Chris Masterjohn

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?

But to go back to if the perspective was you might need more thiamine, so you should try adding some nutritional yeast to...

to the dishes that you want to impart a cheesy flavor to, which is what nutritional yeast tastes like, because nutritional yeast is really high in thiamine, then that probably wouldn't have happened because the dose would have been a lot lower.

She would have gradually gone into it much more gradually, but also whatever those blockages were would have the other nutrients assisting them so the thiamine wouldn't be so out of balance.

So it's not just that you absorb it better or whatever.

It's also just the food, going food first really helps,

correct for errors that are a problem with your expertise.

He said, it doesn't really make sense if you know what you're doing, but if you don't know what you're doing, you really should diversify.