Question: “Calcium score, is there a way to treat one’s calcium score and get it to zero?” ⇒ No, you don’t treat the calcium score. You take the calcium score as indicative of what’s going on in atherosclerosis, and you treat that. The goal, I think, is calcium score equals zero. No, that’s a bad …
Question: “What do you think of alternative testing like hair mineral analysis or SpectraCell?” I’m against SpectraCell on the basis of, it’s not validated. I gave more details in a podcast episode “What Makes a Good Marker of Nutritional Status?” and you can find that at chrismasterjohnphd.com/marker. Hair mineral analysis; I like hair mineral analysis …
Question: How do I address edema? Edema is basically going to be caused by excess salt retention in the body. The reason is that with the exception of very extreme scenarios, your body is going to tightly regulate the sodium concentration of the water in your body, and sodium draws water. Now, that’s not to …
Question: “How do you determine if you’re getting enough protein? I heard Dr. Stephen Phinney say, for those on a keto diet, if ketones are greater than 3 on a regular basis, then it’s a sign you’re not getting enough protein.” First of all, why are you on a ketogenic diet? If your purpose is …
Question: What supplements would you recommend for a ketogenic diet? Any concerns with carbs being that low? If someone’s on a keto diet and they have 80 grams total carbs, the first question I have is where are the carbs coming from? That’s really going to determine whether the person needs supplements. So, on a …
Question: “Why would a male be low in calcium?” You either have something wrong with parathyroid hormone governing your calcium levels, in which case you would want to see a doctor about that, or you have a long-going deficiency of related nutrients. Not enough calcium and not enough vitamin D should not cause low …
Question: “I keep waking up in the middle of the night and stay awake for hours. Would low carb make it worse?” It definitely could. Your brain will consume 120 grams of carbohydrate every day, just your brain. There’s got to be another 30 grams or so that would be used no matter what obligately …
Question: “Which brand and dosage of no-carb electrolytes would you take at night to optimize sleep, especially after sauna use?” I would drink a bottle of Gerolsteiner, and I would add to it 100 milligrams of any kind of magnesium: citrate, glycinate, malate, those three are fine. And I would add to it 400 milligrams …
Question: “Vitamin K2, MK-4 and MK-7, might have caused prolonged heart palpitations. Upon stopping it, symptoms mostly resolved after a week or so. Does that mean that the body is better off without it? Might increasing calcium intake mitigate this?” I would say, the calcium is really interesting. I genuinely hadn’t thought of that until …
Question, part 1: “Bovine colostrum from New Zealand cows. Yea or nay for those with dairy sensitivities? If nay, what would you recommend instead?” What is your goal? If you have a dairy sensitivity, your problem could be with casein, with the whey proteins, or with something more specific like certain antibodies. It’s very complicated. …