Julie G wrote:Julie did you see my reply before Chris' reply? I don't know of Chris Masterjohn ever recommending nutritional yeast of any kind to address elevated homocysteine, but sorry if I'd made it sound that way in my earlier post.
Ah, no. I see it now. I'm glad that the folic acid (bleh!) fortification has come to light. I just bought a new bottle of Bragg and am tempted to toss it. I'm also just about to re-test homocysteine. I don't have any major MTHFR genes and have been playing around with my supplementation schedule; only taking B12, folate and P5P a few days a week, but ensuring adequate choline and riboflavin as well. My last level was under 8. Fingers crossed for this one. Please share your results when you get them. And, apologies to filiz for the nutritional yeast hijack.
I got interesting results I think. It came back at 6, the lowest I have recorded. The last one was 6.9, so these could just reflect normal day-to-day variations. In the past it's been as high as 9.5.
What's interesting to me about this is the history:
7/21/15
9.5 not supplementing B12, folate or B6 and most likely eating low animal protein, mostly fish and seafood.
1/31/17
8.3 not supplementing B12, folate or B6 and most likely eating low animal protein, mostly fish and seafood.
9/28/17
6.9 supplementing with methyl B12, folate and B6
9/20/19
6.0 not supplementing B12, folate or B6, but
supplementing betaine (125 mg every other day, a pretty tiny amount), liposomal phosphyatidylcholine via one serving BodyBio PC per day that includes 1300 mg 'phospholipid complex', and an animal protein rich diet (including three eggs a day) plus maybe 1/2 tbs Bragg’s fortified nutritional yeast most days (not really that much of B12 or folic acid, but could contribute fairly significant B6 and riboflavin). Of course I eat lots of dark green leaves.
I ramped up choline due to being homozygous mutant on three pertinent SNPs. I have more testing to do on my higher animal protein intake (TMAO is soon), but on this score I like what I'm seeing without taking any B vitamin or folate pills.
Sadly, my hsCRP continues to be high at 4.4 and the possible causes vast in number!
ApoE 3/4 > Thanks in advance for any responses made to my posts.
It's worth noting that this product would not be appropriate to address elevated homocysteine as there is no B12 or folate and (as you mentioned) it would require a pretty hefty dose to get your B6.
