glutathione, b12 and lithium

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Ben Lynch talks about how if someone has:
- sick cells/deficient in healthy mitochondria, low glutathione, oxidised cell membranes, low potassium etc that B12 will make that person worse. How does that work, you have to raise glutathione first, heal cells? Or remove metals first?
My experience has been doing a little of everything together has helped.

Fixing cell/mito membranes with phosphatidyl choline and NT Factor is important.

Given some of the other issuurs we've discussed, I've been finding that increasing glutathione helps, but increasing ALA, A, and E have been incredibly useful, too. In your situation, C may be counterproductive in all but a minimum dose.

And ensuring you have adequate B vitamins - B12 is important, but B6, B1, B2, folate, and trace minerals, including calcium, magnesium, molybdenum, zinc, manganese, etc are important too.
 
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This is interesting in regards to lithium. In Freddds case lithium has helped the B12 retain in the cell. I have started trying lithium orotate as well as i have always had very elevated b12 serum levels.

You are welcome. I just got back from the doctor. For the last 18 months I have been titrating Lithium Orotate (from 240 mcg to 960 mcg of Li). I can no longer produce the results I posted the other day. Homeostasis has been restored in my body. I have tapered the MeCbl injections from 30mg a day as 3x10mg to 5 mg A WEEK. All of the hot and cold running bottleneck deficiencies that changed every time I added or subtracted something has disappeared. My potassium daily down from 5000 mg to 1500 mg. Besides building TCR-Li and getting b12 into my nervous systems, it also strips the ligand providing COB[II] and stores B12 for me at least a week rather than 8 hours I used to get. All sorts of things have become more steady, instead of the rough and fast refeeding syndrome I and many others have been suffering from when I took vitamins. This is my first post saying this. This is not optimized. I found that all the other micronutrients also needed to be there to prevent damage to so many kinds of tissues. Several others are having similar results but iust is all in progress and nothing is complete or optimized. It seems that the failure of effective homeostasis in the body is at least in part caused by perhaps the only real deficiency I had, Lithium. And I would also like to say that in the last year my gut has healed. I also have to do without milk and white flour or other sources of folic acid but I had been doing that for a decade or more without the healing I have had. As I said before, we are all different but we do share a lot of biochemistry, any exactness quite unknown. I sharing the clues I have found the hard way. Too much B1`, B2, B3 caused me all kinds of misery and I had to order a specific relatively low dose b-complex becasue of all the problems too much B1, B2, B3 caused me. Too much B6 interacts with testosterone and pushes my hematocrit too high. I can't point to any such things any more since this homoeostasis has been established for the first time in my life at 71. I'm having to learn my biochemistry responses all over again. Good luck and be well.