241: What is methylation & why it’s critical to your health | Kara Fitzgerald, N.D.
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The Methylation Cycle and the Endogenous Antioxidant Glutathione
The methylation cycle is the process of making acethenacyl methionine from that essential amino acid methionine. It helps with it ultimately in its process of changing, helps us with antioxidants. So, usually we're just this active recycling process. But if you don't have enough of those nutrients or if you have a defect in any number of enzymes there that help the recycling process, homocysteine can accumulate.
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