I was diagnosed with a metabolic myopathy carnitine deficiency in high school following all sorts of tests that led to nowhere. Finally, I had a muscle biopsy at University of Michigan confirming the carnitine deficiency. My symptoms then were muscle weakness/dull achy muscles. I struggled after doing things like marching band and walking a lot. I was put on Carnitor (levocar...

Downward Spiral, Upward Hope, Asking AdviceThe year 2020 marked a big change for a lot of people. For me, it meant a downward spiral into intense fatigue, brain fog, and heart palpitations. Healing came in increments over the next three years until I found thiamine, which expedited my healing in six months. Now, I am considering pregnancy, but I need your advice. How do I nav...

If the last 80 years of research is any indication, the answer is no, pregnant women are not getting enough thiamine to have healthy and uncomplicated pregnancies. Although the research is sparse, almost every study published since 1940, regardless of country, regardless of food fortification/enrichment programs, and sometimes, in spite of prenatal vitamins, consistently show...

Recently, I published an article on how the mitochondria require exercise in order to remain functional and optimize energy production. Today, I would like talk about what that might look like if someone has been chronically ill. Remember, I am not an exercise physiologists, a physician, or anything of the sort, but someone who studies mitochondria and happens to have a lifet...

We spend a lot of time on this website talking about nutrients to heal the mitochondria, which I believe are the foundations of health, but we do not talk nearly enough about the role of exercise in this process. Exercise is integral to health, not just because it staves off obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes – the trifecta of modern illness, but because it is a cr...