by Darren ng | Aug 25, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Butyrate is the short-chain fatty acid that colonic bacteria make from dietary fibre, and it is the preferred fuel of the cells lining the colon — by common estimates supplying the majority of their energy. Patients with irritable bowel syndrome,...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Ergothioneine (ET) is a naturally occurring sulfur-containing amino-acid derivative made by fungi and certain bacteria — humans cannot synthesise it and obtain it almost entirely from food, mushrooms above all. What makes it unusual is that the human...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: GlyNAC is not a single ingredient — it is glycine and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) given together. The point of the pairing is glutathione, the cell’s master antioxidant, which the body assembles from three amino-acid residues: glutamate, cysteine and...
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: N-acetylcysteine is the acetylated form of the amino acid L-cysteine, and cysteine is the rate-limiting building block your patient’s cells use to make glutathione. The problem is not what NAC does — it is how little of it survives the journey....
by Darren ng | Aug 19, 2026 | Supplements
Short answer: Tocotrienols are the other half of the vitamin E family, and Malaysia — as the world’s principal palm-oil producer — sits at the source of most of the global supply. They are also among the harder nutrients to actually deliver into a patient. Three...
