MTHFR and your Mood! GENETICS!

Have you heard of mthfr? Today we're going to talk about the number one blood test that you can run that your insurance will very likely cover. That will screen to tell you whether or not genetic testing for MTHFR may be valuable for you. MTHFR is an abbreviation for methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase, which is an enzyme that helps convert folate into methylfolate. Big word, right? Your body needs active folate in order to make serotonin, to detox histamine, to help you with fertility and mood and heart health and so much more. Mutations in MTHFR will interfere with your ability to make active folate, which could be the root cause of your symptoms. In fact, MTHFR mutations occur in one in four people. In fact, I have a mutation there. Genetic testing helped me find it. But genetic testing can be really expensive, right? So in order to know about the blood test, we have to know a little bit about science. Okay, here we go. MTHFR helps your.

Body to make methylfolate. Methylfolate is needed to recycle homocysteine into methionine.

But if you don't have MTHFR making.

Methylfolate, you can't recycle homocysteine into methionine.

So this is what you want to test in your blood. If your homocysteine is high, consider doing genetic testing to look for MTHFR mutations.