Question: Should a female focus on lowering DHT to avoid pattern baldness? Carrie: DHT is only one of the alpha metabolites. If you just do it in serum, that’s usually what everyone test, but there are some other big ones, androsterone, and 5 alpha-androstanediol is another big one that you can test in your intestine. …
Question: What can be done to reverse hypothyroidism other than taking thyroid medicine? Chris: I’ll throw in a couple things. If you just look at the nutrients needed to make thyroid hormone, you’re looking at enough protein in addition to enough iodine. But then also the production of thyroid hormone is a very, very dirty …
A new meta-analysis of studies on smoking and COVID-19 progression was released today as a preprint.* A meta-analysis is a study that pools together the data from many studies to look at the big picture. One thing is quite straightforward: once diagnosed with COVID-19, smokers are more than twice as likely to develop a severe …
Two preprints* were released yesterday that add to the growing evidence that hydroxychloroquine is not useful in COVID-19, contrary to all the hype. Please note that I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. A more detailed disclaimer can be found at the bottom of the page. Let’s take a look …
Two new studies published today as preprints suggest that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, infects the nose and causes anosmia, the loss of a sense of smell, by damaging the nerves. Preprints are papers that are destined for peer-reviewed journals but have not yet been peer reviewed. The vast majority of reliable information circulating …
Question: What about pyroluria and measuring kryptopyrroles? I think it’s fairly harmless to increase zinc and B6 as a test of whether that’s true and see if you get results from it. But I wouldn’t treat it like a diagnostic value because no one has followed up any science on that disorder in the decades …
New research suggests SARS-CoV-2 infects the throat, which makes important differences in how I will approach prevention. Why This Matters When I first wrote The Food and Supplement Guide for the Coronavirus, I took the position that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, was most likely mainly infecting the lung without infecting parts of the upper …
As I explained in the last two updates (here and here) I’ve been studying hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine largely because I’m investigating whether their mechanisms shed any light on whether quercetin (rich in onions, nuts, and a variety of vegetables) and EGCG (abundant in green tea), are antiviral toward SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) by acting …
The reason I’m interested in hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine is many people are claiming that these are effective against the coronavirus because they help bring zinc into cells, and the zinc kills the virus, and others have argued that since quercetin and EGCG do the same thing, these also would be effective for prevention or treatment …
Question: Nutrients important for neuroregeneration. Iron, phosphorus, and sulfate are very important for regenerating nerves. Magnesium. Acetylcholine is a major factor in regeneration of nerves, and so choline is important. If you were to use a supplement, alpha-GPC would be the ideal choline supplement to use because it’s superior at generating acetylcholine. Vitamin A and …