BingDing
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Hey all, I have been studying methyl donor metabolism and want to post a couple things.
The MTHFR thread has some related stuff and so does the choline thread.
This article Betaine in human nutrition has got a ton of information and cites 271 sources. The author works for a food products company and sort of sounds like the sugar beet lobby, but it seems to hang together.
Betaine works fine in the methylation cycle to lower homocysteine. It is also an osmolyte that protects cells from external osmotic stress, a lipotrope that prevents or reduces accumulation of fat in the liver, and was used in the 1950s to improve cardiac health in different groups of ill patients.
I can't refind it but one study used 15g/day for six months without any toxicity.
The MTHFR thread has some related stuff and so does the choline thread.
This article Betaine in human nutrition has got a ton of information and cites 271 sources. The author works for a food products company and sort of sounds like the sugar beet lobby, but it seems to hang together.
Betaine works fine in the methylation cycle to lower homocysteine. It is also an osmolyte that protects cells from external osmotic stress, a lipotrope that prevents or reduces accumulation of fat in the liver, and was used in the 1950s to improve cardiac health in different groups of ill patients.
I can't refind it but one study used 15g/day for six months without any toxicity.