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Chronic Illness, Chronic Stress, MTHFR and Heart Disease, MTHFR diet, MTHFR lifestyle

Everything You Need to Know About Stroke

It is important to recognize stroke symptoms and seek treatment as soon as possible. Facial drooping, weakness or paralysis, and slurred speech are some of the symptoms that can appear without warning. What is a Stroke? A stroke is a…

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Amy Neuzil
June 12, 2023

Hormones, Mental Health, MTHFR and Fertility, MTHFR lifestyle, MTHFR mutation, MTHFR, Cognitive Decline, and Alzheimer's, Other Gene SNPs

Are MTHFR gene mutations associated with a higher chance of developing certain diseases?

MTHFR (methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase) is a gene that provides instructions for making an enzyme of the same name. The MTHFR enzyme plays a role in activating folate and processing amino acids, the building blocks of proteins and making the body’s most…

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Amy Neuzil
February 2, 2023

Mental Health, MTHFR mutation, Other Gene SNPs

MTHFR and Emotional Eating with Tricia Nelson

Emotional eating and MTHFR with Tricia Nelson

Emotional eating doesn’t sound like the typical MTHFR topic, but sadly it is one of the behaviors that can plague people with MTHFR, COMT fast, or MAO-A fast. Especially those with MAO-A fast because emotional eating is highly linked to…

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Amy Neuzil
July 9, 2022

MTHFR and Fertility, MTHFR diet, MTHFR mutation

The Harm That 5mg Folic Acid Can Do For MTHFR Fertility

This week I wanted to diverge on subjects a bit just because a very relevant question came up in the MTHFR community, This is such an important issue that I want to make sure it gets the attention it deserves. One…

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Amy Neuzil
January 28, 2022
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Chemical pathways, MTHFR diet, MTHFR lifestyle, MTHFR mutation

S2E9: MTHFR Questions

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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Amy Neuzil
November 2, 2021

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S2E2: Getting the Folic Acid Out of Your Diet.

eliminate folic acid. Your future self will thank you.

Folic acid is toxic for MTHFR folks and for everyone else if it's at too high a dose.

Amy Neuzil
September 10, 2021

MTHFR diet, MTHFR lifestyle, MTHFR mutation

I Have MTHFR, How Do I Start 5-LMTHF?

MTHFR pro tip: to start 5-LMTHF successfully, start low, go slow and only change one thing at a time.

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 not great yet). Make sure you give yourself about a month on your…

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Amy Neuzil
November 1, 2020

MTHFR diet, MTHFR lifestyle, MTHFR mutation

What To Eat For MTHFR Mutants

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 theory, we’ve got it. But in reality, what does this actually look like? Let’s dive in…

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Amy Neuzil
August 30, 2020
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MTHFR mutation

This Vitamin Could Be Hurting You

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 system so that even if the enzyme is moving slowly, you’ve still got enough. There…

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Amy Neuzil
August 16, 2020

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Everything You Need to Know About Stroke

Are MTHFR gene mutations associated with a higher chance of developing certain diseases?

MTHFR and Emotional Eating with Tricia Nelson

The Harm That 5mg Folic Acid Can Do For MTHFR Fertility

S2E9: MTHFR Questions

S2E2: Getting the Folic Acid Out of Your Diet.

I Have MTHFR, How Do I Start 5-LMTHF?

What To Eat For MTHFR Mutants

This Vitamin Could Be Hurting You

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