Chris Masterjohn

It just kept getting worse the whole time she was taking the thiamine.

She had an existing problem with dizziness that got a lot worse.

And a major issue for her was that she had to clear out the thiamine, but the mitochondrial testing that we did on her basically showed that it explained it because she had a block in the pathways that would be most sensitive to megadosing that supplement.

And so winding that back and re-nourishing those other pathways helped her.

I do think that...

A lot of people, if they're going to go into the wild, wild west of megadosing random supplements, should do their own testing of glucose, ketones, and lactate at home.

A lot of people test their glucose.

Not a lot of people test their lactate.

But I'm 100% confident that that woman, had she...

had the practitioner said, try the thiamine and see what it does to your lactate.

And if it goes down, it's good.

And if it goes up, it's bad.

I think she would have stopped it after the first few days and the new onset motor dysfunction never would have happened.

And so maybe she wouldn't have done mitochondrial testing with me until months after that, but it wouldn't have been a big deal because she had this real time indicator of mitochondrial dysfunction that she tested herself at home and

that showed her, oh, I'm trying this out of left field thing.

Let's see, am I getting a stress signal out of it or am I getting the signal that my mitochondria are calming down or more happy with their function, which is really what lactate is telling you.

And most people who do lactate testing do it in exercise.

And what you see in exercise is when your body's under an incredible amount of stress, you see lactate levels go up in the blood.

Halfway through a pro basketball game, lactate is through the roof, right?

Well, if I take thiamine and the next day it looks like I'm halfway through the basketball game when I wake up, that's a sign that something is out of whack in my body, right?