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No idea, sorry.I saw a post of yours from years ago commenting about some high 1-methylhistadine levels and wondered if my results made any sense?
@Valentijn Hope you dont mind me tagging.
I saw a post of yours from years ago commenting about some high 1-methylhistadine levels and wondered if my results made any sense?
Ive also got very high levels of Beta-Alanine, Anserine, Carnosine (2-3x over the top of the range)
No. Even less than now, at the time.These things are all related so not surprising that they are all elevated together.
They are all present in muscles or are products of muscle catabolism.
Do you have high meat consumption?
What are tests I should do to check kidneys and renal reabsoptionAs far as I know 1 and 3 methylhistidine are the products of muscle breakdown - either your own or ingested muscle meat. I don't think they have been identified as products of bacterial overgrowth.
Beta alanine could be the product of bacterial overgrowth which could in turn be interfering with the breakdown of carnosine and anserine.
Alternatively all three could be elevated because of poor digestion
or because of poor renal reabsorption (they use the same transporter). Taurine also uses this transporter and I note that yours is highish - also creatinine is highish yet urine volume is high. This suggests possibly less than ideal kidney function that could be worth following up on.
Functional B6 deficiency could pay a part since it is necessary for beta alanine breakdown.
The only single explanation I can come up with is high meat consumption but you say no, so several different things must be going on.