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Question: Is whole food vitamin C superior to natural because it is part of a tyrosinase complex?
Short Answer: Vitamin C is nearly ubiquitously distributed in plant tissues, and is never bound to any enzyme as a structural complex. Vitamin C promotes absorption of iron from plant foods, inhibits copper absorption, and de-loads copper from ceruloplasmin, which may play a role in distributing copper to tissues. Vitamin C is not capable of destroying ceruloplasmin. These functions follow directly from vitamin C as an electron donor and there is no evidence whatsoever that whole food vitamin C behaves differently in these respects than synthetic vitamin C. However, daily needs in most contexts are 2-400 milligrams of vitamin C per day, which is below the dose shown to potentially cause problems with copper. Getting this from whole foods or whole food supplements is better than using synthetic vitamin C because it avoids GMO corn and Chinese synthetics and provides a host of other beneficial constituents alongside the vitamin C.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question: What Is the Real Issue With Seed Oils?
Short Answer: The main issue with seed oils is that they present an oxidative liability. They do not acutely cause oxidative stress, but their polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are more vulnerable than any other macronutrient to oxidative damage. Oxidative stress can increase because of nutrient deficiencies, toxins, infections, other sources of inflammation, alcohol, or smoking, and it will inevitably increase as a function of aging. As oxidative stress increases, more PUFAs in the tissues mean more damage. At least 0.6 milligrams of vitamin E should be gotten per gram of PUFA in the diet, but vitamin E cannot fully protect against PUFA, so their intake should be moderated to the very low levels needed, as obtained by eating fatty fish once or twice a week, eating eggs daily, and eating 4-8 ounces of liver per week. Additional secondary problems with them include residual solvents and heat damage prior to intake, but the main issue is that we do not want to increase our tissue PUFA content more than needed.
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Question: How useful is hair trace mineral analysis (HTMA) for nutritional testing?
Short Answer: Hair trace mineral analysis is included as an optional add-on in the comprehensive nutritional screening from Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet, because it can capture data for some ultra-trace minerals for which there are no better-validated tests, and it might capture a pattern that might not be picked up as quickly with blood work, such as a mineral transport issue. However, its utility is limited by the fact that hair mineral content is not well validated as a test for any specific mineral, is generally anti-validated when there is enough science on a mineral (such as zinc, where hair zinc does not go down in deficiency), and should not be used as a central piece of data without corroboration from other more well-validated tests, which exist for most of the nutrients.
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Question: How do we find the root cause of an autoimmune condition? One example considered where the root cause is energy metabolism.
Short Answer: Autoimmune conditions are likely driven by deficiencies of vitamins A and D, which contribute to post-infectious autoimmunity by compromising the rhythmic rise and fall of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), and to autoimmunity regardless of infections through impaired suppression of Th17 helper T cells. More broadly, infections and tissue damage are the most likely drivers of autoimmunity onset. However, energy metabolism governs everything through the second law of thermodynamics, which holds that energy must be used to prevent everything from randomly mixing, and this includes randomly mixing the immune defense against pathogens with immune attacks on the host. In this example, we discuss how a respiratory chain disorder would compromise absorption and distribution of zinc and compromise the oxidation of NADH to NAD+, and how both of these would interact with a genetic impairment in acetaldehyde dehydrogenase to prevent the activation of vitamin A to retinoic acid. Autoimmunity thus results as one of many symptoms of vitamin A deficiency driven not by lack of vitamin A, but rather by impaired activation of vitamin A, secondary to impaired energy metabolism.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question: Why Would Vitamin C cause muscle pain, joint pain, and brain fog?
Short Answer: Acutely, vitamin C would likely cause these effects by generating oxalate, which could cause crystals that lead to muscle and joint pain, and could cut energy metabolism in half, leading to brain fog. This vulnerability could result from deficiencies of any of the B vitamins, any of the electrolytes, or of iron, copper, or sulfur; from diabetes, low adrenals, or hypothyroidism; or from any of the hundreds of genetic defects in energy metabolism, only one of which is glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency; or any one of a huge number of toxins that impair energy metabolism. Chronically, vitamin C may increase the harms of iron overload or contribute to copper deficiency. The main ways to manage these latter issues are to take vitamin C away from meals, to maintain good copper status through proper dietary intake, and to treat iron overload with phlebotomy.
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Question: Can NAC Hurt Gut Health When Used to Disrupt Biofilms?
Short Answer: N-acetylcysteine or NAC can be used at a dose of 600 to 2,400 milligrams per day for 5-10 days to disrupt biofilms and make it easier for antimicrobials to kill bacteria. Animal studies suggest that acute doses up to 6 grams do not deplete mucus or cause ulceration, but that an acute dose of 17.5 grams can deplete mucus and cause ulcers within two hours. Human studies suggest that 10 grams per day can be used for 24 weeks with fewer than 1 in 6 people complaining of gastrointestinal side effects. Yet, chronic use of NAC will thin the mucus, disrupt the biofilms used by normal healthy microbiota, and possibly deliver excessive sulfur to certain components of the microbiome. Therefore, I would not use it except for specific, targeted reasons, and I would not use it at a dose higher than needed or for a duration longer than needed.
