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

03/30/19 • 174 min

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!

If you’d like to participate in the next Q&A, consider joining the CMJ Masterpass. Use this link to get a 10% lifetime discount: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/masterpass/masteringnutrition

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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.

02:0...

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!

If you’d like to participate in the next Q&A, consider joining the CMJ Masterpass. Use this link to get a 10% lifetime discount: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/masterpass/masteringnutrition

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.

02:0...

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Do Children Need Less Nutrients Than Adults? | Chris Masterjohn Lite #124

Does a growing child need a *less* nutritious diet than an adult?

You would think so, looking at the RDAs! Yes, some of them are higher during childhood growth phases, such as calcium. But many of them are lower, and not because we know children need less but simply because they were scaled down by bodyweight.

Should a child half your size who eats twice as much food as you eat a diet that’s only 25% as nutrient-dense?

I doubt it.

Tune in for my thoughts on the topic and what I think we should do about it.

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How to Know If You Have Vitamin A Toxicity | Chris Masterjohn Lite #125

Is vitamin A toxic?

It can be!

It’s a super-important essential nutrient and MANY people need MORE of it, yet it still has the potential to cause problems.

Here is a method to use signs and symptoms, the amounts of vitamin A you’ve been exposed to, and lab tests to determine if you’ve gotten too much.

There are a few symptoms that I neglected to mention in the video that are worth taking note of: skin peeling, itching, cracked lips, and fatigue.

Here’s a great paper on vitamin A toxicity:

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/6/1152/4677527 Testing Nutritional Status: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet covers testing for vitamin A toxicity in the context of a comprehensive plan for managing nutritional status. Use the code LITE5 to get $5 off: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/cheatsheet

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