Is what you’re doing for MTHFR working? How would you know? In this episode I cover the most important blood work to get to make sure what you’re doing is working. I cover the importance of homocysteine, how to interpret glycine and sarcosine levels on a plasma amino acids test, the difference between measuring serum …
The ketogenic diet was first proposed by Russell M. Wilder at the Mayo Clinic in 1921. The goal was to mimic the the physiology of fasting in a way that was more sustainable over time than completely abstaining from food. The application was to treat epilepsy. The use of fasting to treat epilepsy dates back …
Got MTHFR? I got you: here’s what you can do with nutrition to optimize for your genetics. MTHFR mutations increase your need for choline and glycine. It’s key to get methylfolate in your diet, but high-dose methylfolate supplements are not the solution. You need to boost choline as an alternative supply of methyl groups, and …
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Should you care about your MTHFR? Here’s how to find out your MTHFR genetic status and know how it affects you. MTHFR is an enzyme that allows folate, or vitamin B9, to support a process known as methylation. Methylation is important to mental health, cardiovascular health, sports performance, and preventing cancer, just to name a …
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Are you coming to Wise Traditions 2017? It’s in Mineapolis, with some pregame events beginning on Thursday, November 9th and the main conference running from Friday, November 10th through Monday, November 13th. I’m excited to see friends like Ben Greenfield and Laura Schoenfeld, to meet many other people I know only through the internet, and to spend some face-to-face …
Here are the audio cliff notes for the MWM Energy Metabolism class. You can also find them in the Mastering Nutrition podcast feed (iTunes, Stitcher, RSS). Each “cliff notes” is a roughly ten-minute audio file that you can stream or download giving you the essentials condensed from the full lesson. Below the streaming and download buttons, you’ll find …
Why were the Inuit never in ketosis, despite their traditional high-fat diet? That question is answered in this lesson. The answer provides a stunning example of human evolution and makes it clear that evolution does not “want” us in a constant state of ketosis. CPT-1a deficiency is a genetic disorder in the ability to make …
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