Thanks for sharing this Julie! I am TT for the rs12934922 SNP. I appear to not be deficient in any of the others. A big part of why I eat sweet potato is that they are absolutely loaded with vitamin A. 1 cup of sweet potato has nearly 19,000 IU of Vitamin A. Happy to help! I think this may be impor...

Gonzalez-Lima also seems to be cautiously optimistic about using exogenous ketones to help provide energy to the brain as glucose uptake becomes compromised. I'd really like to learn more about this and it sounds like it's an area where he will continue to do research.

One easy thing to track is blood pressure. According to Dr Gonzalez-Lima being below 120/80 seems beneficial as higher blood pressure seems to damage the endothelial walls.

I listened to it once this morning and will surely listen many more times. I was interested to see the vascular component discussed. I don't have anything to add at this time but am interested in following along with the discussion on the forum. Thanks for posting and getting the conversation started!

Hello dyacubo, I just replied to your private message and gave you an overview of what I am doing right now. I will get my lipids checked again in late February and will update once I have some new data to share. If this private conversation is useful for the two of you, it most likely would benefi...

Hello SoCalGay, thank you very much for all your posts. I have a very similar problem to yours, the only difference, whatever I do I am not able to lower my LDL-P. can I trouble you and ask to share your diet plan? I am not sure how much of each of the fiber(oats, rice, etc) you are consuming in a ...

1. Apoe4 status: 3/4 2. Type of fasting: Time restricted eating: only eat between hours of 2p - 8p. Doing a Valter Longo style 5 day fasting mimicking diet every 6 months. Next one will be in March. 3. Reason for fasting TRE: Primarily to keep inflammation down and insulin sensitivity as optimized a...

It tends to work best in sushi. I agree it is very difficult to eat on it's own. I get some periodically from a local health store and I take it like medicine, a spoonful that I down as quickly as possible.

Hi Floramaria and Socalguy, we may be the only SanDIeo people around right now. I live in Carmel Mountain Ranch which is North of the City by about 15 miles (but still in San Diego). We could meet at my house or anywhere else convenient to both of you. I could to in on a Tuesday or a THursday. Woul...

I just came across this paper shared by Ivor Cummins who has done a lot of great work in the lipid space as far as being a skeptic of the cholesterol hypothesis for CVD. The paper focuses on using Apo B/Apo A1 ratio as being a very strong predictor of CVD. He mentioned something similar on the LIvin...