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This is a holiday year like no other, and it's pretty easy to get stuck in a mental loop about all of the things we don't have or can't...

In the current state of medical research, studies don't often differentiate between C677T mutations and A1298C mutations so much of the...

The keyword here is GENTLE. Why? Anybody can overdo detox, but trouble is especially easy to find when you have a known genetic issue...

In the current state of medical research, studies don't often differentiate between C677T mutations and A1298C mutations so lots of the...

I know this sounds like a bit of an odd question - the goal is to get healthy, right? And yes, of course it is. But sometimes people have...

If you’ve already: Taken folic acid out of your diet Added in natural folate Started a multivitamin or B complex without folate or B12 ...

I am sure everyone would like a simple answer so they can just buy a product and move on with their lives, but like everything else about...

MTHFR is for life, and you’ll feel best if you are working on making your methylation great for the rest of your life. That doesn't...

Once you’ve adjusted your diet, you have a new baseline. This is your new normal and it may be great, it may just be getting there (but...

It's so easy to jump to the idea that it's all about folate with MTHFR issues, because let's face it. The enzyme deals with activating...

Part of successfully working with any health issue is knowing when you're moving in the right direction and when you aren't. Oddly, it's...

We all know that MTHFR mutations are differences in the way your body processes folate, so obviously the answer is to take more or better...

Different Opinions of Methylation There are several different versions of this conversation floating out there on the web, and this is a...

MTHFR has its sticky little fingers in everything important and energy production is no exception. In fact, fatigue is one of the most...

The "Master Antioxidant" And What That Means For The Rest Of Us. Generally, in medicine it takes a lot for a substance to get such a...

The Methylation pathway seems relatively minor. Your body moves a 1-carbon group around. Big deal. And yet, it ties into the major...

Step one in a healthy MTHFR lifestyle is getting rid of foods with folic acid . This is hard, but pretty much everybody feels good in...

We've been talking a lot about natural folate and its food sources vs. synthetic folic acid (which is toxic in high doses.). So in...

This can be such a confusing distinction, made far worse by the fact that supplement companies and nutritional information labels often...

It makes sense that if your body has a difference in its ability to process folate, like the MTHFR variants, then you just flood the...