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TMAO: Eggs, Meats and Your Cardio-Metabolic Health | You Can Sill Eat Eggs & Meat, If You Got 'the Right Gut Bugs'

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The (ill) health effects of choline and its pre-cursor l-carnitine in animal products like eggs or (red) meats are probably mediated by a diet devoid of prebiotics... however, simply pounding more resistant starches, for example, seems to do more harm than good. If you have been following the SuppVersity  News on Facebook ( a must , btw ;-)), you will be aware of the "TMAO"-issue. If not, here's the gist: The ingestion of certain dietary nutrients - primarily choline, phosphatidylcholine, and its precursor l-carnitine can serve as a precursor for the ultimate generation of an atherogenic metabolite, trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO). TMAO, in turn, has been linked to all sorts of diseases, most prominently cardiovascular disease and the formation of atherosclerotic plaque. Unlike "fish odor disease", the choline/CVD link is unrelated to  your genes : DNA-Fit: Train Acc. to 'ur Genes Is Laziness Built Into 'ur Genes? Keep Muscle While Dieting...
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Prevalent Nutrient Deficiencies in the US: More Than 40% are Vitamin A, C, D & E, Calcium or Magnesium Deficient and >90% Don't Get Enough Choline, Fiber & Potassium

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Choline, fiber, potassium, this meal has everything US citizens don't eat. The latest re-examination of data from the 2001-2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) reveals: " A substantial proportion of the adult population (over 40%) had inadequate intakes of vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, calcium, and magnesium." (Agarwal. 2014) While many studies have examined the differences in micronutrient intakes in various population subgroups, very few studies have compared the micronutrient intake status of overweight and/or obese with that of normal weight adults. A highly relevant distinction as it turns out. Learn more about the health effects of food: Pasta "Al Dente" = Anti-Diabetic Vinegar & Gums for Weight Loss Teflon Pans Will Kill You! Yohimbine Burns Stubborn Fat You Can Wash Pesticides Away Milk = Poisonous Hormone Cocktail In view of the fact that more than two thirds of the U.S. population...
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Choline Supplementation Accelerates Fat Loss During Crash Diet in Female Athletes: 2g Choline Double the Rate of Fat Loss in the Last Week Before the Competition

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Can you hit the fat hard with choline? I want to be honest with you. I am a huge fan of choline and truly believe that it is hugely under-appreciated, but the prominent relative (not absolute) increase in body fat loss in study at hand must be interpreted with caution - no matter how statistically significant the "choline advantage" may be. Before we can get to said "cautious interpretation", let's briefly take a look at what exactly Gehan Elsawy, Osama Abdelrahman, and Amr Hamza from the Zagazig University and the Mansoura University in Egypt did to produce a 100% increase in body fat loss in their 22 female study participants (15 taekwondo and 7 judo athletes). You can learn more about choline at the SuppVersity Huge GH Spikes from GPC!? Choline & Classic Bodybuilding Effects of Choline Deficiency Caffeine, Choline, L-Car = Fat Loss Choline for Carnitine Storage Choline as a Nootropic? The idea was to clarify the magnitude of ...
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Choline Deficiency, Its Consequences and How You Fix It | Part 2 of the "Common Nutrient Deficiencies, Their Health Consequences and How You Can Fix Them" Series

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Don't you tell me there was no fancy cooking with the choline source #1, i.e. egg yolk! What about egg yolk on ricotta cauliflower ravioli filling, for example, | get the recipe @ tastespotting.com If you've read the last installment of this series, you can hardly be surprised that today, we are about to talk or rather I am about to write about choline. Choline is, as Wikipedia informs us, a water-soluble essential nutrient. Why choline is not officially called a "vitamin" is beyond me. "Experts" will still group it within the B-complex vitamins, anyway. In my analyses in the series on nutrients other than carbohydrates that influence glucose control, you've read that the former, the "other", "real" B-vitamins are - in my humble opinion - totally overrated. Choline, which can come in various forms of quaternary ammonium salts all of which contain the characteristic N,N,N-trimethylethanolammonium cation, on the other hand, it pr...
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Choline Maximizes Carnitine Retention & Effects. Together, These Supplements May Promote Fat Loss + Lean Mass Gains and Boost Both Metabolic & Brain Health

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The more choline the better the carnitine retention; and the better the retention the less high carnitine red mead you'll have to eat ;-) If you are one of the many people who frequent boydbuilding-oriented bulletin boards, it is likely that you will have heard about the beneficial effects of exogenous insulin on the tissue storage of supplemental l-carnitine. When you hear something like this, or, as in this case, read about it in a forum, you can easily get the impression that it's only a matter of how much insulin you inject to turn an ergogenic aid, of which the majority of the scientific papers say that it is of questionable value, into a fat burning high performance powerhouse. If said bulletin boards are not the only thing you frequent, i.e. if you are a regular at the SuppVersity , as well, you will probably also be aware of the fact that I strongly discourage the use of insulin in non-diabetic individuals - especially in cases as the one at hand, where it appears...
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