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Methylate Your Way to Mental Health With Dopamine | Mastering Nutrition #34

Mastering Nutrition

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Do You Have a Gene That Affects Methylation?

The system whereby folate gets its methyl group is actually really complicated I'm not going to go into all the details but I'll say that your energy metabolism has to be working properly. There's various genetics that lie outside the methylation pathway that could impact this and of course there's famous genetics inside themethylation pathway that affect this for example mthfr which stands for 510 methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase. If you have low mthfr activity then you are not going to be able to get the methyl groups going through to homocysteine in just the same way that you would if you didn't have the proper B vitamins nowYou can have too much

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