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What if low-carb makes me wake up to pee? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #128 Aug 24, 2020

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Question: What if low-carb makes me wake up to pee? I would start by looking at your blood sugar. So I do think it's possible that if your blood sugar. Second of all, it's stimulated by salt. So salt at night might help. Third of all, in order to make it you need copper, vitamin C, and zinc. And then, fourth of all, you need, going past that, I also suggest trying to get deeper sleep. You might want to look at the quality of your sleep. So, I do think generally carbs help people get better sleep, but I do think that a ketogenic diet elevates GABA. And so I think there's a subset of people who would get better and deeper sleep on keto because of the increased brain GABA.This Q&A can also be found as part of a much longer episode, here.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

Could Sugar Intake Play a Role in COVID-19? Aug 24, 2020

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I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice. I am also not an infectious disease epidemiologist and I am not speaking on behalf of infectious disease epidemiologists. I have a PhD in Nutritional Sciences and my expertise is in conducting and interpreting research related to my field. Please consult your physician before doing anything for prevention or treatment of COVID-19, and please seek the help of a physician immediately if you believe you may have COVID-19.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

How does someone get arachidonic acid and choline without eggs and liver? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #127 Aug 21, 2020

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Question: How does someone get arachidonic acid and choline without eggs and liver? So apart from liver and egg yolks, I think that it is very difficult to get enough arachidonic acid from food. Yes, GLA might help, but there's actually arachiodonic acid supplements. And for the vegans out there, I don't know if the production process is strictly vegan, but they are derived from a specific mushroom and you can get them on Amazon. So I think supplementing with arachidonic acid is probably the most direct way to do that. And then evening primrose or a barrage oil could help provide precursors to arachidonic acid.This Q&A can also be found as part of a much longer episode, here.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

Whey Protein, Breast Milk, and COVID-19 Aug 21, 2020

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Nutritional suggestions for SI joint pain and sulfur sensitivity? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #126 Aug 20, 2020

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Question: Nutritional suggestions for SI joint pain and sulfur sensitivity? So certainly if it's autoimmunity, I'm thinking you might have problems with folate, where you might want to lower folate intake. You might benefit from having more A and D. You might benefit from removing hypothetically pro-inflammatory foods. Magnesium is important. Acid-base balance is important. Citrate is probably helpful. And then on the sulfur issue, molybdenum and manganese are both important for properly dealing with sulfur. And then you might also want to be looking at your gut microbiome as well. This Q&A can also be found as part of a much longer episode, here.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

If it's easier to store fat than to convert carbs to fat, why is it easier to lose weight on low-carb? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #125 Aug 19, 2020

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Question: If it's easier to store fat than to convert carbs to fat, why is it easier to lose weight on low-carb? It's easier to store dietary fat as fat than it is to store dietary carbs. Why is it easier to lose weight on the keto diet than a higher carb diet assuming isocaloric? Well, I think there's an assumption that's not necessarily true there, but the ease with which you store something as fat is not really related to weight loss. So I think that's part of why that is true, or part of why there seems to be a conflict there. So the implication of the fact that it is easier to store dietary fat as fat than it is to store carbs as fat is that when you eat too many calories from carbs, you will have a lot more fat that is stored as fat because the carbs displaced their use for energy.This Q&A can also be found as part of a much longer episode, here.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

Long-term shortness of breath after COVID-19: do I need iron? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #124 Aug 18, 2020

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Question: Long-term shortness of breath after COVID-19: do I need iron?I don't think there's any evidence that iron fuels COVID-19. And it's pretty clear that the systemic inflammation is driving dysregulation of iron in a way that hurts oxygen delivery. So it's very clear that low oxygen delivery is a major feature of COVID. And I think probably the bulk of that is due to clotting, but also inflammation. And if you look at the CRP levels in COVID, like going up to the hundreds. Normally, you want it below one. Your CRP is two or three, we say you've got a problem with inflammation. In COVID, these problems are largely driven by CRP levels that are in serious excess of 150. And so that and the IL-6 are driving iron into ferritin at the expense of hemoglobin. If your iron is low that in itself will compromise hemoglobin and therefore compromise the delivery of the already scarce oxygen driven by the clotting. And so the last thing that you want is an iron deficiency that you're not fixing. So yeah, I would say no two ways about it. You absolutely want to fix your iron deficiency.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

Are liposomal supplements really superior? | Masterjohn Q&A Files #123 Aug 17, 2020

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Question: Are liposomal supplements really superior?

I doubt it. So I think the evidence indicates that liposomes don't survive digestion unless they are pegylated, which means that they have polyethylene glycol that's attached to the liposome to protect them from digestion. There are a number of other such modifications that can be made, but I don't think that applies to most liposomal things on the market. So I'm generally very skeptical of the claims that liposomal will offer superior delivery, particularly if they're not being specifically designed to survive digestion, which most are not. This Q&A can also be found as part of a much longer episode, here.

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Chris Masterjohn, PhD, is the Founder and Scientific Director of the mitochondria test Mitome.

Vitamin K and COVID-19 Aug 17, 2020

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Treatment of COVID-19 With High-Dose Zinc: A Report of 4 Cases Aug 16, 2020

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