Vern Scott
May 14, 2023

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Yikes! And I've been taking a capsule a day for the past year!

This reminds me of folic acid, which boosts mitochondrial function and prevents spina bifida...trouble is, if too much taken it also boosts the mitochondrial mechanism of...cancer! Similar indictments of things like fish oil are out there (too much implicated in prostate cancer?)

I believe we are in the age of learning the "Three Bears" of supplements (trying to understand the right doses), since "too much" or "too little" have implications. We're just now learning the "too much" from long-term trials.

We all hear about the "too much" of inflammation these days, now that pet food contains rapamycin, I suppose we may soon be learning about the "too little" of inflammation.

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Vern Scott
Vern Scott

Written by Vern Scott

Scott lives in the SF Bay Area and writes confidently about Engineering, History, Politics, and Health

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