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Question: How can I protect against oxalates?
Short Answer: Getting 300-400 mg calcium between food and supplements at each meal will minimize oxalate absorption. Maintaining postprandial urine pH in the 6.4-6.8 range by getting 3-5 grams of potassium per day from food or from organic acid salts such as potassium citrate will prevent its crystallization in the kidney. Reducing dietary oxalate will prevent any possible damage in the gut.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question: Why should postprandial blood glucose be kept under 140 milligrams per deciliter? Short Answer: When blood glucose rises above 140 mg/dL, this is the approximate point at which it spills into the polyol pathway at a greater-than-normal rate, which represents a suboptimal state of metabolism that is likely to hurt antioxidant status and compromise detoxification pathways …
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Question: What is the relationship between copper and estrogen? Short Answer: Estrogen moves copper from the mother’s bloodstream to the fetus during pregnancy. Its action at the intestines is poorly understood but I believe estrogen and progesterone interact to promote intestinal copper absorption. Maintaining pregnancy-level hormones while not pregnant poses a risk of promoting too much absorption …
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Question: How to slow greying of hairs and potentially reverse it? Short Answer: What works for any given individual will likely be to find the weakest link and fix it, from among the following systems: the signaling of energy abundance (body fat, insulin sensitivity, thyroid hormone, adequate protein, individualized meeting of carbohydrate needs, good management of psychosocial …
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Question: How much iron can we absorb at once? Short Answer: High-dose iron will produce more total absorbed iron, but will also leave more in the gut, which could cause constipation or disturb the gut microbiome. If desperate for quick relief, 200 milligrams per day of iron taken in the morning will work faster than lower doses …
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Question: What cofactors are needed to synthesize and recycle BH4? Short Answer: Zinc, magnesium, potassium, and niacin are the cofactors needed for the synthesis and recycling of BH4. Folate and methylation are not involved, though high-dose folate or folic acid could hypothetically hurt BH4 recycling since both are recycled by dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR).
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Question: Is it important to get vitamin D sulfate specifically from the sun? Short Answer: It is important to get morning outdoor sunlight as close to every day as possible for your circadian rhythm, and to get some exposure to unprotected sunlight during the day when UV is available, but at doses less than needed to cause …
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Question: If I don’t want to hurt my omega 6 status through my omega 3 intake, how do I do that? Is it simply a question of taking them at separate times? Or is it a question of dose? And if it is a question of dose, how do I know when to start eating fish …
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Question: If I don’t want to hurt my omega 6 status through my omega 3 intake, how do I do that? Is it simply a question of taking them at separate times? Or is it a question of dose? And if it is a question of dose, how do I know when to start eating fish …
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Question:Can plant foods and their phytochemicals be used to reduce arterial plaque?
Short Answer:Yes, but if you don’t have specific intolerances to plant compounds the best thing to do is simply aim to meet your vitamin and mineral targets from a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices, rather than trying to use specific plant compounds from specific studies in any specific amount.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question:What can be done about twitching?
Short Answer: Most twitching will be driven by glutamate/GABA balance or acetylcholine regulation, and the most likely nutritional issues are any of the electrolytes or any factor that influences energy metabolism. The best way to address it is to consider the conditions that influence it and then trial and error your way through each potential nutritional issue in order of which ones make the most sense for your individual case first.
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Question:If undercarboxylated osteocalcin has health benefits, and vitamin K2 decreases it, what does that mean for K2 supplementation?
Short Answer:Vitamin K2 helps secure osteocalcin in bone matrix, where it is decarboxylated and released as an endocrine hormone in response to certain stimuli. When released, it acts to optimize insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, fuel use during exercise, and male testosterone.
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Question: If I'm at risk of heart disease and phosphatidylcholine increases my TMAO, should I stop the supplement?
Short Answer: On a scale of one to ten, my concern about TMAO and cardiovascular disease is a three. There are thousands of things that should be given equal weight as potential contributors to heart disease, but TMAO gets the most attention because the Cleveland Clinic has an incredible PR machine to spread their research, which serves to bolster their financial interest in marketing the test. That said, it is not a universal necessity to supplement with phosphatidylcholine. If you are concerned about your TMAO, you can try substituting trimethylglycine (TMG), and ultimately judge the value of each supplement by whether it is helping you in a demonstrable way.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
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Question:How do I get my ceruloplasmin up if copper doesn't raise it?
Short Answer:Usually ceruloplasmin raises with copper, which may be important to protect copper from causing oxidative stress. If it does not raise in parallel, the usual suspects to look at are vitamin A and thyroid hormone. However, in this person’s case, his own evidence from self-experiments suggest that he needs antioxidants to lower his transferrin saturation. Lowering his transferrin saturation may be the key to raising his ceruloplasmin.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question:How do I fix low blood sugar on vegan keto?
