The Aesthetics Advisor

When Alison Hawe took her 9-year-old son to his doctor several years ago, she followed the physician's advice by giving the boy folic acid to support his celiac disease diagnosis. Ms. Hawe did not initially realize the B vitamin could be triggering her son's erratic, hyperactive behavior. After investigating, she learned that some patients—especially those with certain genetic variations—react negatively to folic acid supplements and fortified foods. Her son's face was the first giveaway, with darting eye movements and difficulty focusing. He was also impulsive and unable to sit still. Ms. Hawe eliminated these potential triggers from her son's diet and supplements for several weeks, then slowly reintroduced them. She again observed pronounced changes in her son's behavior. Only when her son was in his late teenage years that he and his twin were both diagnosed with having an MTHFR gene mutation, Ms. Hawe told The Epoch Times. What Is MTHFR? Methylenetetrahydrofolat...

A well-functioning MTHFR is profoundly important to our mental and physical health. It calms our anxiety; it improves our mental flexibility, helping us avoid getting stuck on negative thoughts; it calms the inflammation that can result from allergic reactions or histamine present in our food; it supports healthy digestion; it keeps our liver in tip-top shape so it can clear out toxins and keep our blood sugar stable; and it keeps our muscles energetic, strong, and powerful.   MTHFR does all these things by helping us make methylfolate, a critical part of the methylation system. If you have a poorly functioning MTHFR, this is not the diagnosis of a disease or a sentence to poor health. It just means you need to adapt your food and supplements to better support your genetics. This protocol is meant to support the nutritional needs of someone with any of the genetic variations that hurt MTHFR activity. By default, the amounts of foods and nutrients are meant for someone with the gene...