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December 26, 2016 Taurine: Your Most Abundant and Maybe Important Amino Acid   References: JPEN 2016, DisMarkers 2016, Life Extension , J Neuroscience 2016, Amino Acids, Westin Price Slides,  Taurine is the most abundant amino acid in your body. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, like different beads on a necklace. It is highest in your brain and your heart, but… Continue reading Taurine: Your most abundant and important amino acid

October 06, 2024 Propionic Acid – a Poison Under Our Noses Ever heard of propionic acid? It fits right before beta=hydroxybutyrate, a 4-carbon organic acid that is the principal ketone made with digesting fat and fermenting green vegetables in our colons. The biome of our colons thrive on beta-hydroxybutyrate, and indeed, it is the main… Continue reading Propionate, A Poison Right Under our Noses

September 29, 2024 Resistant Starch – We Aren’t Getting Enough Do you know what a resistant starch is? Well, easy. It’s a form of starch that resists digestion, making it past your stomach and small bowel to the large colon. There, magic happens in the right circumstances. So, not always. It depends on the type… Continue reading Resistant Starches – We Aren’t Getting Enough

September 22, 2024 The Sardine Fast – You’re Not Kidding? Sometimes really outrageous ideas come across the news that just need a bit of digging to understand. Sardines? Let’s dig in. An Internist in South Dakota, Annette Bosworth, MD, who is a prolific Youtuber, and somehow lost her license for some of her other political… Continue reading The Sardine Fast – I’m Not Kidding

September 15, 2024 PQQ – In Mother’s Breast Milk for a Reason PQQ is an antioxidant found in mother’s breast milk. It’s also found in a wide variety of foods like spinach, soy, and legumes. It acts like a vitamin in that you can induce a deficiency state which recovers in a dose-dependent fashion. Why… Continue reading PQQ – In Mother’s Breast Milk for a Reason

September 08, 2024 Muscle Atrophy and Aging Last week we explored how apples, Fuji for example, have ursolic acid and how eating those apples, including the peel where most of the ursolic acid resided, contributed to a lowering of triglycerides and a tendency to gain weight. There is another side to ursolic acid that is… Continue reading Muscle Mass and Aging

September 02, 2024 Fuji Apples and Weight Gain It’s the ursolic acid. Apples have it, but it is mostly in their peel. The societal cost of obesity keeps rising and attempts to understand how to contain that increasing rise have been stymied because of lack of understanding. Eating “more fruits and vegetables” isn’t specific enough… Continue reading Fuji Apples and Weight Gain

August 24, 2024 Sunlight Helps you Live Longer Everyone knows that you need sunlight to get Vitamin D. And it’s now widely accepted that skin color around the world is driven over time by humans need for Vitamin D, balanced by the need to protect from loss of folate with too much sunlight. Africans can… Continue reading Sunlight Help You to Live Longer

August 17, 2024 Short of Energy? Have you tried methylene blue? “I’m so tired! Anything you can help me with?” is the # 2 reason for people to see a doctor. We have had all sorts of strategies over the years. The American College of Anti-aging Medicine strongly advocated “Adrenal Fatigue” for years. Then along… Continue reading Short of Energy? Try Methylene Blue

August 11, 2024 Eating More Alkaline Foods is Proven to be Better for You I have waited for this study to be done for years. This is hugely important. The study is simple. Take folks who are showing metabolic stress by having high blood pressure enough to be putting out albumin in their urine. That… Continue reading Eating More Vegetables is Good for Your Heart