Short Answer:Consider how important it is for your ketones to be elevated. Most likely you need to eat more protein, which will lower your ketones. I would aim for a minimum of 0.8 grams per kilogram of ideal bodyweight and consider using 1.2 grams per kilogram of ideal bodyweight. If this does not work, consider all of the nutrients involved in energy metabolism — all of the B vitamins, iron, copper, sulfur, magnesium, potassium — but especially biotin and B6 for their disproportionate role in gluconeogenesis. If the protein you need to normalize your blood sugar does reduce your ketones to a level that are not giving you the benefits you are looking for, you could consider raising them with exogenous ketones.
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Question:Why would vitamin D, vitamin K2, and calcium give me brain fog?
Short Answer:Most likely by decreasing serum phosphorus. The solution is to balance these nutrients with vitamin A and phosphorus.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Short Answer: Plasma zinc is the single most important marker of zinc status. Urine zinc may decline faster in deficiency. Hair zinc increases with supplementation but does not decrease in deficiency. Plasma zinc is decreased by inflammation, oxidative stress, the ovulatory and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle, probably pregnancy and oral contraceptive use, and any kind of stress that leads to an adrenal output. If plasma zinc declines despite supplementation, corroborate that this reflects zinc status by showing normal hair zinc and low urine zinc. Use symptoms as the ultimate arbiter of whether zinc supplementation is helping.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Question: Why do many chronically ill people have an intolerance to glutathione, and what can be done at home to determine the cause?
Short Answer: It could be byproducts of any of the three amino acids that make up the glutathione molecule, which include the individual amino acids, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide, sulfite, and propionyl CoA, or it could be microbial metabolites of glutathione produced in the gut. The full answer contains seven hypothesis-driven tests that can be done at home to determine the cause.
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Short Answer:From the trials, statins seem to reduce heart disease risk and total mortality, but it is impossible to separate this from conflicts of interest and industry funding. There are plausible mechanisms by which they may hurt mitochondrial function and promote soft tissue calcification. Dietary sulfur appears to lower cholesterol. While Lester Morrison showed 1500 milligrams per day of chondroitin sulfate could reduce cardiac events 7-fold, this has a theoretical potential to hurt the microbiome. My preferred way of getting sulfur is 1.2-1.8 grams per kilogram bodyweight of total non-collagen protein, with an emphasis on animal protein.
This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here.
DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing herein is medical advice.
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Short Answer:I believe most methyl donor intolerances are a result of deficiencies in the glycine buffer system, which requires glycine, vitamin A, fasting (glucagon), androgens, riboflavin, unmethylated folate (THF), and iron. No one should expect to tolerate 30 milligrams of folate, however, and there is almost never a reason to use doses that high.
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Question: Does whey protein hurt the kidneys or otherwise hurt our health?
Short Answer:The main problem with too much protein, particularly animal protein, is that acidity may hurt the bones and increase the risk of calcium oxalate kidney stones, but this can be obviated by balancing it with organic acids, which have bicarbonate-sparing effects that are alkalinizing. The best index of the organic acid content of foods is the potassium content. This balance can be achieved with 750 to 1500 milligrams of potassium for every 100 grams of protein. This is not specific to whey protein. Other than allergies, none of the claimed harms of whey protein are convincing.
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Does glucose handling in the brain decline with age? And if so, does this serve as a rationale to supplement with MCT oil to prevent cognitive decline?
Short Answer: Energy metabolism in general declines across the body with aging, but energy metabolism seems to stay healthy enough in the brain in people who do not experience cognitive decline. Cognitive decline does appear to be driven by decreases in brain energy metabolism, but these are not best described as a specific impairment in glucose handling. MCT oil can be modestly beneficial and a ketogenic diet can probably be somewhat more beneficial in people who have cognitive decline from any type. There is no evidence to support using it as a preventative. For prevention, I believe we should focus on aerobic fitness, nutrients required for healthy energy metabolism and antioxidant defense, and maintaining metabolic health with a healthy body composition and a healthy physical activity routine that includes the proper spread of a portfolio of different types of exercise.
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Short Answer: If it can’t be explained by the dose of salt, it may be that the salt is not being absorbed orally. Glucose, starch, or simply a meal consumed alongside the salted water may help with this.
