MTHFR and Methylation diet

Glycemic index sounds highly unsexy, which is fair, but it's actually a diet hack that can help you to keep your blood sugars balanced with very little work. You don't even need to know the exact glycemic index of a particular food to understand how to use this system.

Unstable blood sugar is embedded deep within the foundation of so many modern problems. Obesity, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes,...

Stress is a natural response to challenging or threatening situations. It can be classified into two main types: acute stress, meaning...

Your daily choices, what you eat, how you sleep, how you manage stress, and your exposure to toxins, all influence how MTHFR impacts your body. Finding a healthy MTHFR lifestyle is crucial for your health.

The Best Way to Optimize Your Genes with a Healthy Diet In this article, we will look at some of the primary nutrients that help bolster...

This week, I'd like to get to some questions that listeners have been kind enough to leave on the website and within the community. The...

Let's check in with what is going on so far. If you've been following the process this season, you will have noticed that I haven't...

UMFA or unmetabolized folic acid is something that has been popping up on research radars more and more frequently in recent years. The...

5000 mcg folic acid is the standard recomendation for anyone struggling with low fertility, but current research evidence shows that 5000 mcg folic acid reduces fertility in people with the MTHFR gene mutation, and possibly in peopel without it as well.

Water is so talked about that it's incredibly easy to ignore. Like everyone knows we need a ton of water, so that can't be the key to...

This is it! The big methylfolate start. You've got all of your preliminaries done - folic acid is out of your diet, or at least 80% out....

I love it when listeners leave me questions so here is this month's roundup! This is a great question, Jamie because so many MTHFR folks...

If you're following along with what we're doing, last week you added in B vitamins as a group. Typically this goes well for MTHFR folks...

If you're following along with our step-by-step process, then you're well ahead of most people who start their MTHFR journey with Dr....

Food sources of folate (natural folate, not foods enriched with folic acid) are some of the best foods out there, so with MTHFR we truly...

Alright, so you have done the big scary thing and taken folic acid out of your diet. That. Is. Huge. Now, you're in the scattered and...

Fish oil, which we talked about last week as well , continues to be a big deal for people with the MTHFR mutation. Today, I want to...

High homocysteine is one of the most medically recognized consequences of having an MTHFR gene mutation, and learning to lower homocysteine with MTHFR can protect your health long-term. Balancing your methylation and boosting your B vitamins, especially B2, folate or 5-LMTHF, and B12, is the usual first step with MTHFR. But for true health, there are some other things that matter as well.

The link between MTHFR and homocysteine is clear - if you aren't familiar with that part of the picture, you can brush up with last...

High homocysteine is often the first indication of an MTHFR issue, and it's certainly the one that doctors take the most seriously. There...