Aug 22, 2018 | Diseases and Disorders, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
180DegreeHealth, from the beginning, has been about two primary things: Slaying widely-held nutritional myths Figuring out what the hell is causing an accelerated increase in nearly all health problems worldwide over the past century, the last 40 years in particular, and determine how best to turn those trends “180 degrees.” Admittedly, 180D has done a lot more of #1 than #2. In...
Sep 26, 2015 | Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
The nutrition world is awash in fish oil worship. Typically, when the entire scientific community, food industry, and more are all singing the praises of an isolated substance or substances (EPA and DHA in the case of fish oil), you can be pretty sure there are some blind spots. And indeed there are. Omega 3 and Omega 6 are the two predominant types of polyunsaturated fatty acids. These fats...
Apr 23, 2015 | Articles, Diseases and Disorders, Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
By Joel Brind In one of my earlier posts on this blog, I discussed the largely reciprocal nature of the amino acids glycine and methionine. Specifically, too much dietary methionine depletes glycine, because your body uses up glycine in order to get rid of the excess methionine. This is a common condition these days, because the typical diet is high in methionine-rich muscle meats, but low in...
Oct 22, 2014 | Guest Posts, Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
By Joel Brind, Ph.D. The subject of glutathione (GSH) came up in my last post on diet and inflammation, some of the comments reflecting the popularity of GSH as some sort of miracle molecule among alternative health purveyors and practitioners. Among the commenters, Sarah said: “Is this total BS? Is glutathione really the miracle substance some alternative med doctors say that it...
Sep 29, 2014 | Inflammation, Nutrition, Supplementation |
Comment from Martin Tornberg: “One thing that gives me pause with respect to consuming too much glycine is the study on?http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6084/1040.abstract’that ?identified glycine consumption and expression of the mitochondrial glycine biosynthetic pathway as strongly correlated with rates of proliferation across cancer cells? and noted that ?Antagonizing...
Sep 2, 2014 | Body Composition, Hair Mineral Analysis, Metabolism, Nutrition, Podcasts, Supplementation |
Dr. Garrett Smith and a small group of his entrusted guinea pigs recently embarked on an experiment involving ingesting fairly large quantities of MSM on a daily basis. Their initial results were all astounding, with many positive signs of increased metabolic rate with several ancillary benefits noticed as well, such as better vision and enhanced exercise performance. Well, that was the first...
