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Balancing Methionine and Glycine in Foods: The Database by Chris Masterjohn The key take away from this article is that you need to balance glycine and methionine intake. Consuming too much methionine can deplete our glycine levels. The typical American diet is overbalanced in methionine compared to the amount of glycine they get in the diet due to dietary habits and norms. To get more glycine, eat more collagen or proteins sources like PureClean Protein that already have collagen included plus higher glycine and lower methionine. Typical meat and plants do not contain glycine, glycine comes from the collagen mostly....

The Problem Nobody Is Framing Correctly Most people think about nutrition in terms of building something: muscle, energy, immunity, longevity. What gets far less attention is the body’s ability to remove what does not belong there. In a modern environment filled with air pollution, agricultural chemicals, industrial byproducts, wildfire smoke, and metabolic byproducts of stress, the limiting factor for health is often not what you add, but how efficiently you clear. We saw this topic here by Rhonda Patrick and wanted to dig more.  This is where sulforaphane enters the conversation, not as a superfood trend or cancer headline, but...

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8 Key Actions to Optimize Performance & Health Together. Health and performance advice don't always go hand in hand. True top performance may not be healthy and actions to optimize performance may yield suboptimal health results, but this is not the case for all actions.   1. Eat More Protein The evidence continues to mount for the benefits of protein in the diet, for all ages and goals and especially post-exercise for recovery. The large majority of the population, including athletes, likely under consume protein, as we discussed here. The caveats here are in certain disease states and if athletes...