Protocol 32
Ten pillars. Every chain, what goes in, what changes.
A chain is a set of things that have to be there together. Your body runs each chain at the speed of the one thing in it you have the least of. Plenty of the rest does not help. It waits.
The OTP
Get five right and the payment does not go through eighty-three per cent. It fails.
A chain of four
All three in supply, and your skin, cartilage and artery walls get rebuilt every day. Two out of four, and nothing gets built at all.
Ten pillars
Chain one
Energy production runs at full rate through the day instead of tailing off.
Your cells turn food into energy on an assembly line. Riboflavin starts it, CoQ10 carries the load across the middle, copper closes it. Run low on one and the whole line slows to its pace.
Chain two
Fast energy is there the second you reach for it.
The first ten seconds of any effort. Creatine holds the charge, magnesium releases it. Vegetarians carry the least creatine of anyone.
Chain three
Healthy red blood cells, so oxygen reaches the tissue that needs it.
These three are the co-factors red blood cells are built with. Less oxygen reaching the muscle, less energy in it.
Working alongside
Less fatigue, lower cortisol, better tolerance of a heavy day.
What you will feel
The 4pm slump gets smaller. You stop needing the third coffee. Three to four weeks, and no stimulant, so there is no lift and no crash.
Chain one
Homocysteine cleared. One of the three markers we measure in your blood.
Your body makes this waste chemical every day, and high levels are linked to heart and brain aging. Clearing it takes all six at once: folate carries the tag, B12 hands it over, riboflavin switches folate into the form that can be used, B6 runs the disposal route that clears the load after meals, TMG opens a second route, and choline is what your body makes more TMG from.
Chain two
Brain cell membranes built where signals cross, plus one of the main messengers focus and memory run on.
DHA is what the membrane is largely built from. Choline is what acetylcholine is made of. Structure and signal.
Chain three
Energy on demand for the organ that burns a fifth of your fuel.
Same battery as Energy, different organ. Your brain is 2 per cent of your weight and burns a fifth of your fuel. The difference shows most if you are vegetarian.
Chain four
Serotonin and dopamine get the co-factors they are built with.
You do not swallow them. Your body builds them from amino acids, and these three run the enzymes that do it.
Working alongside
Calmer focus, steadier mood, better recall over twelve weeks.
What you will feel
Less brain fog. The word you were reaching for arrives. You can hold a hard problem for an hour without your head going heavy. Two to three months, and most of all if you are vegetarian.
Chain one
A calm brain gets the co-factors it needs to be calm.
The same three as the brain’s fourth chain, working on the same messengers.
Chain two
Your own repair antioxidant is made, used and refilled, instead of running empty under load.
NAC and glycine build it, riboflavin recharges it after use. Stress empties it fast.
Chain three
The membrane every receptor sits in stays fluid, so signals land.
DHA keeps it soft. Choline supplies the messenger.
Working alongside
Lower cortisol, easier sleep onset, less next day tiredness.
What you will feel
You fall asleep instead of lying there replaying the day. Small things stop landing as big things. Two to four weeks, and most people notice this one early.
Chain one
Collagen gets built and set.
Vitamin C runs the enzyme that sets it, glycine is every third link in the strand, copper cross links it. Run low on one and you build at its pace.
Chain two
Protection that regenerates itself instead of being spent once and gone.
Vitamin E takes the hit. Vitamin C recharges vitamin E. Glutathione, built from NAC and glycine and recharged by riboflavin, recharges vitamin C.
Working alongside
Faster renewal, better elasticity and moisture.
What you will feel
Skin that looks less tired in photographs. Better bounce, less dullness. Eight to twelve weeks. Take a photograph on day one, because it is the only honest baseline you will get.
Chain one
Made, used and refilled in the gut lining.
Your gut lining replaces itself faster than almost any tissue in the body, and it burns glutathione doing it.
Working alongside
Food broken down properly, a lining kept supplied, and a probiotic that reaches the intestine alive, at the exact strain and count that was trialled.
What you will feel
Lighter after meals. Less bloating by evening. More regular mornings. About two weeks, and one of the few you actually notice.
Chain one
The vitamin D you swallow converts into the form your body uses.
The enzymes that switch it on need magnesium. Without enough of it, part of your vitamin D never does.
Chain two
Zinc does its work without draining your copper.
Sustained zinc without matching copper depletes copper. Copper is in this formula because zinc is in this formula.
Working alongside
Immune cells supplied, and the gut wall, where most of your immune tissue sits, kept supplied too.
What you will feel
Nothing you can point to. Immunity is a system you keep supplied, not something you feel.
Chain one
Cartilage is built from the same set that builds your skin.
One ingredient set, two tissues, no extra grams.
Working alongside
A painful joint is a fire that burns along several paths. Turmeric alone covers one or two, which is why people try it alone and conclude it does not work. These four cover them.
What you will feel
If your knees are stiff for the first ten minutes of the morning, that window gets shorter. Six to eight weeks. If you have no stiffness now, you feel nothing, and that is what maintenance is. If a doctor has told you that you have arthritis, this is not a treatment for it.
Chain one
The pigment at the centre of your retina, complete.
Together they form the filter for the light that damages the retina. Zeaxanthin holds the centre, lutein the ring around it, so the filter is only complete with both.
Chain two
Protection for the busiest tissue in your body, which also sits in light all day.
The same relay as skin, in the tissue that needs it most.
Working alongside
Structural supply for the photoreceptors, dim light vision, and retinal circulation.
What you will feel
Eyes less tired and heavy after nine hours on a screen. Headlights at night bother you less. A few weeks for the strain, months for the pigment, and the pigment you will never feel.
Chain one
Homocysteine kept low in the blood that bathes the lining of every vessel you have.
The same reaction as the brain, working on a different tissue: the single layer of cells lining every blood vessel.
Chain two
Full energy production in the one muscle that never rests.
Heart tissue holds more CoQ10 than anything else in your body, and makes less of it every year.
Chain three
An artery that springs back after every beat.
The same three that build your skin build the elastic in the vessel wall, and copper cross links it.
Working alongside
Heart muscle that relaxes properly between beats, and protection inside the lipoproteins that carry fat through your blood.
What you will feel
Nothing, and that is the point. This one works in silence for years. It is why we measure homocysteine in your blood instead of asking you to trust us.
Chain one
Fat packaged and shipped out of the liver instead of stored in it.
Fat cannot leave your liver loose. It has to be packaged first, and choline is what the packaging is made of. TMG spares choline, and DHA turns the liver’s fat making down and its fat burning up. Fat that stays behind is what a fatty liver scan shows.
Chain two
Phase two detoxification keeps running, and the pool refills after every use.
Everything you eat, drink and take passes through here.
Working alongside
Membrane stability and a lower inflammatory load.
What you will feel
Nothing at all, ever. This one shows up in a blood test and nowhere else, and it is the one you would never know was working.