Rhonda Patrick

Allie's asking about coffee pods that are compostable and made of paper.

As long as you can confirm there's no plastic lining inside the paper, then sounds great.

Okay, let's finish up some of these rapid fire questions that were submitted.

Chris Hall asks, you recently mentioned the potential benefits of ubiquinol, berberine, and alpha lipoic acid in Synergy.

Can you speak about appropriate dose ranges?

So for people that are really wanting to not only affect their glucose regulation, but also their lipid

panel their i would say you know their lipids they're wanting to optimize their lipids in general then i would say that the literature really suggests berberine in a higher dose is more beneficial and it has to be split up so the studies really do um

highlight that berberine should be taken at about 600 milligrams three times a day and it's taken with meals.

If you're wanting it to really affect the glucose response it needs to be taken with a meal.

And so that's a total of about 1.8 grams a day of berberine.

Alpha-lipoic acid is anywhere between 600 to 1200 milligrams a day.

And the ubiquinol is a reduced form of CoQ10, CoQ enzyme 10.

And essentially, the ubiquinol is a more bioavailable form.

So, and I talk about this in a minute in the context of fertility, which is a little bit of a higher dose.

But in this regard, you know, 100 milligrams could be fine.

Okay, here's the related question about ubiquinol and the optimal dosage for a woman in their mid-30s that's preparing for egg freezing or improving mitochondrial health.

So those studies actually show...

600 milligrams a day of CoQ10 in the form of ubiquinone, which is the oxidized form of CoQ10, and it's less bioavailable.

So modifying the dose here, if you're looking at the more bioavailable form, the ubiquinol, 400 milligrams a day of that is also something that would be more equivalent to the 600 milligrams a day of the CoQ10.

Some other things to add for women that are looking to improve their egg quality, they'd obviously want to add a prenatal vitamin that has all those important B vitamins in it and the methylated ones as well.