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Energy Metabolism Governs Everything

Mastering Nutrition

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How to Optimize Your Biotin and Riboglyvin Balance

I generally think of the basics of healthy diet, lifestyle and stress management as the low-hanging fruit. Then climb up further on the tree to go into the idiosyncratic bottlenecks in energy metabolism. You probably shouldn't be thinking about whether you have a heterozygous fatty acid oxidation disorder that can be treated with riboflavin if you're eating junk food or sedentary. At minimum, these can be tested upon waking in the morning, correlated to the corresponding values in the blood work that I just described. In my article on the lactate to pyruvate and ketone ratios, I go into more detail about how to use them.

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