What Is Sulfur?
Sulfur is an element.
And it's gaseous form (H2S) it's really smelly and that's probably how you know it best. It smells like farts LOL.
Sulfur is metabolized by all organisms, from bacteria and archaea to plants and animals.
It's found in many proteins, sulfate esters of polysaccharides (what we're looking for), steroids, phenols, and sulfur-containing coenzymes.
In the body, sulfur is used to create many sulfur-containing compounds like: R
Chondroitin sulfate, a mucopolysaccharide found in cartilage
Insulin
Heparin, an anticoagulant
Glutathione (from cysteine)
The glycocalyx layer as well as the cholesterol sulfate on red blood cells contains a lot of sulfur.
Sulfur In Detoxification
Detoxification (via sulforation) requires sulfate groups to deactivate them. For example the active form of vitamin D needs a sulfate group combined to it to create vitamin D sulfate, the inactive form of vitamin d.
Sulfur groups like cysteine are needed to create our master detoxification tripeptide molecule called glutathione.
Sulfur is also found in taurine, which helps improve cardiovascular health and can reduce troponin levels and prevent atrial fibrilation.
So as you may have guessed, being toxic will use up your precious sulfur groups.
Hydrogen Sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is the gas form we discussed earlier that smells like farts.
It's flammable and that's why people can light their toots on fire lol. 💨🔥
We get a lot of our natural sulfur from our gut bacteria that are able to combine hydrogen and sulfur together to create hydrogen sulfide. R
In The Body
It's a gastrotransmitter and in the nervous system a neurotransmitter. R
H2s is used in the gut to help repair the gut lining. R
Also in the gut and endothelium it acts as a phosphodiosterase inhibitor thus improving wound healing. R R
H2s can directly bind to Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and Reactive Nitrogen Species (RNS) and help with redox status in the endothelium. R
In 2 ways, H2s in the brain enhancing cognition by turning on the N-Methyl D-Aspratate receptor (NMDAR), while blocking the oxidative reaction from glutamate on NMDARs. R R R
Also, in the nervous system it can act directly as a neurotransmitter on serotonin neurons when the hypothalamus releases corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH). R R
My Favorite Ways To Get H2S
Apart from having a healthy microbiome, here is my favorite way:
Garlic - specifically aged garlic (SAC) - carlic has a ton of health benefits like antimicrobials (allicin), and it tastes great!
People who have trouble creating H2S usually have problems with cystathionine β-synthase (CBS), cystathionine γ-lyase (CGL or CSE), and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3-MST). R
H2s synthesis requires P5P (the active form of pyroxidine, vitamin B6) as a cofactor. R
If You Are Sensitive To Sulfur
Sulfites require molybdenum to create sulfates.
Sulfite issues contribute to: R R
an overactive startle reflex (anxiety)
sleep issues
mast cell degranulation, essentially non-IgE allergies (pseudo-allergies)
nausea
sickness
loss of cognitive flexibility
Unless you’re supplementing with minerals, while on a carnivore diet, it’s necessary to include molybdenum.
I would do this with liver supplements or a molybdenum product.
I mostly nowadays get my molybdenum from BioToxin Binder (code WrNETza8).
It can also be found in beans, but while still sick, your gut junctions are not gonna tolerate the lectins in beans, yet.
Molybdenum will reduce copper levels, so that’s why I think a complex works well or taking liver supplements as those both should have copper.
An easy form of copper is from copper bisglycinate.
Copper can deplete zinc.
The right daily ratio of copper:zinc is about 2 mg to copper for 15 mg of zinc.
They will both interact with each others absorption, so I like to take my copper with my first meal and zinc with dinner.
I have been getting good results of getting my copper through chloriphyllin, which aids in oxygenation and detoxification.
As a bonus side effect my sweat doesn’t smell as bad (chlorophyllin helps that sulfur smell via thiols).
It’s important to note that when you take NAC, it can deplete your copper, and that’s why some people get the sulfite (histamine-like) issues listed way above.