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Short Answer: SHBG is increased by adiponectin (vitamin K2, insulin sensitivity), thyroid hormone, fasting physiology (AMPK, fat oxidation), and estrogen (especially estrone), while it is decreased by insulin resistance, obesity, the fed state and carbohydrate-dominant physiology, androgens, and polyunsaturated fat. This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here. DISCLAIMER: I have …
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Short Answer: While protein restriction may have value in people with established cancer or kidney disease, cycling robustly between fasting and feeding states is likely to provide all the value that restriction of protein or calories might otherwise provide, and a high protein intake supports bone mass, muscle mass, and the detoxification of carcinogens, all …
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Short answer: Low or low-normal alkaline phosphatase may raise the plasma B6 level over the cellular level. Tryptophan metabolites in urine reflect the B6 requirement for the kynurenine pathway, and this requirement increases with more estrogen, more inflammation, or a higher protein intake. This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here. …
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Short answer: 4-6 hours after a meal the small intestine is emptied and the insulin-to-glucagon ratio declines; 25 hours after, hepatic glycogen is emptied; 5 days later the brain is adapted to ketones and gluconeogenesis reaches its minimal level. Moving from one to the other cannot occur with a small piece of signaling like the bite …
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Short answer: Probably not. Animal studies showing a difference use huge doses in an unrealistic context. Human studies show they don’t at doses used. Human effect on PSA is vulnerable to regression to the mean and thoroughly unconvincing. This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here. DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD …
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Short answer: Trust the CGM. HbA1c is confounded by red blood cell turnover and fructosamine 3-kinase activity. This episode was cut from the original Q&A session that you can find here. DISCLAIMER: I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in performing and evaluating nutritional research. I am not a medical doctor and nothing …
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Maintaining good GSH status is always important to protect high-dose C from generating oxalate and may often be important for preventing it from acting as a pro-oxidant. Cancer is an exception. In my preliminary report, I voiced the concern that high-dose vitamin C could deplete glutathione and worsen nitric oxide toxicity when not properly balanced with …
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MASA chips launch today. Traditionally nixtamalized organic corn fried in grass-fed beef tallow. Full-bodied and perfectly salty. My friend Steve, who is the one who originally introduced me to the Essex Farm CSA that now supplies me with almost all my food, has invented a new tortilla chip that launches today! MASA chips are made …
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Glycine problems, deficiency signs when lab tests are normal, the 3 phases of fasting & what kicks you out, lipoic acid & methylation, sulfur SIBO that always comes back, heat intolerance, and more. Time Stamps 00:01:57 Does folate have any function in the fed state? 00:03:30 How do I know if my digestive enzymes are helping or …
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At what dose should we be concerned, and what can we do about it? Yesterday, I held a live Q&A with Masterpass members, and one of the questions that came up was whether we should be concerned about alpha-lipoic acid supplements hurting methylation as described in this rat study from 2010. After searching among the papers citing this study, the Examine.Com …
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Why Nick Hiebert is wrong in using antagonistic pleiotropy to refute the ancestral health framework. I recently had a debate on Twitter Spaces with Nick Hiebert on the value of the ancestral health framework. I will publish this soon with my reflections. Here, however, I want to make an independent analysis that focuses narrowly on …
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SIBO; CGM/HbA1c conflicts; vitamin C, copper, and histamine; reishi, curcumin, and testosterone; magnesium problems; vitamin toxicity; fat malabsorption; tinnitus; baking glycine; much more. Time Stamps 03:41 What to Do About Persistent SIBO? 20:03 If your CGM conflicts with your HbA1c 27:30 Are there toxicity concerns for vitamin C and copper used for histamine? 33:55 Are there toxicity concerns for …
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Arginine depletion and T cell suppression in severe COVID may be the rapid onset of a somewhat cancer-reminiscent state where vitamins A and D and other myeloid differentiation factors run out. Read it here.
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A convenience Twitter poll raises the question; I've heard anecdotal support; the mechanism is obvious. Read it here.
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Beyond a certain dose, vitamin C can begin taxing glutathione and rendering excess nitric oxide toxic. Here's how to prevent that. Read it here.
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My tentative view on what is causing it and what to do about it. This is NOT caused primarily by the conflict in Ukraine and a sudden peaceful solution to the conflict will not avert it. Disclaimer: None of this is advice, financial or otherwise. I am sharing my ideas. Please make your own decisions …
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The spike protein pokes holes in cell membranes at concentrations much lower than those achieved with vaccination, contributing to COVID-like illness and mitochondrial damage. But is the J&J immune? This is not medical advice. Please see the full disclaimer at the bottom. The spike protein from the COVID vaccines is found in humans for at least …
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Limitations to the Feb 25 paper on reverse transcription notwithstanding, something has to be radically extending the half-life well beyond anything that could be predicted from the known science. This is not medical advice. Please see the full disclaimer at the bottom. A paper published on February 25 argued that the spike protein mRNA from the Pfizer …
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If PCR-negative COVID-like illness is often COVID, every single test-negative case control study is completely worthless and the vaccine trial efficacy numbers mean nothing at all. This is not medical advice. See full disclaimer at the bottom. Having coined the phrase “Pandemic of PCR-Negative COVID-Like Illness” on January 27 (republished on Substack February 19), I was overjoyed …
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The new paper showing the spike protein is found in armpit lymph nodes at least 60 days after vaccination also shows that immune imprinting from vaccination leads to “original antigenic sin.” This is not medical advice. See full disclaimer at the bottom. The new paper in Cell showing that the spike protein persists in the lymph nodes of …
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How a negative PCR test can serve as a marker for systemic inflammation and spike protein toxicity, creating a widely exploited statistical anomaly to make misleading claims about hospitalization. This is not medical advice. See full disclaimer at the bottom. All of the below only makes sense when we realize that virtually every report we …
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Test-negative case control studies are abundant in the era of COVID, and are the primary type of observational study used to calculate vaccine efficacy. As reviewed here, this design was first used in in 1980 for the pneumococcal vaccine. Its use rapidly increased in the last decade, and since 2011 it has been the design …
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Last week I published two articles on iron, one suggesting it could play a role in post-COVID fatigue and hair loss, and the second suggesting it could play a nearly identical role in the same symptoms when resulting from COVID vaccination. In these posts I did not recommend indiscriminate iron supplementation. Rather, I suggested it …
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Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. My goal is to empower you with information. I will not take a position on whether you should or should not get vaccinated. Please make this decision yourself, consulting sources you trust, including a caring health care professional. In late October, the …
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Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences, and this post is educational in nature. It is meant to share research and not to provide health care or a substitute for seeking health care. Please discuss this with your doctor before taking any action on it.
