Ask Me Anything About Nutrition, March 4, 2019 | Mastering Nutrition #63

On March 4, members of the CMJ Masterpass joined me in a live Zoom meeting to ask me anything about nutrition, and here’s the full recording!

We talk about things like:

• How much spinach, broccoli, and kale is too much?
• Can frozen vegetables be trusted for their folate?
• Do cooked legumes lose folate when frozen?
• I go on an extended rant about the harm done by exaggerating the harms of synthetic folic acid.
• We use labs to identify a probable genetic defect in glutathione synthesis.
• When to think about supplementing with calcium.
• When a drug makes histamine intolerance and blood sugar dysregulation collide.
• My thoughts on root canals.
• Should you take leucine to gain muscle mass, or just eat protein?
• A GREAT discussion on how our detoxification system evolved to handle fruits and vegetables, and why eating them can help us out through the principle of "hormesis."
• Could low LDL levels compromise female fertility?

All this and much more!

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In this episode, you will find all of the following and more:

AMA About Nutrition Show Notes

00:40 Cliff Notes

03:44 Introduction

06:48 How much spinach, broccoli, and kale is too much? And why frozen vegetables cannot be trusted as a source of folate.

12:21 Do cooked legumes lose folate when frozen?

16:09 The difference between folic acid and folate, including a rant about the over exaggeration of the harms of folic acid.

34:02 Thoughts on myasthenia gravis and Epstein-Barr virus?

35:20 In the context of hemochromatosis and iron overload, why would ferritin be low when transferrin saturation is high?

43:04 What to do when the lab says that your pyroglutamate levels are the highest that they've ever seen? Could it be a glutathione synthetase deficiency?

52:43 Can you use a high GGT, gamma-glutamyltransferase, to indicate that the body is trying to make more glutathione?

54:40 What if taking collagen at night causes you to wake up and pee?

01:00:08 Does high serum B12 have any relation to cancer?

01:05:06 Should you take a calcium supplement if dietary calcium intake is low, blood calcium is normal, PTH is midrange, and vitamin D is 48 nanograms per milliliter?

01:11:07 What does it mean when after taking a drug, histamine intolerance and blood sugar dysregulation collide?

01:15:53 What are my thoughts on root canals?

01:25:58 What do I think of Layne Norton's suggestion to take 3 grams of leucine with every meal?

01:30:00 Are liver pills really as good as eating cooked liver?

01:34:08 How much vitamin C should be taken with a standard daily dose of collagen?

01:37:41 What do I think causes fibromyalgia?

01:41:33 Is folate also unstable in frozen liver, or does it just apply to greens?

01:42:37 Is there a potential for adverse effects for someone who supplements with 5 or 10 milligrams of folic acid or methylfolate based on a heterozygous MTHFR SNP?

02:00:05 What to do when serum magnesium is high, but the magnesium doesn't make it into the cells.

02:05:00 Any recommendations on increasing DHEA?

02:05:29 Are thyroid nodules similar to goiter in some cases?

02:06:23 Is it a problem if arginine, citrulline, and beta-alanine are elevated in the Genova ION Profile while supplementing with beta-alanine and citrulline malate?

02:08:56 A discussion of plant polyphenols and hormesis.

02:20:22 Is it safe to take creatine when nursing?

02:29:02 Is vitamin E supplementation harmful if you have a GSTP1 polymorphism?

02:33:25 Could low LDL levels compromise female fertility?