I love it when listeners leave me questions so here is this month’s roundup! I don’t have a doctor that advises me about MTHFR. A mental health provider suspected the mutation because of years of resistant depression. She did a…
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Category: Chemical pathways
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 discuss a couple of studies about gene expression, fish oil, and MTHFR, but first…
Leave a CommentThese past few weeks we’ve gone over some general information about MTHFR and homocysteine, the link between methionine and homocysteine, and the new information about MTHFR, homocysteine, and Covid-19. What we haven’t talked about is Homocysteine testing and parameters –…
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This can be such a confusing distinction, made far worse by the fact that supplement companies and nutritional information labels often use “folate” and “folic acid” interchangeably. Thanks, regulatory agencies. Folate Folate is the general name for a group of…
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Let’s talk BH4, biopterin, and the whole sh*t show. Remember the interlocking metabolic loops in which the methylation pathway intersects and cogs into other pathways, essentially so that it affects everything your body does? Yeah. We’re getting back into that…
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There is no obvious link between MTHFR and estrogen – they seem to be in unrelated fields in the body, affecting different spheres. Sadly, that isn’t true. While it is true that the MTHFR gene is not involved in estrogen…
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