A peer-reviewed study published earlier this month found that, among just under 2,000 patients who had previously been hospitalized for COVID in Spain, 2/3 of them still had at least one post-COVID symptom 8.5 months later.
The most common symptoms were fatigue (61% of patients) and trouble breathing (dyspnea) upon exertion (53.5% of patients). Over a third of women suffered from hair loss.
Fatigue, dyspnea upon exertion, and hair loss can all be signs or symptoms of iron deficiency. Fatigue and dyspnea are basic textbook indicators while hair loss is less well known, but found in the literature (for example, here and here).
A small peer-reviewed study published last year compared 46 patients with post-COVID fatigue to an equal number of patients who had recovered from COVID without long-haul symptoms. The group with fatigue had 3.3-fold higher ferritin levels (406 ng/mL vs 124 ng/mL) even though it was borderline higher in women and women tend to have lower ferritin levels than men. From among numerous predictors tested, the only ones that independently predicted the risk of post-COVID fatigue were the duration of initial illness and the ferritin level. Every 1 ng/mL increase in serum ferritin was associated with an 0.6% increase in the risk of post-COVID fatigue.
High Ferritin Can Indicate Functional Iron Deficiency While ferritin is often seen as a marker of iron status, such that more ferritin means you have more iron in your body, this is woefully oversimplified. During post-infection inflammation, it is likely to be straight up backwards.
Ferritin is a protein that sequesters iron. In the absence of higher-than-normal oxidative stress or inflammation, ferritin does indeed act as an indicator of iron status. This is because the primary role of ferritin under those conditions is to store iron for long-term use and prevent too much free iron running around and doing damage. However, under conditions of oxidative stress iron can do much more damage than normal, and under conditions of inflammation, the body worries that iron could feed pathogenic bacteria. Under either condition, we make more ferritin than normal. This leads us to sequester a greater proportion of iron, locking it up within ferritin, and preventing us from putting it to good use.
Inflammation-induced ferritin is the basis for anemia of chronic disease. In this type of anemia, ferritin is overproduced, iron is locked up, and the person is unable to use the iron to produce hemoglobin. Their hemoglobin levels drop, and they become anemic.
In anemia of chronic disease, it can be dangerous to supplement iron, because if someone is infected with a pathogenic bacterium that feeds on iron, iron supplementation could aggravate the infection.
However, that is not what seems to be going on in post-COVID fatigue. Rather, the inflammation from the infection is lingering. The lingering inflammation is doing nothing good. It needs to be cooled down. But while running hot, it locks iron up in ferritin. This leaves the ferritin level in the blood high, but leaves the patient with a functional iron deficiency.
The Role of IL-6 In anemia of chronic disease, the increased ferritin is driven by interleukin-6 (IL-6), an inflammatory compound that is known to increase in COVID. Iron-saturated lactoferrin, a protein found in milk, lowers IL-6, and has been used previously to improve this type of anemia in women with several different inflammatory conditions.
More Common in Women The fact that long-COVID predominates in women over men is consistent with a role for iron. Because of menstruation, women usually have substantially lower iron status than men. If inflammation elevates their ferritin, they would be much more vulnerable to the functional iron deficiency that could result.
The Spanish study referenced above found that, compared to men, women were 2.5 times more likely to have three or more post-COVID symptoms and were 3 times more likely to suffer from post-COVID hair loss.
