geranylgeraniol? ___
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Yes. Here is the product Iâm using and my email from American River Nutrition.
âThank you for reaching out and for your interest in GG! We have a few brands that offer GG Gold. I recommend Annatto GG from Designs for Health and Pure GG from Xtend Life. There are more products coming to market as we publish more data on this novel nutrient. 2024 is the year of GG discovery.â
I forget, are you on a statin?
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Rosuvastatin 5mg EOD. Slight muscle aches after weight lifting so I shifted to EOD to avoid doing on lifting days. I didnât realize the apparent effect rosu was also having on my cycling power. I knew my power was dropping in the two years since starting a statin but didnât guess statin. Suddenly my power is restored with GG. I had been taking coQ10 with no benefit I could tell.
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I watched his videos, but I am not convinced he is right. He never mentions bioavailability in his calculations of low dose in videos. Since bioavailability is much lower in humans then mice (respectively less than 1% vs. 6-12%) wouldnât that mean that you would need to adjust the low dose with bioavailability? And wouldnât in that case be 500-1000mg considered a low dose in human?
I am of course not sure about it, I never researched Resveratrol in depthâŚ
If your zone 2 wattage decreased, statins might negatively impact your mitochondria.
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Curious how easy this supplement is to replicate with food. Do you know how much geranylgeraniol there is in various high source foods? I know nuts, olive oil etc are relatively high - but I donât know the absolute amounts.
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No. The video in this post is what I saw. It looked like a worthy experiment. Perhaps the next step is to identify natural sources. My diet is good in nuts (walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts) and phytonutrients (30 plants per week). Yet, the supplement seems to make a big difference. Flax seeds are mentioned so I could work that in.
Itâs a work in process.
Hereâs an interesting article on GG. It has many effects beyond statins.
Intro to Geranylgeraniol
https://www.casi.org/node/1060
Also, regarding natural sources, below is from Dr. Barrie Tan. PhD in chemistry. He is credited with discovering tocotrienols, He produces an Annatto Tocotrienols and a Geranylgeraniol (GG) product through his American River Nutrition company. (https://americanrivernutrition.com/).
âGG is found in small amounts in food, but the foods that it is found in the largest quantity are castor oil, flax seeds, carrots, tomatoes, and olive oil.â
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What a nice LDL, 14.
Interesting that he has picked atorvastatin as well.
I will def try atorvastatin 10 mg once I run out of rosuvastatin.
I had missed that
- Lithium Orotate 5 mg > Alzheimerâs prevention
Interesting how often he does cleerlyâŚ
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Did he say what Micronutrients testing and/or adrenal stress index provider he used?
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Is there any video link to his presentation?
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No video link yet. It was a live presentation today. It was recorded so a link is forthcoming. I was not giving it my 100% attention so I missed a bunch of it. Nothing more to add at this point.
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He said he has apoE4 allele so he took extra measures to ward off Alzheimerâs
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I took Carnosine for years, then switched to beta alanine.
I started a statin in October and bisphosphanate In June. I didnât notice any physical performance degradation at either time. In fact, I stopped the statin for three weeks, just to see if I noticed any difference, and didnât
I started taking the Annatto GG a week ago.
GG seems to have provided a definite perceptible improvement in endurance, even over this short period of time. (With the standard caveat that it could all be placebo.)
I had skipped a couple days of doing sets of pushups, and usually pay a price on the last bit if I do that, when I resume. I had a small but noticeable unexpected reduction in strain on that last set when I resumed this time. Was wondering why, then I remembered I started taking this.
During my weekly 12 mile hike, I wasnât particularly any faster on the strenuous uphill parts, but when I leveled off my legs felt much less taxed than usual. In the end, this didnât seem to reduce my elapsed time for the hike, but I felt a lot better, less drained. Like back in the âold daysâ when I was 60.
I think this is worth trying for improved physical performance, even if you donât take a statin. Probably, especially, if youâre old.
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Nice. Iâm also a fan, as you know. I tried slowing to an EOD dosing but felt like I lost some effect. Iâm back to everyday.