Thank you so much for your responses! According to the Nutreval Interpetive Guide that I got from this site (fantastic!), I don't seem to have markers that indicate a methylation problem. i.e. succinic acid and malice acid are fine, carnitine is fine, pyroglutamic acid is fine, creatinine is fine, methionine is fine.
OK, at this point I have to admit that I don't really know exactly what methylation is, but it seems I am ok in that department. Things that ARE off:
B deficiency (high protein intake but low amino acids)
Manganese deficiency (high glutamic acid and low glutamine)
High cysteine/ low cystine (???)
Beta aminoisobutyric acid is super high. (???)
Ornithine is super high (deficiencies in zinc, B6, alphaKG?)
Lineolic/DGLA is super high. (B, zinc, magnesium deficiency?)
Glutathione is at the very low end of normal, so not too bad.
OK, so my question is this- if my diet is super nutrient dense, but somehow protein is not being absorbed sufficiently, nor are the vitamins and minerals necessary to do that, and my glutathione is low, how can supplementing with more aminos and vitamins help, if my body isn't able to absorb them? Does that mean that the bacterial dysbiosis is the root problem of everything, and that is also the answer to everything?
Does getting IV amino acids and vitamins bypass the whole digestive problem?
Heapsreal, I am wondering what hmb and okg are. And I do exercise and I do have muscles, although at 54 years old I do feel that I am losing them fast. But not exactly muscle wasting.
My general symptoms, by the way, are a general fatigue that gets really bad if I exert too much, super dry skin, weak fingernails, frequent low grade illness that can last for 4-6 weeks.
Thank you so much, everybody- this site is a great resource. My naturopath will be back in two weeks, but I want to have some understanding of this first.
Any insights and suggestions for treatment are welcome.