You Don't Need to Be Anemic for This to Happen It is important to realize that one need not be anemic for iron deficiency to cause these symptoms. Anemia refers to a decrease in hemoglobin or red blood cells, but iron has many roles outside of hemoglobin production. Iron is needed to make thyroid hormone, and hypothyroidism can cause hair loss, fatigue, and dyspnea upon exertion. While its role in hemoglobin production makes it critical to delivering oxygen to cells, iron also plays critical roles within mitochondria, the so-called powerhouses of the cell, in using oxygen to produce energy. Thus, many of the symptoms of anemia could theoretically show up in someone with normal hemoglobin and red blood cells if the iron within their mitochondria is running low.
It is also important to realize that, while in the absence of a post-infection inflammatory syndrome low ferritin suggests iron deficiency, in the presence of such a syndrome high ferritin is likely to indicate functional iron deficiency.
In fact, hair loss associated with iron deficiency is usually associated with low ferritin and normal hemoglobin. We could expect post-COVID hair loss to be driven by functional iron deficiency, then, with high ferritin and normal hemoglobin.
What to Do About It I believe the following approach is worth trying for post-COVID fatigue, dyspnea, and hair loss:
- Measure IL-6, ferritin, a complete blood count (CBC), and an iron panel (serum iron, UIBC, TIBC, and iron saturation percentage).
- If the iron saturation is below 30%, especially if the serum iron is low or hovering in the bottom 20% of the range, 18 mg of iron bisglycinate per day can be used to see if it improves symptoms over the course of 4-12 weeks, and to see if it normalizes the lab work. If it proves difficult to raise iron levels with the supplement, it should be taken with a low-plant, mostly animal food-based meal. It should not be taken with collagen, gelatin, or glycine.
- If the CBC reveals anemia consistent with iron deficiency, the case for supplementing iron is strengthened. However, if the CBC is normal iron supplementation may still be useful.
- If the IL-6 and ferritin are also high, inflammation-induced ferritin is the likely explanation for the low iron or low iron saturation. Some things that may help include the specific Italian lactoferrin product Lattoglobina or, much more easily obtained, two scoops of whey protein (explained here); 1000 milligrams per day of curcumin; or 1000 milligrams of black seed oil once or twice per day. Maintaining good vitamin D status should be a priority even as a prevantative, and may help restrain IL-6 from elevating during COVID in the first place. Given the data suggesting omega-3 fatty acids help hasten recovery from COVID, and given that they are essential to resolving inflammation, anyone recovering post-COVID should make sure to get 600 mg per day of the sum of EPA and DHA per day.
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In this episode, Chris Masterjohn interviews Angela McArdle on strategies to defeat the mandates. McArdle is the current chair of the Los Angeles Libertarian Party and is spearheading an effort to amend the New York City charter to prohibit the mayor from making mandates.
We discuss the ethics of mandates, steelmanning the case in favor of them, and then justifying our opposition to them. We discuss strategies to defeat them, as well as strategies for employees to keep their jobs when faced with them.
Angela has worked as a paralegal and legal aid for over eleven years. Angela currently works in litigation and also has a private practice where she provides self help legal services to low income clients. The bulk of Angela’s practices focuses on real estate and constitutional law.
She was a key organizer for the Los Angeles 2013 protest against a ban on feeding in public rights of way, which was a major obstacle to feeding the homeless.
Angela received her Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Leadership from Biola University in 2009 and a Paralegal Certificate from UCLA Extension in 2013. Angela is also trained as a craniosacral therapist through the Upledger Institute.
She believes strongly in the sanctity of personal choice and allowing people to govern their own lives.
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Time Stamps 00:45 George Washington's smallpox mandate
02:45 McArdle's background in law and natural health
09:05 Test negative case control studies are a scam, same with RCTs without inert placebos
13:38 The ethics of mandates
25:22 Amending the city's charter
30:33 Changing the hearts and minds of the people
38:10 Voting with your feet: to move, or to stay and fight?
46:07 Connecting with people on an emotional level; city council meetings; changing the hearts and minds of reporters
49:46 The role of protests and rallies
56:52 Restaurant sit-ins
1:05:10 Call banking businesses
1:07:54 Perceptions of the sit-ins
1:11:16 Different ways individuals can get involved
1:12:26 Persuading the police
1:17:02 What to do if your job is threatened
1:23:12 If we don't stop this now, what's the end game?
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In this episode, I have Dr. Dmitry Kats, MPH, PhD. He has a PhD in epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many people have asked me what I think of his Niatonin protocol for COVID. And as you'll see in this interview that has since evolved into the Niacur protocol, which now has the dosing regimen of just niacin and curcumin, having abandoned the melatonin from the original protocol. You will find in this 3.5-hour conversation all about the justification for that protocol, how it evolved over time, where it came from, and you will get a really interesting look into the fascinating mind of Dr. Kats.
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As we look forward with hope and determination toward a wonderful 2022, let us first briefly look back on the best of 2021.
Here I'm posting the ten most popular posts on my web site from the last year. Perhaps it's worth revisiting one of these if you've forgotten them, or maybe this will draw your attention to something critical you may have missed.
