Drink cold press pomegranate juice.
Not sure I want all the extra sugar…
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Not sure how it spikes the blood sugar, but I eat a lot of pomegranates when they are available. Not an issue if you’re taking acarbose or SGLT2 inhibitor.
| Fruits (mg/100g fresh weight) | |
|---|---|
| Blackberries | 150 |
| Black raspberries | 90 |
| Boysenberries | 70 |
| Cloudberries | 315.1 |
| Pomegranate | 269.9[19] |
| Raspberries | 270 |
| Rose hip | 109.6 |
| Strawberries | 77.6 |
| Strawberry jam | 24.5 |
| Yellow raspberries | 1900 |
DoNotAge.com just started selling Urolithin A for less than Mitopure : $726/year for 500mg/day, plus DoNotAge always has various 10% off coupons available, reducing the cost to around $654/year.
I just paid $1020 for 1 Yr with Mitopure in Dec’22 and am stuck with their price till Dec’23 !
Timeline.com claims Urolithin-A is not present in any food item : the precursor is, but only a certain (unknown) gut bacteria is able to convert it to Urolithin-A and some people must be completely lacking in that gut bacteria since they never test positive for Urolithin-A in their blood.
Update : Sorry I missed your other link which identifies that gut bacteria.
Even Streptococcus thermophilus FUA 329 seems to work.
Only a limited number of studies have been conducted on the microbial species capable of transforming ellagic acid into urolithins. Ellagibacter isourolithifaciens DSM104140T (E. isourolithifaciens DSM104140T) and Gordonibacter urolithinfaciens DSM 27213T (G. urolithinfaciens DSM 27213T) were confirmed to convert ellagic acid to isourolithin A and urolithin C. Only a single strain of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum INIA P815 (B. pseudocatenulatum INIA P815) could produce urolithin A.
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FWIW
Grow your own yellow raspberries at the posted amount showing 1,900mg per 100g of fruit.100g is 3.5274 ounces
Yellow raspberries: How to grow these golden gems in a home garden
In my view this supplement{ Urolithin-A] is overhyped, and overpriced.
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I grow them in South East of UK.
Really easy; prolific growth and fruiting from May until first frost, so basically last year I was eating them for six months.
No idea if I have the relevant gut bacteria but they taste great anyway.
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Good, idea, I’ll give that a try. But in the past growing berries, I have trouble with birds and various other critters in my yard beating me to the ripe berries.
Blackberries have been the main success.
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There are others:
Three urolithin-producing bacteria from the human gut belonging to the genus Gordonibacter (G. pamelaeae and G. urolithinfaciens ) and Ellagibacter isourolithinifaciens have been identified to correlate with metabotype A positively[13]. Recently, Gaya et al[14] have reported that also Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum strain can produce UA.
But not sure of probiotics.
Luckily I already have both of the Gordonibacter’s and 10 different strains of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum…(from Viome.com)
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While I think, like Michael Lustgarten, the best source of nutrients is through eating healthy foods, it may be very difficult to get enough urolithin A through diet alone. If you are not of the right type you cannot produce enough urolithin A through food intake. If you are old like me, you also have a problem.
If you want to make sure you have enough urolithin-A, you will have to supplement.
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Presentation from Amazentis, developers of the first Urolithin A product:
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Does it say if low, medium, high or anything more than a binary “have it” / “don’t have it” scale?
Lustgarten latest paper says walnuts have eligotannins
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I don’t see it here on his site. Do you have a link?
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News of a new Alzheimer’s trial with Urolithin A at 39.28
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Closing this old post to focus conversation there: Urolithin A (UA) One of 4 Promising Agents 2024 by Brian Kennedy of NSU