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Jared Cooper

Jared Cooper

Jarrod Cooper, ND is an Australia-based naturopathic doctor and functional medicine practitioner, founder of Advanced Functional Medicine and author of "The Healing Hierarchy."

Jul 6, 2026

14:37
Let's get into the biochemistry though, 'cause I feel like a lot of people are not aware of what might need to happen there.
14:44
Yeah.
14:45
So that's, that's another, uh, key area, so biochemistry and your, and your detox pathways.
14:50
So it sort of layers on top of the, the key nutrients in the, the crisis stabilization really, but it's looking at key pathways, um, methylation pathways are a big one, uh, detox pathways, uh, also your energy pathways through the Krebs cycle, uh, mitochondria and things like that.
15:07
So with, with methylation, that's, that's a big one 'cause it's upstream of just about, you know, every other process in the body.
15:13
It's really, uh, involved in a lot of your, your DNA repair and transcription and things like that.
15:19
So there's about 30% to 40% of people that actually have, uh, MTHFR gene variants, where their, um, where their genes actually, uh, create a bottleneck from-- for the conversion of folate in the collective term being converted into the only usable form of folate in the body, methylfolate.

26 MINS LATER

42:00
Um, could you tell us more about your book and what people-- the name of it and where people can find it, what they'll learn?

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