10. Omega-3 Fatty Acids and COVID
This article covers the randomized controlled trial evidence suggesting that omega-3 fatty acids, and perhaps one or two servings of fatty fish per week, hasten recovery in mild COVID cases and improve survival among ICU patients 6-fold.
9. The Real Reason for Vaccine Passports
I got a lot of hate mail for this one, but it's the truth. I considered calling it, “It's not a conspiracy if they do it out in the open.” It's not conspiracy; it's policy. (Not that it matters since something being a “conspiracy theory” just means it's a theory about conspiracies, and conspiracies exist, so such a label does not detract from an idea's credibility in any way whatsoever.) Vaccine passports are an entry point into a global digital ID tied to a centralized digital currency where your income, taxation, stimulus payments, credit score, and interest rate will be tied to your behavior and your obedience to the behavioral goals of those governing the currency.
8. Start Here for MTHFR and Methylation
An enduring classic, this is home to my MTHFR protocol. The title says it all.
7. COVID Vaccines: In Search of All-Cause Mortality
In the US, all-cause mortality data is being hidden by the CDC, and bizarre substitutes for it are being paraded out to support completely non-sensical findings in MMWR. In England, there is much more comprehensive data that suggests the vaccines increased mortality in those under 60, and had a short-lived mortality benefit in those over 60 that spent the year disappearing such that now it is likely breaking even. Nevertheless, the English data have some problems, especially that everyone under 60 is grouped together. Suffice it to say, there is no high-quality all-cause mortality data anywhere to be found, but what we have doesn't look good. A good companion to this that didn't make it into the top ten is its immediate followup, Did the Pfizer Trial Show the Vaccine Increases Heart Disease Deaths?
6. The Ultimate Vitamin K2 Resource
An enduring classic, this is home to everything you will ever need to know about vitamin K2, the most underrated vitamin of all.
5. The New CDC Study on Natural Immunity
This is a critical analysis of the CDC paper claiming that vaccination is five times more protective against COVID than prior infection. While not a “new study” anymore, this post is still up to date. What's most remarkable in it is the suggestion that there is an epidemic of hospitalizations for PCR-negative COVID-like illness primarily afflicting fully vaccinated people.
4. Natural Immunity Vs. Vaccination
In contrast to that CDC study, this review of the evidence on natural immunity vs vaccination suggests natural immunity is consistently equal to or better than vaccination, more robust to variants, and longer-lasting. In some contexts, it is wildly superior.
3. Vitamin D and COVID-19
A comprehensive review of 173 studies making it extremely clear that vitamin D is protective.
2. What is the Best Dose of Zinc for COVID-19 Prevention?
The most comprehensive attempt to answer this question you will find anywhere, this article was written in April, 2020 yet remained the #2 most popular article on my site in 2021. The state of the evidence has not changed in any meaningful sense so this article is still up to date.
1. The One Amino Acid That Could Cure COVID
By far and away the most popular post of 2021, this article on the treatment of severe COVID-19 with L-arginine remains the most important to read, study, and share. This article remains up to date as there currently is no new evidence. What we have suggests that even in people with severe respiratory symptoms and a high risk of death, properly deployed L-arginine can dramatically hasten improvement and might eliminate or greatly reduce the risk of death.
Happy New Year!
Chris
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Something is going around — perhaps in many cases a mild case of omicron — that is leaving people with isolated sore throats, and sore throat seems to be sticking out as a COVID symptom this time around as well. I had a version of this, and many around me have as well. So, here's the top three things to do.
Hydrate. Salt. LMNT.
One notable symptom I've seen in myself and others is that even when the sore throat seems kicked, talking a lot can bring on an inexorable need to drink water to stop the growing tickle in your throat from bringing on a cough.
When I had my first and by far most severe case of COVID in early February 2020, I had a raging sore throat that disappeared when I started drinking LMNT, a salty electrolyte mix, dissolved in water. The sweet taste of the stevia made the salt palatable at that time, and was necessary because COVID had greatly blunted my sweet taste and made non-sweet things taste horribly bitter.
In my second case of COVID in July, I felt a sore throat starting and I knew what to do, so I nipped it in the bud using LMNT.
Last week I had the isolated sore throat going around (tested negative for COVID twice, though I wouldn't rule out an incredibly mild hint of omicron at work), and LMNT came to the rescue.
While I wouldn't rule out an antimicrobial effect of the salt, I believe the salt's main function is to improve retention of the water and make the water far more hydrating.
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Antimicrobial Gargle
Gargling for 30 seconds four times a day with 0.5-1.0% povidone-iodine would be the most reliable way to attack the viral infection of the throat if COVID is involved, and would likely kill almost anything else. (Preparing this usually starts with 10% povidone-iodine as purchased, diluted one part iodine solution to 9 parts water for 1.0%, or 1 part iodine solution to 19 parts water for 0.5%).
This should reduce the viral load in the throat, and reduce the inflammation there. However, irrigating the nose in the same way makes sense, since mucous from the nose could be draining down the throat and creating inflammation.
