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What’s TMAO, and What Does It Have to Do With My Health?

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With the last few weeks’ definitive guide and follow-up on fish, a reader asked me about trimethylamine N-oxide, or TMAO. What is it? TMAO is the latest justification given for why eating meat just has to be bad for you. Saturated fat didn’t take . Animal protein didn’t work . Iron was a dud . IGF-1 hasn’t panned out . Methionine isn’t enough . So now they’re using TMAO to convince you not to eat that steak. How’s it supposed to work? How TMAO Happens When certain gut bacteria encounter choline (found in eggs and liver) or carnitine (found in meat, especially red meat), some of it is converted to trimethylamine, or TMA. TMA is the compound that gives fish its “fishy odor.” Fish is actually extremely high in TMA, which I’ll discuss later on. Then, the liver converts a portion of the TMA to TMAO. Studies have shown that elevated serum levels of TMAO are linked to heart disease , type 2 diabetes, kidney disease, and even all-cause mortality. There’s definitely some heterogeneity a

A Walk In The Park

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^^ This little man is getting so close to walking! He went from slow crawling to fast crawling and pulling up SO FAST! He’s cruising all around – from ottoman to couch and back. He’s also so curious and loves to see what is inside things – drawers, cabinets, etc. He’s more curious than his brother was! I can tell we are going to have our hands very full in the next year+. Mazen’s treasure box is off limits! He also LOVES to put things in his mouth – leaves, crumbs, and omg – he had a PENNY in his mouth the other day that he found under the rug. That was a scary one. We both had a little cold come on over the weekend, and so that hasn’t been very fun. But I did figure out how to put him on my back (I watched a video on You Tube for tips) and he took a cat nap on me. It was so sweet. And I got SO much done with him on my back compared to my front. I made a whole dinner! Chicken Tacos x10 We made chicken tacos last week and ate them too many times. Dinner, lunch, dinner, lunch.