Darrian Peck explains how the MTHFR gene converts folate into 5-methylfolate, which has a tenfold increase in cellular uptake. He argues that many health problems stem from nutrient deficiency and can be addressed by supplementing with active folate instead of synthetic folic acid.
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The most important process that human beings go through 300 billion times a day is a process called methylation. And that is the most common gene mutation in the world. It's called the MTHFR gene. And what this gene does is it takes folate and synthetic folic acid and it converts them into the active form. Both go through the same process of being broke down and converted into the usable version called 5 methyl folate. 5 methylfolate has the fast pass ticket to your cellular biology so that that micronutrient goes directly into the cell at a tenfold increase and allows your cellular biology to function normally. We are not as diseased and pathological as we think it could be nutrient deficient. We should start supplementing for deficiency. And by supplementing for deficiency, what I mean is. Ultimate human.