What to Do About MTHFR | Chris Masterjohn Lite #33
Got MTHFR? I got you: here’s what you can do with nutrition to optimize for your genetics.
MTHFR mutations increase your need for choline and glycine. It’s key to get methylfolate in your diet, but high-dose methylfolate supplements are not the solution. You need to boost choline as an alternative supply of methyl groups, and creatine supplementation can help you better conserve your methylfolate by reducing the need to use it. This is important because adequate methylfolate preserves glycine and prevents it from being lost. Too little protein hurts methylation, but too much worsens the loss of glycine, so you need to hit the Goldilocks amount. Finally, you need to get more glycine to make up for whatever you’re losing.
In this episode, I explain how to use food and supplements to make all this work in your favor.
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