hemochromatosis that is just a profoundly negligent approach to setting the range for ferritin. Now, I think part …
Question: Can carnitine be used for fatty liver instead of choline? The role of choline and the role of carnitine have nothing to do with one another. Choline is going to help move fat out of the liver. Carnitine is going to help fat get into the mitochondria to be burned for energy. So, first …
Question: Is it OK to drink a pint of Gerolsteiner mineral water a day? It’s significantly less than a bottle. I guess conceivably if you’re also drinking a lot of milk, or eating a lot of cheese, or supplementing with calcium, or taking bone meal powder, I guess you can get too much calcium. I …
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 …
Question: Is the sugar in Life Extension Enhanced Zinc Acetate lozenges a problem? In that kind of protocol attuned to the progress of the potential cold, I find no alternative is more effective than the zinc acetate lozenges. And so, therefore, I’m willing to consume 40 or 60 grams of sugar for like 1 day …
Question: If I use SAMe for depression, what do I need for nutritional balance? Nutrition wise, I think the most important thing would be to make sure that you have an adequate glycine status. And you know, I don’t know what your background is in terms of other issues, but the glycine buffer system, which …
Question: Should I take iron every day or use alternate day dosing? Reference: https://haematologica.org/article/view/9379 So, according to this abstract, in iron depleted women without anemia, oral iron supplements induce an increase in serum hepcidin that persist for 24 hours, decreasing iron absorption from supplements given later on the same or next day. Consequently, iron absorption …
Question: Should I spread my collagen out across my meals? I’m not sure what the best dosing is given that it hasn’t actually been studied fully, but I believe that it was estimated that in the people who have the highest collagen waste during collagen turnover that they can run short of glycine about 60 …
Question: Where should I buy my chicken products? You may have local options. And a good place to look for local options would be eatwild.com. I’m assuming it’s still up. That was a great database and probably still is a great database of pasture-raised products of any type. Not just chicken. And then of course, …