Chris Masterjohn

And so the mitochondrial testing that we did on him showed that he was not a candidate for methylene blue.

And he actually had some really weird, like his mitochondria were best at using a specific amino acid cysteine.

And for energy.

Kind of weird and idiosyncratic.

And in his case, it was interesting because he had actually gravitated to a steak-only carnivore diet.

And he didn't feel like it...

fixed him but he felt like it you know took the edge off like he was 50 better on the steak only carnivore diet and that's a lot well it's a yeah it's a lot right but he wanted the other 50 that's why he was coming to me yeah so um so what was you know and the figuring this out didn't get him to 100 but it got him to you know to get days with 75 because um

you know, because he could use strategic cysteine supplementation to mimic the benefit he was getting from the steak, but he would be able to, you know, be still in the fasting state because his workouts were better in the fasting state and things like that.

So figuring that out allowed him to, you know, get from 50% to 75%.

But the methylene blue was putting him down at 5% instead of 50%, you know?

Can I ask how old he was?

He wasn't that old.

He was in maybe 40.

I forget exactly, but 40, give or take, five years.

For sure.

I would argue that mitochondrial dysfunction and aging are the same thing.

There's a bunch of theories of aging, but if you take them all, you can always ask the question, why?

There's the information theory of aging.

Why is the information not being carried out correctly?

Or the oxidative stress theory of aging.