Rhonda Patrick

So in fact, there was a study that looked at phosphatidylcholine capsules

for four days, sorry, for four weeks.

And essentially, the TMAO was unchanged.

So it wasn't increasing the TMAO, whereas the same dose of choline bitartrate, so that would be the choline salt, did increase TMAO quite sharply, actually.

So I think the solution here really is you want to do phosphatidylcholine.

Another potential form would be the citicholine.

So this is CDP choline, and this is basically, it's a nucleotide.

It's a nucleotide-bound choline.

And I don't think it's very... It's much more less prone to converting the choline into the TMA or the TMAO.

So that's another form of choline.

I've actually been experimenting with that recently because it's a little bit of a nootropic because choline is a precursor for acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that is involved in cognition, memory.

So...

Acetylcholine would be another form, but I would say for the purposes of wanting to get, you know, not the nootropic effect, but wanting to get like adequate amounts of choline, phosphatidylcholine would be the way to go.

Matthew's asking if I have any concerns with the choline bitartate in the multi.

No, because it's such a small amount.

We're talking about levels that are much, much higher, 250 to 500 milligrams.

So it's a very, very different amount that we're talking about here.

When it's a super small amount, it's just sort of non-significant.

Faisal is asking if I have any opinion on Thorne products.

I use a lot of their supplements.