Life Extension Enhanced Zinc Acetate lozenges will help improve antiviral activity in the nose and throat and should help reduce the inflammatory content of mucous, but they will work against the hydration and comfort of the throat because they are astringent. I would use them if you think you have a cold, flu, or COVID, or if they seem to reduce the inflammatory feeling of the mucous in your throat, but you may have to work a little harder to achieve the hydration outlined in step one.
If you don't tolerate iodine, any herbs, essential oils, or mouthwashes with antimicrobial properties should also help, as should hydrogen peroxide (which I usually dilute from 3% to 1% if using as a gargle).
Gaia Throat Shield
Gaia Throat Shield is a specific product that comes as a spray or as lozenges. I have never come across any product more healing to my throat. This will have some antimicrobial properties, but I use it mainly for soothing and healing the throat tissue. Use as frequently as needed for comfort.
Hope that helps!
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In this episode, I have a fascinating 3-hour conversation with Dr. Jessica Rose about all things related to COVID vaccines, ranging from interpreting the VAERS data to the future of mandatory prophylactic gene therapy.
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Show Notes If you follow Dr. Rose on her web site or YouTube channel, she is first and foremost an analyst of the adverse event reporting system. If you follow her substack, her bio is simple: “I am a dissident.”
Her academic bio emphasizes her expertise in biology and immunology:
Dr. Jessica Rose is a Canadian researcher with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics and a Master’s degree in Immunology from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She also holds a PhD in Computational Biology from Bar Ilan University and 2 post-doctoral degrees: one in Molecular Biology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one in Biochemistry from the Technion Institute of Technology. She was also accepted for a 2-month program as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute prior to completion of her latest post doctoral degree at the Technion.
Important Links Her CV is rich in published work on infectious diseases:
https://i-do-not-consent.netlify.app/media/Curriculum%20Vitae%20June%202021.pdf
She plays advisory roles in the Canadian organization Take Back Our Freedoms:
https://takingbackourfreedoms.ca/about-us/
She is also involved with Geert Vanden Bossche's Voice for Science and Solidarity:
https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/authors/jessica-rose
The three most important ways to keep up with her work are her web site, substack, and YouTube channel:
https://i-do-not-consent.netlify.app/
https://jessicar.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/74jessicarose
This is her currently withdrawn paper on myocarditis:
https://61b87bfde22db9000824d656–i-do-not-consent.netlify.app/media/A%20Report%20on%20Myocarditis%20Adverse%20Events%20in%20the%20U.S.%20Vaccine%20AdverseEvents%20Reporting%20System%20%28VAERS%29%20in%20Association%20with%20COVID19%20Injectable%20Biological%20Products.pdf
This is her critical appraisal of VAERS as a pharmacovigilence tool:
https://i-do-not-consent.netlify.app/media/Pharmacovigilance%20VAERS%20paper%20FINAL_OCT_1_2021.pdf
Time Stamps 07:25 The interview starts
08:27 Her academic background
25:09 How she started analyzing VAERS data
31:14 Were the mandates a surprise or expected?
31:34 Raw milk persecution, Rawsome raids, National Animal Identification System, swine flu microchips and forced quarantining laws
38:45 Interpreting VAERS: how do we think about underreporting, overreporting, stimulated reporting, and causality?
52:08 Total adverse events are continuing to accumulate at the same rate even though the rollout is tapering, breakthrough infections, female reproduction issues
56:38 John Su misrepresents the data on 5-11-year-olds at CDC meeting
01:03:02 Hiding the children injected illegally
1:08:52 Severe adverse events in 5-11-year-olds
1:15:37 Back when 50 VAERS deaths would take a product off the market
1:18:04 We should be more cautious, not less cautious, when the data is poor quality
1:21:00 Hiding the all-cause mortality data
1:26:51 Can you get COVID twice? And what does it mean, exactly, to “get” COVID?
1:48:37 Widespread low-level inflammation throughout the population
1:53:14 Can the spike protein be written to the human genome?
1:57:31 Why is the risk/reward ratio so much worse for kids?
2:03:57 The effect of the vaccines on viral evolution in the era of omicron
2:12:18 Do we have an epidemic of hospitalizations for PCR-negative COVID-like illness in fully vaccinated people?
2:16:13 The saga of the retracted paper
2:20:14 Most myocarditis is severe by standard definition
2:27:13 Two approaches to language in peer-reviewed papers: raw honesty vs deference to the narrative.
2:32:58 What is a “vaccine” and are these injections technically vaccines?
2:42:48 The importance of precision
2:45:20 The potential future of widespread or even mandatory prophylactic gene therapy
2:50:00 Why risk-reward is the wrong way to thing about the vaccines
2:56:36 Blood transfusions and shedding
3:01:57 Her advice as a concerned citizen of the human species to us as we enter into a world wherein we are rapidly losing our freedoms.
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