Questions on Protein and Longevity, SHBG, and Trouble Hydrating
Questions on Protein and Longevity, SHBG, and Trouble Hydrating
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Protein and Longevity
Short Answer: While protein restriction may have value in people with established cancer or kidney disease, cycling robustly between fasting and feeding states is likely to provide all the value that restriction of protein or calories might otherwise provide, and a high protein intake supports bone mass, muscle mass, and the detoxification of carcinogens, all of which are important to longevity.
How to Increase or Decrease SHBG?
Short Answer: SHBG is increased by adiponectin (vitamin K2, insulin sensitivity), thyroid hormone, fasting physiology (AMPK, fat oxidation), and estrogen (especially estrone), while it is decreased by insulin resistance, obesity, the fed state and carbohydrate-dominant physiology, androgens, and polyunsaturated fat.
Why is an IV more hydrating than salted water?
Short Answer: If it can’t be explained by the dose of salt, it may be that the salt is not being absorbed orally. Glucose, starch, or simply a meal consumed alongside the salted water may help with this.
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Recording and Transcript of the August 15, 2022 AMA
Protein and longevity, sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG), foods vs nutrients, nitric oxide, when salt water can't hydrate, collagen, blood sugar spikes, A and D, K2 causing nosebleeds, and more!
The questions include:
Does which food you eat matter when everything is digested anyway?
How to know if your nitric oxide is dilating your blood vessels properly?
How big of a problem are transient glucose spikes above 140 mg/dL?
Can I take too much collagen?
What is the maximum dose of cod liver oil safe to use long-term?
How much A is safe to take when I need so much to resolve my symptoms?
Generalizing from cell studies of green tea catechins to cups of green tea per day.
What to do about lumbar discs bulging?
Why would vitamin K2 cause a nosebleed?
How to balance A with D when I react poorly to D and need so much A?
Why would COVID decrease HRV long-term?
How to raise secretory IgA?
Rapid-fire answers to pre-submitted questions that didn’t win the contest: alternatives to bone meal powder, herbal tea and nutrient absorption, retinol-binding protein, improving fat digestion, metal provocation tests, fatty liver, high-dose B vitamins, eyebrow thinning, itchy bumps after exercise, brain fog and rifaximin, low cholesterol, tolerating chlorine pools, cycling nutrients, copper toxicity, stopping supplements before blood tests, COVID vaccines causing post-nasal drip, natural vs synthetic vitamins, absorbing iron through baths, elevated EPA and DHA in RBCs, COVID affecting the vagus nerve, supplements for athletic performance, when water doesn’t hydrate, tics and Tourette’s, recalcitrant homocysteine, fraud and corruption in scienctific research.
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Chris
What if you have Gastropresis and Diverticulosis? Where digestion takes upto 4 hours or more, and many food items are excluded? I digest meats, bread, pasta well, No skins, hulls, seeds, nuts. Dairy is a Coral Calcium pill, not that I don't like dairy, since Holstein milk appeared, it's larger gloubles are not GI friendly.