An excerpt from the latest video at Dr. Goodenowe’s Health Matters podcast, Episode 7 “The Truth about Parkinson’s”, starting at 50:30:

“What’s exciting about this community medicine focus that we’ve switched to which basically says: How do we develop technologies in a way that they can be incorporated into a community model versus a pharmaceutical drug model? People can actually do I would say self-experiment just the way you self-experiment with your own diet because these are fundamentally dietary nutrition molecules.

Could you give me an elevator pitch because there are probably people listening who are thinking what is this plasmalogen precursor and for sure how is it having this dramatic effect?

Plasmalogens are the most important nutrient that nobody knows about. Normally you don’t know about it because the body is usually pretty good at making them. What makes plasmalogens unique is that your body makes them kind of like cannon fodder, the first group of people that go into war. Your body throws them out for destruction. They absorb oxidative stress and get destroyed in the process.

They’re stored in your cell membranes. 50% of the membranes of your heart are these plasmalogen molecules. When your heart gets inflamed, what your heart does is it dumps these plasmalogens out of its membranes to douse the flame of inflammation. After inflammation is under control, your body naturally builds these things back up again.

But if you have an inability to make enough plasmalogens, these inflammation events knock you down and keep you down. So plasmalogen precursors are critical for maintaining high levels of plasmalogens across your body, not just in your brain (30% of the lipids in your brain) but in your heart, your lungs, your kidneys.”