Dr. Robert Whitfield discusses how genetic variation influences immunity, cellular energy, and detoxification pathways. He references vitamin D and B6 metabolism, liver detoxification, and genes involved in glutathionation that handle environmental chemicals, medications, and heavy metals.
So now we've talked about vitamin D and its metabolism and vitamin B6 and its metabolism. So are there any other things that we can think of just from our genetics, as it relates to immunity, that would affect us? So I always think about just like energy and detoxification, both at the cellular level. And we'll say eliminating toxins from our system by know, being able to go number two, if you will. So if you take our livers, for example, which detoxify the majority toxins. So in that instance, the genes that affect glutathionation take care of all the chemicals we get exposed to. So, like detoxifying things from our environment, certain medications or pharmaceuticals, if you want to think of it like that, heavy metals.
