Re: What does low plasma cysteine levels imply?

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Not O/T at all!

If you're low, you may well need more. Andy has a long post on this.

My notes say to check message message 57707:

In cases 1, 4 and 7 thiols and their precursors should be maximized in

the diet

and supplements IF and ONLY if the patient shows obvious improvement

with doing

this.

....from another email:

In cases where cysteine is low and sulfate is low, or cysteine is high

and

sulfate is high, there is some ambiguity as to what is going on.

....yet another email:

Well, low cysteine means have him eat a lot more sulfury stuff and maybe

take

NAC. Sulfate higher than cysteine means use the Feingold diet

(rigorously) and

no-fenol enzyme. He also needs more vitamin E. He may be mildly

chemically

sensitive. He needs a LOT more probioitics, more vitamin A, a lot more

folic

acid, some manganese and some zinc.

Dave.

My plasma cysteine level was lower than the low range - what does this

imply? It was from a blood sample taken a few months back.

Thanks